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wsj.com - Jon Leckie - Exclusive | Startup Raises $2 Million to Expand Secondary Market in Venture Capital
Exclusive | Startup Raises $2 Million to Expand Secondary Market in Venture Capital
Wall Street Journal

The lack of initial public offerings has pushed startup employees, founders and investors to secondary markets, where they can sell their shares in still-private companies. Data provider PitchBook estimates that the value of the direct secondary…

wwd.com - Sandra Salibian - Beiersdorf to Boost Its Innovation Agenda With New, 100 Million-euro Venture Capital Fund
Beiersdorf to Boost Its Innovation Agenda With New, 100 Million-euro Venture Capital Fund
WWD

MILAN — Beiersdorf is doubling down on venture capital as a strategic lever to drive future growth by launching the second generation of its corporate venture capital fund with a 100 million-euro commitment. Called the Skin Care Innovation…

globenewswire.com - Standing Ovation - Standing Ovation raises $34.2 million to scale up its breakthrough technology for producing dairy proteins through precision fermentation, offering a sovereign and sustainable response to the surge in global demand for protein
Standing Ovation raises $34.2 million to scale up its breakthrough technology for producing dairy proteins through precision fermentation, offering a sovereign and sustainable response to the surge in global demand for protein
GlobeNewswire

Standing Ovation raises $34.2 million to scale up its breakthrough technology for producing dairy proteins through precision fermentation, offering a sovereign and sustainable response to the surge in global demand for protein The company secures a…

bbc.co.uk - Emily Hudson - The struggle for women to get investment in start up businesses
The struggle for women to get investment in start up businesses
BBC

Emily HudsonSouth of England political editor Those are the words female entrepreneurs say they keep hearing as they try and secure funding and investment for their new business. For Bethan Higson from Oxford, her idea was a non-alcoholic aperitif…

refreshmiami.com - Nancy Dahlberg - Miami area startups snag $4.13B in VC in 2025. New eMerge Insights report has the details
Miami area startups snag $4.13B in VC in 2025. New eMerge Insights report has the details
Refresh Miami

While not yet hitting pandemic levels of activity, South Florida venture capital activity in 2025 was powered by strength, resilience and some very big deals. Once again, the Miami metro area was a top 10 tech hub for both deals and dollars…

bloomberg.com - Randall Williams - NFL Inks Deal With Tiger Woods' TMRW Sports to Start Flag Football League
NFL Inks Deal With Tiger Woods' TMRW Sports to Start Flag Football League
Bloomberg

The NFL signed a deal with TMRW Sports to create professional men's and women's flag football leagues, trying to cash in on a sport that's rising in popularity ahead of its Olympic debut. As part of the agreement, the NFL will invest $32 million…

axios.com - Lucinda Shen - Rebellions snares $400m, Qodo's coding bet, and Nxtra's $1b
Rebellions snares $400m, Qodo's coding bet, and Nxtra's $1b
Axios

• Rebellions, a South Korean fabless AI chip startup, raised $400m at a $2.34b valuation led by Mirae Asset Financial Group and the Korea National Growth Fund. Go deeper • ScaleOps, an Israeli computing resource allocation startup…

nytimes.com - Mike Jones - NFL to launch men and women's pro flag football leagues backed by Brady, Manning and more
NFL to launch men and women's pro flag football leagues backed by Brady, Manning and more
The New York Times

PHOENIX — In what represents another step toward the launching of two professional flag football leagues — one for men and one for women — the NFL announced the selection of TMRW Sports as its developmental and operational…

cnbc.com - Samantha Subin - Autonomous boat startup Saronic raises $1.75 billion in race to modernize U.S. military
Autonomous boat startup Saronic raises $1.75 billion in race to modernize U.S. military
CNBC

Autonomous ship maker Saronic raised $1.75 billion and more than doubled its valuation to $9.25 billion. The company is working closely with the Navy and aims to build more than 20 ships a year by 2027. The U.S. government is leaning on innovative…

yahoo.com - Soumya Eswaran - Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSM) is Benefiting from Strong Underlying Business Growth
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSM) is Benefiting from Strong Underlying Business Growth
Yahoo!

Ruane, Cunniff LP, an investment adviser managing Sequoia Strategy, released its Q4 2025 investor letter. A copy of the letter can be downloaded here. Sequoia Strategy returned 9% in Q4 compared to 2.7% for the S&P 500 Index. The Strategy delivered…

espn.com - Josh Weinfuss - NFL partners with TMRW Sports for pro flag football league
NFL partners with TMRW Sports for pro flag football league
ESPN

PHOENIX -- The NFL is expanding its footprint further into the expanding world of flag football. At the NFL's annual meetings at the Arizona Biltmore on Monday, the league announced a partnership with TMRW Sports, the company behind the TGL, to…

forbes.com - Meggen Harris - 8 Cities Digital Nomads And Creators Are Moving To In 2026
8 Cities Digital Nomads And Creators Are Moving To In 2026
Forbes

Lisbon has emerged as one of Europe's top hubs for digital nomads and creators, driven by strong infrastructure, community, and visa accessibility. The creator economy and digital nomad movement are no longer separate trends—they're…

afr.com - Timothy Moore - ASX 200 LIVE: ASX poised to open higher
ASX 200 LIVE: ASX poised to open higher
Australian Financial Review

Australian shares are set to open higher, with shares mixed in early afternoon trading in New York. US bond yields fell after Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell eased worries about potential rate rises. ASX 200 futures were up 26 points or 0.3…

channelnewsasia.com - FX payments startup OpenFX raises $94 million amid cross-border stablecoin push
FX payments startup OpenFX raises $94 million amid cross-border stablecoin push
CNA

NEW YORK, March 31: OpenFX, a startup that focuses on foreign-exchange market making and remittances, on Tuesday raised $94 million in a funding round led by several venture capital firms, as the company looks to use stablecoins to speed up…

axios.com - Zachery Eanes - Local Limeight: Levitate CEO Jesse Lipson on Raleigh, hiring and AI and what he's reading
Local Limeight: Levitate CEO Jesse Lipson on Raleigh, hiring and AI and what he's reading
Axios

Jesse Lipson has been one of the Triangle's leading tech entrepreneurs for the past two decades. He founded the Raleigh software company ShareFile, which he sold to Citrix, and he now leads Levitate, a maker of communications and marketing…

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