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fortune.com - Ben Weiss - Paradigm, a major investor in Kalshi, is building its own prediction markets trading terminal, say sources
Paradigm, a major investor in Kalshi, is building its own prediction markets trading terminal, say sources
Fortune

One of the most influential investors in crypto wants a bigger slice of the burgeoning prediction markets space. Venture capital firm Paradigm is developing a prediction markets trading terminal, according to sources familiar with the matter, who…

bloomberg.com - Hema Parmar - OpenAI Demand Sinks on Secondary Market as Anthropic Runs Hot
OpenAI Demand Sinks on Secondary Market as Anthropic Runs Hot
Bloomberg

OpenAI shares have fallen out of favor on the secondary market — in some cases becoming almost impossible to unload — as investors pivot quickly to Anthropic, its biggest competitor. Even as OpenAI raced in recent months to raise tens…

techcrunch.com - Dominic-Madori Davis - Toyota's Woven Capital appoints new CIO and COO in push for finding the 'future of mobility'
Toyota's Woven Capital appoints new CIO and COO in push for finding the 'future of mobility'
TechCrunch

Sometimes, Michiko Kato thinks back on the great challenges of her life. She once dropped everything in her native city of Tokyo to attend Harvard Business School in Massachusetts. One day, she decided to leave her career in the stable world of…

mirror.co.uk - Amie Wilson - Rory McIlroy joins Shane Lowry in £435m investment with One Direction star
Rory McIlroy joins Shane Lowry in £435m investment with One Direction star
The Mirror

Rory McIlroy and Shane Lowry, as well as One Direction 's Niall Horan, are among the latest high-profile names to invest in a fitness strap company. Whoop sells fitness bands with a membership that tracks things such as sleep, recovery and fitness.

forbes.com - Maia Niguel Hoskin - Winnie Harlow Is Turning Visibility Into Power And Redefining What It Means To Be A CEO
Winnie Harlow Is Turning Visibility Into Power And Redefining What It Means To Be A CEO
Forbes

For years, Winnie Harlow has been one of the most recognizable faces in fashion. Her strikingly beautiful image is synonymous with disruption, visibility, and beauty that refuses to conform. One that she also leveraged to build a But visibility…

forbes.com - Lilian Raji - Inside The New Deal Pipelines Female Founders Are Quietly Building
Inside The New Deal Pipelines Female Founders Are Quietly Building
Forbes

(L-R) Larina Chen-Mehta, Erika Aquino and Kirsten Baumberger at the SXSW Founder Heaven panel on angel investing. Larina Chen-Mehta, angel investor and syndicate lead at LWC Ventures, has spent years attending salon dinners hosted by networks of…

forbes.com - Melissa Houston - Women Entrepreneurs Don't Lack Confidence - They Lack Capital
Women Entrepreneurs Don't Lack Confidence - They Lack Capital
Forbes

Women Entrepreneurs Don't Lack Confidence - They Lack Capital For years, the narrative around women entrepreneurs has centered on a supposed “confidence gap.” The idea is repeated in conferences, business books and leadership…

crunchbase.com - Gené Teare - Q1 2026 Shatters Venture Funding Records As AI Boom Pushes Startup Investment To Nearly $300B
Q1 2026 Shatters Venture Funding Records As AI Boom Pushes Startup Investment To Nearly $300B
Crunchbase

The first quarter of 2026 was unlike any other for venture investment, driven by unprecedented spending on AI compute and frontier labs. Crunchbase data shows investors poured $297 billion into 6,000 startups globally in the quarter, up around 150%…

wbjournal.com - Mica Kanner-Mascolo - Groton medtech firm raises $3.5M for cancer-focused AI platform
Groton medtech firm raises $3.5M for cancer-focused AI platform
Worcester Business Journal

Groton-based medical technology company Neosoma has raised $3.52 million in venture capital toward its goal of $5.8 million. Neosoma's equity raise included 52 investors, according to a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing on Friday.

forbes.com - Danielle Chemtob - Forbes Daily: OpenAI Is Now Worth A Whopping $852 Billion
Forbes Daily: OpenAI Is Now Worth A Whopping $852 Billion
Forbes

Gas prices hit the $4 per gallon mark on Tuesday—a “psychological wall” that will have many Americans rethinking summer travel. That's according to Patrick De Haan, GasBuddy's head of petroleum analysis, who told Forbes the…

forbes.com - Josipa Majic Predin - Sequoia Says AI Will Kill Software Tools By Becoming The Work
Sequoia Says AI Will Kill Software Tools By Becoming The Work
Forbes

Signage with logo at headquarters of venture capital investment firm Sequoia Capital, on Sand Hill Road in the Silicon Valley town of Menlo Park, California, August 25, 2016. (Photo via Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images). Every founder selling an…

kare11.com - BERNARD CONDON and KEN SWEET - SpaceX files initial paperwork to sell shares to the public and likely make Musk a trillionaire
SpaceX files initial paperwork to sell shares to the public and likely make Musk a trillionaire
kare11.com

NEW YORK(AP) — Elon Musk's space exploration company has filed preliminary paperwork to sell shares to the public, according to two sources familiar with the filing, a blockbuster offering that would likely rank as the biggest ever and could…

fortune.com - Phil Wahba - Five hard lessons from Allbirds' 99% stock plunge and $39 million fire sale
Five hard lessons from Allbirds' 99% stock plunge and $39 million fire sale
Fortune

Once a brand that soared as the de rigueur footwear for the Silicon Valley set, Allbirds has fallen out of the sky. The shoemaker, best known for its eco-friendly wool sneakers favored by tech bros, said this week it is selling itself for a mere…

foreignaffairs.com - America Is Losing the Innovation Race
America Is Losing the Innovation Race
Foreign Affairs Magazine

China has long been dismissed as the world's factory floor—a country that excels at manufacturing technologies invented elsewhere yet is unable to invent anything radically new on its own. But it has proved in the past decade that it can be…

u.today - Caroline Amosun - Franklin Templeton Launches New Crypto Investment Management Platform
Franklin Templeton Launches New Crypto Investment Management Platform
U.Today

On Wednesday, April 1, Franklin Templeton, a global asset management firm, announced the launch of a new investment management unit focusing on its crypto investment offerings. The development comes as the firm continues to double down on its…

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