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forbes.com - Forbes Press Releases - Forbes Unveils The 2025 Midas List Europe, The Definitive Ranking Of Europe's Top Venture Capital Investors
Forbes Unveils The 2025 Midas List Europe, The Definitive Ranking Of Europe's Top Venture Capital Investors
Forbes

London – December 11, 2025 – Forbes today unveiled the 2025 Midas List Europe, the definitive ranking of the top 25 venture capital investors in Europe and the Middle East, in partnership with TrueBridge Capital Partners. This year's…

wsj.com - Brian Gormley - Bruce Booth Has Seen It All in Biotech Venture Capital
Bruce Booth Has Seen It All in Biotech Venture Capital
Wall Street Journal

Few sectors are as risky for investors as biotechnology, an industry where fortunes ride on the success of drugs in clinical trials. Bruce Booth knows this well—he has been at it for two decades. Booth, a partner with Atlas Venture, joined…

techcrunch.com - Isabelle Johannessen - The market has 'switched' and founders have the power now, VCs say
The market has 'switched' and founders have the power now, VCs say
TechCrunch

The way venture capitalists think about fund-raising can be a black box. But investors must think about their go-to-market strategy for raising their own funds, just as much as they think about how their portfolio companies find their market fit.

cnbc.com - Emily Wilkins - House passes INVEST Act to ease investment standards and boost capital in markets
House passes INVEST Act to ease investment standards and boost capital in markets
CNBC

The House passed the INVEST Act, which backers say could get private markets more capital and investors. The package of capital-formation bill passed the House 302 to 123 Lawmakers say the measure will help more companies go public and increase…

nytimes.com - Jack Ewing - Hatching the Automobile's Future in a Cloistered Los Angeles Lab
Hatching the Automobile's Future in a Cloistered Los Angeles Lab
The New York Times

In 2021, after Apple gave up on its secretive plans to build a driverless electric car, Doug Field left the technology company to embark on a mission impossible meant to save the American auto industry. He rejoined Ford Motor, where he had started…

forbes.com - Rich Karlgaard - How AI Could Unlock Demand For Work
How AI Could Unlock Demand For Work
Forbes

Spend enough time in today's AI debate and you'll hear dire predictions of massive job losses. The World Bank says over one-third of Philippine jobs are at risk from AI and suggests similar job destruction in Asian middle-income countries like…

nytimes.com - Cecilia Kang - Trump Signs Executive Order to Neuter State A.I. Laws
Trump Signs Executive Order to Neuter State A.I. Laws
The New York Times

President Trump signed an executive order on Thursday that aims to neuter state laws that place limits on the artificial intelligence industry, a win for tech companies that have lobbied against regulation of the booming technology. Mr. Trump, who…

techcrunch.com - Rebecca Szkutak - 1X struck a deal to send its 'home' humanoids to factories and warehouses
1X struck a deal to send its 'home' humanoids to factories and warehouses
TechCrunch

1X found some big potential buyers for its humanoid robots designed for consumers — the portfolio companies of one of its investors. The robotics company announced a strategic partnership to make thousands of its humanoid robots available…

globenewswire.com - HAFFNER ENERGY - Haffner Energy secures major partnership in Canada, kicks off unprecedented scale-up
Haffner Energy secures major partnership in Canada, kicks off unprecedented scale-up
GlobeNewswire

Haffner Energy secures major partnership in Canada, kicks off unprecedented scale-up Vitry-le-François, France (December 12, 2025, 8:00 a.m. CET) Haffner Energy announces the signing of a major strategic partnership in Canada, just weeks…

crunchbase.com - Mary Ann Azevedo - Sector Snapshot: Insurtech Funding Is Way Down, But AI Is Still Driving Some Big Deals
Sector Snapshot: Insurtech Funding Is Way Down, But AI Is Still Driving Some Big Deals
Crunchbase

For obvious reasons, insurance-related technology isn't exactly one of the sexiest investment areas for VCs, which might explain why funding and deal count are both down this year, per a review of Crunchbase data. But insurance impacts everyone in…

techcrunch.com - Connie Loizos - Stanford's star reporter takes on Silicon Valley's 'money-soaked' startup culture
Stanford's star reporter takes on Silicon Valley's 'money-soaked' startup culture
TechCrunch

Theo Baker is truly an outlier. While journalism as a major has seen shrinking enrollment for years and is even being dropped by some schools entirely, Baker, a senior at Stanford University, has doubled down on old-school investigative reporting…

forbes.com - Nishanth Billa - Beyond Hyperscalers: How Neoclouds Are Redefining The Economics Of GenAI
Beyond Hyperscalers: How Neoclouds Are Redefining The Economics Of GenAI
Forbes

Nishanth Billa, Executive Director at Santander Corporate & Investment Banking, advising on M&A and Strategy with focus on Technology. Generative AI (GenAI) has turned compute into one of the world's scarcest commodities. The hyperscalers (AWS…

theguardian.com - Nick Robins-Early - Trump signs executive order blocking states from regulating AI
Trump signs executive order blocking states from regulating AI
The Guardian

Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday that seeks to halt any laws limiting artificial intelligence and block states from regulating the rapidly emerging technology. The order also creates a federal taskforce that will have the…

globenewswire.com - Disco Pharmaceuticals GmbH - DISCO Pharmaceuticals Appoints Mark Manfredi as CEO and Announces Final Close of €36 Million Seed Financing
DISCO Pharmaceuticals Appoints Mark Manfredi as CEO and Announces Final Close of €36 Million Seed Financing
GlobeNewswire

Mark Manfredi brings over two decades of international biopharmaceutical industry leadership and cancer drug discovery success to DISCO Financing will support the development of novel surfaceome-targeted therapies for hard-to-treat tumors Cologne…

nytimes.com - Andrew Ross Sorkin - Why Oracle Is Worrying Investors About the A.I. Boom
Why Oracle Is Worrying Investors About the A.I. Boom
The New York Times

Andrew here. Here's a head-scratcher: The Fed suggested that there was only one rate cut coming next year and another for 2027, but markets initially went up. Why? We take you inside the debate in the room. And we look at why investors are spooked…

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