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Accountability Journalism and Venture Capital Are Both Hiring Storytellers
Scroll through today's featured job listings, and a pattern emerges quickly: organizations with complicated stories to tell are paying for people who can make those stories land. A government watchdog, a seed-stage venture firm, and one of business…
Seligman Ventures doubles capital to $1 billion as AI boom revives hardware bets
Sept 28: Seligman Investments has doubled the deployable capital of its venture arm to $1 billion less than a year after launching it, betting that the physical bottlenecks of the artificial intelligence buildout will produce the next wave of large…
Insuretech Outmarket raises $34.5M just months after prior round
Vishal Sankhala led product at a digital life insurance distributor Ethos before it went public earlier this year. In late 2023, the seasoned engineering executive, who had previously worked at Facebook and Uber, left Ethos and launched Outmarket…
Travel in 2027: Euronews Travel's top trends and predictions
Travel is constantly changing and 2027 looks set to bring plenty of new ways to see the world. From holidays designed around health and longevity to a growing appetite for slower, more meaningful escapes, travellers are becoming more selective…
India readies $25 billion for Deep Tech investment as U.S. and China race ahead
India is preparing to deploy $25 billion to support Deep Tech start-ups in the country, as it tries to catch up with the U.S. and China in the global tech race to cut its reliance on frontier foreign technology. In the last decade, India invested…
Blockchain.com's IPO target, Quartermaster's $100m, and Evonik says no to €10.3b
• Quartermaster, an Arlington, Va.-based maritime surveillance startup, raised $100m from Insight Partners, Overmatch Ventures, and First Round Capital. Stifel provided a $40m debt facility. Go deeper • Outmarket AI, an SF-based AI…
Sixty Degree Capital Extends Its Track Record as Five Portfolio Companies Enter the Public Markets in 2026
Leaders from Parabilis Medicines, HawkEye 360 and Cerebras joined investors and leading clinicians at the firm's 2026 Celebration in Toronto TORONTO, Sept. 28, 2026 /CNW/ -- Sixty Degree Capital ('SDC'), a global, multi-stage venture capital firm…
Another Aussie start-up looks to ride medical AI wave, eyes US deal
Healthcare AI infrastructure business Big Picture Medical is rattling the tin for $10 million as the Sydney-based start-up woos strategic investors in the United States. The raising values the company at about $100 million and will target family…
Next five VCs judging Startup Battlefield 200 at Disrupt 2026
Thousands of applications. Multiple rounds of review. Hundreds of hours spent evaluating startups from around the world. Now comes the part everyone has been waiting for. Startup Battlefield 200 is almost here, and with today's announcement, the…
Anthropic's IPO prospectus shows sweeping AI vision, surging costs
Anthropic is making a massive bet that AI will transform the global economy more profoundly than industrialization, electricity and the internet, according to its IPO prospectus seen by Reuters. SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT But the cost to get…
Silicon Valley academy offers tuition-free alternative to college for young tech builders
Andreessen Horowitz is putting $42 million behind a new education venture aimed at young tech builders who might otherwise head to college, betting that the artificial intelligence boom is creating demand for a different path into Silicon Valley.
Lift Therapeutics Appoints Eva Ehrnrooth as Executive Head of Clinical Development and Adds Chau Khuong to Board of Directors
London, September 28, 2026 – Lift Therapeutics (‘Lift' or ‘the Company') today announced the appointment of Eva Ehrnrooth, MD, PhD, as Executive Head of Clinical Development and Chau Khuong to its Board of Directors. Dr.
Peak XV ups Surge seed investment ceiling to $5M, unveils 18-startup cohort
Peak XV Partners, one of the largest venture capital firms investing in markets including India and Southeast Asia with more than $10 billion in assets under management, has increased how much it invests per startup through Surge, its seed-stage…
Anthropic Owns Claude, But Who Owns Anthropic?
Since its arrival in 2023, Claude has been steadily gaining prominence as an AI chatbot like ChatGPT, while also becoming an increasingly capable AI agent for software development and business productivity. Its rising profile was turbocharged in…
This Early Groq Investor Expects Half Her Bets To Fail
Sandhya Venkatachalam spent the first half of her career building technology companies. She led product at an early data center hardware company that was sold to Cisco, then became a product executive at Skype before its sale to Microsoft. Those…
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