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crunchbase.com - Guest Author - A Year Of Misplaced Fear (And Why It's Time For Investors To Leave The Crowd)
A Year Of Misplaced Fear (And Why It's Time For Investors To Leave The Crowd)
Crunchbase

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…

businessinsider.com - Rya Jetha - Investors ignored manufacturing startups for years. These ex-Apple engineers raised a $33 million fund to change that.
Investors ignored manufacturing startups for years. These ex-Apple engineers raised a $33 million fund to change that.
Business Insider

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…

cnbc.com - Jenny Lee - Apple veteran's Chinese smart-glasses firm becomes unicorn as Tencent, Meituan fund rival to Meta
Apple veteran's Chinese smart-glasses firm becomes unicorn as Tencent, Meituan fund rival to Meta
CNBC

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…

techcrunch.com - Kate Park - Smart glasses maker Even Realities hits $1B valuation with $150M funding led by Meituan, Tencent
Smart glasses maker Even Realities hits $1B valuation with $150M funding led by Meituan, Tencent
TechCrunch

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…

forbes.com - Victor Dey - Tim Draper's Elon Musk Playbook: SpaceX, Tesla and The $2 Trillion IPO
Tim Draper's Elon Musk Playbook: SpaceX, Tesla and The $2 Trillion IPO
Forbes

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…

businessinsider.com - Alice Tecotzky - Delegation, trust, and a shared nickname: How two bankers co-lead a 550-person JPMorgan team
Delegation, trust, and a shared nickname: How two bankers co-lead a 550-person JPMorgan team
Business Insider

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…

fastcompany.com - Payam Zamani - We built a billion-dollar company with no network, no VC, and no road map. Here's what actually worked
We built a billion-dollar company with no network, no VC, and no road map. Here's what actually worked
Fast Company

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…

forbes.com - Lela London - How Pimentae's Female Founders Turned Mini Margaritas Into Big Business
How Pimentae's Female Founders Turned Mini Margaritas Into Big Business
Forbes

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…

techradar.com - Alex Chenglin Wu - How the United States and China shape complementary competition in global AI
How the United States and China shape complementary competition in global AI
TechRadar

The competition in artificial intelligence between the United States and China extends beyond a binary race for supremacy. The current landscape is more accurately characterized as 'complementary competition.' While the United States and China…

theverge.com - Mia Sato - What is Partiful selling?
What is Partiful selling?
The Verge

One hundred dollars will buy you 8 pounds of glitter; 10 Domino's pizzas; 406 miniature disco balls from Temu; or 100 cans of Coors Light. For a friend's birthday party one year, Ayla D'Silva spent $100 on sour candy and made a “sour candy…

observer.com - Rachel Curry - Serena Williams' Venture Firm Is Building Its Own Grand Slam Portfolio
Serena Williams' Venture Firm Is Building Its Own Grand Slam Portfolio
Observer

Nearly four years after stepping away from professional tennis, Serena Williams returned to Wimbledon this year before withdrawing on July 4 due to a knee injury. Off the court, however, she has remained anything but idle: she welcomed a second…

thehill.com - Miranda Nazzaro - Trump restrictions on private AI models turns attention to open source
Trump restrictions on private AI models turns attention to open source
The Hill

The Trump administration's latest restrictions on private AI model releases is ramping up the push for open-source alternatives. Under President Trump, the federal government has restricted the release of private AI models from Anthropic and…

cyprus-mail.com - EU faces dilemma over carbon pricing amid industrial competitiveness fears
EU faces dilemma over carbon pricing amid industrial competitiveness fears
Cyprus Mail

Steelmaker SSAB (SSABa.ST) is spending €6 billion to upgrade its operations, switching from coal to low-carbon hydrogen in a bet that European Union policies would reward lower-emission production and help it outcompete more polluting…

cityam.com - Matt Hardy - All England Club slap down wealthy Indian Jindal over Wimbledon empty seat post
All England Club slap down wealthy Indian Jindal over Wimbledon empty seat post
City AM

The All England Club has slapped down a member of the billionaire Jindal family after the Indian bemoaned empty seats at Wimbledon. Parth Jindal, whose investments includes Indian Premier League cricket team Delhi Capitals, took to social media to…

foreignpolicyjournal.com - David Prior - Retail Investors Are Turning To AST SpaceMobile (NASDAQ: ASTS) Over SpaceX IPO Hype
Retail Investors Are Turning To AST SpaceMobile (NASDAQ: ASTS) Over SpaceX IPO Hype
Foreign Policy Journal

AST SpaceMobile (NASDAQ: ASTS) is gaining serious traction among retail investors who see it as a more accessible and operationally grounded alternative to the SpaceX phenomenon. The company is developing what it describes as the world's first…

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