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CNBC's The China Connection newsletter: China is rewiring the Silicon Valley model - starting in Hong Kong
Hundreds of Chinese companies are lining up to list in Hong Kong. The activity is 'much, much bigger' than anything seen in the last 35 years, said Gary Lock, Hong Kong-based partner at IPO advisory King and Wood. More Chinese IPOs in Hong Kong are…
StanChart's VC Arm Backs Crypto Firm GSR at $1 Billion Valuation
Standard Chartered 's wholly owned venture capital unit SC Ventures has invested in crypto trading firm GSR, as the bank pushes deeper into the digital-assets market. The deal values GSR, which was founded in 2013 by former Goldman Sachs traders…
Andreessen Horowitz's new $2.2 billion crypto fund is chasing stablecoins, DeFi, and the builders no one is watching
Updated May 5, 2026, 12:26 p.m. Published May 5, 2026, 12:00 p.m. 2 min read Venture capital heavyweight Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) has launched a $2.2 billion crypto fund, doubling down on blockchain startups amid a surge in venture capital into…
Who is Shivon Zilis? Meet the Elon Musk exec who's set to testify on his behalf
Shivon Zilis — a longtime executive at Elon Musk's companies and the mother of four of his children — is scheduled to testify this week at Musk's ongoing civil trial against OpenAI's Sam Altman. The trial, which started last week in…
Billion-Dollar AI Rounds Push April To Third-Highest Startup Funding Month In A Year
Global venture funding reached $56 billion in April, marking the third-largest monthly funding in a year. Funding was up 100% year over year from $26 billion, according to Crunchbase data. This increase was driven by large rounds to AI lab…
Sequoia-backed Astrocade raises $56 million to let everyone build games
I've been playing this online dinosaur game called Apex Predator. It works much as you'd expect: You start off as a small, feathery compsognathus, and work your way up to velociraptor status (and beyond) by, well, being the apex predator. I know it…
Kalshi, Hyperliquid, IB Still Serve Dutch Users as Polymarket Ban Fails to Clear the Market
Dutch users can still access crypto prediction markets despite a previous ban on market leader Polymarket. Polymarket was banned by the Dutch Gaming Authority (Ksa) in February for operating without a gambling license. However, US-based Kalshi…
Solana firm Jito launches a consumer trading app months after raising $50 million
Over the past four years, crypto startup Jito has made its name building infrastructure for the Solana blockchain network. But coming off of a banner 2025, Jito is no longer content to remain on the back end of crypto trading and plans to launch a…
Andreessen Horowitz's crypto arm raises $2.2 billion for fifth venture fund, promotes CTO Lazzarin to general partner
The biggest name in crypto venture capital closed another mammoth fundraise. The digital assets arm of Andreessen Horowitz, which goes by a16z crypto, announced Tuesday morning that it's drummed up $2.2 billion for its fifth venture fund. The firm…
Standard Chartered expands further into crypto with stake in GSR at $1 billion valuation
May 5, 2026, 12:00 p.m. 2 min read Standard Chartered PLC's (STAN) venture capital division SC Ventures invested in GSR, as the London-based multinational bank seeks to further expand its digital asset services, the crypto capital market's firm…
Exclusive: In-Q-Tel pivots strategy for 'forward-deployed' warfare and espionage
In-Q-Tel is refashioning its investment strategy to focus on a smaller number of big bets in key areas like autonomy, contested logistics and critical infrastructure, CEO Steve Bowsher told Axios. The big picture: The venture capital firm, birthed…
Andreessen Horowitz Raises $2.2 Billion to Fund Next Wave of Crypto Startups
Andreessen Horowitz said Tuesday that it has raised $2.2 billion for its fifth crypto fund, bringing the firm's total crypto capital under management to nearly $9.8 billion. The firm's a16z Crypto arm has backed some of the industry's biggest…
Top state economic official visits Northampton, discusses downtown and arts investment
NORTHAMPTON — Over coffee and sandwiches in downtown Northampton late last week during a swing through western Massachusetts, the state's top economic development official met with local leaders to explore how millions in new state funding…
View: What China's biggest entrepreneurs don't get: China
The CEO of Manus exemplifies China's entrepreneurial smarts. As Silicon Valley spent billions developing advanced AI models, Red Xiao and his China-based team came up with one of the first — and at the time, many argued, the best — AI…
Tim Cook is leaving John Ternus with an AI imbroglio
John Ternus hasn't taken over from Tim Cook yet, but that doesn't mean we can't start creating problems for him. One of Ternus's biggest challenges is going to be navigating the perilous gap between how the AI industrial complex views its offering…
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