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  • Wednesday, 1 January, 2025
    Number of US venture capital firms falls as cash flows to tech’s top investors

    Risk-averse financial institutions concentrate money on biggest Silicon Valley VCs in trend that threatens smaller groups

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  • Wednesday, 1 January, 2025
    Chinese business & finance
    US investors in China venture funds race to comply with new tech rules

    Financial institutions rush to secure assurances their money is not being used to develop Chinese technology

    A person in protective clothing works on a semiconductor wafer in a production line. In the background, there is a gradient backdrop with the Chinese flag stars and a stack of US dollar bills.
  • Thursday, 19 December, 2024
    Business InsightRichard Waters
    Big bets on AI point to venture capital industry’s shift

    The strategy of focusing money on larger deals comes at time of extreme indigestion for start-up investors

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  • Wednesday, 18 December, 2024
    Technology sector
    Start-up Vultr hits $3.5bn valuation in funding frenzy for AI cloud groups

    Data centre operator raises $333mn from investors in bet that companies will look for alternatives to Microsoft and Google

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  • Tuesday, 17 December, 2024
    Databricks raises $10bn in the biggest US venture deal this year

    Investors in the AI and data analytics group include Thrive Capital, Andreessen Horowitz and Insight Partners

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  • Monday, 2 December, 2024
    Media
    Studio and VC firm backed by Rausing and Dorfman families launches with France’s Omar Sy

    Lumina raises funds to bypass Hollywood studios and back actor-led projects

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  • Thursday, 28 November, 2024
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    Kylie Jenner’s vodka seltzer deal signals China VC investor’s global push

    Neil Shen’s HongShan has struggled to invest its $9bn cash pile in a weak domestic market and tough US controls

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  • Wednesday, 27 November, 2024
    xAI
    Elon Musk’s Twitter backers gain windfall from xAI deal

    Investors hit by losses following billionaire’s takeover of social media platform reap rewards from shares in his AI start-up

    A montage of Elon Musk wearing sunglasses with xAI and X logos on the lenses standing in front of a red background with dollar bills and a Twitter logo
  • Friday, 22 November, 2024
    Private investing
    Tax rises drive surge in venture capital trust investment

    Savers have put £250mn in VCTs since April, up 27% in a year

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  • Friday, 22 November, 2024
    Due Diligence
    Thrive Capital: the real all-in VC fund Premium content

    Plus, Bank of America turbocharges finance’s risk transfer trade and Sotheby’s sells a $6mn banana

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  • Thursday, 21 November, 2024
    The Big Read
    Thrive Capital: the venture firm staking billions on a few big bets

    The ‘all in or all out’ approach of Josh Kushner’s VC business inverts the traditional venture model. Will it pay off?

    Josh Kushner, founder of Thrive Capital
  • Saturday, 16 November, 2024
    Wall street titans boost ambitious biotech fund

    Catalio Capital has survived choppy years in the sector and returned more than $300mn to its limited partners

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  • Saturday, 16 November, 2024
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    Tech investor Klaus Hommels targets defence start-ups in Europe

    Founder of VC firm Lakestar plans to use more than €100mn of his own money in push to build region’s resilience

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  • Friday, 15 November, 2024
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    Klarna’s Seb Siemiatkowski — from burger flipping to billionaire club

    Swedish entrepreneur born to Polish immigrants seeks to list the ‘buy now, pay later’ fintech in New York

    A montage of Sebastian Siemiatkowski, a Klarna bag and the Klarna logo
  • Tuesday, 12 November, 2024
    Donald Trump Jr.
    Donald Trump Jr sits out new administration to join VC firm

    President-elect’s eldest son chooses to be a partner with Tucker Carlson investor 1789 Capital

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  • Monday, 11 November, 2024
    Special ReportManaging Climate Change
    Transition to clean energy falters as green tech funding falls short

    Businesses that develop technology to lower emissions are grappling with higher borrowing costs that have stifled growth

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  • Tuesday, 29 October, 2024
    Artificial intelligence
    Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund leads $500mn fundraising for AI cloud group Crusoe

    Deal values infrastructure start-up at $3bn as it benefits from spending surge on generative AI

    Crusoe Energy founder Chase Lochmiller
  • Monday, 28 October, 2024
    Markets InsightFiona Murray
    Policymakers need a fresh approach on capital gains tax increases

    Governments should consider lower rates for investment activities that drive innovation

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  • Thursday, 24 October, 2024
    General Catalyst Partners
    Silicon Valley’s General Catalyst raises $8bn in global push

    New money is the largest sum raised by a venture capital firm in more than 2 years

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  • Monday, 21 October, 2024
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    Europe can still birth the occasional unicorn Premium content

    Revolut and Monzo show it is not all doom and gloom for European VC

    A close-up of a smartphone screen displaying the Revolut app with images of colourful Revolut cards. The phone is positioned on a spiral notebook
  • Monday, 21 October, 2024
    Perplexity
    AI search start-up Perplexity targets $8bn valuation in new funding round

    Investor frenzy over artificial intelligence continues after OpenAI valued at $150bn in latest fundraising

    The Perplexity AI logo displayed prominently on a screen, with the background showing a blurred image of a chair and table, suggesting a workspace setting
  • Tuesday, 15 October, 2024
    Tech start-ups
    Podcaster Stebbings raises one of Europe’s biggest venture funds

    British firm 20VC pulls in $400mn to invest in early stage tech start-ups

    Harry Stebbings
  • Monday, 7 October, 2024
    US funding drives investment for European military tech start-ups

    American venture capital funds have provided lion’s share of investment to nascent sector this year

    Defence tech start-up Helsing
  • Sunday, 6 October, 2024
    LexTech start-ups
    Why tech unicorns struggle to avoid the glue factory Premium content

    More companies are reaching the $1bn valuation milestone, but growing from horned foal to winged steed is getting tougher

    OpenAI’s Sam Altman
  • Saturday, 5 October, 2024
    US presidential election 2024
    Venture capitalist Ben Horowitz to make ‘significant’ donation to Harris

    Andreessen Horowitz co-founder previously backed Trump but will make personal contribution to Democratic candidate after Biden dropped out

    Ben Horowitz
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