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What Black tech founders need to know before raising their first venture capital round
For many Black tech founders, raising venture capital is often positioned as the ultimate milestone. It signals that your idea is validated, your business is taken “seriously,” and opportunities begin to take shape. As the managing…
Oren Cass is badly wrong about the financial industry
In a recent opinion article, Cass argues that the U.S. finance industry is just a grift that extracts wealth without creating incremental value. He says modern finance increases volatility without creating real value. Moreover, he argues that the…
Anthropic Is Valued at $380 Billion in New Funding Round
Anthropic, a prominent artificial intelligence start-up, said on Thursday that it had completed a new funding round that valued the company at $380 billion, more than doubling its valuation since its last funding round in September. With the deal…
AI Startup Nabs $100 Million to Help Firms Predict Human Behavior
Artificial intelligence startup Simile has raised $100 million in a new round of funding to help companies predict human behavior, including by guessing items customers might purchase and questions that might get asked on earnings calls. The…
Exclusive: Seligman Ventures debuts with $500 million and a new model for the blurring line between public and private markets
The public markets are thinning, the private markets are exploding, and AI is wholly destabilizing both. Consider the past week's software meltdown: AI fears and stalled market dynamics vaporized $1 trillion in market value, rippling down to…
Admiral Group acquires Flock to drive innovation in commercial motor market
Admiral Group acquires Flock to drive innovation in commercial motor market Admiral Group today announces that it has reached an agreement to acquire Flock, a digital commercial fleet insurance provider with an innovative telemetry-based…
How the sale of a brand-new, empty office building in Cambridge will reshape the real estate market
In 2018, a vacant one-acre lot in the center of Kendall Square sold for $50 million — a sign from the real estate world of just how much investors would pay to build in East Cambridge. Today, just a half-mile away, the bank that financed the…
El Jannah co-founders put $11 million Sydney estate on the market
After their years on the 2.11-hectare property, it would be no surprise if they were to make their next move a downsize. General Atlantic bought a controlling share of the fast-food chain for an undisclosed sum that left chief executive Brett…
Opinion | How A.I. Companies Are Preying on College Students
|How A.I. Companies Are Preying on College Students https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/opinion/ai-companies-college-students.html As educators, we are duty bound to defend — and advance — human intelligence. To do that, we first need…
Meet Dr. Dan Marom, Mentor to Israel's Rising Entrepreneurs
‘It's not whether an entrepreneur will fail,” says Dr. Dan Marom, academic director of the Asper Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Business School of the Hebrew University. “It's when they'll fail. All…
GoForIsrael investment conference coming to Miami this March in its first US edition
A long-standing conference focused on investment in Israeli companies will soon hold its first meeting in the United States, aiming to draw at least 300 people to the Fontainebleau hotel in Miami Beach on March 16. The annual GoForIsrael investment…
Europe cannot avoid an AI reckoning
BRATISLAVA – When it comes to artificial intelligence (AI), Europe's biggest challenge is not the sudden arrival of foreign frontier models or the proliferation of American and Chinese platforms across its markets. It is that the broader…
Fairfax Financial: Still Undervalued Despite A 400% Surge (OTCMKTS:FRFHF)
Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited delivered over 400% returns in five years, vastly outperforming peers and indices, but still remains undervalued. Fairfield's robust underwriting profits and $70.9B investment portfolio underpin high-teens ROE and…
Frank Calabria's billion-dollar baby meets the AI buzzsaw
Origin Energy boss Frank Calabria may have made one of the best venture capital bets in Australian corporate history, but it's hard to see how it could be the right time to spin it into listed markets any time soon. If his utilities software bet…
As China Rediscovers Gold, Borland Makes Craft Its Signature
Like Pop Mart, Borland belongs to China 's new wave of founder-led companies taking the world by storm, defined by an unrelenting obsession with a single niche category. Riding China 's gold jewelry boom, the 10-year-old brand made headlines last…
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