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Why Retail Tech Gets So Little Venture Capital
Retail technology needs more venture money to be more efficient. Retail has a technology problem: Venture capital investors are not putting enough money into solving retail's technology problems. The gap matters a lot now because AI is creating new…
Blackmagic's wealthy co-founders feud over $1.5b venture capital deal
A long-running dispute between the three wealthy co-founders of Australian video technology giant Blackmagic Design has gone public after one filed a lawsuit claiming he had not been paid dividends for years and had been thwarted in attempts to…
As Wildfires Worsen, And The U.S. Chokes, The Only Answer Is Complex
FILE - This photo provided by the Oregon Department of Transportation shows the Durkee Fire burning in eastern Ore., July 22, 2024. (Oregon Department of Transportation via AP, File) Two bolts of lightning flash across the sky at Camp Blanding Army…
South Africa Fund Plans $609 Million VC Raise With Exits Rising
A key South Africa fund plans to raise as much as 10 billion rand ($609 million) in venture capital to help scale high-growth startups, a move that would expand its technology sector and accelerate the development of one the continent's most mature…
Industrial automation startup Atoms raises $1.7B in funding
Atoms, a startup led by Uber Technologies Inc. co-founder Travis Kalanick, has closed a $1.7 billion investment. The company disclosed in its Wednesday funding announcement that Andreessen Horowitz led the raise. The venture capital firm was joined…
Industrial GPU Adapted For The Desktop
As technologies change and adapt, we're often left with seemingly useless junk that has nowhere to go. Certainly anyone still sitting on a pile of floppy disks feels this way sometimes, but odds are anyone who owns a mining ASIC or an NFT can…
The Rise And Rise Of Billion-Dollar-Plus Rounds
Startup funding used to be associated with smallish bets on promising founders. But times change. While financings of a few million haven't gone away, today most venture capital actually goes to rounds of a billion dollars or more. Moreover, it…
Mark Matossian co-founds Whipsmart Ventures to fund space and deep tech
SAN FRANCISCO – Space startup veteran Mark Matossian has joined forces with a software engineer and a best-selling author to establish Whipsmart Ventures, a venture capital fund focused on space and deep tech. Whipsmart will identify…
ASX 200 LIVE: ASX to fall, oil soars through $US100 mark, triggering global stock sell-off
Australian shares are set to fall, tracking overseas losses after renewed US-Iran tensions propelled oil back above the $US100 a barrel mark, triggering fresh inflation concerns. Bond yields pressed higher. German bond yields reached their highest…
White House Science Report Calls For Reducing University Research Funding
A new White House report, 'Science: The New Golden Age,' criticizes U.S. science and recommends reducing funding for research universities so that it can he reallocate directly to individual scientists and new mission-driven organizations. After…
I spent 4 hours at an AI data center town meeting. Things got rowdy.
The chair of the planning commission in Upper Merion Township, a suburban town about 20 miles from Philadelphia, began a long-anticipated meeting to discuss a large-scale data center proposal with a warning befitting the middle school auditorium…
OpenAI is trying to conquer the office. Legal is next.
For years, OpenAI let startups like Harvey, Legora, and others build software for lawyers on top of its foundation models — massive artificial intelligence systems trained on broad swaths of data. Now, the company, last valued at $852…
China is courting Swiss start-ups for their intellectual property
But according to historian Ariane Knüsel, the real objective is not cooperation, but rather technology transfer and dominance in strategic sectors. China's appeal to Swiss start-ups is certainly nothing new, but it is taking on increasingly…
Meet 22 VCs on the hunt for the next breakout startup in social media
Investors: Andrew Chen, general partner; Olivia Moore, partner; Justine Moore, partner Andreessen Horowitz backed many of the biggest hits of the mobile era, including Instagram, Pinterest, Reddit, and Roblox. It's also backed a slew of social…
Alex Morgan's Time on the Field Is Over, But Her Biggest Impact on Women's Sports May Be Just Beginning
As a professional soccer player, Alex Morgan scored nearly every accolade and goal (pun intended) an athlete of her caliber could: She won the FIFA World Cup twice, took home an Olympic gold medal, and was named U.S. Soccer Female Athlete of the…
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