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Tech start-ups

  • Thursday, 3 October, 2024
    John Thornhill
    The conflicted investment case for defence tech

    There’s a bull market for the fast-changing sector but investing and innovating in weapons carries risks

    A Ukrainian drone operator watches as artillery strikes Russian positions.
  • Wednesday, 2 October, 2024
    Character.ai abandons making AI models after $2.7bn Google deal

    AI start-up’s new chief says race to build large language models against Big Tech got ‘insanely expensive’

    Character.ai website
  • Wednesday, 2 October, 2024
    Africa
    Call for entries: Africa’s Fastest Growing Companies 2025

    Apply now to be considered for our fourth annual ranking of high-growth businesses on the continent

  • Monday, 30 September, 2024
    OpenAI
    SoftBank to invest $500mn in OpenAI

    Japanese group led by Masayoshi Son set to join $6.5bn funding round that would value start-up at $150bn

    Sam Altman
  • Friday, 27 September, 2024
    Artificial intelligence
    AI start-ups generate money faster than past hyped tech companies

    New data from payments group Stripe suggest artificial intelligence groups are making revenues at an unprecedented rate

    Combination montage of chart lines going up, a computer and money.
  • Thursday, 26 September, 2024
    News in-depthIndustrial espionage
    How a Chinese billionaire’s Silicon Valley splurge caught the eye of the FBI

    Shan Xiangshuang’s $10bn buyout group quietly became a top US tech investor. That has triggered official concern

    A composite image of Shan Xiangshuang, an aerial photo of Silicon Valley and the FBI crest
  • Wednesday, 25 September, 2024
    Industrial espionage
    FBI probes whether Silicon Valley venture firm passed secrets to China

    Hone Capital became one of the most prolific early investors in US tech start-ups

    Montage of FBI, Hone Capital and CSC Group logos
  • Friday, 20 September, 2024
    News in-depthOpenAI
    Investors pile into OpenAI’s $6bn funding round in unprecedented bet

    Venture groups believe ChatGPT-maker will eventually be the world’s dominant AI company and worth trillions of dollars

    Montage featuring OpenAI chief Sam Altman and the logos of OpenAI and Thrive Capital
  • Sunday, 15 September, 2024
    Venture capital investment
    Insight Partners closes in on $10bn fund as venture deals pick up

    Tech investors cautiously return to market that has been battered over past two years

    A smartphone displaying the logo of Insight Partners in front of a background of fluctuating stock market data on a screen.
  • Sunday, 15 September, 2024
    Venture capital investment
    European tech investment group targets €600mn for debut fund

    Noteus set up by former Eurazeo team to back start-ups as tech investment recovers

    Yann du Rusquec, Noteus chief executive
  • Thursday, 12 September, 2024
    John Thornhill
    The surprising truth about failure in business

    Not everyone learns from things going wrong but progress depends upon it

    Sam Bankman-Fried
  • Thursday, 12 September, 2024
    The Big Read
    How China has ‘throttled’ its private sector

    Venture capital finance has dried up amid political and economic pressures, prompting a dramatic fall in new company formation

    Pony Ma, Jack Ma, Neil Shen, Shanghai skyline and Chinese flag
  • Wednesday, 11 September, 2024
    OpenAI
    OpenAI aims to raise at least $5bn at $150bn valuation

    ChatGPT maker’s value set to nearly double as it seeks more investment to fund ambitious expansion

    OpenAI logo in front of a computer keyboard
  • Sunday, 8 September, 2024
    ICONIQ Capital LLC
    Zuckerberg-backed Iconiq seeks new ways to cash in on start-ups amid IPO drought

    Investment group that acts as family office of top entrepreneurs bets on M&A and secondary markets

    Iconiq partners Seth Pierrepont (left) and Matt Jacobson
  • Thursday, 5 September, 2024
    Business InsightRichard Waters
    AI start-up hopes contrast with pullback in hype for listed stocks

    Volatility looks like becoming the new reality in the sector on public markets

    OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever
  • Wednesday, 4 September, 2024
    Masters in Management
    Business schools target a fair start for women in start-ups

    Masters in management are readying aspiring female entrepreneurs to overcome barriers and biases

    A young woman with a veil touches the tablet which is placed on a lit-up table
  • Sunday, 25 August, 2024
    Start-up incubator Y Combinator backs its first weapons firm

    Investment in maker of ‘low-cost cruise missiles’ a sign of Silicon Valley’s shifting stance towards the arms industry

    The USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier in the Pacific
  • Tuesday, 20 August, 2024
    Americas companies
    Call for entries: The Americas’ Fastest Growing Companies 2025

    Apply for a place in the sixth annual FT ranking of companies in north, central and South America

  • Monday, 19 August, 2024
    Start-up failures rise 60% as founders face hangover from boom years

    Private company shutdowns jump compared with last year despite AI funding frenzy, threatening millions of jobs at VC-backed firms

    Trucks on a motorway
  • Sunday, 18 August, 2024
    Artificial intelligence
    Biggest US companies warn of growing AI risk

    Study finds more than half of Fortune 500 groups cited new technology as a potential hazard in their latest annual reports

    Members of the SAG-AFTRA screen actors guild protest with signs including ‘Human Writers Only’ in Los Angeles, California
  • Wednesday, 14 August, 2024
    Venture capital investment
    Radical Ventures raises nearly $800mn to focus on AI

    Early backer of artificial intelligence pioneers has raised largest fund of its kind

    Radical ventures logo
  • Wednesday, 14 August, 2024
    Artificial intelligence
    Big Tech’s talent raids on AI start-ups sideline early investors

    Early exits for hotly-tipped companies including Inflection and Character. AI highlight challenge for founders as costs rise

    Montage of logos for various AI companies
  • Monday, 12 August, 2024
    Venture capital investment
    Revolut backer Balderton raises $1.3bn for European tech start-ups

    VC funding points to capital returning to Europe as interest in region grows

    Balderton partners Bernard Liautaud and Suranga Chandratillake
  • Sunday, 11 August, 2024
    British Business Bank Plc
    Dozens of UK start-ups helped by taxpayer-funded loans in pandemic face closure

    Future Fund scheme run by the British Business Bank issued 1,190 companies with convertible loans worth £1.14bn

    British Business Bank logo
  • Saturday, 10 August, 2024
    OpenAI
    Where have OpenAI’s founders gone?

    Only two of 11 co-founders of ChatGPT maker are still active at the $86bn company after a series of exits this year

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