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Allie Garfinkle is a senior writer and editor at Fortune, where she runs —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.

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NewslettersMaking sense of Anthropic’s fight with the Pentagon—and OpenAI’s opportunity
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NewslettersExclusive: 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
NewslettersExclusive: 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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Defy Ventures teaches entrepreneurship in prisons. It changed how I think about founders
NewslettersDefy 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
NewslettersExclusive: 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
Personal FinanceExclusive: Sen. Bill Frist’s Frist Cressey Ventures raises $425 million fourth fund
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NewslettersA scary SaaS selloff changes the calculus for startups and private markets: “code alone was never a real moat”
By Allie GarfinkleFebruary 13, 2026
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NewslettersExclusive: 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
NewslettersTwo neurosurgeons just raised $25 million betting brain cells can (someday) outcompute silicon
By Allie GarfinkleFebruary 11, 2026
Meta expands its already massive Louisiana data center project
NewslettersMeta expands its already massive Louisiana data center project
By Allie GarfinkleFebruary 9, 2026
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NewslettersMoltbook is the talk of Silicon Valley. But the furor is eerily reminiscent of a 2017 Facebook research experiment
By Allie GarfinkleFebruary 6, 2026
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By Allie GarfinkleFebruary 5, 2026
Kleiner Perkins’s Leigh Marie Braswell learned about risk from playing poker: “If the odds are in your favor, you push your chips to the center”
NewslettersKleiner Perkins’s Leigh Marie Braswell learned about risk from playing poker: “If the odds are in your favor, you push your chips to the center”
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