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'Tough Tech' Requires a Different Kind of Venture Capital
What is “tough tech,” and what is Engine Ventures? In areas like clean energy, quantum computing, or human health, ideas developed in universities, with government or philanthropic funding, need additional support to move beyond the…
Tokyo Looks to Rev Up IPO Market by Luring Startups Across Asia
Tokyo Stock Exchange Inc. is looking to strengthen its market for initial public offerings by pitching itself as a venue for cross-border listings by startups in Asia. The exchange is offering help in fundraising and IPO preparations with partners…
TSE pitches itself as cross-border listing venue for Asian startups' IPOs
The Tokyo Stock Exchange is looking to strengthen its market for initial public offerings by pitching itself as a venue for cross-border listings by startups in Asia. The exchange is offering help in fundraising and IPO preparations with partners…
How startups can 'break through the noise' and grab attention, according to a marketer-turned-VC
Startups don't just need cash to be successful. Like many of us, they also thrive on attention. Lindsay Kaplan, a former marketing executive and cofounder of Chief, a networking company for women, wants to coach startup founders on what it takes to…
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 tickets now on sale: Lowest rates all year
We're kicking things off earlier than ever this year! TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 tickets are officially on sale. Lock in the lowest rates of the year with the Super Early Bird pricing — available through February 27 — and be among the…
AI company Eightfold sued for helping companies secretly score job seekers
Jan 21 (Reuters) - Eightfold AI, a venture capital-backed artificial intelligence hiring platform used by Microsoft, PayPal and many other Fortune 500 companies, is being sued in California for allegedly compiling reports used to…
OpenAI's former sales leader joins VC firm Acrew: OpenAI taught her where startups can build a 'moat'
OpenAI's first sales leader, Aliisa Rosenthal, has found a new career: venture capital. She's joining Acrew Capital as a general partner, working alongside founding partner Lauren Kolodny and the firm's other partners, Rosenthal and Kolodny tell…
Zanskar thinks 1 TW of geothermal power is being overlooked
The ground beneath our feet holds so much energy that experts at the Department of Energy think geothermal power could generate 60 gigawatts — or nearly 10% of U.S. electricity — by 2050. Zanskar co-founder and CEO Carl Hoiland thinks…
Yorkshire AI Labs wants to buy world's oldest club, Sheffield FC - BBC News
A venture capital firm claims it has had two bids to buy the world's oldest football club, Sheffield FC, rejected. Yorkshire AI Labs said it wanted to bring a 'once in a generation' investment worth 'hundreds of billions' into Sheffield, including…
Escalating Valuations, AI Dominance Mark Year Ahead for Tech VCs
This article is for subscribers only. Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter about the business of tech from Bloomberg's journalists around the world. Today, new venture capital reporters Rebecca Torrence and Natasha Mascarenhas give an…
Prediction Markets Bet on Scaling Resolutions With Blockchain and AI
In today's era of uncertainty, geopolitical instability, rapid technological change and other destabilizing macro forces, the ability to aggregate and price collective belief is being positioned as one of providing tangible value in the real-world…
HESTA emerges with stake in admin platform Grow after APRA action
The $101 billion superannuation fund HESTA made a bold bet when it decided to kick out sector gorilla Link Administration Holdings as its admin software provider and bring in Grow Inc, a start-up backed by venture capital firms. HESTA has now…
AI Founder Daniel Nadler Is Twice As Rich After OpenEvidence Hits $12 Billion Valuation
Daniel Nadler, CEO and cofounder of OpenEvidence, an AI search tool for doctors, doubled his net worth to $7.6 billion after his startup raised additional capital at a $12 billion valuation. T hree years ago, Daniel Nadler launched OpenEvidence, an…
Forget Virtual Land. The Metaverse's New Currency Is Data.
An avatar visits the Louvre in the metaverse platform VLGE. In the weeks since Meta laid off 1500 employees and announced it was sunsetting its Horizon Workrooms platform, obituaries for the metaverse have poured forth from all corners. But while…
Davos 2026: Jensen Huang On The Five Layer AI Cake, The AI Bubble And Key AI Breakthroughs
NVIDIA's CEO Jensen Huang sat down with BlackRock's Larry Fink at Davos to discuss why AI represents the largest infrastructure buildout in human history, already attracting hundreds of billions in investment with trillions more needed. After Yuval…
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