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Why Venture Capital Money Isn't Right For Every Founder
Joash Lee is the Founder and CEO of Sedifly, a global EdTech firm democratizing access to education. With AI companies on a run, raising a venture round feels like the holy grail for many founders. Startups are closing rounds at billion-dollar…
Steel ships, railroads, and data centers: A VC takes the Industrial Revolution analogy seriously
In 2026, Hans Tung and I are talking about 19th-century ships. “The Dutch, the Spanish, the Portuguese—they sailed around the world with beautiful large ships, but they were wooden wind ships,” said Tung, Notable Capital…
AI's growing influence goes beyond standalone investment deals
Stephen Lamprecht, founder of South African management consultancy VS Nova and a research partner on the survey. While ICT accounted for 62.7% of all southern African venture capital deals in 2025, AI and machine learning represented just 1.6% as a…
IATI Holds Annual Managing Partners Conference
Initiated and Led by the Israel Advanced Technology Industries Association (IATI), the Annual Conference of Managing Partners from Israel's Leading Venture Capital Funds and Investment Firms Was Held. The conference was held as part of JOURNEY…
The full Disrupt Stage lineup
The biggest stage at TechCrunch Disrupt is where the people building the future come to talk about what happens next in the tech ecosystem. Across three days, from October 13 to 15, at Moscone West in San Francisco, the Disrupt Stage will bring…
Disrupt 2026: Day 1
Day 1 of TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 is officially underway, bringing together 10,000+ startup founders, investors, and tech leaders under one roof at San Francisco's Moscone West. Big ideas are colliding, connections are forming at every turn, and the…
Exclusive: Giraffe Bio aims its bespoke biomolecules at the looming copper shortage
Between the AI data center boom and economywide electrification, the world will need a lot more copper. By 2040, copper supplies could fall 25% short of demand. That'll be a tall order for the mining industry, which boosts production mostly by…
Fifth Wall's Brendan Wallace On Why The Best Proptech Bets May Not Look Like Proptech
Brendan Wallace has spent much of the past decade investing in technology that impacts how real estate is bought, built and managed. Now, the Fifth Wall co-founder sees AI changing the kinds of companies worth backing and expanding the definition…
DOGE team that oversaw dismantling of government now profiting in private sector
Ex-employees of Elon Musk 's DOGE, which sought to slash waste federal expenditure in the first six months of President Donald Trump 's second term, are monetizing their experience in the private sector, a new analysis has found. According to The…
Shanghai wins first WIPO 'City of Innovation' award; jury cites strong R&D base, ambitious pledges
People attend the Inaugural Award Ceremony for the first WIPO City of Innovation award at the headquarters of the WIPO in Geneva, Switzerland, on October 12, 2026. Chinese city Shanghai, Britain's Liverpool and Belgium's Charleroi were announced…
Eric Trump trashes ABC over 'bulls--- hit piece,' backs call for FCC probe into revised story
Eric Trump expressed support for a federal probe into a botched story from ABC News about his family's business dealings with defense contractor Anduril Industries. Sen. Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, called on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)…
Ridgepost Capital Stock: Positive Fundraising Outlook Should Drive A Re-Rating (NYSE:RPC)
Ridgepost Capital, rated buy, manages $34.3B in fee-paying AUM, with 99% of revenue from management fees on committed or deployed capital. RPC's revenue model is resilient, as fees are based on committed capital locked for 3-5 years, insulating…
TVS Capital, Speciale Invest and Blume Ventures among the 14 SLFMs to get funding under the RDI Fund
TVS Capital Funds, Speciale Invest, Chiratae Ventures, Kalaari Capital and Celesta India AIF are among the 14 Second-Level Fund Managers (SLFMs) selected and approved funding under the ₹1 lakh crore Research, Development and Innovation Fund…
The drug disconnect between Iambic and Isomorphic
Wall Street is scratching its head over Iambic Therapeutics, an AI biotech that plans to go public this week. The big picture: Either it's the bargain of a lifetime or the private markets are wildly overvaluing one of its top comps, Alphabet-backed…
New York Fashion Tech Lab Puts Female-Led Tech Startups Front and Center
There always seems to be another ceiling to break. In the U.S., for example, only a fraction of venture capital has gone to solely female-founded startups. In fact, historical data points to a decline, with startups that only have female founders…
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