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Laird Superfood acquires Terrasoul Superfoods backed by $60M venture capital investment
Laird Superfood has acquired Terrasoul Superfoods in a $48 million deal backed by a $60 million Nexus Capital investment, as it expands its position in the US superfoods market.
Tech sector scrambles over CGT exemption rumours
The local technology and venture capital sector is scrambling to understand whether the federal budget will deliver a capital gains tax exemption to the venture capital industry, and whether company founders will be excluded, following a week of…
How Prediction Markets Are Taking Control of Everything
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Riding an AI rally, Robinhood preps second retail venture IPO
Just two months after listing its first venture fund on the stock market, Robinhood is preparing to launch a second. The company has filed a confidential registration for RVII, a standard regulatory step that allows it to work through the approval…
Why Jaclyn Johnson Wants The Next Generation On Cap Tables-Not Just Guest Lists
Jaclyn Johnson, founder of Create & Cultivate, Chrerub and Receipts, Photo Credit: Brit Perkins After years spent building rooms for ambitious women to network, connect and learn from one another, Jaclyn Johnson is focused on something else:…
America's true innovation advantage: we don't just invent technologies - we reinvent how innovation works
From Bell's telephone to venture capital to AI startups, the U.S. has never won by inventing the best technology. It has won by building the best institutions to commercialize it — and it must do so again. When Alexander Graham Bell…
Women Rewriting Work For Health, Balance, And Summer Joy
For decades, the archetype of career success looked the same: nine-to-five office hours, relentless upward mobility, and a clear separation between “work” and “life.” But for many women today, that model is not just…
Is AI A Bubble? Watch What Founders Do After They Raise
Victor Orlovski is founder of R136 Ventures, a Silicon Valley-based VC firm focused on scaling mid- and late-stage B2B and fintech startups. Seemingly every major firm has weighed in on the same AI question: 'Are we in a bubble?' AI…
What smart people are saying about OpenAI's new $10 billion company to help businesses deploy AI
OpenAI is upping its aggressive push into the enterprise market. On Monday, OpenAI announced the creation of stand-alone company, OpenAI Deployment Company, that it said is 'designed to help organizations build and deploy AI systems.' OpenAI and 19…
Canton's developer bags $300M, Lincoln International's sets IPO terms and Realm gets a new backer
• Digital Asset Holdings, the NYC-based company behind the Canton blockchain network, is raising roughly $300m at a $2b valuation led by a16z crypto, per Bloomberg. Go deeper • Ciridae, an SF-based AI transformation startup, raised a…
Crypto platform Kraken is raising capital at $20 billion valuation ahead of its planned IPO
Updated May 11, 2026, 6:46 p.m. Published May 11, 2026, 6:42 p.m. 2 min read Payward, the parent company of crypto platform Kraken, is raising new capital at a $20 billion valuation, according to two people with knowledge of the matter. Kraken…
Ketamine, TMS, a fecal analysis: my year trying San Francisco's most experimental depression treatments
On a threadbare carpet in the living room of a Bernal Heights bungalow, I lay blindfolded on my back. Two middle-aged rescue terriers, one missing an eye, sniffed my feet and climbed up and down my legs. F**kin' Perfect by Pink blared in the…
'Top Gun: Maverick' Live Concert Firm Esk Secures $3.5M Investment
EXCLUSIVE: A live experince firm that has produced concerts for Top Gun: Maverick and David Attenborough's Ocean has secured a £2.6M ($3.5M) investment. Esk obtained the money via a funding round led by Maven Capital Partners and provided by…
Cowboy Space, Darkhive detail their Series B rounds
This company pushing to make data centers in space a reality has collected $275 million in Series B capital to support satellite and rocket development efforts. Cowboy was founded in 2024 by Baiju Bhatt, a co-founder of Robinhood Markets, to…
STAMPER ADVANCES NAMIBIAN OFFSHORE PORTFOLIO WITH PEL 102 EXTENSION AND CONTINUED INDUSTRY VALIDATION ACROSS KEY BASINS
VANCOUVER, BC, May 11, 2026 /CNW/ - Stamper Oil & Gas Corp. ('Stamper' or the 'Company') (TSX-V: STMP) (US OTC: STMGF) (Germany: TMP0) is pleased to provide a corporate update highlighting continued industry validation across its offshore Namibia…
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