Exclusive: Rogo, an AI startup focused on finance, raised its $18.5 million Series A

Consider the rollicking rise of HBO’s Industry, which manages to make i-banking look dark, sexy, and sometimes even swashbuckling. The world of Industry is filled with glass skyscrapers, cluttered desks, and hard-won but devastatingly hollow victories. It’s a whole generation’s introduction to investment banking, and it’s airing just as a real-world reckoning is gaining momentum. In recent months and years, shattering stories have emerged of investment banking associates who die at work, amid 100-plus-hour work weeks and reportedly toxic work cultures. Impossible jobs make for good TV, but impossible demands...