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afr.com - Rachael Bolton - Meet the women steering Australia's high-tech future
Meet the women steering Australia's high-tech future
Australian Financial Review

sk any kid what they want to be when they grow up, and it would be the rare child who would respond with “professional investor”. Venture capital executive is an unusual role, one most often found by a circuitous route. Rachael Bolton…

yahoo.com - Sasha Rogelberg - OpenAI investor Vinod Khosla predicts today's 5-year-olds won't ever need to get jobs thanks to AI
OpenAI investor Vinod Khosla predicts today's 5-year-olds won't ever need to get jobs thanks to AI
Yahoo!

Billionaire investor Vinod Khosla sees an AI-powered labor transformation so massive it will eliminate the need for today's 5-year-olds to have jobs. In an interview with Fortune Editor in Chief Alyson Shontell on the Titans and Disruptors of…

boston.com - Beth Treffeisen - Boston's innovation economy hits a new milestone in global rankings
Boston's innovation economy hits a new milestone in global rankings
Boston.com

Five Boston-area companies landed on LexisNexis's “Top 100 Global Innovators” list this week, the highest showing the region has ever had, offering a rare bright spot for an industry facing mounting headwinds. The honor comes as…

theguardian.com - Julia Kollewe - Nvidia and UK Wealth Fund to invest in British autonomous driving startup Oxa
Nvidia and UK Wealth Fund to invest in British autonomous driving startup Oxa
The Guardian

Nvidia is investing in the British autonomous driving startup Oxa, alongside backing from the UK's National Wealth Fund, in a boost to the country's technology sector. The Oxford-based company, which has developed software for self-driving…

law360.com - Al Barbarino - Kensington Capital SPAC Raises $200M For Auto Ventures
Kensington Capital SPAC Raises $200M For Auto Ventures
Law360

Kensington Capital Acquisition VI, a blank-check company led by the founder of Kensington Capital targeting the auto industry, began trading Wednesday after it raised $200 million by offering 20 million units... To view the full article, register…

cointelegraph.com - Nate Kostar - Tradeweb Leads $31M Investment in Crypto Trading Platform Crossover Markets
Tradeweb Leads $31M Investment in Crypto Trading Platform Crossover Markets
Cointelegraph

Electronic trading company Tradeweb has led a $31 million Series B funding round in institutional crypto trading platform Crossover Markets, valuing the company at $200 million. The round included participation from DRW Venture Capital, Ripple…

axios.com - Justin Kaufmann - Crypto industry quietly powers negative campaign ads in Illinois
Crypto industry quietly powers negative campaign ads in Illinois
Axios

Political attack ads are taking on a different energy this primary cycle, thanks to big bucks from national super PACs backing cryptocurrency. Why it matters: The surge of attack ads is turning Illinois' primary increasingly negative, even when the…

businessinsider.com - Ben Bergman - The early-stage startups in 2026 most likely to become tech's next unicorns, according to a proprietary AI model known as 'Moneyball for VC
The early-stage startups in 2026 most likely to become tech's next unicorns, according to a proprietary AI model known as 'Moneyball for VC
Business Insider

What it does: A Virtual care platform for women's health, covered by insurance Last post-money valuation: $145 million, according to Pitchbook Total raised: $46.99 million, according to Pitchbook Select investors: Index Ventures, GV, Vanterra…

fortune.com - Ben Weiss - Exclusive: Venture giant a16z crypto targeting around $2 billion for its fifth fund amid blockchain market downturn, sources say
Exclusive: Venture giant a16z crypto targeting around $2 billion for its fifth fund amid blockchain market downturn, sources say
Fortune

The largest player in the crypto venture world is back on the fundraising circuit. The blockchain arm of Andreessen Horowitz, also known as a16z crypto, is currently raising its fifth fund, according to multiple sources, who spoke with Fortune on…

siliconrepublic.com - Tim Barnwell - UK industrial AV start-up Oxa raises $103m
UK industrial AV start-up Oxa raises $103m
Silicon Republic

Oxa's ‘physical AI' solutions involve the automation of repetitive industrial and workplace driving tasks. British autonomous vehicle (AV) start-up Oxa has raised $103m in a Series D funding round. Nvidia's venture capital operation…

dmnews.com - Wesley Mercer - Influencer marketing became an academic discipline while we weren't paying attention
Influencer marketing became an academic discipline while we weren't paying attention
Direct Message News

Add DMNews to your Google News feed. Tension: Universities now teach influencer marketing as serious scholarship, yet the industry still treats it as intuitive guesswork. Noise: Endless debates about authenticity and algorithms obscure the…

axios.com - Chelsea Naso - $105M for Starface pimple patches, humanoid robot maker eyes €1B and Rallybio's reverse merger
$105M for Starface pimple patches, humanoid robot maker eyes €1B and Rallybio's reverse merger
Axios

• Neura Robotics, a German humanoid robot maker, is raising around €1b from backers like Tether, per Bloomberg. Go deeper • Starface, a New York-based pimple patch maker, raised $105m minority funding round, led by Astō…

thestar.com.my - Deepa Seetharaman - Exclusive-Big tech group supports Anthropic in Pentagon fight as investors push to de-escalate clash over AI safeguards
Exclusive-Big tech group supports Anthropic in Pentagon fight as investors push to de-escalate clash over AI safeguards
The Star Online

SAN FRANCISCO, March 4 (Reuters) - A big ⁠tech industry group consisting of major Anthropic backers Amazon and Nvidia on Wednesday expressed concern over the Pentagon's decision to declare the artificial intelligence company a supply-chain…

bigthink.com - Liz Tran - Why your IQ no longer matters in the era of AI
Why your IQ no longer matters in the era of AI
Big Think

When I first started working in venture capital, I was given a seemingly straightforward assignment: Get to know the most successful founders we'd invested in and figure out what they had in common. Ideally, I'd emerge with a neat checklist of…

fool.com - Motley Fool Transcribing - TriplePoint (TPVG) Earnings Call Transcript
TriplePoint (TPVG) Earnings Call Transcript
The Motley Fool

Wednesday, March 4, 2026 at 5 p.m. ET Chief Executive Officer — Jim Labe President and Chief Investment Officer — Sajal K. Srivastava Chief Financial Officer — Mike L. Wilhelms Need a quote from a Motley Fool analyst? Email…

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