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Venture capital firm Bluehill Capital closes ₹400 crore maiden fund
Chennai-based venture capital firm Bluehill.VC has closed its maiden ₹400 crore fund, which also includes a ₹50 crore greenshoe option. The fund aims to build a concentrated portfolio of 15–16 companies, investing an average of…
Robinhood's second venture fund debuts, drawing retail money into private markets
Aug 13 (Reuters) - Robinhood's second venture fund debuted on Thursday, giving retail investors access to early-stage startups that have traditionally been out of reach for all but venture capital firms and wealthy investors. The…
Kalshi's Valuation Could Nearly Double to $40 Billion After Reports Suggest It Could Raise Another $750 Million. Here's What's Driving the Prediction Market Boom.
The leading prediction markets company, Kalshi, is reportedly in talks to raise another $750 million at a $40 billion valuation. The Information reported the news, citing anonymous sources. Three months ago, Kalshi raised $1 billion in funding at a…
A Former PayPal Exec Is Fixing VCs' Biggest Blind Spot: Women Founders
Investors, take another look at women founders. Fifty years ago, a woman couldn't get a credit card without a male co-signer. Today, some women founders are adding male co-founders who know nothing about their businesses — just to get a…
Global Convergence: Shaping the Future of Web3 at August 2026 Crypto Summits
August 2026's strong roster of worldwide cryptocurrency conferences spans institutional acceptance, legal debates, and regional market growth. Key events start with the Wyoming Blockchain Symposium in Jackson Hole from August 17 to 20 and the LATAM…
New $25 Million Accelerator Bets On Better Model For Rare Disease
Better pediatric treatments needed A new Pittsburgh-based initiative is making a $25 million bet on a persistent problem in medicine: promising rare disease science too often fails to become a treatment. The Richard King Mellon Foundation has…
Flock CEO says 'goal isn't a dystopian future'
Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley pushed back against claims that the company's expanding network of automated license plate readers (ALPRs) is contributing to a surveillance state, telling Newsweek that transparency and accountability are central…
Buried in OpenAI's latest research: No correlation between AI use and revenue per employee
Welcome to Eye on AI. Emily Forlini here, filling in for Jeremy one last time as his vacation comes to a close. In today's issue: Juicy details OpenAI doesn't want you to see in its new report Anthropic reportedly plans a $2 trillion IPO in…
Los Angeles Sparks' Future Revealed After Lakers $12.5 Billion Sale
The basketball world was left stunned on Wednesday after news of the Los Angeles Lakers getting sold for $12.5 billion broke. Less than a year after finalizing a $10 billion deal to buy the majority stake of the Lakers, Mark Walter agreed to flip…
Bethenny Frankel Reveals She Was 'Retiring' Before Career Reinvention: 'I Was on My Way Out'
Bethenny Frankel was ready to hang things up before her career was unexpectedly reinvented. “Skinnygirl was amazing, but I didn't know anything when I started it,” the businesswoman, 55, exclusively told Us on Wednesday, August 12…
Robinhood's second fund for retail investors eyeing private markets starts trading
Aug 13: Robinhood's second venture fund debuted on Thursday, giving retail investors access to early-stage startups that have traditionally been out of reach for all but venture capital firms and wealthy investors. The fintech company's Robinhood…
Darrelle Revis wants to coach. Could he join former Jets teammate Jim Leonhard in Buffalo?
Darrelle Revis was a first-ballot Pro Football Hall of Fame cornerback. Yet when he and undrafted safety Jim Leonhard played together with the New York Jets, he never viewed Leonhard as a sidekick. Revis, in fact, still considers the Buffalo Bills'…
Google's DeepMind is having an identity crisis
Bea Nolan here, filling in for Allie. Google DeepMind has been having a difficult year. Last week, longtime Google DeepMind CEO and company cofounder Demis Hassabis announced he was stepping back from the CEO role and into a new chair role.
Bids for unicorn Employment Hero test $2b value in Seek sell-off
Bids lodged to buy a stake in human resources software unicorn Employment Hero from Seek's venture capital Growth Fund indicate the company has retained its multibillion-dollar valuation, despite the SaaSpocalypse battering the price tags of…
Josh Kushner moves into spotlight after stunning purchase of Lakers with partner Bob Iger
For a billionaire and a tech investor who also has one of the U.S.' best-known surnames, Josh Kushner has managed to stay off the front pages and out of the world's broader discourse to a remarkable degree. That's all changed this summer, at least…
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