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Crunchbase Data: The AI Boom Has Drastically Changed Who's Funding The Hottest Companies In 2025 Vs. 2021
As global venture funding in 2025 ratcheted up to the third-highest total on record after the peak years of 2021 and 2022, capital also concentrated further, with the number of companies raising rounds of $50 million or more drastically shrinking…
Opinion | The Trouble With Public Access to Private Markets
While the public stock market shrinks, the private market expands. Now small investors may finally be invited into private deals, but probably only second-rate ones for confiscatory fees. Is this what we want? I bear some responsibility for what is…
Trump administration backs Kalshi, Polymarket as states move to ban prediction markets
The Trump administration is throwing its support behind the prediction market operators Kalshi and Polymarket in a critical legal battle between the growing prediction market industry and states that wish to ban these platforms. The move by Michael…
Innovation Is A Game Of Two Halves
Somewhere in the past 25 years, we began to confuse two things that are not the same. We started treating “innovation” as something that only happens in private markets, and “funding innovation” as a synonym for venture…
Rock Health Founder Pens Playbook for Healthcare Entrepreneurs
In 2010, as the tech world buzzed over apps and games, Halle Tecco was looking elsewhere. Technologists, she believed, should train their attention on healthcare, a giant industry sorely in need of refreshing, yet stiffly resistant. That year, she…
Exclusive: Badge raises $17 million to chase the next era of digital wallets
Wallets have always been wherever money is. In antiquity, it was leather pouches for coins. In the Renaissance, it was folding pocketbooks that developed alongside the rise of paper currency. And now, with smartphones, it's something else…
Dragonfly Capital Closes $650M Fourth Fund Amid Slow Venture
Dragonfly Capital raised a $650 million fourth fund, standing out amid a broader slowdown in crypto venture funding. Early investments in Polymarket and Rain helped secure investor confidence in the new fund. The firm is shifting focus toward…
A16z Secrets Revealed: How This Huge Investment Fund Finds Promising Startups Even in Rural France!
Historically linked with Silicon Valley, venture capital behemoth Andreessen Horowitz is now extending its influence far beyond the borders of the United States in a quest to identify the next big unicorn companies. From Stockholm to Paris, the…
Dueling PACs take center stage in midterm elections over AI regulation
A pro-regulation AI PAC is launching a six-figure ad buy supporting a candidate in a competitive New York congressional primary. The lawmaker, Alex Bores, was targeted last year by a different AI PAC, Leading the Future, which opposes more…
Hacking conference Def Con bans three people linked to Epstein
Def Con, one of the largest and longest-running hacking conferences in the world, announced on Wednesday that three people linked to Jeffrey Epstein are no longer allowed to attend. The conference justified adding Pablos Holman, Vincenzo Iozzo, and…
UC San Diego Launches the FORGE to Power a New Era of National Security Innovation
As University of California San Diego moves to better connect campus breakthroughs with urgent national security and civilian needs, the university has launched the FORGE, a new initiative designed to align defense priorities with the researchers…
OpenAI aims to secure $100 Billion in latest funding round, reportedly aiming for an $800 billion valuation - Parties offering up cash include Nvidia, Microsoft, SoftBank, and more
OpenAI may be on the cusp of securing a new stockpile of cash to burn through, with the business looking to secure $100 billion in funding from a range of tech and investment firms, Bloomberg reports. The company is reportedly seeking a valuation…
OpenAI funding on track to top $126 billion with latest round
San Francisco – OpenAI is close to finalising the first phase of a new funding round that is likely to bring in more than US$100 billion (S$126.8 billion), according to people familiar with the matter. The record-breaking financing deal that…
CNBC's Inside India newsletter: India is throwing its weight behind AI - but is there substance behind the headlines?
It's a question as to how far U.S. tech giants will go to support India's belated AI push. India faces numerous challenges to its goal of advancing native AI research. New Delhi, however, is pushing ahead to become a 'significant player in the…
Humanoid robots go viral in China after billions watch their viral Spring Gala Performance - and one of them costs under $1,500
Humanoid robots starred during China's Spring Festival Gala performance The event is China's most-watched TV show and got 23 billion views Some of the robots on show now have order backlogs as interest soars China gave the world a glimpse of its…
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