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The rapid rise of Post Oak Group: The Houston-based investment bank shaping the new middle market
Opinions expressed by Digital Journal contributors are their own. Houston doesn't produce timid institutions. It produces ones that are built to perform in difficult environments, where commodity cycles shift overnight, where capital decisions…
Wait! Cannes 2026: 9 Industry Leaders You Actually Want To Hear From
Top insights from top global ad festical This is worth your time because it's not blah-blah from me but rather insights from industry leaders you want to hear from. As I do every year, I've collected some of the industry's top voices after they…
A Year Of Misplaced Fear (And Why It's Time For Investors To Leave The Crowd)
We've spent the past 12 months navigating a relentless wall of worry: a series of macro shocks that have brought venture capital LPs into a sit-and-wait posture. When you drill down, however, the innovation economy hasn't had a sudden collapse in…
Future of Napa Valley revealed in dystopian videos - and it could spark region's biggest ever jobs bloodbath
Autonomous crop-managing inventions pushed by agricultural tech companies could spell doom for laborers in Northern California's wine country. The machines were part of an event at the UC ANR Innovate's Hopland Research and Extension Center on June…
Investors ignored manufacturing startups for years. These ex-Apple engineers raised a $33 million fund to change that.
After years helping Apple bring products from prototype to production, two former executives are betting the next AI boom won't happen on screens but rather on on factory floors. Simon Lancaster and Sabrina Paseman's new firm, Omni Ventures, has…
Apple veteran's Chinese smart-glasses firm becomes unicorn as Tencent, Meituan fund rival to Meta
The global smart glasses category surged, with Meta controlling nearly 70% of market share. More than half of Even Realities' user base is located in the United States, while approximately 80% of its developer community is U.S.-based. Even…
Woori Financial Group unveils $4.5 bil. investment roadmap to support startups
Woori Financial Group on Tuesday unveiled a roadmap to invest 7 trillion won ($4.5 billion) in innovative companies, detailing a financing system that supports startups from seed funding through initial public offerings (IPOs) as part of its…
Smart glasses maker Even Realities hits $1B valuation with $150M funding led by Meituan, Tencent
Meta and Snap rolled out new smart glasses last month, the latest sign that the industry is racing to put a camera and an AI assistant onto users' faces. As the fast-growing market heats up, upstarts like Even Realities are muscling in on the…
Keyfactor's $1b+ raise, Hub's IPO plans, and Blackstone's Dresser buy
• Keyfactor, a Cleveland-based digital identity management company, raised over $1b led by Summit Partners. Go deeper • Tripo AI, a Chinese developer of interactive 3D foundation models, raised a $150m Series A3 from Geely Capital…
Tim Draper's Elon Musk Playbook: SpaceX, Tesla and The $2 Trillion IPO
What did Tim Draper see in Elon Musk that others missed? The early Tesla and SpaceX backer on the $2 trillion IPO, xAI, and the coming AI shakeout. SpaceX's blockbuster IPO this year created billions in paper wealth. Shares climbed 19% after Wall…
Delegation, trust, and a shared nickname: How two bankers co-lead a 550-person JPMorgan team
Sometimes JPMorgan executives receive emails from a colleague who signs off in all caps: JACK. JACK, however, isn't one person. It's the shared identity of John China and Andrew Kresse, who co-lead the bank's Innovation Economy team for founders…
Global music moguls turn to Korea for next growth engine
Jay-Z's MarcyPen launches investment venture with Hanwha as Ne-Yo expands artist business into Asia Global music industry heavyweights are increasingly viewing South Korea as a gateway to the Asian entertainment market, with rapper and entrepreneur…
We built a billion-dollar company with no network, no VC, and no road map. Here's what actually worked
Whatever my brother and I built, we built on a foundation generations of Americans had laid long before we arrived. When people hear that we built a company that eventually went public on Nasdaq and surpassed a billion dollars in value, they often…
Where Entrepreneurs Are Moving in 2026, And Why It's Not Where You Might Expect
New business formation data shows entrepreneurs are increasingly launching companies in lower-cost, business-friendly states like North Carolina, Wyoming, Montana and Nevada instead of traditional startup hubs. The shift is being driven by remote…
How Pimentae's Female Founders Turned Mini Margaritas Into Big Business
Pimentae founders Alice Parmiter and Wynter Karo The smartest thing Alice Parmiter and Wynter Karo did with Pimentae wasn't putting a margarita in a can, but understanding that the margarita could become an entire business. When the pair launched…
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