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scmp.com - Enoch Yiu - AI, biotech and new energy likely targets of HKIC yuan fund
AI, biotech and new energy likely targets of HKIC yuan fund
South China Morning Post

The Hong Kong government's planned offshore yuan-denominated venture capital fund is set to attract investors looking to invest in a wide range of artificial intelligence, biotechnology and new energy firms in the coming years, according to…

forbes.com - Dileep Rao - Cursor's AI Challenge Shows Why Strategic Fit Beats Product-Market Fit
Cursor's AI Challenge Shows Why Strategic Fit Beats Product-Market Fit
Forbes

Cursor appeared to do everything Silicon Valley tells founders to do. It moved early into AI-powered coding assistance, found rapid Product-Market Fit, attracted venture capital, and quickly became one of the breakout companies in AI-assisted…

crunchbase.com - Marlize van Romburgh - Sector Snapshot: Defense Startup Funding Hits An All-Time Record As VCs Begin To Eye Exits
Sector Snapshot: Defense Startup Funding Hits An All-Time Record As VCs Begin To Eye Exits
Crunchbase

A decade ago, defense tech was considered a niche, even controversial corner of venture capital, with few startup investors daring to place bets on companies working with the military. How times have changed. Already this year, more than $14.6…

forbes.com - Ozan Ozerk - The Illusion Of Fintech Innovation
The Illusion Of Fintech Innovation
Forbes

Dr. Ozan Özerk is a fintech entrepreneur and the founder of leading BaaS & payment infrastructure platform OpenPayd, EMBank, Bitpace, MSB.us ​Fintech innovation should mean more than turning a bank branch into an app or replacing a…

newswire.ca - Quobly secures €115 million Series A to bring silicon-based quantum computers to market
Quobly secures €115 million Series A to bring silicon-based quantum computers to market
CNW

GRENOBLE, France, June 3, 2026 /CNW/ -- Quobly, a French quantum computing company, today announced the closing of a €115 million Series A financing to accelerate the industrialization of its silicon-based quantum computers and bring its…

businessinsider.com - Meghan Morris - OpenAI distances itself from cofounder Greg Brockman's political donations
OpenAI distances itself from cofounder Greg Brockman's political donations
Business Insider

OpenAI distanced itself from cofounder Greg Brockman's political donations in a Monday post. The OpenAI president and his wife said in late December that they started making political contributions that year. The couple funneled $25 million to…

nextgov.com - Natalie Alms - Former DOGE duo launches AI company as a 'DOGE for the private sector'
Former DOGE duo launches AI company as a 'DOGE for the private sector'
Nextgov/FCW

Two former operatives of the controversial Department of Government Efficiency have launched a new artificial intelligence company called Special, backed by venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, Elon Musk ally Steve Davis and others formerly…

indianexpress.com - IE Online - Career Focused Finance Programs: 6 Features That Are Helping Students Break Into Top Roles Faster
Career Focused Finance Programs: 6 Features That Are Helping Students Break Into Top Roles Faster
The Indian Express

The finance sector today is fast, data-intensive, and brutally competitive. Employers are no longer looking for candidates who can recite theory — they want people who can walk into core finance roles and contribute from the first week…

siliconrepublic.com - Suhasini Srinivasaragavan - French quantum start-up Quobly bags €115m ahead of market debut
French quantum start-up Quobly bags €115m ahead of market debut
Silicon Republic

Funding is expected to support R&D, industrialisation and scaling efforts, and international commercial expansion. French quantum start-up Quobly has closed a €115m Series A round to accelerate its market debut planned for the end of the…

axios.com - Lucinda Shen - Cyera's $12b valuation, Brian Armstrong's new, NewLimit, and H&F's $1.8b Hyve buy
Cyera's $12b valuation, Brian Armstrong's new, NewLimit, and H&F's $1.8b Hyve buy
Axios

• Cyera, a NYC-based data security company, raised a $300m round at a $12b valuation. Evolution Equity Partners led, joined by Georgian, Greenoaks, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, Sapphire Ventures, Redpoint Ventures…

wsj.com - James Mackintosh - Alphabet's Mega Fundraising Shows the Value of Being a Public Company
Alphabet's Mega Fundraising Shows the Value of Being a Public Company
Wall Street Journal

$80 billion stock-based fundraising should be taken as a rebuke to those salivating over the forthcoming IPOs of SpaceX, Anthropic and OpenAI. The search giant is showing its competitive advantage in an area that increasingly matters for artificial…

seekingalpha.com - Rida Morwa - Become A Landlord In Silicon Valley With A +6% Yield, While AI Booms: Kilroy Realty (KRC)
Become A Landlord In Silicon Valley With A +6% Yield, While AI Booms: Kilroy Realty (KRC)
Seeking Alpha

The Picks and Axes Strategy: Avoid the speculation of picking AI tech winners; own the irreplaceable West Coast real estate held by Kilroy Realty Corporation where their teams live. Over 75% of all domestic venture capital funding for artificial…

kqed.org - Izzy Bloom - In Redrawn Napa Valley House Seat, Voters Appear to Stick With Incumbent They Know | KQED
In Redrawn Napa Valley House Seat, Voters Appear to Stick With Incumbent They Know | KQED
KQED Inc

Jones ran his challenge as part of a wave of younger, progressive candidates taking on Democrats in safe blue districts across the state as the party grappled with how to win back the working-class voters it lost in 2024. At least in the 4th…

afr.com - Paul Smith - Scott Farquhar says CGT changes 'doubled the effective tax rate'
Scott Farquhar says CGT changes 'doubled the effective tax rate'
Australian Financial Review

Atlassian co-founder Scott Farquhar has warned Labor's changes to capital gains have doubled the effective tax rate on start-ups, saying the country needed to work harder than ever before to keep innovation onshore. Now the chairman of the Tech…

fortune.com - Allie Garfinkle - Anthropic's confidential S-1 signals summer AI IPO race could heat up fast
Anthropic's confidential S-1 signals summer AI IPO race could heat up fast
Fortune

Anthropic was open about its confidential S-1 filing on Monday. The $965 billion AI juggernaut announced the filing—which we cannot yet see—on its blog. It's a contradiction, but then Anthropic is its own kind of contradiction, a…

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