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Emerging Venture Managers Have a Secret Weapon: Co-Investing With LPs
To boost their influence—and stretch their dollars—emerging managers in venture capital are offering more direct and co-investment opportunities to their limited partners, according to interviews with investors, managers and market…
Minister advocates for more women in sci-tech
Professor Blade Nzimande, minister of science, technology and innovation. Minister Blade Nzimande warns that South Africa will not reach its full potential if women and girls remain excluded from opportunities in science, technology and innovation.
How The Real AI Investment Race Is Moving To The Layers Serving Models
Elena Volotovskaya is the Head of Softline Venture Partners. Two numbers reveal where capital is flowing in the AI economy in 2026. OpenAI and Anthropic attracted $217 billion in venture funding in the first half of the year…
I was fired for resisting technology. It saved my career
I was not surprised by recent news that online classes have become swamped by artificial intelligence cheating, eroding academic integrity. From the second I heard about “asynchronous” studies, I thought of the word's negative…
Flock Safety has been a venture darling. Will data privacy controversies halt its rise?
Cat Gioino here. Everyone wants safer neighborhoods, right? That was Flock CEO Garrett Langley's pitch to VCs after he built Flock's first prototype. The Georgia Tech electrical engineer was not yet 30 when a string of break-ins in his own Atlanta…
LGT reports 17% rise in H1 profit as assets reach record level
LGT Group reported first-half 2026 profit of SFr281.6m ($351.37m), marking a 17% rise from a year earlier. Net new assets came in at SFr12.3bn, equal to an annualised growth rate of 6.4%. The gold standard of business intelligence. Experience…
Mark Jennings joins Bermuda's Apex Group
Mark Jennings, director, senior vice-president, Global Capital Markets & Strategic Partnerships, the Apex Group (Photograph supplied) Mark Jennings has joined Bermudian-based Apex Group, which has grown from a local start-up to one of the largest…
Shein was fast fashion's next big thing. Now it's fighting for a second act
Shein was once one of the most talked-about companies in retail. It could spot what Generation Z wanted and, within days, turn those trends into $US10 ($13.95) mesh dresses and $US5 crop tops. Its clothes were so cheap and its churn of new styles…
The remarkably human task of giving AI 'good enough' taste
Ben Blumenrose has noticed that the floor for AI -generated website design is rising fast. As co-founder and managing partner at the venture capital firm Designer Fund, and a practicing designer for two decades, Blumenrose has been tracking the…
Skincare brand Be Clinical raises ₹21 cr in seed funding
Skincare brand Be Clinical on Monday said it has raised ₹21 crore in a seed funding round, led by venture capital fund Sauce, to support product innovation and expand its clinical skincare portfolio. The funding round also saw participation…
Indian family office assets to grow 1.5x over three years: Julius Baer-EY report
Assets held by India's family offices are projected to grow 1.5 times over the next three years, from approximately INR700bn ($7.1bn) in 2024, according to research by Julius Baer and EY. The report links this growth to a larger pool of wealth…
Skyways Air Services IPO opens today: Key details to know
IPO quota: Not more than 50% of the net offer will be available for allocation to qualified institutional buyers (QIBs), not less than 15% to non-institutional bidders (NIIs), and not less than 35% to retail individual bidders (RIIs). IPO size:…
Federal regulators accept preliminary permit for underwater data center off Eastport
EASTPORT, Maine — A controversial underwater artificial intelligence data center proposed in the Bay of Fundy, near Kendall Head off the northern coast of Eastport, took a major step forward in the permitting process this week. On Wednesday…
Stock Market Today Highlights: Stock markets end lower amid simmering geopolitical tensions, elevated crude oil prices
Sensex Today, Nifty 50 | Stock Markets Higlights: Despite a positive beginning, the 30-share BSE Sensex failed to carry forward the momentum and declined 171.72 points, or 0.22%, to settle at 77,369.11. The 50-share NSE Nifty slipped 32.95 points…
Cyber startup Minimus shuts down, returns cash to investors
Seven years ago, Ben Bernstein, Dima Stopel, and John Morello sold the company they founded, Twistlock, to Palo Alto Networks in what at the time was the largest sale of an Israeli company to the cybersecurity giant founded by Nir Zuk, for $410…
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