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CBA backs fintech entrepreneur's $50m venture capital fund
Commonwealth Bank's venture capital arm will become the main backer of a new $50 million start-up fund established by Dom Pym, a serial founder and investor who previously sold his digital bank Up to Bendigo and Adelaide Bank for $116 million. Pym…
KKR-backed SmartHR said to be mulling Tokyo IPO later this year
SmartHR, a Japanese human resources platform operator, is considering an initial public offering (IPO) at the Tokyo Stock Exchange later this year, according to people familiar with the matter. The software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider is targeting…
Robinhood Ventures has rebounded 30% since its lackluster debut. Can the new private markets fund now withstand the mega IPOs?
In early March, Robinhood's latest investment product got off to a less-than-stellar start. After CEO Vlad Tenev rang the opening bell on New York Stock Exchange to celebrate the launch of a new private markets fund, the offering tumbled 16% in one…
Trump has America embracing a dangerous future
You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime. In George Orwell's Animal Farm, the animals initially embrace the slogan “four…
Groups Set Up to Shill AI and Data Centers Are Pouring Huge Sums of Money Into the Midterm Elections
Can't-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech Artificial intelligence remains deeply unpopular with the American public. One poll found it's even more reviled than ICE, which is no small feat given the mass protests that erupt…
What I learned from analyzing 789 'Shark Tank' pitches: Narcissists get funding if they're not arrogant or defensive
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) (THE CONVERSATION) Entrepreneurs displaying narcissistic behavior are better able to convince investors to give them money when their…
What I learned from analyzing 789 'Shark Tank' pitches: Narcissists get funding if they're not arrogant or defensive
Entrepreneurs displaying narcissistic behavior are better able to convince investors to give them money when their grandiosity comes across as confidence as opposed to defensiveness or arrogance. That's what we learned from watching 12 seasons of…
Why Is the New York Times Laundering the Reputation of a Sleazy AI Startup That's Selling GLP-1s via a Dishonest Dumpster Fire of Fake Doctors, Phony Before-and-After Pictures, a Warning From the FDA, and Other Glaring Red Flags?
Can't-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech On Thursday, the New York Times published a glowing profile of a company called Medvi. The basic premise of the piece is that a single guy named Matthew Gallagher had used AI to…
I moved across the world to get into the Ivy League. Then I quit Brown after a year to launch a VC firm at 21.
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Smaiyl Makyshov, 24, the founder of Multifaceted Capital, a VC firm based in San Francisco. It has been edited for length and clarity. I started programming when I was nine years old, teaching…
The robots are the next darlings of San Francisco's AI boom
By Kevin V. Nguyen Business Reporter Much of the attention surrounding the AI boom has fixated on foundational model companies such as OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind. Starting with the eureka moment of ChatGPT's public launch in 2022, the…
North America Q1 Funding Surges Across Stages To Record Level
The first quarter was one for the North American venture capital record books. U.S. and Canadian companies secured a staggering $252.6 billion in seed- through growth-stage funding rounds per Crunchbase data. That's more than 3x the total raised in…
PE-VC investments in Tamil Nadu drop sharply in Q1 2026
Private Equity – Venture Capital (PE-VC) firms invested $221 million (across 19 deals) in Tamil Nadu based companies during the first quarter of 2026. During the same period in 2025, PE-VC firms invested $2,081 across 18 deals, according to…
The AI Sector's Crass Bid for Media Domination
Bluesky “Freedom of the press,” AJ Liebling famously wrote, “is guaranteed only to those who own one.” This pithy observation from one of Liebling's 1960 “Wayward Press” columns in the New Yorker sums up a…
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SatLeo Labs Raises $2.2 Million Led by Unicorn India Ventures
India-based spacetech startup SatLeo Labs has raises $2.2 million in a seed funding round led by Unicorn India Ventures, taking its total funding to $5.5 million to date, the company said on April 6, 2025. The round also saw participation from…
Why nuclear fusion is gaining funding
Nuclear fusion, arguably a yet-to-be-proven commercial energy source — and a big-bucks game — is gaining traction. You have large research projects, such as the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), a multi-country…
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