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Crowdfunding: The New Face Of Venture Capital
NIN Ventures, a Crowdfunded Technology Venture Capital Firm. Venture capital provides financing to early-stage emerging companies with high growth potential in exchange for an ownership stake (equity). The risks venture capital firms take investing…
Bioengineering Alumnus Launches Venture Capital Fund Focused on San Diego MedTech Startups
Garrett Smith knows a thing or two about medtech startups. He founded his first company as a bioengineering PhD student at the University of California San Diego (PhD ‘12). Since then he has stewarded several technologies through FDA…
Why Real Economy Assets May Be A Smart Bet In An AI-Driven World
Yerik Aubakirov, serial entrepreneur and CEO of EA Group Holding Ltd. Until recently, SaaS was a reliable sector for venture capital investment. Developing a solution to a corporate pain point was expensive and difficult. But if a startup…
Biotech Venture Funding Roars Back
Biotechnology venture funding is surging, driven by an explosion of mergers and acquisitions and a revival of initial public offerings in the industry. Biotech startups globally secured $15.5 billion in venture capital in the first half of this…
How a former DeepMind researcher raised at a $300M pre-seed valuation before launching a product
Andrew Dai left Google DeepMind knowing visual AI was the frontier he wanted to stake his claim in. He pulled off a whirlwind fundraise that resulted in a more aggressive valuation-to-capital ratio than Thinking Machines, which raised one of the…
Anthropic CEO gave $1M to AI safety super PAC
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei gave $1 million to Public First, a super PAC backing candidates who support stronger guardrails on AI, according to a campaign finance filing Wednesday. He was joined by several other Anthropic employees, who gave a…
Hong Kong Investment Corporation logs $6.4b investment income in 2025, up by 175pc
The Hong Kong Investment Corporation said it recorded a total investment income of over HK$6.4 billion last year, up by 175 percent from the year prior. SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT The net internal rate of return of its investment portfolio has…
Meet The Startup Hoping To Change The Way The World Uses Technology
Aina argues conventional interfaces with technology are out of date The artificial intelligence (AI) revolution is in full swing. For now, however, it is exclusively a software revolution. Apoorv Shankar, the founder of Aina, wants to change that.
OpenAI employees pour nearly $250K into AI safety PAC, pushing back on firm's president
A group of current and former OpenAI employees poured more than $245,000 into a super PAC focused on countering Leading the Future (LTF), a committee funded in part by the AI firm's co-founder and President Greg Brockman. The AI safety super PAC…
Trump asks contractors to 'do magnets' after his son invested in rare earth company
President Donald Trump called on more defense contractors to partner with the U.S. and “do magnets ” – a request that comes after a venture capital firm linked to his son, Donald Trump Jr., took a stake in a rare-earth magnet…
Bunkerhill Health raises $55 million to put AI agents to work inside hospitals
In 2017, Nishith Khandwala was a Stanford computer science student with an idea—that you could take existing radiology scans, and use AI to check them at scale and detect heart disease and heart attack risk early. For years, he and classmate…
Travel Agency Platform Fora Valued at $1 Billion in New Funding
Fora, an online platform for travel agents, has raised $60 million in funding at a $1 billion valuation, with the goal of adding artificial intelligence tools to help travel advisers accelerate their businesses. The financing was led by Forerunner…
Wonder's $650m raise, Crypto.com's $20b valuation, Angelini Pharma seals rare disease buy
• Wonder, an NYC-based cloud kitchen company, raised $650m in Series D funding at a $9b valuation. Investors include Accel, GV, New Enterprise Associates, AllianceBernstein, ARK Invest and Kayne Anderson Rudnick Investment Management. Go…
Blue Origin's new stock option plan comes with a catch
Blue Origin employees finally have a route to match SpaceX's new millionaires — but there's a catch. Jeff Bezos' rocket company has sought to address internal backlash over its stock option plan, which left employees holding worthless…
Defense Business Brief: Farnborough preview, thoughts + trends; Trade groups balk at NDAA buyback provision; Pennsylvania's DIB
England did not make it to the World Cup final, but London Town will likely still be buzzing next week as the Farnborough International Airshow kicks off Monday. And while last week's NATO Summit got a bit prickly, there's an appetite for unity…
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