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Allie Garfinkle is a senior writer and editor at Fortune, where she runs Term Sheet—the flagship weekday dealmaking newsletter—and leads coverage of private capital, investors, and startups. She writes longform features—her first Fortune cover story profiled AI pioneer Demis Hassabis’s Isomorphic Labs—and co-chairs the Brainstorm conference series. The host of the Term Sheet podcast, she’s also been a frequent moderator at major conferences like SXSW and regular contributor to the BBC. Before Fortune, Allie covered Amazon, Google, and Meta at Yahoo Finance and helped produce Emmy-nominated PBS Frontline documentaries, including Elon Musk's Twitter Takeover and The Power of the Fed. She holds degrees from The University of Chicago and NYU and is based in New York.

How a chance encounter in Texas sparked a $1 billion Kleiner Perkins-backed AI startup
NewslettersHow a chance encounter in Texas sparked a $1 billion Kleiner Perkins-backed AI startup
By Allie GarfinkleApril 27, 2026
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NewslettersThe Godmother of Silicon Valley and her former student want to fix how healthcare gets built
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The startup Blackstone just backed to turn any exec’s data question into instant answers
NewslettersThe startup Blackstone just backed to turn any exec’s data question into instant answers
By Allie GarfinkleApril 17, 2026
Exclusive: Chad Rigetti’s Sygaldry raises $139 million to bring quantum hardware to AI data centers
NewslettersExclusive: Chad Rigetti’s Sygaldry raises $139 million to bring quantum hardware to AI data centers
By Allie GarfinkleApril 14, 2026
The startup looking to solve health care’s fax machine problem
NewslettersThe startup looking to solve health care’s fax machine problem
By Allie GarfinkleApril 3, 2026
The ‘death of SaaS’ could be the best thing to ever happen to SaaS M&A
NewslettersThe ‘death of SaaS’ could be the best thing to ever happen to SaaS M&A
By Allie GarfinkleMarch 31, 2026
VC firms rarely reinvent themselves. Kleiner Perkins did—and has a new $3.5 billion to show for it
NewslettersVC firms rarely reinvent themselves. Kleiner Perkins did—and has a new $3.5 billion to show for it
By Allie GarfinkleMarch 27, 2026
The one-person unicorn: Myth, miracle, or the future of startups?
NewslettersThe one-person unicorn: Myth, miracle, or the future of startups?
By Allie GarfinkleMarch 26, 2026
The growing problem of ‘tech addiction’ spawns a new detox economy
NewslettersThe growing problem of ‘tech addiction’ spawns a new detox economy
By Allie GarfinkleMarch 25, 2026
The rise and uncertain future of $29 billion AI coding startup Cursor
NewslettersThe rise and uncertain future of $29 billion AI coding startup Cursor
By Allie GarfinkleMarch 24, 2026
Cursor’s crossroads: The rapid rise, and very uncertain future, of a $30 billion AI startup
MagazineCursor’s crossroads: The rapid rise, and very uncertain future, of a $30 billion AI startup
By Allie GarfinkleMarch 21, 2026
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NewslettersSpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic could be 3 of the biggest venture-backed IPOs of all time
By Allie GarfinkleMarch 20, 2026
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NewslettersFrom robotics to AI agents, Jensen Huang’s GTC keynote was full of signals that startups can’t afford to ignore
By Allie GarfinkleMarch 18, 2026
The Google-backed AI investors nobody took seriously in 2017 just raised $220 million
NewslettersThe Google-backed AI investors nobody took seriously in 2017 just raised $220 million
By Allie GarfinkleMarch 17, 2026
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