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Forbes Unveils The 2025 Midas List Europe, The Definitive Ranking Of Europe's Top Venture Capital Investors
London – December 11, 2025 – Forbes today unveiled the 2025 Midas List Europe, the definitive ranking of the top 25 venture capital investors in Europe and the Middle East, in partnership with TrueBridge Capital Partners. This year's…
Bruce Booth Has Seen It All in Biotech Venture Capital
Few sectors are as risky for investors as biotechnology, an industry where fortunes ride on the success of drugs in clinical trials. Bruce Booth knows this well—he has been at it for two decades. Booth, a partner with Atlas Venture, joined…
The market has 'switched' and founders have the power now, VCs say
The way venture capitalists think about fund-raising can be a black box. But investors must think about their go-to-market strategy for raising their own funds, just as much as they think about how their portfolio companies find their market fit.
House passes INVEST Act to ease investment standards and boost capital in markets
The House passed the INVEST Act, which backers say could get private markets more capital and investors. The package of capital-formation bill passed the House 302 to 123 Lawmakers say the measure will help more companies go public and increase…
Hatching the Automobile's Future in a Cloistered Los Angeles Lab
In 2021, after Apple gave up on its secretive plans to build a driverless electric car, Doug Field left the technology company to embark on a mission impossible meant to save the American auto industry. He rejoined Ford Motor, where he had started…
1X struck a deal to send its 'home' humanoids to factories and warehouses
1X found some big potential buyers for its humanoid robots designed for consumers — the portfolio companies of one of its investors. The robotics company announced a strategic partnership to make thousands of its humanoid robots available…
Prediction Markets Become Flash Point Between Federal and State Regulators
On Monday, a federal judge temporarily blocked Connecticut from enforcing gambling laws against Kalshi pending resolution of the platform's motion for a preliminary injunction. The Gaming Division of the state's Department of Consumer Protection…
Sector Snapshot: Insurtech Funding Is Way Down, But AI Is Still Driving Some Big Deals
For obvious reasons, insurance-related technology isn't exactly one of the sexiest investment areas for VCs, which might explain why funding and deal count are both down this year, per a review of Crunchbase data. But insurance impacts everyone in…
The Making Of Midas List Europe: The Data-Driven Model Determining Europe's Top VCs
Europe's tech landscape continues to evolve and grow in importance, even in a market defined by uncertainty. The Midas List Europe returns this year with a data-driven look at the investors whose portfolios have produced the most meaningful…
Beyond Hyperscalers: How Neoclouds Are Redefining The Economics Of GenAI
Nishanth Billa, Executive Director at Santander Corporate & Investment Banking, advising on M&A and Strategy with focus on Technology. Generative AI (GenAI) has turned compute into one of the world's scarcest commodities. The hyperscalers (AWS…
DISCO Pharmaceuticals Appoints Mark Manfredi as CEO and Announces Final Close of €36 Million Seed Financing
Mark Manfredi brings over two decades of international biopharmaceutical industry leadership and cancer drug discovery success to DISCO Financing will support the development of novel surfaceome-targeted therapies for hard-to-treat tumors Cologne…
Why Oracle Is Worrying Investors About the A.I. Boom
Andrew here. Here's a head-scratcher: The Fed suggested that there was only one rate cut coming next year and another for 2027, but markets initially went up. Why? We take you inside the debate in the room. And we look at why investors are spooked…
Hummingbird's VCs Look To Invest In Founders With Childhood Trauma
Oguzhan Atay was preparing to raise a Series A round for his San Francisco-based medical diagnostic startup BillionToOne back in 2018 when the message from Hummingbird Ventures dropped in his inbox. The London-based fund wanted to hear his pitch.
K2, Pryzm, South 8 and VATN detail their newest capital rounds
This three-year-old satellite maker has hauled $250 million in Series C capital as it pushes toward the planned March launch of its first “Mega Class” satellite, called GRAVITAS. K2 Space also aims to ramp up production at its…
Esusu's $1.2b valuation, Steelhead's $84m, and Apollo's golf IPO
💊 BlossomHill Therapeutics, a San Diego cancer biotech, raised an $84m Series B. Janus Henderson Investors, Brahma Capital and BioTrack Capital led, joined by Cormorant Asset Management, OrbiMed, Plaisance Capital Management and Vivo…
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