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Issues tracked

256.8

All-time high ratio

6,861

Total noise posts counted

Mar 2025

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Founder Ratio trend — all time

The ratio has increased every week since tracking began.

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Week of September 14, 2026

Infra mega-rounds and agent-security theater crowded the feed while the operator stories that mattered were about pivots, hiring after cuts, and who still gets to raise.

92.4

▲ 109.0% vs prior week

462 posts / 5 signal

Investing in Lightfield: $47M Series A after the hardest founder move — the pivot Sequoia doubles down on Cymphony as AI agents create new enterprise security risks How This Doctor-Turned-Startup-Founder Decided To Fix The Healthcare Staffing Crunch: Make Employers Apply Poseidon Aerospace lands $60M ahead of first pilotless test flight Temporal raises $550M at a $12.55B valuation as demand grows for reliable AI infrastructure

Issue 7

Week of April 20, 2026

Mega-rounds and "physical AI" ate the timeline while the rest of the feed argued about whether defense tech counts as infrastructure.

44.2

▲ 1.4% vs prior week

221 posts / 5 signal

Q1 2026 Shatters Venture Funding Records As AI Boom Pushes Startup Investment To $300B Hermeus raises $350M to build autonomous hypersonic fighters VC Eclipse has a new $1.3B fund to back — and build — 'physical AI' startups Cognichip wants AI to design the chips that power AI, and just raised $60M to try Nvidia-backed SiFive hits $3.65B valuation for open AI chips

Issue 6

Week of April 13, 2026

Capital kept clustering at the top while the founder feed swung between AI certainty, layoff realism, and recycled GTM posturing.

43.6

▼ 82.5% vs prior week

218 posts / 5 signal

These 3 Charts Show How Venture Capital Has Concentrated At The Top In 2026 The Crunchbase Tech Layoffs Tracker Exclusive: GetWhys Raises $5.2M To Help Companies Like Intel And Verizon Better Understand Their Customers Wealth.com Nabs $65M Series B Round Founder retreats

Issue 5

Week of March 30, 2026

Q1 retrospective season arrived early. Founder LinkedIn flooded with "what I learned building in public" posts.

249.4

▼ 2.9% vs prior week

1,247 posts / 5 signal

The Seed Round Is Dead. Here's What Replaced It.What Stripe Taught Us About Hiring Without a Job Description Why Most Products Die in the Gap Between MVP and Scale The CEO Who Runs the Company Without Being in Every Room The Quiet Collapse of the VC-Backed B2B Playbook

Issue 4

Week of March 24, 2025

AI wrapper season in full swing. Product Hunt alone logged 312 launches.

256.8

▲ 7.3% vs prior week

1,284 posts / 5 signal

The Founder Loneliness Problem Nobody Talks About How to Know When Your Positioning Is Actually Working Why Your Series B Is Harder Than Your Series A The Hire That Almost Broke My Company What Crunchbase Data Actually Says About Startup Survival

Issue 3

Week of March 17, 2025

Three major 'State of Startups' reports dropped simultaneously. Each contradicted the others.

239.4

▲ 4.7% vs prior week

1,197 posts / 5 signal

What I Learned Firing My First VP How Figma Kept Product Quality as It Scaled The Quiet Signals Your Investors Are Losing Confidence The Contrarian Case for Slowing Down Before Series A Rethinking the All-Hands Meeting

Issue 2

Week of March 10, 2025

South by Southwest week. Every newsletter had a take. Most were identical.

228.6

▲ 5.0% vs prior week

1,143 posts / 5 signal

What Board Members Actually Think During Your Presentation The Market Map Nobody Wants to Show You Your Reference Checks Are Probably Useless Stripe's First 10 Hires and What They Got Wrong When to Pivot and When to Persist

Issue 1

Week of March 3, 2025

First week of March. Q1 pressure starting to show in founder content — more anxiety, more listicles.

217.8

1,089 posts / 5 signal

The Honest Post-Mortem: What We Got Wrong at $5M ARR The Hidden Cost of Your Investor Composition Sequoia's Framework for Evaluating Market Timing What Happens to Your Team When You Raise Too Much The Art of the Async Update