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Northwestern Mutual adds $150 million to venture capital investments

Northwestern Mutual is investing an additional $150 million in its venture capital efforts, with a goal of accelerating fintech and insurtech innovation. The investment brings NM's total venture capital allocation to $350 million. “The funds…

Goldman Sachs and Bain Lead Investment in AI Marketing Startup

Hightouch, a platform that uses generative AI to help marketers create and manage campaigns, has raised a $150 million funding round led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives' Growth Equity division and Bain Capital Ventures, the companies said. The round…

FDA Turns to AI to Speed Up Clinical Trials

Blockworks Valued at $192M in Latest Fundraise, Bets on Rolling up Fragmented Data Industry

Blockworks, the leading crypto data platform, today announced the close of a Series A extension at a $192 million valuation. The round was co-led by ParaFi and Reciprocal Ventures, with additional investment from Coinbase Ventures, Advancit…

Startup Blockworks wants to become the crypto equivalent of Morningstar. How it plans to do it

Blockworks wants to become a dominant data provider in the world of cryptocurrency and tokenized assets, according to co-founder Jason Yanowitz. The firm anticipates using the proceeds of its latest fundraising round extension to snap up some of…

Why Japan's Most Durable Asset May Not Be Made In A Factory

When I was a child growing up in Japan, Dragon Ball was “contraband.” My parents were unhappy about me reading manga for hours every day. Teachers confiscated manga magazines at school. But I was fascinated by a universe created from…

Senate Armed Services GOP argues defense spending will boost economy ahead of Hegseth testimony

The Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) is rolling out its messaging playbook ahead of the Trump administration's push to pass President Trump's $1.5 trillion defense budget request, arguing that increasing defense spending will create more jobs…

Millennials still open their mailboxes, and marketers keep forgetting that

Tension: Marketers built entire strategies around digital-first assumptions while a generation quietly kept responding to physical mail. Noise: The tech industry's obsession with digital channels drowns out evidence that tangible marketing still…

Forbes Daily: Jerome Powell's Legacy As Federal Reserve Chair

As the Trump administration prepares to issue tariff refunds, companies like General Motors are already talking about the boost to their balance sheets. The automaker said Tuesday it is anticipating a $500 million tariff rebate, raising its…

Exclusive: Vanta hits $300 million ARR as 'shadow AI' explodes across corporate America

Most corporate employees in America have likely signed up for ChatGPT. And Claude. And possibly Cursor. Their employer's security team has no idea—or even if they do, they can't keep up. This paradox is why Vanta is having a blockbuster…

3iQ Appoints Kristina Zvyagintseva as Head of Business Development, U.S.

Seasoned institutional investment and digital asset professional to lead U.S. growth and deepen engagement with institutional investors and allocators TORONTO, April 29, 2026 /CNW/ -- 3iQ Corp. ('3iQ'), a global pioneer in digital asset investment…

Czech central banker said bitcoin price could go higher or could go to zero

Updated Apr 29, 2026, 12:21 p.m. Published Apr 29, 2026, 12:11 p.m. The Czech Republic's central bank governor, Alex Michl, said that adding bitcoin to the financial institution's reserves could improve performance, but warned its volatility is…

Cotopaxi designed a suitcase you can repair on the go

You're three days into a work trip in a foreign city, running late for a meeting, and you yank the zipper on your carry-on one last time to force it closed. It catches. You pull harder. The slider pops off the track, and suddenly a piece of luggage…

Deepgram expands Flux to 10 languages with mid-call switching for voice agents

Real-time voice artificial intelligence startup Deepgram Inc. today announced the general availability of Flux Multilingual, an extension of its Flux conversational speech recognition model to 10 languages with real-time language detection and the…

Electric air taxis are finally taking flight - just not with passengers

Joby Aviation is still waiting for the green light from the FAA before it can start carrying passengers. | Photo: Owen Grove / The Verge Joby Aviation is still waiting for the green light from the FAA before it can start carrying passengers. Air…