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Kotak Alternate Asset Managers names Pushkar Jauhari to head Private Equity and Venture Capital
Kotak Alternate Asset Managers Limited has appointed Pushkar Jauhari as Chief Executive Officer of its Private Equity and Venture Capital platform, the Mumbai-based firm announced on September 3, 2026. Jauhari will oversee investment strategy…
Supreme Court urged to let states regulate sports bets on prediction markets
New Jersey yesterday asked the Supreme Court to rule on whether states can regulate sports betting on prediction markets such as Kalshi. “Companies like Kalshi claim to offer legal sports betting in all 50 states, but they refuse to follow…
Exclusive: German startup Atira raises $17.5 million to streamline cumbersome industrial sales process
When a company that builds fire trucks, rail-maintenance machinery, or electric vehicle chargers is invited to bid on a big contract, the request that lands in its inbox can run to thousands of pages of technical specifications. Developing the bid…
Built for uncertainty
Spend enough time doing business in Israel, and you quickly realize that things work a little differently here. Plans are useful, but nobody expects them to survive reality unchanged. A meeting can become a pilot surprisingly quickly. When…
A 'shakeout' in early-stage AI may be coming as VC money gets pickier on valuations
Investors become much more demanding about where the technology creates genuine value and where it is simply a feature dressed up as a business, according to Purple Ventures. The next question is whether applications and end users generate enough…
Startup ARR is less secure than ever, new research shows
AI has ushered in a lot of never-happened-before moments, but one of the most transformative is its impact on enterprise IT. Companies that have historically been cautious and committed long-term to what they buy are on pace to spend $4.25 trillion…
Billionaire family offices back health care and biotech startups in August
Family offices made 52 direct investments in private companies in August, according to Fintrx. About 20% of the month's investments went to biotech startups, including LifeMine Therapeutics, which raised $188 million from backers including Bezos…
I'm a VC with 5 kids. I encourage them to use AI and not to pick the safest career.
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Lori Cashman, managing partner at Visible Ventures. It has been edited for length and clarity. When people hear I had five kids within three years, they assume the baby years must have been the…
Inman Opens Nominations for 2026 Best of Real Estate Proptech Awards
The awards spotlight the founders, companies and investors changing how homes are built, financed, bought, sold and managed, from digital mortgages and modular construction to autonomous AI agents that carry a transaction from idea to close. Tom…
First Israeli NBA player Omri Casspi announces $250 million funding project
The first Israeli to play in the NBA, Omri Casspi, announced on Thursday that his venture capital firm, Swish Ventures, raised $250 million and reached $800 million in total funding. The money will be used in the firm's third fund, which will focus…
Driscoll resignation roils defense-tech investment
Defense tech has become one of venture capital's hottest sectors, after being ignored for decades, but it just lost a top evangelist within the Pentagon. Vibes check: Defense-tech investors tell Axios that they're concerned and disappointed, but…
To get into Anthropic right now, you need at least $25 million. For OpenAI, it's closer to $1 million.
The secondaries market offers a window into the most-watched-IPO horse race, perhaps ever, between OpenAI and Anthropic. Now, the vibe, shall we say, for a while has been that OpenAI is falling behind Anthropic. Across the secondaries market…
Donald Trump Jr. Reveals His Nickname for New Wife Bettina as He Sends Her Flowers While He's Out of Town
Article continues below advertisement Donald Trump Jr. sent flowers to his new wife, Palm Beach socialite Bettina Anderson, with a note revealing his one-letter nickname for her. In an Instagram Story post by Anderson, he penned in a card…
Global Venture Funding Jumps 122% In August As Streak Of Billion-Dollar Deals Continues
Venture investors poured $42 billion into just over 1,500 startups worldwide in August, Crunchbase data shows, down 25% from July's $56 billion but still up a significant 122% compared to last August, which is typically a slower month for startup…
Abliteration.ai is making a business out of removing AI guardrails
It just became much easier to access one of the world's most capable open-weight AI models, stripped of its guardrails and refusals to perform harmful tasks. Named after a technique that removes a model's tendency to refuse harmful requests…
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