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When Markets Serve Women, Male Founders Still Get The Money - VC Keeps Paying The Price
Kim Kardashian's SKIMS Beauty Taps Diarrha N'Diaye as Executive Vice President. (L to R Kim Kardashian and Diarrha N'Diaye) Venture capital has a gender arbitrage problem that the industry refuses to confront. The markets that serve women —…
Capital One Venture X vs. Amex Platinum: Which Travel Card Is Better?
If you're looking for a premium travel card, then two of the best options are the American Express Platinum Card and the Capital One Venture X Rewards Credit Card (see rates and fees). In fact, they're my two personal favorites. However, these…
How To Use Nimble Scenarios For Decision Making In A Complex World
Recent advances in generative AI are changing how leaders approach scenario planning and development with more nimble and rapid approaches. Earlier this year, this space reported that boards and senior leaders are conducting robust scenario…
Adtech Firm Agentio Raises $40 Million to Make Creator Marketing More Programmatic
Marketers will pump $10 billion into creator marketing this year, according to Emarketer. Most of those ad dollars require brands to negotiate deals and contracts directly with creators. A handful of tech companies want to speed up and automate the…
How to Raise Money In an AI-Obsessed World
We're living through one of the biggest technology supercycles in history. Artificial intelligence isn't just a new feature or platform — it's a new substrate, the layer upon which the next generation of companies will be built. Think back…
AI industry-backed super PAC targets New York Democrat in opening shot of midterms
A super PAC backed by titans of the artificial intelligence industry, called 'Leading the Future,' is targeting New York State Assemblymember Alex Bores, who co-sponsored the RAISE Act. The bill requires the biggest AI companies to publish safety…
How Alphonzo Terrell Is Building Spill To Redefine Social Media For The Culture, By The Culture
Alphonzo 'Phonz' Terrell, Co-Founder and CEO of SPILL Social media was supposed to bring us together. But over the years, it has become a place where creativity often collides with chaos — and where the very communities that give the…
UK officials 'working night and day to resolve NHS drug pricing row'
The UK science minister has said officials are “working day and night” trying to resolve the standoff with big pharmaceutical companies over drug pricing. Speaking to industry leaders and investors at London life sciences week…
Leanspace raises €10 million Series A round to bring software-defined satellite operations to enterprise and institutional space programs
STRASBOURG, November 17th, 2025 – Leanspace, a European satellite operations technology provider, today announced it has raised €10 million in Series A funding. The financing round includes new strategic investors: ISAI Cap Venture…
The AI Cold War And The Race For Sovereign AI
TOPSHOT - Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang delivers a keynote address at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada on January 6, 2025. “Every country needs its own sovereign AI – to produce intelligence rather than import…
UC Investments puts $2.4 billion Big Ten deal on hold amid pushback from Michigan and USC
An investment group that was prepared to pay the Big Ten $2.4 billion for a 10 percent share of the conference's media and sponsorship rights has put the deal on hold due to the continued public opposition from two schools, Michigan and USC. UC…
The Growing Cost of Keeping Close Ties with Jeffrey Epstein
Larry Summers had already apologized for his association with Jeffrey Epstein, ties that have been known for decades. But recent revelations about more extensive correspondence between the men have now led Summers — a former Treasury…
In An Agentic Era, VC Is Buying A-Player C-Suite Execs At Any Cost - Not 'Staffing Up
Venture capital has become a mechanism for extracting executives from trillion-dollar companies and paying them whatever it takes to build in an AI-native world. We're not funding companies anymore — we're buying access to the few hundred…
Fintech Ramp Now Valued At $32B After $300M Raise Led By Lightspeed
Fintech startup Ramp is on a tear. The expense management company has raised yet another round of capital — $300 million at a $32 billion valuation, the company announced on Monday. The financing marks the fourth raise for New York-based…
How BHT Became The Fastest Growing Event In Mental Health
Behavioral Health Tech Speakers How does a one-day virtual convening turn into the largest gathering of behavioral health innovation, drawing payers, providers, founders, national health plans, and venture capital? Behavioral Health Tech is the…
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