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San Sebastián Festival Gets Spanish Government Industry Boost
The San Sebastián Film Festival will receive a key economic boost from Spain's Ministry of Digital Transformation and Civil Service to consolidate its industry events, which include the Creative Investors' Conference, co-organized with CAA…
Shenzhen-Hong Kong-Guangzhou cluster ranks first globally in WIPO Global Innovation Index 2026
The Shenzhen–Hong Kong–Guangzhou innovation cluster has claimed the top spot in the Global Innovation Index (GII) 2026, following the release of the World Intellectual Property Organization's (WIPO) top 100 science and technology…
India Has A Chance In AI: Why Businesses Need To Build Resilience
Sajal Singh, founder of Aperture, helps early-stage startups raise money. AI due diligence expert. EU Commission's Apply AI Alliance member. Picture a hospital administrator in Pune, India, in 2028, running diagnostic AI tools built on a…
Legal tech is booming. A new VC firm wants lawyers in on the action.
A lawyer, an investor, and a founder logged onto a Zoom call. It sounds like the opening of a joke. Instead, it's part of the origin story of GCVC, a venture fund that wants lawyers to have a stake in the startups remaking their profession. The…
The Product Is The Wedge, The Data Is The Business
Mehron Sharq, founder of Inside Round Advisory, spent years evaluating early-stage software and AI companies as a venture capital investor. I've spent years underwriting early-stage software companies, first as an investor deciding what to…
Outsize Transaction Moves Private Equity Pharma Deals To $17.8B
In July alone, the sector recorded a total transaction value of $3.74 billion, topping the second quarter's $3.21 billion. Deal volume, however, fell 11.0% year over year to 105 in the first seven months of 2026, according to Market Intelligence…
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Trump's SEC Moves To Rescind Private Equity Pay-To-Play Rule, Increasing Public Corruption Concerns
Trump administration is moving to scrap a rule intended to prevent private equity firms from bribing public officials following a series of pay-to-play scandals. Last Thursday, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) moved to repeal a…
Zeta: I See A Path To $60+/Share (NYSE:ZETA)
Zeta has pivoted from a marketing technology platform to an AI infrastructure company, leveraging its proprietary Data Cloud and conversational AI layer, Athena. Q2 FY26 results showed 43.5% YoY revenue growth, 7 consecutive quarters of…
Australia steps up India space push with five new industry partnerships
Australia is stepping up its engagement with India's private space sector, with the two countries signing five new industry partnerships covering satellite communications, research and development, and launch and re-entry technologies. The…
A Founder's Guide to Private Capital Investing
Founders and business owners are increasingly looking toward private capital — not only as investors seeking returns, but as operators who understand firsthand what it takes to build enduring businesses. Investors considering the space…
Anthropic cancels $6B acquisition of Israeli AI start-up Decart
There is drama in the local and global AI market: Artificial intelligence giant Anthropic has decided to pull out of a mega-deal to acquire Israeli start-up Decart AI. The deal, which was intended to reach a huge sum of around $6 billion and become…
Bluecore Energy raises $50M to build its first floating nuclear system - SiliconANGLE
Maritime nuclear startup Bluecore Energy Inc. today announced a $50 million seed round, seven weeks after the company formally launched with $10 million behind a plan to mount small reactors on barges. Most of the new capital will go toward getting…
The Boston Dynamics spinout building robots you'll actually want to hug
Danielle's a poodle, with big eyes, fuzzy ears, and cartoon lavender fur. She's also a robot, and as I talk on Zoom to Marc Theermann, she's sitting behind him. “Danielle is a robot we built on top of Boston Dynamics' Spot platform,”…
'Dirty Data' Is Hurting Your Company's AI Strategy - Here's How This Tech Founder Is Fixing It
Entrepreneur Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm partnered with Entrepreneur Media that is dedicated to backing passionate and innovative founders as early as day one. In this series, we are profiling the amazing entrepreneurs…
Shutterstock Appoints Three Accomplished Business Leaders to Board of Directors
The appointments add three accomplished executives and investors with deep experience across technology and emerging markets, investment and capital allocation, building and scaling businesses, and public-company finance and governance. Their…
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