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Laird Superfood acquires Terrasoul Superfoods backed by $60M venture capital investment
Laird Superfood has acquired Terrasoul Superfoods in a $48 million deal backed by a $60 million Nexus Capital investment, as it expands its position in the US superfoods market.
How Prediction Markets Are Taking Control of Everything
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America's true innovation advantage: we don't just invent technologies - we reinvent how innovation works
From Bell's telephone to venture capital to AI startups, the U.S. has never won by inventing the best technology. It has won by building the best institutions to commercialize it — and it must do so again. When Alexander Graham Bell…
Women Rewriting Work For Health, Balance, And Summer Joy
For decades, the archetype of career success looked the same: nine-to-five office hours, relentless upward mobility, and a clear separation between “work” and “life.” But for many women today, that model is not just…
Is AI A Bubble? Watch What Founders Do After They Raise
Victor Orlovski is founder of R136 Ventures, a Silicon Valley-based VC firm focused on scaling mid- and late-stage B2B and fintech startups. Seemingly every major firm has weighed in on the same AI question: 'Are we in a bubble?' AI…
Exclusive: Index Ventures backs Frame's $50 million bet that employees are still cybersecurity's weakest link
I used to think I'd never fall for a phishing scam. Now I'm not so sure. A few weeks ago, a colleague of mine received a text from our editor, or so they thought. It turned out to be completely fake. Scams like this, apparently, are becoming the…
Digital Asset Holdings Targets $300M in Latest Capital Raise
Digital Asset Holdings, the enterprise blockchain company behind the Canton Network, a permissioned blockchain network for financial institutions with privacy features, is reportedly raising fresh capital at a $2 billion valuation. The $300 million…
Ketamine, TMS, a fecal analysis: my year trying San Francisco's most experimental depression treatments
On a threadbare carpet in the living room of a Bernal Heights bungalow, I lay blindfolded on my back. Two middle-aged rescue terriers, one missing an eye, sniffed my feet and climbed up and down my legs. F**kin' Perfect by Pink blared in the…
'Top Gun: Maverick' Live Concert Firm Esk Secures $3.5M Investment
EXCLUSIVE: A live experince firm that has produced concerts for Top Gun: Maverick and David Attenborough's Ocean has secured a £2.6M ($3.5M) investment. Esk obtained the money via a funding round led by Maven Capital Partners and provided by…
STAMPER ADVANCES NAMIBIAN OFFSHORE PORTFOLIO WITH PEL 102 EXTENSION AND CONTINUED INDUSTRY VALIDATION ACROSS KEY BASINS
VANCOUVER, BC, May 11, 2026 /CNW/ - Stamper Oil & Gas Corp. ('Stamper' or the 'Company') (TSX-V: STMP) (US OTC: STMGF) (Germany: TMP0) is pleased to provide a corporate update highlighting continued industry validation across its offshore Namibia…
Your Whole Self Doesn't Belong At Work- Here's What To Do Instead
Young people working together at a table and smiling Early-career advice for millennials and Gen Z is almost always a variation of this. Then you get promoted—and the problems reveal themselves. Unbounded authenticity has consequences. It…
Trump's culture war has a new patron saint-and a fallen idol
In the spring of 2025, the federal government discovered a new humanities critic: ChatGPT. According to U.S. District Judge Colleen McMahon's May 7 ruling this year, officials with DOGE, the Department of Government Efficiency associated with Elon…
Jordi Visser Buys Ethereum to Bet on AI Agent Payments
Latest News PublishedMay 11, 2026 AI agents need “food,” and that food is not physical food; it is tokens, said Jordi Visser. Macro investor and former hedge fund manager Jordi Visser said he recently bought Ether as he sees the…
Circle Raises $222M in Arc Token Presale at $3B Valuation
USDC issuer Circle Internet Group has raised $222 million in a token presale for its stablecoin -focused blockchain Arc, achieving a $3 billion fully diluted valuation. The raise was led by venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz with a $75…
There aren't enough rockets for space data centers. Cowboy Space raised $275 million to build them.
The apparently insatiable demand for AI compute has data center entreprenuers looking to the stars. There's a key problem: There aren't enough rockets to put data centers in orbit around the Earth, and they're too expensive. Most of the players are…
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