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Private Equity/Venture Capital Deal Volumes at 10-Yr High in 2025
Chennai: Private equity and venture capital (PE/VC) deals have surged to a 10-year high in 2025. In terms of investment value, it is up 54 per cent in 2025 to date compared to last year. Between January and November 2025, 1,761 deals were made…
IIT Bombay launches nation's first incubator-linked deep tech venture capital fund worth Rs 250 crore
The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay on Tuesday launched India's first deep-tech venture capital fund to be managed by an academia-linked incubator. The Rs 250-crore Y-Point Venture Capital Fund launched by the Society for Innovation and…
Scaling Care: What Startups Can Learn From Community Healthcare
Christine Schuster, RN, MBA, President and CEO, Emerson Health. When people think about innovation, their minds often go to venture capital, rapid growth cycles and technologies that promise to disrupt entire industries. But innovation isn't…
Music rights battle could send industry into a haze
A high-stakes London lawsuit over Jimi Hendrix's landmark 1960s recordings is raising alarms across the global music industry, with Sony Music Entertainment warning that a win for the claimants could “throw the music industry into…
Private Indices Are the New Public Indices
I just feel like, within living memory, there were “public companies,” in which you could invest, and “private companies,” in which you couldn't. I mean, someone could: Many private companies took no outside investment…
The Case For A New Model In Early Cybersecurity Investing
Traditional VC models are misaligned with early-stage cyber needs, and smaller access-driven funds show a shift toward models built around founder fit instead of scale. I generally ignore funding announcements. Every week, I get a dozen press…
Ozempic is already changing what we buy, from clothing to holidays
Industry insiders are gearing up for weight-loss drugs to shake up the consumer economy as they seep into every sector – including apparel, restaurants, grocery, gyms and travel. They are causing a “psychological shift” for the…
Fal's $4.5b valuation, Shell's Gulf buy, and Unilever's M&A chest
• Fal, an SF-based generative media platform, raised $140m in Series D funding led by Sequoia, valuing it at $4.5b. Kleiner Perkins, NVentures, Alkeon Capital, a16z, Kindred Ventures, Meritech, Bessemer Venture Partners, Notable Capital…
Lokesh's Push In US To AP's Deep-Tech, Creative Economy, Digital Infra Plans
Lokesh showcased the state's emergence as a pro-innovation destination and urged global companies to participate in its technology-led growth plans. The minister met Arun Kumar, managing partner of global venture capital firm Celesta VC, and urged…
Frex raises INR 9.5 crore pre-seed to transform cross-border remittances
Founded with the vision of making cross border money movement as seamless and affordable as domestic digital payments, Frex enables immigrants and global workers to send money home instantly and at ultra-low cost. The platform offers better than…
How 'Regular' People Are Building Wealth With AI
Happy family of mother in business clothes and kids have fun playing soccer ball in the park. Mom and kids play soccer in the city under the sunset rays. I've spent over 16 years interviewing millionaires, CEOs, and self-made entrepreneurs about…
Empromptu raises $2M pre-seed to help enterprises build AI apps
Sheena Leven says she learned two important lessons when building her first company, CodeSee. The first lesson was knowing the difference between what businesses need versus what sounds visionary; the second was that the fundamentals always apply…
NFP promotes Noel to CFO
NFP, a middle market unit of Aon, said Tuesday that it had promoted Caleb Noel to chief financial officer, succeeding Brett Schneider. Austin, Texas-based Mr. Noel most recently was senior vice president, finance and operations at the brokerage. He…
How Art Is Driving Waymo's Feel-Good Branding
This is one cool cat. He is laid-back, literally — lying on his stomach, with a book, like a teenager on vacation, feet kicked into the air. He seems fully relaxed and enjoying the ride. Tommii Lim, a Los Angeles street artist who has…
Steven Bartlett Just Backed This Breakout Female Founder
Maggie Sellers Reum and Steven Bartlett In today's creator economy, virality is no longer the endgame, it's all about ownership. And while many creators build followings, only a few build movements. Fewer still turn those movements into scalable…
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