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crunchbase.com - Gené Teare - Venture Capital Is Concentrating Faster Than Ever. What Happens To Everyone Else?
Venture Capital Is Concentrating Faster Than Ever. What Happens To Everyone Else?
Crunchbase

Capital concentration in the private markets is accelerating. Companies with breakout growth or experienced founders in compelling sectors are raising funding at a faster clip, while the rest of the market is increasingly left behind. In 2025, 70%…

wsj.com - Kate Clark - Exclusive | This Manufacturing CEO Once Spurned Venture Capital. Now He's Taking $110 Million.
Exclusive | This Manufacturing CEO Once Spurned Venture Capital. Now He's Taking $110 Million.
Wall Street Journal

The chief executive of a custom sheet-metal and parts business, Jim Belosic, spent years mocking Silicon Valley's ignorance and dismissing venture capitalists as “grifters.” He bootstrapped his on-demand manufacturing startup…

wsj.com - Heather Somerville - Exclusive | A $50 Million Rocket Deal Fueled by Trump's Hypersonic Dreams
Exclusive | A $50 Million Rocket Deal Fueled by Trump's Hypersonic Dreams
Wall Street Journal

Rocket maker Exquadrum isn't particularly old in the business of defense contracting. But the 24-year-old company has still been around a year longer than Ethan Thornton, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology dropout who is taking it over in an…

cnbc.com - David Spiegel - 2026 CNBC Disruptor 50 list: How we chose this year's companies
2026 CNBC Disruptor 50 list: How we chose this year's companies
CNBC

Generative AI is transforming the annual CNBC Disruptor 50 list rankings. Forty-three of the 50 companies on the 2026 list say the technology is critical to their business. The combined valuation of the companies has tripled in the last year, to an…

techcrunch.com - Connie Loizos - Theo Baker spent four years investigating Stanford. Before he leaves, here's what he found.
Theo Baker spent four years investigating Stanford. Before he leaves, here's what he found.
TechCrunch

Most members of Stanford's class of 2026 are smart, ambitious, and poised for remarkable careers. Theo Baker already has one. In his first semester of college, Baker broke the story that forced Stanford president Marc Tessier-Lavigne to resign…

wsj.com - WSJ staff - Sound Wave, an Alzheimer's-Therapy Startup, Raises $17 Million
Sound Wave, an Alzheimer's-Therapy Startup, Raises $17 Million
Wall Street Journal

Sound Wave said Monday it raised 2.65 billion yen, equivalent to $16.7 million, to fund a clinical trial that is due to be completed by year-end. Besides iGlobe, other investors in the financing round included existing backers such as Tokyo-based…

cnbc.com - Elizabeth MacBride - 19. Vaulted Deep
19. Vaulted Deep
CNBC

Founders: Julia Reichelstein (CEO), Omar Abou-Sayed Previous appearances on Disruptor 50 list: 0 Igor Gnedo, Antonina Lepore & Adrianne Paerels Vaulted Deep is a tiny startup with a tidy idea: It uses technology originally developed for the oil and…

theguardian.com - Josh Butler - Pocock urges CGT changes as Albanese laughs off AI meme campaign
Pocock urges CGT changes as Albanese laughs off AI meme campaign
The Guardian

Anthony Albanese has laughed off an AI-generated meme campaign against capital gains tax changes from startup founders, thanking them for “very flattering” doctored photos of him working in their businesses. But independent…

forbes.com - Frank Ahrens - Why AI Investors Need Data - Not Instinct - To Pick Winning States
Why AI Investors Need Data - Not Instinct - To Pick Winning States
Forbes

An Amazon Web Services data center is shown in Stone Ridge, Virginia. Virginia has aggressively courted AI investment. (Photo by Nathan Howard/Getty Images) In 2025, artificial intelligence captured 61 percent of all global venture capital…

cnbc.com - Yun Li - Michael Burry adds to beaten-down stocks while warning of echoes of dot-com bubble
Michael Burry adds to beaten-down stocks while warning of echoes of dot-com bubble
CNBC

Michael Burry added to several beaten-down positions while doubling down on his warning that the market's artificial intelligence boom is creating the kind of distortions last seen during the dot-com era. The investor, best known for predicting the…

forbes.com - Boaz Sobrado - Ouinex Raises $9M From Traders To Kill The Crypto Order Book
Ouinex Raises $9M From Traders To Kill The Crypto Order Book
Forbes

TOPSHOT - A group of divers swim with a sandbar shark off Jupiter, Florida on February 24, 2024. Florida is the place in the world with the most shark attacks in 2023. The news might make you rethink those well-deserved vacations on the state's…

futurism.com - Frank Landymore - Marc Andreessen Goes Ballistic Over Video Making Fun of Him
Marc Andreessen Goes Ballistic Over Video Making Fun of Him
Futurism

Can't-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech Being a gazillionaire means you have a lot of enemies. It also means you have a lot of free time to rage at everyone on X, the Everything App. Take Marc Andreessen, the billionaire…

businessinsider.com - Theron Mohamed - Big Short' investor Michael Burry says AI boom is dead ringer for dot-com bubble
Big Short' investor Michael Burry says AI boom is dead ringer for dot-com bubble
Business Insider

Michael Burry says the AI boom is a dead ringer for the dot-com bubble. The investor of 'The Big Short' dissected the two periods in a Substack post and discussion thread this week. He also cast doubt on whether AI will live up to its heady…

afr.com - Paul Smith - 'Go live in Trumpistan': Investor blasts rich peers over CGT complaints
'Go live in Trumpistan': Investor blasts rich peers over CGT complaints
Australian Financial Review

Australia's changes to capital gains tax are gaining the attention of Silicon Valley's biggest investors, who warn that the country risks making its tech sector less competitive, but Airtree Ventures co-founder Daniel Petre has blasted his rich…

arstechnica.com - Eric Berger - In addition to space stations, Vast says it will now build high-power satellites
In addition to space stations, Vast says it will now build high-power satellites
Ars Technica

With this new product line, Vast is entering an increasingly crowded market. Historically, in the United States, a handful of large companies such as Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Maxar, and Sierra Space have manufactured medium and…

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