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Venture Capital in Canada: Summer Doldrums, Or More
All dollar ($) figures in Canadian dollars unless otherwise noted. TORONTO, July 15, 2025 /CNW/ - Canadian venture capital (VC)* totalled $1.57 billion from 116 financings for second quarter (Q2) of 2025, up from $1.33 billion but down from 156…
SEBI announces settlement scheme for venture capital funds, effective July 21
Markets regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) on Tuesday announced a scheme beginning July 21 to aid the settlement of violations of winding-up provisions by migrated Venture Capital Funds (VCFs). The scheme will end on January…
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Why Growth Companies Are Opting Out of the Stock Market-And What It Means for You
For decades, initial public offerings (IPOs) were seen as the ultimate milestone for growing companies. Now, many of the world's most valuable startups are choosing to skip the stock exchange. SpaceX, OpenAI, and Stripe are among a growing number…
Bahoshy: Volatility in Market Causing IPO Indecision
Startups in the Middle East nearly doubled their fundraising in the first half of the year, defying a slowdown in venture capital investment in emerging markets brought on by economic uncertainty and investor caution. About $1.35 billion in VC…
Selling Financial Services Online? Forget SEO, Introducing GEO
The digital playbook that has governed Wall Street's marketing efforts for the last 20 years, an $80 billion industry known as Search Engine Optimization (SEO), is now obsolete. The relentless pursuit of the top spot on a Google search results page…
Opinion | A Sovereign-Wealth Fund to Keep America's Technological Edge
If the U.S. wants to win the global race for technological supremacy, the country's best tool is a sovereign-wealth fund. Washington's haphazard approach to fueling national competitiveness and strategic industries isn't cutting it in today's…
Trump Lets Polymarket Off the Hook, Ends Probe Into Crypto Betting Platform
If you bet “Donald Trump ends an investigation into a Peter Thiel-backed cryptocurrency platform,” you can claim your winnings. According to Bloomberg, two investigations into the prediction market Polymarket have been shut down by…
Coatue Veteran Kris Fredrickson Goes It Alone With New Venture Fund
Instacart cofounder and then CEO Apoorva Mehta had seen the obits piling up for his grocery delivery startup back in June 2017. His biggest customer and investor Whole Foods had just been snapped up by Amazon for $13.7 billion, and now his…
Rwazi raises $12M Series A to help companies with consumer insights and intelligence
Joseph Rutakanga spent eight years looking for tools to help companies gather consumer insight data. Eventually, he decided to just build them. Now his startup, called Rwazi, has raised a $12 million Series A led by Bonfire Ventures to help…
US AI startups see funding surge while more VC funds struggle to raise, data shows
(Reuters) -U.S. startup funding surged 75.6% in the first half of 2025, thanks to the continued AI boom, putting it on track for its second-best year ever, even as venture capital firms struggled to raise money, a report from PitchBook on Tuesday…
The Chainsmokers' VC Firm Mantis Raises $100 Million in Fresh Funding
Alex Pall says the band is more hands-on than most celebrity investors. Mantis, the venture capital firm co-founded by members of the band the Chainsmokers, has raised $100 million for its latest fund — a cash haul that demonstrates unusual…
Ex-Avex USA CEO Naoki Osada Launches Company to Propel Japanese Talent in U.S. and Global Markets
Naoki Osada, former CEO of Avex USA, has announced the launch of Nebula17, a multi-faceted music company that offers label, publishing, venture capital, international strategy and management services. Like much of his work at Avex USA, the company…
North American VC assets under management are set to grow 38% in five years-slower than the previous five
But you already knew that—one of the key narratives in the venture capital marketplace from the first day that I started covering the space is that not only are VCs raising more capital, as billion dollar funds become dime-a-dozen, but that…
$10 Million Round For Agentic Engineer Led By Former Google CEO's Venture Firm
Berkeley-based IntuigenceAI is emerging from stealth this week with $10 million in seed funding. IntuigenceAI's Agent achieved 81% first-time pass rate on the standardized NCEES Professional Engineering test beating ChatGPT by eight times. Passing…
Middle East Startups Double Fundraising to Defy Broad Slowdown
Startups in the Middle East nearly doubled their fundraising in the first half of the year, defying a slowdown in venture capital investment in emerging markets brought on by economic uncertainty and investor caution. About $1.35 billion in VC…
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