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Robinhood Launches Fund Offering Private-Market Investing
Robinhood's first fund offering private-market access to individual investors is officially on the market. The Robinhood Ventures Fund I began trading on the New York Stock Exchange on Friday, at a price of $25 a share. It fell in early trading to…
City Detect, which uses AI to help cities stay safe and clean, raises $13M Series A
City Detect, a company that uses vision AI to help local governments monitor the health of buildings and neighborhoods, announced on Friday a $13 million Series A round led by Prudence Venture Capital. The startup launched in 2021, and Gavin…
Life EV officially owns Rad Power Bikes now
Life Electric Vehicles Holdings, also known as Life EV, officially owns the intellectual property, inventory, and certain operating assets of Rad Power Bikes. Life EV acquired Rad Power for $13.2 million. Rad Power Bikes, a buzzy electric bike…
Meet the breakout VC who goes deep to make a '360-degree' behavioral map before investing in founders
I've interviewed hundreds of VCs, and one thing is undeniably true: there are lots of different ways to be a VC. But almost everyone pays lip service to how much they love working with founders — and honestly, that's not interesting. What is…
Oaktree Backs Biotech Fund Russian Billionaire Seeks to Shut
Oaktree Capital Management is considering a $300 million investment in a bankrupt biotechnology fund that Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev's family trust is seeking to shut down. Venture capital fund ATP Life Science Ventures and seven of its…
The Warning in Christine Hunsicker's Flame-out
Christine Hunsicker's journey from high-flying chief executive officer of fashion tech company CaaStle to convicted fraudster is just the latest reason to listen hard and think twice when dreams of the next business revolution are being sold.
Robinhood's $658 million private markets fund for retail investors goes public
March 6: Robinhood debuted its flagship $658.4 million venture fund on the New York Stock Exchange on Friday, offering retail investors a rare chance to invest in high-profile, privately held technology companies. Private company investments have…
PHOTOS: From venture triumphs to trading wins at the IrishCentral Finance Awards 2026
The inaugural IrishCentral Finance Awards brought senior executives and rising talent together for an evening of celebration, speeches, and high-value networking in the heart of Manhattan. The ceremony honored eight winners across banking, venture…
The Silicon Valley to Miami pipeline - by the numbers
For years, Miami has been cast as Silicon Valley's pandemic-era escape hatch — a sunny refuge for tech billionaires and crypto founders fleeing California. New data, however, suggests the story is more complicated. Rather than a one-way…
Emma Watson and her new billionaire boyfriend could be 'next big power couple
Emma Watson, famed for playing Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter franchise from the age of just 11, has been linked to various high profile actors and businessmen since the late 2000s. The 35-year-old previously joked that the public was so…
Women Startup Founders Get Rs 4 Of Rs 100
When it comes to raising funds, women entrepreneurs receive a disproportionately small share. India has seen a 1.7x increase in girls enrolled in high school STEM between 2013 and 2024, a 2x increase in women registering for JEE between 2015 and…
How Flightradar24 became the go-to platform for the world to watch global aviation crises unfold
Mikael Robertsson and Olov Lindberg did not set out to build one of the pre-eminent monitors of global airspace. In a bid to draw more eyes to their Swedish flight price comparison portal, the entrepreneurs added a page charting air traffic. That…
Bitcoin ETFs Shed $228M, But Longer-Term Flows Stabilize
Bitcoin ETFs logged their worst day in three weeks on March 5, shedding $227.9 million in outflows. A closer look under the surface shows longer-term flow trends are stabilizing, with experts debating whether institutions are quietly positioning…
California's taxpayer-backed pension systems invest in Bitcoin and crypto
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Despite never purchasing a single Bitcoin or cryptocurrency directly, California's two largest public pension funds hold hundreds of millions of dollars in volatile crypto-related assets. The California…
Your Taxes: What makes Israeli hi-tech tick
Research and development (R&D) grants have contributed to Israeli hi-tech success over the years. Clever geeks leave the IDF with bright ideas. Venture-capital (VC) funds then provide capital, education, and financial discipline. The Israel…
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