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Startup Funding In 2026: How Unicorns Will Take Off Without Early VC
Financing is one of the most misunderstood – and most challenging – parts of building a startup. Many entrepreneurs believe they must secure venture capital early to succeed. Yet research into America's billion-dollar founders reveals…
Editorial | Investment body adds to coffers and clarity on Hong Kong's long-term future
The Hong Kong government's new investment outfit has had a good start. The Hong Kong Investment Corporation (HKIC) earned HK$2.34 billion (US$300.7 million) in investment income and posted HK$2.25 billion in operating income in its first year of…
Tiger Global Returns to Roots With Smaller VC Goal
Tiger Global Management 's venture capital business is reverting back to an earlier strategy: debuting smaller funds with paced investing, which it says produce its strongest returns. Chase Coleman's firm is looking to raise about $2.2 billion for…
Building A One-Person Unicorn? This Startup Just Raised $8.7M To Help
At The General Intelligence Company, an agent monitors the support inbox. When a customer requests a feature, the agent writes the code, submits it for review, and pushes it toward production. No human touches it until the final approval. This…
Tether Backs Italian Humanoid-Robotics Firm as AI Push Builds
Stablecoin giant Tether has joined a €70 million ($81.6 million) funding round for Italy-based Generative Bionics, a humanoid-robotics startup developing industrial robots built using research from the Italian Institute of Technology. The…
Tiger Global launches new fund eyeing between $2 billion and $3 billion as it takes more disciplined approach
Tiger Global Management announced the launch of Private Investment Partners 17, its latest venture capital fund. The firm is targeting a raise between about $2 billion and $3 billion. The target signals a pivot to a more disciplined strategy for…
Frex raises INR 9.5 crore pre-seed to transform cross-border remittances
Founded with the vision of making cross border money movement as seamless and affordable as domestic digital payments, Frex enables immigrants and global workers to send money home instantly and at ultra-low cost. The platform offers better than…
Despite FPI exodus, private equity bets big on India: $50 bn still flowing in: Amit Chandra
In an interview to The Indian Express, Chandra, who is also Co-founder of the A.T.E. Chandra Foundation (ATECF), said PE and venture capital flows have recently ebbed from a peak four years ago and are currently running in the $50-60 billion range…
How Art Is Driving Waymo's Feel-Good Branding
This is one cool cat. He is laid-back, literally — lying on his stomach, with a book, like a teenager on vacation, feet kicked into the air. He seems fully relaxed and enjoying the ride. Tommii Lim, a Los Angeles street artist who has…
Steven Bartlett Just Backed This Breakout Female Founder
Maggie Sellers Reum and Steven Bartlett In today's creator economy, virality is no longer the endgame, it's all about ownership. And while many creators build followings, only a few build movements. Fewer still turn those movements into scalable…
Invest in Women Taskforce hits £635m as Nationwide and British Business Bank join first close of landmark 'Women backing Women' fund
The milestone includes confirmation that Nationwide and the British Business Bank will join Barclays and M&G as anchor partners in the targeted £130 million first close of the groundbreaking Women backing Women Fund of Funds, subject to final…
Forbes Asia Launches 2025 Heroes Of Philanthropy List
SINGAPORE (December 9, 2025) – Forbes Asia today spotlights ten individuals and families across Asia-Pacific making significant, personal contributions to various charitable causes. Access to education tends to be the primary focus of the…
Nuclear Fission Shows Continuing Popularity (With VCs, At Least)
At first glance, nuclear fission power doesn't seem like the most obvious area for U.S. venture capital to cluster. After all, the last big boom for building American nuclear power plants was in the 1970s. Not long after that, environmental and…
ChemLex unveils AI self-driving discovery lab
SINGAPORE: ChemLex, a Chinese chemical research startup, has launched its global headquarters and its unique artificial intelligence (AI)-powered, fully automated laboratory for drug discovery and development in Singapore's innovation hub…
Borrowing by AI companies represents a 'mounting potential threat to the financial system,' top economist says
Tech companies are issuing more debt now than before the dot-com crash as a rapid infrastructure buildout unfolds in the AI boom, Moody's Analytics Chief Economist Mark Zandi said in a LinkedIn post on Sunday. Even after adjusting for inflation…
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