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Charles Hudson shares the common mistakes he's seen after investing in 500+ startups
Charles Hudson has spent more than a decade investing in early-stage startups. As the founder and managing partner at Precursor Ventures, he's invested in hundreds of companies and has seen massive shifts in the markets that require…
Space Frontier Forum kicks off to draw attention to space startups
Panelists and guests of the Space Frontier Forum hosted by SpaceRadar and STIC Ventures pose at the event in Seoul, Thursday. From left are Mirae Asset Capital Managing Director Lee Choong-hwan, KT SAT CEO Choi Kyeong-il and Korea Times…
U.S. Biotechs Are Keeping More Secrets to Beat Copycats in China
Steve Potts is developing medicines for hard-to-treat cancers. Just don't ask what, exactly, he's working on. If word gets out, he fears a Chinese company could beat him to market. Potts's company, whose team has shepherded a combined 13 drugs…
You Built It And They Came-Do You Exit?
Raj Tulshan, founder of Loan Mantra, leads a fintech and advisory platform dedicated to fairer, accessible, democratized lending for all. The first time it happened to me, I almost missed it. Nothing about the offer looked the way I expected. There…
Pace Of Private Equity Exits Slows In H1 2026
The number of private equity exits slowed during the first half of 2026, as market uncertainty continued to prevent buyers and sellers from finding common ground on valuations. Global private equity and venture capital firms announced 1,504 exits…
Xbox CEO Will Advise Federal Reserve On Jobs After Mass Layoffs
The Federal Reserve has just announced a bunch of new task forces staffed by private-sector leaders to help advise it on modern trends in the economy. Xbox CEO Asha Sharma has been named to one of those groups to help advise the U.S. Fed on…
AI unicorn Mercor acquires Deeptune after founder Brendan Foody backed the startup
Brendan Foody started Mercor when he was 19 years old. Now he's 23, worth billions on paper, and running one of the fastest-growing companies in AI history. On Thursday, his $10 billion business acquired startup Deeptune, a company Foody quietly…
DataBento's $97M, Qiagen's suitors, and Serent's new fund
• Databento, a Salt Lake City-based data market platform for finance, raised $97m in Series B funding led by New Enterprise Associates. DRW Venture Capital, Redpoint Ventures, and Tribe Capital joined. Go deeper • Skapion, an Israeli…
Market data platform startup Databento closes $97M round after drawing $300M in investor demand
Market data platform startup Databento Inc. today revealed that it has raised $97 million in new funding to broaden its data coverage across asset classes and expand internationally. Investor demand ran past $300 million, according to the company…
Trump rightly calls off wedding after Iran's abusive engagement
Vice President JD Vance attended Yale Law School, best known for lofty policy talk, but little Harvard-style nuts-and-bolts work. After a year in corporate law, he transitioned to a short stint in venture capital before briefly occupying a Senate…
Russell Investments getting sold for $2.8 billion
B Capital and CalPERS on Wednesday agreed to acquire Russell Investments from TA Associates and Reverence Capital Partners. Why it matters: It's not normal for a venture capital firm to buy a 90-year-old business from private equity, but we could…
Christina Qi left behind a hedge fund trading $7 billion a day for a farm in Utah. Her new startup just raised $97 million to rival Bloomberg
Christina Qi spent a decade making money for billionaires, building Domeyard LP—a high-frequency trading hedge fund that traded up to $7.1 billion a day. Then, she shut the whole thing down to start Databento, a market data infrastructure…
Asia's founders are decamping to the U.S. as the region suffers a protracted venture funding slump
Yoevan Khemlani had already begun building his AI company in Singapore when he realized that all his customers were looking somewhere else. Khemlani had started Interfaze, a startup offering a specialized AI model for backend tasks like web…
OpenAI Vs Anthropic IPO: How They Compare And What We Know
Golden phone with IPO stocks purchase app on the screen on wooden table in office. OpenAI and Anthropic both filed initial public offering prospectuses in June. OpenAI and Anthropic are both planning to go public. However, as the second half of…
Even Realities Reveals $150M Pre-Series B In 2026 - Why It Matters Now
Alarmed, $150 million funding on July 6, 2026 jolted the augmented-reality market and investor bets. This China-founded startup, Even Realities, confirmed a pre-Series B round led by Meituan and Tencent, valuing the company at $1 billion and…
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