Toxic investors often propose unfavorable contract terms that can harm the startup鈥檚 long-term prospects. In this guest commentary venture investor...
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While the fourth quarter showed a little resilience 鈥� bouncing back after a slow Q3 鈥� the Asia venture market has proven a bumpy, if not entirely...
Startups that launched and scaled with a focus on aiding workplace diversity, equity and inclusion efforts a few years ago haven鈥檛 been heavy...
After a frenetic first couple of weeks as far as big rounds go, this week was quieter than a library. Only one round of more than $100 million was...
Even as overall seed-stage investment declined in 2024, a few areas saw big gains. This includes the obvious category 鈥� AI 鈥� as well as a subset of...
While most of the talk about the White House鈥檚 new Stargate Project centered on the three big tech names 鈥� OpenAI, SoftBank and Oracle 鈥� Abu Dhabi...
Last column, we took a look at the massive amount of cash that went to artificial intelligence-related startups, but who is putting that cash into...
U.S. seed-stage investment actually declined a bit last year, particularly in a handful of industries including several beset by disappointing...
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Competitors Anthropic and OpenAI continue to refuse to take a back seat to each other when it comes to headline-grabbing news. We take a look at what...
There has been some seed-stage shape-shifting in recent years. We take a look and find that those early-stage funding deals, on average, are getting...
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While last year wasn鈥檛 the cascade of M&A activity many had wished for (and certainly the IPO pipeline never unfroze), it did provide some hope. Deal...
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