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newswire.ca - CPE Media & Data Company - Venture Capital in Canada: Summer Doldrums, Or More
Venture Capital in Canada: Summer Doldrums, Or More
CNW

All dollar ($) figures in Canadian dollars unless otherwise noted. TORONTO, July 15, 2025 /CNW/ - Canadian venture capital (VC)* totalled $1.57 billion from 116 financings for second quarter (Q2) of 2025, up from $1.33 billion but down from 156…

thehindubusinessline.com - SEBI announces settlement scheme for venture capital funds, effective July 21
SEBI announces settlement scheme for venture capital funds, effective July 21
BusinessLine

Markets regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) on Tuesday announced a scheme beginning July 21 to aid the settlement of violations of winding-up provisions by migrated Venture Capital Funds (VCFs). The scheme will end on January…

investopedia.com - Jonathan Ponciano - Why Growth Companies Are Opting Out of the Stock Market-And What It Means for You
Why Growth Companies Are Opting Out of the Stock Market-And What It Means for You
Investopedia

For decades, initial public offerings (IPOs) were seen as the ultimate milestone for growing companies. Now, many of the world's most valuable startups are choosing to skip the stock exchange. SpaceX, OpenAI, and Stripe are among a growing number…

bloomberg.com - Bahoshy: Volatility in Market Causing IPO Indecision
Bahoshy: Volatility in Market Causing IPO Indecision
Bloomberg

Startups in the Middle East nearly doubled their fundraising in the first half of the year, defying a slowdown in venture capital investment in emerging markets brought on by economic uncertainty and investor caution. About $1.35 billion in VC…

forbes.com - Christer Holloman - Selling Financial Services Online? Forget SEO, Introducing GEO
Selling Financial Services Online? Forget SEO, Introducing GEO
Forbes

The digital playbook that has governed Wall Street's marketing efforts for the last 20 years, an $80 billion industry known as Search Engine Optimization (SEO), is now obsolete. The relentless pursuit of the top spot on a Google search results page…

wsj.com - Pat Gelsinger - Opinion | A Sovereign-Wealth Fund to Keep America's Technological Edge
Opinion | A Sovereign-Wealth Fund to Keep America's Technological Edge
Wall Street Journal

If the U.S. wants to win the global race for technological supremacy, the country's best tool is a sovereign-wealth fund. Washington's haphazard approach to fueling national competitiveness and strategic industries isn't cutting it in today's…

gizmodo.com - AJ Dellinger - Trump Lets Polymarket Off the Hook, Ends Probe Into Crypto Betting Platform
Trump Lets Polymarket Off the Hook, Ends Probe Into Crypto Betting Platform
Gizmodo | The Future Is Here

If you bet “Donald Trump ends an investigation into a Peter Thiel-backed cryptocurrency platform,” you can claim your winnings. According to Bloomberg, two investigations into the prediction market Polymarket have been shut down by…

forbes.com - Iain Martin - Coatue Veteran Kris Fredrickson Goes It Alone With New Venture Fund
Coatue Veteran Kris Fredrickson Goes It Alone With New Venture Fund
Forbes

Instacart cofounder and then CEO Apoorva Mehta had seen the obits piling up for his grocery delivery startup back in June 2017. His biggest customer and investor Whole Foods had just been snapped up by Amazon for $13.7 billion, and now his…

techcrunch.com - Dominic-Madori Davis - Rwazi raises $12M Series A to help companies with consumer insights and intelligence
Rwazi raises $12M Series A to help companies with consumer insights and intelligence
TechCrunch

Joseph Rutakanga spent eight years looking for tools to help companies gather consumer insight data. Eventually, he decided to just build them. Now his startup, called Rwazi, has raised a $12 million Series A led by Bonfire Ventures to help…

thestar.com.my - Krystal Hu - US AI startups see funding surge while more VC funds struggle to raise, data shows
US AI startups see funding surge while more VC funds struggle to raise, data shows
The Star Online

(Reuters) -U.S. startup funding surged 75.6% in the first half of 2025, thanks to the continued AI boom, putting it on track for its second-best year ever, even as venture capital firms struggled to raise money, a report from PitchBook on Tuesday…

bloomberg.com - Katie Roof - The Chainsmokers' VC Firm Mantis Raises $100 Million in Fresh Funding
The Chainsmokers' VC Firm Mantis Raises $100 Million in Fresh Funding
Bloomberg

Alex Pall says the band is more hands-on than most celebrity investors. Mantis, the venture capital firm co-founded by members of the band the Chainsmokers, has raised $100 million for its latest fund — a cash haul that demonstrates unusual…

billboard.com - Kristin Robinson - Ex-Avex USA CEO Naoki Osada Launches Company to Propel Japanese Talent in U.S. and Global Markets
Ex-Avex USA CEO Naoki Osada Launches Company to Propel Japanese Talent in U.S. and Global Markets
Billboard

Naoki Osada, former CEO of Avex USA, has announced the launch of Nebula17, a multi-faceted music company that offers label, publishing, venture capital, international strategy and management services. Like much of his work at Avex USA, the company…

fortune.com - Allie Garfinkle - North American VC assets under management are set to grow 38% in five years-slower than the previous five
North American VC assets under management are set to grow 38% in five years-slower than the previous five
Fortune

But you already knew that—one of the key narratives in the venture capital marketplace from the first day that I started covering the space is that not only are VCs raising more capital, as billion dollar funds become dime-a-dozen, but that…

forbes.com - Charlie Fink - $10 Million Round For Agentic Engineer Led By Former Google CEO's Venture Firm
$10 Million Round For Agentic Engineer Led By Former Google CEO's Venture Firm
Forbes

Berkeley-based IntuigenceAI is emerging from stealth this week with $10 million in seed funding. IntuigenceAI's Agent achieved 81% first-time pass rate on the standardized NCEES Professional Engineering test beating ChatGPT by eight times. Passing…

bloomberg.com - Yassmin Jabri - Middle East Startups Double Fundraising to Defy Broad Slowdown
Middle East Startups Double Fundraising to Defy Broad Slowdown
Bloomberg

Startups in the Middle East nearly doubled their fundraising in the first half of the year, defying a slowdown in venture capital investment in emerging markets brought on by economic uncertainty and investor caution. About $1.35 billion in VC…

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