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Why Extension Rounds Are Venture Capital's New Normal
Ivan Nikkhoo is the Founder and Managing Partner of Navigate Ventures, a growth fund specializing in AI-Native Enterprise SaaS companies. The median gap between a startup's primary financing rounds is an unprecedented two years, far longer than the…
What Running A Bootstrapped Startup Teaches You About Venture Capital
Erhan Kaya, Founder & CEO of Zoviz, turns any name into a designer-grade logo and complete brand kit in under a minute. When I started bootstrapping a technology company, funding it with my own money instead of outside investors, I believed…
New venture capital offers Israel's new immigrants up to $500,000 in funding
A new venture capital fund focused on helping olim (new immigrants to Israel) was announced on Monday, backed by two projects and a partner network that includes Google, AWS, and WeWork, along with several Fortune 500 executives. The VC, called…
Tech market changes squeeze out Israeli VC
At the end of September, venture capital firm NFX announced a change to its operating model. It will cease raising new capital from external investors, foreign investment institutions and US funds, and will instead focus on managing its existing…
Why Silicon Valley's AI super PACs aren't talking about AI
Welcome to AI Decoded, Fast Company ‘s weekly newsletter that breaks down the most important news in the world of AI. I'm Mark Sullivan, a senior writer at Fast Company, covering emerging tech, AI, and tech policy. Sign up to receive this…
William Draper, Pioneering Silicon Valley Venture Capitalist, Dies at 98
William H. Draper III gave up his career as a fast-rising executive at Inland Steel in Chicago in 1959, at age 31, to try venture capital, a little-known business at the time. He moved his wife and three children to what is now known as Silicon…
Harvard Fund Soars to Record $68 Billion After 27% Annual Return
Harvard University 's endowment jumped to a record $68 billion as successful bets on equities and venture capital including SpaceX holdings helped the richest US college weather an unprecedented pressure campaign from President Donald Trump. The…
Even Benchmark thinks AI is eroding the venture pact against backing rivals
For decades, the unwritten rule of venture capital was that a firm doesn't back two companies that compete head-on. But speaking at TechCrunch Disrupt earlier this week, the partners of Benchmark readily acknowledged that the AI boom is straining…
This startup just raised $21 million to expose companies' messes of AI agents
AI agents are starting to outnumber humans in many high-tech workplaces, and they can be far trickier to monitor. Opsin, an AI security and governance startup, announced Thursday it raised $21 million to meet the moment. As employees across the…
Transportation turns to AI to trace research grant recipients' links to foreign adversaries
The Department of Transportation has been using artificial intelligence to determine whether grant recipients have ties to adversarial nations, an agency official said on Wednesday. The federal government has taken a variety of steps in recent…
Capital Is Outpacing The Structures Built To Hold It
Abdulrahman Hammad, Partner at Hammad & Al-Mehdar Law Firm | Structuring Expert | PE, VC, and Funds. A transaction is at its most photogenic on the day it closes. The fund is launched. The press release goes out. Anchor investors are named, and the…
HP Inc.: A Cash Flow Generator Of A Business, But Time To Break The Status Quo (NYSE:HPQ)
HP Inc. reported a good Q3 2026 earnings result despite the current memory crisis, sharply increasing prices of PCs, and a secularly declining printing business. For the quarter, HP delivered revenue of $15.7 billion and non-GAAP earnings of $0.83…
TERN launches Refugee Venture Fund to 'close market gap' for ambitious, high-growth refugee startups
The Entrepreneurial Refugee Network (TERN) on Wednesday launched the Refugee Venture Fund, a new £300,000 pilot venture capital fund dedicated to refugee entrepreneurs, the first of its kind in the UK. TERN is a social enterprise that helps…
Tech Layoffs: US Companies With Job Cuts In 2024, 2025 and 2026
The fourth quarter of 2026 has started out on a down note for more than 1,600 tech workers in sectors ranging from AI to blockchain to social media. Leading this week's tally is streaming media giant Netflix. According to a report from CNBC, the…
Toilet paper, recording devices and one-way tickets: Inside the OpenAI spying case that has rattled America
The OpenAI engineer who was charged this week with planting a secret recording device at the artificial intelligence company recently said he helped advise government agencies in Saudi Arabia on technology, and was listed as a partner at a venture…
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