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Insight Partners Hires VC Veteran Malayery for Secondaries Push
Tech-focused private-asset firm Insight Partners is breaking into secondaries, bringing on an executive from a rival to lead its first strategy dedicated to backing continuation funds and snapping up secondhand stakes. The venture capital firm's…
Leading Prediction Firms Share a Commonality: Donald Trump Jr.
The companies running online prediction markets, where ordinary people bet on real-world events, can count on intense interest in what President Trump might have up his sleeve. Traders this month are wagering millions on whether the president will…
Our Wellness Rich List: Who earns what in the £1.4trillion industry?
There was a time when 'wellness' simply meant not being ill. Today, it's not just a buzzword, it's a £1.4 trillion industry (according to McKinsey) covering everything from fitness and diet to supplements and mental health. And with so much…
MrBeast's $200m, Higgsfield's $1.3b valuation, and energy merger talks
• Beast Industries, the company formed by YouTube creator Jimmy Donaldson, raised $200m from Ethereum treasury company Bitmine. Go deeper • Tulip, a Boston-based provider of factory automation software, raised $120m in Series D…
Exclusive: Mytra raises $120 million Series C to scale supply chain robotics amid industry boom
Chris Walti once led engineering for Tesla's humanoid Optimus. And don't get him wrong, he's as serious a robotics believer as there is. But Walti also thinks investors' cloud-nine expectations around AI and robots are miscalibrated. AI can do a…
Self-Help Ghouls Are Charging People Absurd Prices to Talk to Impersonator Chatbots
Against the recommendations of experts and professionals, millions of people use AI chatbots for emotional support and advice. These are often people who are in vulnerable times in their lives, perhaps unable to pay out of pocket for the type of…
Robo-advisor that actually makes money, or why Wealthfront's unit economics could turn it into the Berkshire of millennial wealth ; London VC firm just made European venture capital history
Good morning & happy Thursday! Today is super packed as we're diving deep into recently IPO'd Wealthfront, which just posted its first earnings as a public FinTech, to see why it could become the Berkshire of Millennial Wealth (deep dive into their…
German AI startup Parloa triples valuation to $3 billion in latest fundraise
Jan 15 (Reuters) - German startup Parloa has raised $350 million in a late-stage round that tripled the valuation of the artificial intelligence-driven customer service platform to $3 billion in less than a year. The Series…
SpacemiT to launch server-class RISC-V processor following capital injection
Chinese semiconductor start-up SpacemiT, fresh off an over US$86 million funding round, is gearing up for mass production of its new RISC-V chips, using an architecture rivalling Intel's and Arm's, which is seen as Beijing's hope for achieving chip…
Biotech Venture Limped Through 2025. A Brighter 2026 Beckons.
A run of pharmaceutical mergers and acquisitions is fueling optimism that biotechnology venture capital is poised to rebound from its postpandemic slump. With $223 billion in biotech M&A deals worldwide, 2025 was the industry's third-busiest year…
Higgsfield Raises $130 Million As Generative AI Video Becomes Marketing Infrastructure
Higgsfield, the generative video company founded by former Snap executive Alex Mashrabov, announced today that it has closed an $80 million Series A extension, bringing its total Series A financing to more than $130 million and valuing the company…
René Morkos: Makes Artificial Intelligence Work for Contractors for an Industrialized Future
René Morkos is a second-generation civil engineer who has worked on underwater pipeline construction, automation engineering on a $350-million gas refinery expansion project in Abu Dhabi and as a project manager in Afghanistan. But over a…
Indian startup Aule Space enters satellite servicing market
WASHINGTON — An Indian startup is entering the satellite servicing market with plans to develop low-cost spacecraft to extend the lives of satellites. Aule Space announced Jan. 15 that it raised a $2 million seed round from investors led by…
Private impact fundraising nosedives from 2022 to 2024 - latest PitchBook report
Analysis of 5,000 impact funds investing in private markets shows a record US$1tn in impact assets under management, but capital flows dropped by nearly half in two years. Annual fundraising for private impact funds dropped by nearly 50% between…
What CFOs Should Be Thinking About Sensitive Data in the Age of AI
It's because software is eating the world, as infamously predicted by the venture capital industry. Corporate tech stacks have gone global and department workflows have been irreversibly streamlined and optimized. But, as the news Thursday (Jan.
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