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Top Startup Journalists in USA (2025)

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Andy Dunn

Startup journalist at Fortune, USA
USA
Startup
Business
Wellness

Andy Dunn (Fortune, Inc.) specializes in startup culture, mental health innovation, and AI-driven social solutions. His work bridges Silicon Valley’s technical ambitions with human-centered design principles.

Key Coverage Areas

  • Startup Mental Health Infrastructure: Documents therapeutic interventions in high-growth environments
  • AI Curation Ethics: Explores algorithmic matchmaking beyond dating apps
  • Cultural Anthropology of Tech: Analyzes founder psychology and team dynamics

Achievements

  • Porchlight Business Book Award 2022 for Burn Rate
  • Featured speaker at SXSW 2024’s “Loneliness Tech” summit
  • Advisor to Surgeon General’s loneliness task force

Brian Gormley

Startup journalist at WSJ Pro: Venture Capital, USA
USA
Startup
Health
Business

As a senior reporter for WSJ Pro: Venture Capital, Gormley deciphers complex funding flows in biotechnology and digital health. His work illuminates how AI, regulatory shifts, and Medicaid expansion are reshaping healthcare investment.

Key Coverage Areas

  • AI-Driven Drug Discovery: Tracks startups using machine learning for target identification and clinical trial optimization
  • Alternative Funding Models: Analyzes revenue-sharing agreements, venture studios, and corporate co-development deals
  • Health Equity Tech: Spotlights companies improving care access for Medicaid populations through tech-enabled services

Pitching Insights

  • Lead with data depth: Successful pitches reference proprietary datasets or unique validation methodologies
  • Connect to policy: Gormley favors startups addressing CMS innovation priorities or FDA digital health guidelines
  • Avoid me-too solutions: His 2025 rejection rate for "another telehealth platform" pitches exceeded 80%

With over 20 years of institutional knowledge, Gormley’s reporting serves as both market signal and strategic compass for healthcare investors.

Julie Bort

Startup journalist at TechCrunch, USA
USA
Startup
Tech
Innovation

Julie Bort (TechCrunch) specializes in startup ecosystems, corporate culture, and enterprise technology. Her work dissects how financial strategies and leadership decisions ripple through organizations, particularly in high-growth tech companies.

Pitching Insights

  • Seek Infrastructure Stories: Bort transforms technical debt into boardroom drama. Pitch her on database migrations that delayed IPOs or cybersecurity oversights that reshaped product roadmaps.
  • Track Founder Paradoxes: She spotlights the gap between visionary rhetoric and operational reality. Share examples of CEOs touting AI ethics while underfunding model audits.

Achievements

  • 2024 Gerald Loeb Award for exposing WeWork’s financial and cultural decay
  • Cited in 3 congressional hearings on tech workplace reforms

Lisa Calhoun

Startup journalist at Valor Ventures, USA
USA
Startup
Tech
AI

Lisa Calhoun merges frontline VC experience with incisive tech commentary as a lead voice at Valor Ventures. Her work illuminates the rise of Southern startups and AI’s transformative role in B2B industries.

Pitching Insights

  • AI That Augments Expertise: Prioritize tools enhancing (not replacing) human decision-making, like Visalaw.ai’s legal document platform.
  • Southern Innovation Hotspots: Highlight regional advantages, from Nashville’s healthcare networks to Atlanta’s fintech corridor.
  • Capital-Efficient Growth: Demonstrate clear paths to Series A readiness with metrics like CAC payback under 12 months.

Awards Snapshot

  • 2025: Closed Valor’s $27M Fund III amid market contraction
  • 2012: American Business Awards’ Female Entrepreneur of the Year
  • 2018–Present: NSF-backed Startup Runway Foundation leadership

Yuliya Chernova

Startup journalist at The Wall Street Journal, USA
USA
Startup
Finance
Tech

Yuliya Chernova is an award-winning venture capital and tech reporter at The Wall Street Journal, where she anchors coverage of startup ecosystems and investment trends through her weekly column "Chernova's Take." Based in New York, her work focuses on three core areas:

  • AI-Driven Business Transformation: Tracking how legacy industries adopt emerging technologies
  • Capital Allocation Patterns: Analyzing shifting VC priorities across market cycles
  • Workforce Evolution: Examining labor impacts of technological disruption

Pitching Priorities

Successful story proposals typically include:

  • Verified metrics on technology implementation ROI
  • Cross-generational consumer behavior data
  • Novel fund structures or geographic investment flows

Achievements: Chernova's 2008 Neal Award-winning investigation remains required reading in business journalism programs, while her 2025 Khosla Ventures scoop influenced SEC disclosures practices for private equity firms.

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