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How California's 2027 Change Will Reshape Software Procurement
Prajkta Waditwar-Senior Technology Sourcing Manager at Box, focused on AI strategy & Procurement Innovation. The views expressed are my own. For years, software procurement teams in California have operated with a familiar assumption:…
Vintage to invest new raise in fewer funds
Vintage Investment Partners, a venture capital firm managed by partners Abe Finkelstein and Asaf Horesh, has raised $920 million. The money is split between a new fund-of-funds ($580 million) and a secondary fund ($340 million) for acquiring shares…
Why you should be VERY suspicious of Ilhan Omar's latest plea for cash
Wow: After a week of silence about the FBI raid on her DC home, Rep. Ilhan Omar surfaced... to ask for cash. In her video appeal to supporters, the Minnesota Democrat says she's living “paycheck to paycheck” — raising eyebrows…
Rivian buys world model startup to accelerate self-driving ambitions
EV maker Rivian has acquired Third Dimension, a UK startup founded by veterans of the gaming and autonomous vehicle industries that uses AI to turn images and videos into lifelike 3D worlds. Rivian isn't getting into gaming, but it does want to…
Ashley Graham joins Business Insider's The Long Play in NYC on October 29
The supermodel and entrepreneur joins business leaders including Zach Reitano and John Santora for candid conversations about building brands, navigating change, and staying power. The program will also feature a special conversation with October…
A16z drops the crypto label as it expands into AI and emerging tech
Prominent venture firm Andreessen Horowitz is renaming its crypto-focused arm to a16z Frontier, expanding its investment focus to artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies. The firm will continue investing in blockchain tech and…
Exclusive | Silicon Valley Insider Maria Davidson Launches Relational Capital With $50 Million Fund
Maria Davidson has worked closely with Silicon Valley heavyweight Joe Lonsdale, co-founded her own company, and helped launch a fundraising effort to influence California politics. Now, she is adding a new title to her résumé: solo…
Anthropic IPO to Drive Blockbuster Gains for Iconiq, Spark, GIC
By the time Iconiq made its first investment in Anthropic PBC in 2025, the artificial intelligence developer was valued at $183 billion — more than almost any other tech startup in the world — and well on its way to becoming an AI…
Apex's $5b talks, David Bridal's AI SPAC, and Bose buys Skullcandy
• Apex, a Los Angeles-based satellite maker, is in talks to raise $500m at a $4b valuation, per Bloomberg. Washington Harbour Partners is set to lead the round, joined by Andreessen Horowitz and XYZ Venture Capital. Go deeper • Xona…
Companies are running out of experienced CEOs
A recent paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) analyzing more than 50,000 CEO careers found that the average appointment age has climbed from 48 in the year 2000 to 55 today. The researchers suggest that increased economic…
Family offices likely to add risk, debt and alternatives under the next generation
The next generation of family office leaders is likely to use more debt, invest in more alternatives and focus on different philanthropies, according to new studies. As baby boomers and older generations prepare to hand over the reins to Gen Xers…
Robinhood bets $10 million on AI coding tool maker Cognition-after previously backing a rival
Morgan Chittum here. It seems like everyone in Silicon Valley wants to back the next big winner in AI coding. Robinhood Ventures is betting there's room for more than one. OpenAI's Codex, Anthropic's Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, and Cognition's…
a16z Drops Crypto From Its Name, Widens Bets to AI and Frontier Tech
Andreessen Horowitz, the venture capital firm better known as a16z, is renaming its crypto fund “a16z Frontier” and widening its mandate to AI and other emerging technologies, according to an email shared with its newsletter…
Flapping Airplanes Raises $1B at $6B Valuation
A one-year-old San Francisco AI lab with no product on the market has just raised $1 billion, pushing its valuation to $6 billion. Flapping Airplanes, a so-called neolab still developing its core technology rather than selling it, closed the round…
China's humanoids go job hunting amid Korea's bets on physical AI
Chinese humanoid robot makers are accelerating efforts to gain a foothold in Korea, moving beyond dance performances and showroom displays to factory trials and other commercial applications as Seoul beefs up investment in physical artificial…
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