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Exclusive | How Mighty Capital Overcame a Tough Market to Raise a New Fund
Today's fundraising environment is challenging for smaller venture-capital firms. Sub-$100 million funds accounted for less than 5% of all capital raised by U.S. venture firms in the first quarter of this year, according to the PitchBook-NVCA…
4 AI Startups Shaping the Future of Beauty
This article is part of the Future of AI, a collection of articles that investigates how artificial intelligence will impact the fashion and beauty industries in the years to come. The beauty sector is the corner of luxury that's been the fastest…
A-Lister Cash Powers Iconiq's Bold Anthropic Bets
This article is for subscribers only. Welcome to Going Private, I'm Sinead Cruise and this is Bloomberg's twice-weekly newsletter about private markets and the forces moving capital away from the public eye. Today, we look at efforts by Asian…
Can Vaccine Development Weather Political Storms?
International training on mRNA vaccine production at the Vaccine Research Center of the National Institutes of Health, in 2023 (Photo by: NIH-NIAID/Image Point FR/BSIP/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) BSIP/Universal Images Group via Getty…
Fernando Mendoza: LinkedIn lunatic, endearing goofball and a symbol of the NFL's future
Ever since the NCAA changed its rules in 2021 to allow student athletes to profit from their name, image and likeness, institutional money has been circling college football, desperate for a way to turn top programs into money-making machines.
Life sciences lab real estate is clawing back from disaster. Here's what that means for investors
Life science laboratories saw a massive drop in demand last year after the National Institutes of Health was forced to cancel billions of dollars in research grants. Major markets like Boston and the Bay Area had vacancy rates in the life sciences…
Anthropic has surged to a trillion-dollar valuation on secondary markets, overtaking OpenAI.
Desperate buyers are in a race to secure a dwindling supply of secondary shares in Anthropic, driving the AI company's valuation on some sites to $1 trillion, a price that would have seemed unthinkable even a few weeks ago. Meanwhile, traders…
Collective Acquires Open Ledger, As Fintechs Race To Serve High-Revenue One-Person Businesses
Human Radar, founder and CEO of Collective, has raised more than $90 million for his one-step financial platform for the self-employed. Collective, a one-stop financial platform for the self-employed, announced today that it is acquiring Open…
Firstpoint VC launches with €50m fund to invest in AI-driven games and entertainment startups
New venture capital firm Firstpoint VC has launched with a €50 million fund to invest in AI-driven gaming and entertainment startups. General partners Burak Yılmaz and Mike Fischer lead Firstpoint, each with more than 30 years of…
The Godmother of Silicon Valley and her former student want to fix how healthcare gets built
Mary Minno first met Esther Wojcicki when she was 15. Walking into Wojcicki's journalism class at Palo Alto High School, she was new to Silicon Valley. About 20 years later, Minno's still in the area—and after nearly a decade in Big Tech…
Cathie Woods' ARK makes its first lead investment in startup Lucra - and it isn't AI
ARK Invest Venture Fund has made its first-ever lead investment in an early-stage startup called Lucra, firm founder Cathie Woods told TechCrunch. “We feel pretty excited about it,” Woods (pictured above) said in the recent interview…
Microsoft looked at buying Cursor before SpaceX deal, sources say
Microsoft looked at buying artificial intelligence coding startup Cursor in recent weeks but didn't make an offer, CNBC has learned. On Tuesday, SpaceX said it's obtained the right to acquire Cursor for $60 billion. Microsoft has been working to…
AngelList's USVC Gives Investors Exposure to OpenAI, Anthropic and xAI-Starting at $500
A new investment product called USVC is designed to disrupt venture capital norms and provide retail investors access to some of the most successful private companies—like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Elon Musk's xAI—for as little as $500.
JPMorganChase Extends Critical Industries Investment Program to Continental Europe
The bank launched the Security and Resilience Initiative (SRI) in the United States in October and announced in November that it would extend the initiative to the United Kingdom in the following months. Now, JPMorganChase is expanding SRI across…
AI Impact: Are companies using AI to grow-or just to cut?
Signals from the front lines of AI adoption At a time when much of the AI conversation is centered on efficiency and cost-cutting, Calix CEO Michael Weening sees a gap between how AI is being talked about and how it's actually being used inside…
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