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The anatomy of venture capital
In 2023 I wrote a piece about the five deadly sins of VCs. A lot of founders agreed, but some VCs were pissed. My DMs were full of them explaining how unfair it was. One person said I wouldn't make any friends in the industry if I kept it up. I'm…
Germany's Industrial Collapse: Degrowth And Ideology At Work
Even with some temporal distance and broader perspective, the election result in Baden-Württemberg makes no sense. That the two eco-socialist parties, fused into a kind of political twin planet— Bündnis 90/Die Grünen and the…
Bugs were supposed to be the future of food. Now, the industry is collapsing.
Get your news from a source that's not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. This story was originally published b y Vox and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. “We have to get…
Claret Capital Partners invests €28M in Cinclus Pharma
Claret Capital Partners invests €28M in Cinclus Pharma Cinclus Pharma is a late-stage clinical pharmaceutical company developing next-generation treatments for gastric acid-related diseases Claret Capital Partners providing growth funding of…
Top 2% fund manager shares investing opportunities amid Iran turmoil
Rising oil prices — and their potential impact on inflation — are front and center in the market conversation right now. Yet, if the conflict between Iran and the US and Israel continues and the Strait of Hormuz stays closed…
Alibaba Backs MetaComp to Expand Stablecoin Payment Network
Singapore-based MetaComp said Friday it completed a new funding round backed by Alibaba, as the company expands its stablecoin payment infrastructure. MetaComp completed a Pre-A+ round backed by Alibaba, bringing the cumulative total to $35 million…
Axiom's $1.6b valuation and Dave's Hot Chicken's sale
• Axiom Math, a mathematical superintelligence startup, raised $200m in Series A funding at a $1.6b valuation. Menlo Ventures led, joined by Greycroft, Madrona, and B Capital. Go deeper • Sunday, a Mountain View, Calif.-based home…
Explained: Changes in India's FDI policy for Land Bordering Countries, including China, and who stands to gain
PN3 was primarily meant for Chinese investors, as entities from Bangladesh and Pakistan can invest only under the government route, while investments from Nepal, Myanmar, Bhutan and Afghanistan comprise a minuscule share of India's total foreign…
75% Plunge in Cryptocurrency Development Activity: Did Everyone Pivot to AI?
According to recent data, there has been a decrease in both code commits and active contributors in the cryptocurrency sector, indicating a severe decline in developer activity. Recent metrics show that since early 2025, the number of crypto code…
Digital Enabler Live Story Debuts in the U.K., Targets 10 Million Euro Revenues
MILAN — Live Story, the Milan-based scale-up company that bets it can revolutionize CMR and the digital infrastructures of e-commerce and omnichannel operations, is making its foray in the U.K. Founded in 2016 by Stefano Mocellini — a…
Billionaire Vinod Khosla says 'follow your passion' is bad career advice for kids today-but could be the best in 15 years
Legendary venture capitalist Vinod Khosla believes if you follow your passion, you'll never work a day in your life. On a recent episode of Fortune's Titans and Disruptors of Industry podcast, he opened up about his work-life philosophy: even at…
Femtum Closes $16M oversubscribed Series A to Scale Laser Solutions for Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing
QUEBEC CITY, March 12, 2026 /CNW/ - Femtum, a developer of advanced fiber laser solutions for the manufacturing of silicon photonics, co-packaged optics and next-generation semiconductor devices, announced today the closing of a $16 million Series…
Humanoid robotics maker Sunday reaches $1.15B valuation to build household robots
Robotics company Sunday has raised a new funding round that has valued the company at unicorn status, meaning over $1 billion, it announced on Thursday. Sunday says it has raised $165 million at a $1.15 billion valuation in a Series B round led by…
From Run Nation to Power Slap: what is leading the dumbing down of sports?
A few weeks ago a clip went viral of a strange new contact sport emerging from the antipodes. Two burly men, one of them holding a football, sprint at each other on a kind of catwalk, waiting for the bloop-bloop-bloop of an electronic countdown…
Who Cares If AI Brings Down the Economy?
The tech billionaire Hemant Taneja admits that AI is a bubble. In fact, he welcomes it: “Bubbles are good,” Taneja, the CEO of General Catalyst, a venture-capital firm, told me in an email. If AI comes crashing down, it will lead to…
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