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The AI Era Is Reordering The 4 Paths Of Business Education
Artificial intelligence is challenging one of the core assumptions behind modern business education: that business schools are the primary gateway to business knowledge and managerial capability. For decades, business schools created value by…
Sound Wave, an Alzheimer's-Therapy Startup, Raises $17 Million
Sound Wave said Monday it raised 2.65 billion yen, equivalent to $16.7 million, to fund a clinical trial that is due to be completed by year-end. Besides iGlobe, other investors in the financing round included existing backers such as Tokyo-based…
Why AI Investors Need Data - Not Instinct - To Pick Winning States
An Amazon Web Services data center is shown in Stone Ridge, Virginia. Virginia has aggressively courted AI investment. (Photo by Nathan Howard/Getty Images) In 2025, artificial intelligence captured 61 percent of all global venture capital…
AI Turns Solo Workers Into Departments And VCs Are Paying Attention
TOPSHOT - People stand next to a humanoid robot from Unitree Robotics during the Global Developer Conference, organised by the Shanghai AI Industry Association, in Shanghai on February 21, 2025. (Photo by Hector RETAMAL / AFP) (Photo by HECTOR…
Japanese Alzheimer's Startup Sound Wave Raises About $17 Million
Japanese medical startup Sound Wave Innovation, which aims to cure Alzheimer's disease with ultrasound therapy, has raised about $17 million from investors, including Singapore-based venture capital firm iGlobe Partners. Sound Wave said Monday it…
How Termina selected and ranked the 2026 Seed 100 and Seed 40 lists
The Seed 100 and Seed 40 lists have reached their sixth year in our partnership with Business Insider, which objectively identifies and celebrates the success of some of the world's greatest seed investors. In the run of these Seed 100 releases, AI…
Tips For Investing In The 'Picks And Shovels,' Not The Gold Rush
Jayden Wei is Founding Partner of OGBC Group, investing in AI, quantum computing, and blockchain infrastructure. Every major technology cycle tends to follow a familiar arc: Early enthusiasm drives valuations up. A correction…
AI is eating the market and Wall Street strategists have bubble brain as they debate: are we in 1997 or 1999?
The numbers are hard to ignore. The top 10 companies in the S&P 500 now account for 34% of all index profits—a share that's doubled since 1996—and 41% of its market cap. AI companies represent nearly 87% of all venture capital funding…
WT 360: A pulse check on GovCon's capital market landscape
Find opportunities — and win them. The window for government contractors, especially those in defense and space technology, to go public is open again as several listings over the past 12 months show and SpaceX's own offering this year will…
The AI boom is pulling Europe's hottest startups to the U.S.-whether they planned to move or not
Carl Fritjofsson, who has run Stockholm, Sweden-based Creandum's San Francisco office since 2016, says the timeline for European founders to cross the pond is compressing at a pace he's never seen. “There is more demand in the U.S. today…
The Seed 40: The best women early-stage investors of 2026
Some of tech's most powerful companies began as risky early bets. For decades, the venture capital that helped turn young startups into giants flowed through networks that largely excluded women. The investors on this year's Seed 40 are changing…
Five Steps For Planning A Powerful Off-Site Team Conference
Melanie Subin is Global Managing Director of Future Today Strategy Group. Every year, leadership teams fly their organizations somewhere nice, sit in a windowless conference room and conduct strategic planning. They often leave with a list of…
The Seed 100: The best early-stage investors of 2026
Business Insider's Seed 100 spotlights the early-stage investors with the rare knack for finding tomorrow's tech giants before the rest of the market knows they exist. In the AI boom, the definition of 'seed stage' has changed dramatically. Seed…
Tomorrow.io adds $35 million to DeepSky funding round
TAMPA, Fla. — Weather intelligence provider Tomorrow.io has added $35 million to its latest funding round, bringing the total to $210 million to accelerate development of a next-generation constellation for gathering atmospheric data. The…
Airtree CEO change marks VC's shift into the AI era
When Airtree Ventures appointed 37-year-old partner Elicia McDonald as its first chief executive last week, one of Australia's biggest and most influential venture capital firms was making an admission that the traditional model of tech investment…
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