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bloomberg.com - Yazhou Sun - Big AI Bets Divide Venture Capital, Leaving Smaller Funds Behind
Big AI Bets Divide Venture Capital, Leaving Smaller Funds Behind
Bloomberg

Early last year, venture capital firm Felix Capital set out to raise $600 million for its next fund, touting previous investments in fitness-machine maker Peloton Interactive Inc. and food-delivery service Deliveroo. But investors want to see…

forbes.com - Stephen Richards Evans - ​How AI Is Changing The Capital Markets
​How AI Is Changing The Capital Markets
Forbes

Stephen Richards Evans, Executive Chairman, Partner at Red Lions Capital. The 2026 edition of the world's billionaire rankings offers a striking data point. The list now counts a record 3,428 billionaires, with combined wealth of $20.1 trillion, an…

forbes.com - Adam Ayers - AI Has Made Building Faster Than Fundraising
AI Has Made Building Faster Than Fundraising
Forbes

Adam Ayers, CTO at Number 5. Technologist. Growth Hacker. Entrepreneur. Inventor. Investor. For years, founders were taught that venture capital was the fastest path from idea to company. You needed a warm intro, a polished deck, the right meetings…

globenewswire.com - eQ Oyj - eQ Plc's half year report 2026: Strong fundraising and capital returns to investors in Private Equity funds
eQ Plc's half year report 2026: Strong fundraising and capital returns to investors in Private Equity funds
GlobeNewswire

eQ Plc half year financial report eQ Plc's half year report 2026: Strong fundraising and capital returns to investors in Private Equity funds The Group's net revenue for the reporting period was EUR 29.6 million (EUR 28.3 million 1 January - 30…

fortune.com - Lily Mae Lazarus - HappyRobot is worth $1.2 billion. Its founder says it's just 'getting started'
HappyRobot is worth $1.2 billion. Its founder says it's just 'getting started'
Fortune

Pablo Palafox likes to say his company is “getting started” even as its valuation just crossed ten figures. HappyRobot, the startup that builds AI agents to run the phone calls, emails, and scheduling that keep supply chains moving…

gizmodo.com - Matt Novak - A16Z Brags That Its AI Is Great for Poisoning the Internet With Fake Tech History
A16Z Brags That Its AI Is Great for Poisoning the Internet With Fake Tech History
Gizmodo | The Future Is Here

Did you recently see a video of kids from the 1990s predicting how computers would be used in the future? It's fake. The video was created using Flux 3 and if you didn't inspect it too closely, it looks pretty authentic as an artifact from 30 years…

forbes.com - Alex Lazarow - Competition Is For Losers In The AI Era: A Geographic Perspective
Competition Is For Losers In The AI Era: A Geographic Perspective
Forbes

VENICE, ITALY - JULY 15: Olympic medals are displayed during the unveiling of the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games: Medals Unveiling at Palazzo Balbi on July 15, 2025 in Venice, Italy. (Photo by Emmanuele Ciancaglini/Getty Images) Last week…

yahoo.com - Joseph Zeballos-Roig - 'I lived through 2000, I don't want the sequel': Jim Cramer says AI's circular financing is getting out of hand
'I lived through 2000, I don't want the sequel': Jim Cramer says AI's circular financing is getting out of hand
Yahoo!

Fears are percolating again about circular financing in the AI race, and Wall Street's focus is landing on Nvidia (Nasdaq:NVDA), which is fast becoming a chipmaking behemoth in the AI development race. In late July, the company announced a $500…

afr.com - Emma Rapaport - Pharmacists dispense cash to nurse StrongRoom AI back to health
Pharmacists dispense cash to nurse StrongRoom AI back to health
Australian Financial Review

A group of wealthy pharmacy franchise owners from well-known chains TerryWhite Chemmart and Priceline have thrown their money into the comeback of collapsed software start-up StrongRoom AI. StrongRoom AI collapsed last year after its largest…

crunchbase.com - Gené Teare - A Record 14 Billion-Dollar Rounds In July Pushed Venture's Historic Run Higher
A Record 14 Billion-Dollar Rounds In July Pushed Venture's Historic Run Higher
Crunchbase

Global venture funding showed no signs of slowing in July. Startup capital totaled $65 billion, up 100% year over year, as the month notched the highest-ever number of billion-dollar venture rounds on record, per Crunchbase data. July ranked as the…

jpost.com - ANNA AHRONHEIM - Jerusalem establishes new accelerator to expand role in Israel's defense tech
Jerusalem establishes new accelerator to expand role in Israel's defense tech
The Jerusalem Post

Jerusalem has established a new accelerator to broaden the capital's footprint in Israel's defense-tech ecosystem. The program will help local companies. The accelerator is led by the Jerusalem Development Authority (JDA) along with the Defense…

axios.com - Dan Primack - Bending Spoons agrees to buy Airtable
Bending Spoons agrees to buy Airtable
Axios

Bending Spoons on Tuesday said it has agreed to acquire Airtable, a San Francisco-based relational database company, for $1.29 billion in cash. The total equity value is $2.25 billion, including Airtable's cash and cash equivalents. Why it matters:…

businessinsider.com - Cheryl Teh - He choreographed routines for K-pop stars like BTS and Seventeen. Now he's building AI for dance.
He choreographed routines for K-pop stars like BTS and Seventeen. Now he's building AI for dance.
Business Insider

K-pop's biggest stars, from BTS to Seventeen, have danced routines that Youngjun Choi choreographed. Now, the top choreographer is betting that AI can help anyone with an idea, a phone, and no dance training to create the next hit K-pop dance. It…

sfchronicle.com - Laura Waxmann - Exclusive: In Menlo Park housing fight, Bonta sends a potential warning to California cities
Exclusive: In Menlo Park housing fight, Bonta sends a potential warning to California cities
San Francisco Chronicle

After nearly two years of legal conflict over one of Menlo Park's largest proposed developments on the former Sunset Magazine headquarters site, California Attorney General Rob Bonta has sided with the developer, saying the city violated state…

iclg.com - Verity Jackson - Kellerhals Carrard helps sow the seed for ZuriQ financing round
Kellerhals Carrard helps sow the seed for ZuriQ financing round
ICLG

The financing will help ZuriQ advance its scalable quantum processor technology Swiss law firm Kellerhals Carrard has advised quantum computing company ZuriQ on a 20.6 million Swiss francs (approximately £18.1 million) seed financing round…

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