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wsj.com - Yuliya Chernova - Exclusive | How Mighty Capital Overcame a Tough Market to Raise a New Fund
Exclusive | How Mighty Capital Overcame a Tough Market to Raise a New Fund
Wall Street Journal

Today's fundraising environment is challenging for smaller venture-capital firms. Sub-$100 million funds accounted for less than 5% of all capital raised by U.S. venture firms in the first quarter of this year, according to the PitchBook-NVCA…

vogue.com - Hikmat Mohammed - 4 AI Startups Shaping the Future of Beauty
4 AI Startups Shaping the Future of Beauty
Vogue

This article is part of the Future of AI, a collection of articles that investigates how artificial intelligence will impact the fashion and beauty industries in the years to come. The beauty sector is the corner of luxury that's been the fastest…

bloomberg.com - Sinead Cruise - A-Lister Cash Powers Iconiq's Bold Anthropic Bets
A-Lister Cash Powers Iconiq's Bold Anthropic Bets
Bloomberg

This article is for subscribers only. Welcome to Going Private, I'm Sinead Cruise and this is Bloomberg's twice-weekly newsletter about private markets and the forces moving capital away from the public eye. Today, we look at efforts by Asian…

forbes.com - Christine Ro - Can Vaccine Development Weather Political Storms?
Can Vaccine Development Weather Political Storms?
Forbes

International training on mRNA vaccine production at the Vaccine Research Center of the National Institutes of Health, in 2023 (Photo by: NIH-NIAID/Image Point FR/BSIP/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) BSIP/Universal Images Group via Getty…

theguardian.com - Aaron Timms - Fernando Mendoza: LinkedIn lunatic, endearing goofball and a symbol of the NFL's future
Fernando Mendoza: LinkedIn lunatic, endearing goofball and a symbol of the NFL's future
The Guardian

Ever since the NCAA changed its rules in 2021 to allow student athletes to profit from their name, image and likeness, institutional money has been circling college football, desperate for a way to turn top programs into money-making machines.

cnbc.com - Diana Olick - Life sciences lab real estate is clawing back from disaster. Here's what that means for investors
Life sciences lab real estate is clawing back from disaster. Here's what that means for investors
CNBC

Life science laboratories saw a massive drop in demand last year after the National Institutes of Health was forced to cancel billions of dollars in research grants. Major markets like Boston and the Bay Area had vacancy rates in the life sciences…

forbes.com - Elaine Pofeldt - Collective Acquires Open Ledger, As Fintechs Race To Serve High-Revenue One-Person Businesses
Collective Acquires Open Ledger, As Fintechs Race To Serve High-Revenue One-Person Businesses
Forbes

Human Radar, founder and CEO of Collective, has raised more than $90 million for his one-step financial platform for the self-employed. Collective, a one-stop financial platform for the self-employed, announced today that it is acquiring Open…

gamesindustry.biz - Sophie McEvoy - Firstpoint VC launches with €50m fund to invest in AI-driven games and entertainment startups
Firstpoint VC launches with €50m fund to invest in AI-driven games and entertainment startups
GamesIndustry.biz

New venture capital firm Firstpoint VC has launched with a €50 million fund to invest in AI-driven gaming and entertainment startups. General partners Burak Yılmaz and Mike Fischer lead Firstpoint, each with more than 30 years of…

fortune.com - Allie Garfinkle - The Godmother of Silicon Valley and her former student want to fix how healthcare gets built
The Godmother of Silicon Valley and her former student want to fix how healthcare gets built
Fortune

Mary Minno first met Esther Wojcicki when she was 15. Walking into Wojcicki's journalism class at Palo Alto High School, she was new to Silicon Valley. About 20 years later, Minno's still in the area—and after nearly a decade in Big Tech…

techcrunch.com - Julie Bort - Cathie Woods' ARK makes its first lead investment in startup Lucra - and it isn't AI
Cathie Woods' ARK makes its first lead investment in startup Lucra - and it isn't AI
TechCrunch

ARK Invest Venture Fund has made its first-ever lead investment in an early-stage startup called Lucra, firm founder Cathie Woods told TechCrunch. “We feel pretty excited about it,” Woods (pictured above) said in the recent interview…

scmp.com - Advertising partner - HashKey Capital Announces the launch of an End-to-End Boutique Asset Management Platform
HashKey Capital Announces the launch of an End-to-End Boutique Asset Management Platform
South China Morning Post

[The content of this article has been produced by our advertising partner.] Hong Kong, April 21st 2026 — HashKey Group's asset management arm, HashKey Capital, today announced a comprehensive strategic upgrade to build an end-to-end boutique…

pymnts.com - PYMNTS - JPMorganChase Extends Critical Industries Investment Program to Continental Europe
JPMorganChase Extends Critical Industries Investment Program to Continental Europe
PYMNTS.com | Breaking News, Trends and Analysis

The bank launched the Security and Resilience Initiative (SRI) in the United States in October and announced in November that it would extend the initiative to the United Kingdom in the following months. Now, JPMorganChase is expanding SRI across…

newsweek.com - Adam Mills - AI Impact: Are companies using AI to grow-or just to cut?
AI Impact: Are companies using AI to grow-or just to cut?
Newsweek

Signals from the front lines of AI adoption At a time when much of the AI conversation is centered on efficiency and cost-cutting, Calix CEO Michael Weening sees a gap between how AI is being talked about and how it's actually being used inside…

vogue.com - Maliha Shoaib - How the AI Race Will Impact the Global Luxury Market
How the AI Race Will Impact the Global Luxury Market
Vogue

This article is part of the Future of AI, a collection of articles that investigates how artificial intelligence will impact the fashion and beauty industries in the years to come. In Hangzhou, a shopper can ask an AI agent to assemble an entire…

fastcompany.com - Kristin Toussaint - Allbirds is dumping its environmental mission as it pivots to AI
Allbirds is dumping its environmental mission as it pivots to AI
Fast Company

When Liza Moiseeva first heard that Allbirds was pivoting to AI, she thought it was satire. “It belongs in an Onion article,” says Moiseeva, chief marketing officer at Commons, an app that helps people shop more sustainably, in part…

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