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Corporate Venture Capital Is Splitting In Two
Last month, PayPal confirmed its wind down of PayPal Ventures, the corporate venture arm it launched in 2016 and grew to more than $850 million across three funds. The company hired Jefferies to explore selling portfolio stakes on the secondary…
The dark side of prediction markets is getting even darker
Gambling has become legal in nearly every U.S. state. Whether it is buying lottery tickets, loading money into video slot machines, playing casino games like blackjack, craps or roulette, or betting on sports, opportunities to wager on events with…
Risk Ledger Raises New Funding To Target US Cyber Security Market
Supply chain cyber risk is a growing threat to organizations worldwide When Tata Electronics suffered a devastating cyber attack last month, it wasn't only the Indian company that was exposed. The attackers also claimed to have obtained the trade…
Is The Focus Shifting To The Stack Above The Clouds?
Madhurima Manchala, Founder of Maps.ai and Early Stage Venture Capital Investor. The space economy is beginning to look less like a frontier and more like a vertically integrated technology stack. With my background in venture capital and…
OMAN'S US$5.2 BILLION FUTURE FUND UNVEILS US$1.744 BILLION IN PROJECTS
MUSCAT, Oman, July 15, 2026 /CNW/ -- Future Fund Oman (FFO), a portfolio of Oman Investment Authority (OIA), the Sultanate of Oman's sovereign wealth fund, has announced a new package of 105 strategic projects and investments worth USD 1.744…
Walden raises $300M, Yankees financing and FalconX buys bloXroute
• Walden Robotics, a Cambridge, Mass.-based robotics startup, raised a $300m round that values the company at $1.1b. Toyota and Deviation Capital co-led, joined by Nvidia, Boeing, AE Ventures, Samsung Ventures, Prologis Ventures, CoreWeave…
The Best Careers Are Built On Taking Risk, Not Hedging Your Bets
Bill Holodnak, CEO and Founder of Occam Global, an executive search and advisory firm focused on leadership across the innovation economy. There's a persistent belief that career success follows a rational path: work hard, make smart decisions and…
AI Co-Scientists Are Rewriting The Economics Of Deep Tech
Alexandra Vidyuk, CEO and founding partner, Beyond Earth Ventures | Senior advisor, Renaissance Philanthropy. For decades, the standard venture capital model has struggled with the realities of deep tech. Breakthroughs in materials science…
Kevin Ryan's AlleyCorp raises new $335 million fund, all in on early-stage bets
Kevin Ryan knows how to change his mind. Consider psychedelics: Ryan—often called “the Godfather of NYC Tech”—was once skeptical that psychedelics could be viable treatments for depression or PTSD. But in 2018, he read…
Toyota-Backed Startup Walden Robotics Comes Out of Stealth With $1.1 Billion Valuation
Walden Robotics, a startup working on humanoids that was spun out of a Toyota robotics research lab, has secured approximately $300 million in funding as it emerges from stealth with a valuation of $1.1 billion. The seed round was co-led by…
10 AI Careers For Fresh Graduates
Dr Lovi Raj Gupta, pro vice-chancellor, Lovely Professional University, explains how aspiring professionals can equip themselves for a competitive AI-driven job market. The global job market is hitting an inflection point, forcing a massive…
Rime picks up $24M Series A to help enterprises field customer calls
Voice AI startups' biggest unlock has been handling calls for enterprises in areas like sales, marketing, and customer support. Large organizations are offloading calls to voice model developers like ElevenLabs and Deepgram ; infrastructure…
Tech Layoffs: US Companies With Job Cuts In 2024, 2025 and 2026
The first couple weeks of July brought news of a plethora of tech layoffs, with most of them coming from companies that are not based in the U.S. but have sizable workforces here. Toronto-based Thomson Reuters led the list of companies not based in…
He sold his last company to Palantir. Now he's betting $32 million that robots can fix construction's labor crisis
Salar al Khafaji sold his last company, Silk, to Palantir in 2016. A week after he left, he knew he was going to build again. Al Khafaji landed on construction —an industry many in tech saw as a graveyard. “Most people told me it's a…
Inside Anthropic's state-by-state plan to ratchet up AI rules
Artificial intelligence giant Anthropic is pursuing a strategy of one-upmanship that encourages states to impose increasingly tougher AI guardrails, rather than align around a single set of regulations. The approach stands in stark contrast to the…
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