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Collide Capital raises $95M fund to back fintech, future-of-work startups
Collide Capital, founded by Brian Hollins and Aaron Samuels, announced Thursday the close of a $95 million Fund II. The firm, founded in 2021, backs early-stage companies in fintech, supply chain, and the future of work. It's backed 75 companies to…
New Labor Department Rule is Trump's Latest Favor to the Crypto Industry
The U.S. Department of Labor has proposed a rule designed to make it harder to sue retirement plan fiduciaries that invest in risky, more volatile assets. The rule is also President Donald Trump's administration's latest giveaway to the Trump…
Exor Press Release - Png and Della Chiesa Nominations
EXOR NOMINATES TEMASEK CFO PNG CHIN YEE AND BENEDETTO DELLA CHIESA TO ITS BOARD Exor nominates Png Chin Yee and Benedetto Della Chiesa as non-executive members of its Board of Directors, subject to approval at the Company's next Annual General…
It's not just spyware scandals: EU is funding the industry that spies on Europeans
In February 2026, Greece sentenced four people to prison over the infamous ‘Predatorgate' espionage scandal that shook Greek democracy, and Europe in 2022. Spyware, an extremely potent technology that turns a personal device into a constant…
ARK Invest is betting on underdog drone delivery company Manna to beat out Alphabet and Zipline
Bobby Healy is at peace with his drone delivery enterprise being unsexy. “Think of us like a low-cost airline,” the Manna CEO told Fortune. That pitch just landed him $50 million. Manna, the Irish drone delivery startup, closed a…
Global Investors Help Boost Latin America's Late-Stage Funding Boom In Q1
A boom in late-stage and growth funding helped buoy venture funding in Latin America for the first quarter of 2026, Crunchbase data shows. Startups in Latin America raised a combined $1.03 billion across seed- and growth-stage deals in the…
Unilever Ventures Leads Mumbai-based Clayco's $4.1 Million Funding Round
Mumbai-based skin care brand Clayco has raised a $4.1 million series A funding round. The round was led by Unilever's corporate venture capital arm, Unilever Ventures, which previously invested $2 million in Clayco in 2024, shortly after the…
Trump's CFTC goes to war with states - to protect his family's business partners
In an unprecedented move, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced that it had filed lawsuits against several states to block their efforts to rein in prediction markets. Arizona, Connecticut, and Illinois have variously sought to…
Silicon Valley turns to new media to sell AI
Silicon Valley is embracing nontraditional media to sell its vision of technology as concerns mount over artificial intelligence's impact on the workforce, economy and environment. Tech and business leaders are turning to everything from podcasts…
How the math works on a $1.75 trillion SpaceX valuation
Elon Musk's SpaceX is seeking a $1.75 trillion valuation in its forthcoming initial public offering. How far into the stratosphere is that? SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Going by common Wall Street metrics, the answer is, way out there. SpaceX…
GIFT City fund ecosystem expands sharply; capital commitments cross $32 billion
The fund management ecosystem at GIFT City has recorded significant growth over the past five years, with total capital commitments rising to $32.13 billion as of December 2025 from less than $0.5 billion in March 2020. The increase marks nearly a…
SiFive raises $400 million from Atreides, Nvidia for data-center chip technology
SAN FRANCISCO, April 9: Silicon Valley startup SiFive said on Thursday it has raised a $400 million round of funding from Atreides Management, Nvidia and others to enter the booming market for data-center central processor chips. The round brings…
Exclusive: Radify's sci-fi plasma reactors could break China's dominance of rare earth elements
Rare earth elements might represent small slivers of the global metals market, but they're big sticks on the geopolitical stage, where China wields its considerable heft as a bargaining chip during trade disputes. Countries like the U.S. have…
Polygon raising funds, General Atlantic's $3B buy, and a semiconductor deal.
• Polygon Labs, a Cayman Islands-based blockchain developer, is in talks to raise $50m to $100m, per The Information. Go deeper • Q-Factor, an Israeli neutral atom quantum computing company, raised $24m in seed funding. NFX and TPY…
How the math works on a $1.75 trillion SpaceX valuation
Elon Musk's SpaceX is seeking a $1.75 trillion valuation in its forthcoming initial public offering. How far into the stratosphere is that? Going by common Wall Street metrics, the answer is, way out there. SpaceX would immediately become…
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