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wsj.com - Jon Leckie - Exclusive | Startup Raises $2 Million to Expand Secondary Market in Venture Capital
Exclusive | Startup Raises $2 Million to Expand Secondary Market in Venture Capital
Wall Street Journal

The lack of initial public offerings has pushed startup employees, founders and investors to secondary markets, where they can sell their shares in still-private companies. Data provider PitchBook estimates that the value of the direct secondary…

newswire.ca - CPE Media & Data Company - Canadian Venture Capital in 2025: The Full Picture
Canadian Venture Capital in 2025: The Full Picture
CNW

All dollar ($) figures in Canadian dollars unless otherwise noted. TORONTO, March 31, 2026 /CNW/ - Canadian venture capital (VC) totalled $9.13 billion from 598 financings in 2025, down slightly $9.25 billion reported in 2024. Canadian Venture…

wwd.com - Sandra Salibian - Beiersdorf to Boost Its Innovation Agenda With New, 100 Million-euro Venture Capital Fund
Beiersdorf to Boost Its Innovation Agenda With New, 100 Million-euro Venture Capital Fund
WWD

MILAN — Beiersdorf is doubling down on venture capital as a strategic lever to drive future growth by launching the second generation of its corporate venture capital fund with a 100 million-euro commitment. Called the Skin Care Innovation…

techcrunch.com - Dominic-Madori Davis - Toyota's Woven Capital appoints new CIO and COO in push for finding the 'future of mobility'
Toyota's Woven Capital appoints new CIO and COO in push for finding the 'future of mobility'
TechCrunch

Sometimes, Michiko Kato thinks back on the great challenges of her life. She once dropped everything in her native city of Tokyo to attend Harvard Business School in Massachusetts. One day, she decided to leave her career in the stable world of…

coindesk.com - Jesse Hamilton - Prediction markets backlash builds possible stormcloud for 2027
Prediction markets backlash builds possible stormcloud for 2027
CoinDesk

The rocketship rise of prediction markets has been answered by a barrage of U.S. legislation meant to sharply limit bad behavior in the new sector. While those bills probably aren't going to hit their targets right away, the shifting political tide…

globenewswire.com - Standing Ovation - Standing Ovation raises $34.2 million to scale up its breakthrough technology for producing dairy proteins through precision fermentation, offering a sovereign and sustainable response to the surge in global demand for protein
Standing Ovation raises $34.2 million to scale up its breakthrough technology for producing dairy proteins through precision fermentation, offering a sovereign and sustainable response to the surge in global demand for protein
GlobeNewswire

Standing Ovation raises $34.2 million to scale up its breakthrough technology for producing dairy proteins through precision fermentation, offering a sovereign and sustainable response to the surge in global demand for protein The company secures a…

forbes.com - Josipa Majic Predin - Agent Workflows Are The New Career Currency, And Smart Money Is Paying Attention
Agent Workflows Are The New Career Currency, And Smart Money Is Paying Attention
Forbes

SUQIAN, CHINA - MARCH 09: In this photo illustration, the logo of open-source AI agent OpenClaw is displayed on a smartphone screen on March 9, 2026 in Suqian, Jiangsu Province of China. (Photo by VCG/VCG via Getty Images) In a post on X that…

bbc.co.uk - Emily Hudson - The struggle for women to get investment in start up businesses
The struggle for women to get investment in start up businesses
BBC

Emily HudsonSouth of England political editor Those are the words female entrepreneurs say they keep hearing as they try and secure funding and investment for their new business. For Bethan Higson from Oxford, her idea was a non-alcoholic aperitif…

forbes.com - Brandon Kochkodin - Billionaire Jack Dorsey Thinks AI Will Kill Middle Management
Billionaire Jack Dorsey Thinks AI Will Kill Middle Management
Forbes

When he is not talking about replacing middle managers with AI, billionaire Jack Dorsey is often talking up Bitcoin. (Photo by Marco BELLO / AFP) (Photo by MARCO BELLO/AFP via Getty Images) Billionaire Jack Dorsey cut first and explained later. In…

forbes.com - Elizabeth MacBride - Ireland Lights A Candle For An Open And Innovative Economy
Ireland Lights A Candle For An Open And Innovative Economy
Forbes

Ireland is leaning into policies of openness to build long-term growth. Some governments see immigration as a threat. The Irish government, with a longer lens and one of the largest global diasporas, sees immigration differently: as a wind that…

forbes.com - Jodie Cook - AI Funding Hit Record Levels And Founders Need To Pay Attention
AI Funding Hit Record Levels And Founders Need To Pay Attention
Forbes

AI funding hit record levels and founders need to pay attention AI startups raised over $200 billion in 2025, according to Crunchbase's year-end analysis. That is a 75% increase from the $114 billion invested in 2024. If you run a business and you…

fortune.com - Allie Garfinkle - The 'death of SaaS' could be the best thing to ever happen to SaaS M&A
The 'death of SaaS' could be the best thing to ever happen to SaaS M&A
Fortune

The software-as-a-service (SaaS) doomer headlines may have peaked in February—but if you check out the dealmaking data, SaaS has been looking alive. For the final quarter of 2025, enterprise SaaS M&A hit $83.7 billion in total value, recent…

ucsd.edu - KatoMed, a UC San Diego MedTech Accelerator Company, Shines
KatoMed, a UC San Diego MedTech Accelerator Company, Shines
CORE Platform

Kyocera Ventures recently invested in the surgical navigation startup KatoMed, which has deep ties to UC San Diego KatoMed licensed robotics IP from UC San Diego, hired engineering alumni, and thrived in the MedTech accelerator at the Jacobs School…

axios.com - Dan Primack - OpenAI starts to open the door to individual investors
OpenAI starts to open the door to individual investors
Axios

OpenAI is beginning to let individual investors access its stock, months before the ChatGPT maker is expected to launch its IPO. Driving the news: OpenAI said Tuesday that its shares will soon be included in several exchange-traded funds (ETFs)…

forbes.com - Sylvana Quader Sinha - Are AI Layoffs Happening Before AI Value Is Proven?
Are AI Layoffs Happening Before AI Value Is Proven?
Forbes

The question isn't whether AI will transform work. It will. The question is whether leaders are making thoughtful, future-oriented decisions - or simply using AI as the latest rationale for cost cutting. As companies race to restructure around…

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