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Why Trinity Capital Wins The Next Phase Of Venture Credit Over Hercules Capital
Trinity Capital remains a Buy, while Hercules Capital is maintained at Hold due to relative valuation and earnings durability. TRIN demonstrates resilient yields, diversified deployment, and stable recurring income, outperforming HTGC amid a slower…
Blended Capital And The Future Of Deep Tech Investing
Alexandra Vidyuk, CEO and founding partner, Beyond Earth Ventures | Senior advisor, Renaissance Philanthropy. In the global push to build the next generation of breakthrough technologies—from orbital infrastructure to advanced…
Institutional Investors Return to Crypto as ETFs, Prediction Markets Surge
Institutional capital is flowing back into digital assets, but this cycle looks very different from the last one. Prediction markets are beginning to attract serious attention from Wall Street, Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are once again…
ROBOTERA Raises Over USD 200 Million in New Round Led by SF Group, HSG and IDG Capital
BEIJING, May 8, 2026 /CNW/ -- Following its RMB 1 billion strategic round in March, robotics company ROBOTERA has raised over USD 200 million in a new financing round led by SF Group. The round also saw participation from leading financial…
The UK cannot allow unions to ruin its AI revolution
Almost 50 years ago, Margaret Thatcher, then-U.K. prime minister, transformed her country's relationship with organized labor. Thatcher argued that powerful unions had gained too much influence over the economy and government, contributing to…
Brian Schimpf has been quietly running Anduril since its earliest days. And once he's talking, he has a lot to say
In 2017, Brian Schimpf was in the California desert with an engineering problem to solve. The place was Apple Valley, expansive, sandy, and surreal. Schimpf—CEO and cofounder of Anduril, then a startup in the truest sense of the…
Sector Snapshot: Sales And Marketing Gets An AI Makeover
Not all of us are salespeople. But at some point, everyone gets to be a customer. In that role at least, we're all pretty familiar with the current state-of-the-art in advertising, marketing and customer experience management technology. And we can…
These tomatoes thrive on crypto and Claude
Who needs venture capital? Martin DeVido, a developer who attended Anthropic's recent developer day, says he funds his AI-fueled tomato-growing project with proceeds from a meme coin. The Idahoan spent several months building an autonomous system…
Uber-Backed Electric Scooter Rental Firm Lime Files for IPO - TT
Electric bike and scooter rental startup Lime filed for an initial public offering, showing growing revenue and an expanding user base. The company, which is incorporated as Neutron Holdings Inc. and backed by Uber Technologies Inc., had a net loss…
Iconoclastic bomb-thrower Jessy Wu says VC is stranger than fiction
Jessy Wu has a mantra, one that has led her from management consulting to venture capital to media management and, now, to the world of publishing. “Whenever someone tells me to be less, I think, ‘what if I'm more'?” It's a…
Last 24 hours to get 50% off a second pass to Disrupt 2026
Today is the last day. At 11:59 p.m. PT, the 50% off second pass offer for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 ends. After that, prices go up, and the option to bring a partner, co-founder, or colleague with you at half the cost disappears. Register now to…
Treasury proposes radical overhaul of superannuation performance test
The superannuation performance test would be overhauled to assist investments in start-ups and renewable energy projects in the most radical revamp of the retirement savings rules since its introduction five years ago. As revealed by The Australian…
Artificial Intelligence And The End Of Digital Security As We Know It
Prof. Dr. Dennis-Kenji Kipker is a cybersecurity expert and works as Scientific Director of the cyberintelligence.institute. Anyone following the news of the past few weeks will sense that we're crossing a line from which there's no return.
How This Under 30 Is Capitalizing On The $100 Billion Video Gaming Boom
Think this is nice? It's a version of the weekly Under 30 newsletter and would be even better in your inbox. The video games industry isn't just growing—it's exploding. Between 2017 and 2021, global revenues in gaming surged by more than…
GTA 6's multi-billion-dollar budget is 'a high-stakes game for big boys only,' Take-Two boss says, but he's 'cool with it
In a recent interview with Bloomberg, Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick spoke about the immense pressure for the game to succeed, given the publisher's massive investment into Rockstar's long-awaited crime caper. He described the risk the company's…
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