[stephengillie]

Can the title be corrected? It has a plural noun leading into a singular verb.

Unless we're supposed to parse "slew of startups" as singular...

[rosser]

> Unless we're supposed to parse "slew of startups" as singular...

Yes, that's how that works, grammatically. The noun in that sentence is the slew, which, in this instance, happens to be of startups.