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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.

The Google-backed AI investors nobody took seriously in 2017 just raised $220 million
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The Google-backed AI investors nobody took seriously in 2017 just raised $220 million
By Allie GarfinkleMarch 17, 2026
Exclusive: Translucent, an AI-native healthcare finance startup, raises $27 million Series A
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Exclusive: Translucent, an AI-native healthcare finance startup, raises $27 million Series A
By Allie GarfinkleMarch 11, 2026
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Anthropic’s Department of War lawsuit is even higher-stakes amid the AI boom
By Allie GarfinkleMarch 10, 2026
Meet the breakout VC who goes deep to make a ‘360-degree’ behavioral map before investing in founders
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Meet the breakout VC who goes deep to make a ‘360-degree’ behavioral map before investing in founders
By Allie GarfinkleMarch 6, 2026
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This VC backed CrowdStrike and Anduril. His due diligence starts with your parents
By Allie GarfinkleMarch 6, 2026
Making sense of Anthropic’s fight with the Pentagon—and OpenAI’s opportunity
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Making sense of Anthropic’s fight with the Pentagon—and OpenAI’s opportunity
By Allie GarfinkleMarch 3, 2026
Exclusive: Flux, backed by 8VC, raises $37 million to vibe code electronics
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Exclusive: Flux, backed by 8VC, raises $37 million to vibe code electronics
By Allie GarfinkleFebruary 27, 2026
Exclusive: SolveAI, at eight months old, raises $50 million to take on the AI coding tool race
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Exclusive: SolveAI, at eight months old, raises $50 million to take on the AI coding tool race
By Allie GarfinkleFebruary 25, 2026
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Why the exploding secondaries market is hard to pin down
By Allie GarfinkleFebruary 24, 2026
Defy Ventures teaches entrepreneurship in prisons. It changed how I think about founders
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Defy Ventures teaches entrepreneurship in prisons. It changed how I think about founders
By Allie GarfinkleFebruary 20, 2026
Exclusive: Badge raises $17 million to chase the next era of digital wallets
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Exclusive: Badge raises $17 million to chase the next era of digital wallets
By Allie GarfinkleFebruary 19, 2026
Exclusive: Sen. Bill Frist’s Frist Cressey Ventures raises $425 million fourth fund
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Exclusive: Sen. Bill Frist’s Frist Cressey Ventures raises $425 million fourth fund
By Allie GarfinkleFebruary 18, 2026
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A scary SaaS selloff changes the calculus for startups and private markets: “code alone was never a real moat”
By Allie GarfinkleFebruary 13, 2026
Exclusive: Seligman Ventures debuts with $500 million and a new model for the blurring line between public and private markets
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Exclusive: Seligman Ventures debuts with $500 million and a new model for the blurring line between public and private markets
By Allie GarfinkleFebruary 12, 2026
Two neurosurgeons just raised $25 million betting brain cells can (someday) outcompute silicon
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Two neurosurgeons just raised $25 million betting brain cells can (someday) outcompute silicon
By Allie GarfinkleFebruary 11, 2026
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