IT総合 Latin America fintech will be a market to watch in 2025
Heading into 2024, Mike Packer, a partner at fintech-focused QED Investors, predicted we’d hit the bottom for fund...
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IT総合 IT総合 Sequoia marks up its 2020 fund by 25%
Sequoia says no exits, no problem. The Silicon Valley titan of venture marked up the value of its 2020 Sequoia Capital U...
IT総合 FTX CTO Gary Wang avoids prison time
Not every former top FTX executive is heading to prison. Gary Wang, former FTX chief technical officer, was spared priso...
IT総合 Physical AI startup BrightAI bootstraps to $80m in revenue
When Alex Hawkinson was the CEO of SmartThings, the consumer-focused connected devices company he co-founded and sold to...
IT総合 In 2023 VCs returned the lowest level of capital to their investors since 2011
It’s no secret that the venture capital industry is facing a liquidity crisis as IPOs and other exits remain few a...
IT総合 Here’s the full list of 44 US AI startups that have raised $100M or more in 2024
In the first half of 2024 alone, more than $35.5 billion was invested into AI startups globally.
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IT総合 Sales tax automation startup Kintsugi doubled its valuation this year
A 2018 Supreme Court ruling eliminated the requirement that an e-commerce retailer needed a physical location in a state...
IT総合 Brazilian fintech Tako emerges from stealth with sizable seed round led by a16z and Ribbit Capital
Running payroll is hard in any country, but perhaps especially so in Brazil thanks to consistently changing laws and ext...
IT総合 Ulysses is using robots to restore seagrass populations
Seagrass punches above its weight. The marine plant only occupies 0.1% of the ocean floor but can be credited with suppo...
IT総合 MoradaUno wants to make it easier to rent apartments in Mexico
Renting in Latin America is restrictive. Most landlords require three months of rent as a deposit and a guarantor that o...
IT総合 Nodal connects hopeful parents with surrogates as reproductive freedom hangs in limbo
Many people who want to have children can’t, or shouldn’t, carry a pregnancy for a variety of reasons. Gesta...
IT総合 Bowery Farming is ceasing operations
Agtech unicorn Bowery Farming is shutting down, according to PitchBook, which cited internal documents and multiple comp...
IT総合 Founders should seek sector alignment when looking for a family office investor
Family offices invest a substantial amount of capital in startups each year. In the first half of 2023, 27% of overall s...
IT総合 The Chainsmokers want to bring a different kind of value add to B2B companies
The potential value a celebrity investor can bring to a consumer company, beyond just writing a check, is obvious: marke...
IT総合 Former Caribou founder launches Further, a fintech that’s focused on helping people buy homes
Buying a home has always been complicated. You have to figure out how much money to put down and how that down payment w...
IT総合 Buddy.ai is using AI and gaming to help children learn English as a second language
In 2014, Ivan Crewkov moved his family from Serbia to the U.S. as his startup, Cubic.AI, was preparing to launch a Kicks...
IT総合 Actor and director Olivia Wilde launches a VC firm
Actor and director Olivia Wilde, famous for in “Tron: Legacy” and “Don’t Worry Darling,” q...
IT総合 NASDAQ CEO Adena Friedman isn’t surprised we haven’t seen a resurgence in startup IPOs yet
While many venture investors, and likely their LPs, were hoping IPOs were going to come back in 2024, that has...
IT総合 Lumen Orbit closed one of the biggest rounds from Y Combinator’s last cohort
Lumen Orbit has closed an oversubscribed, eight-figure seed round of more than $10 million, making it one of, if not the...
IT総合 Bessemer, Index, and a16z alum launch VC firm Chemistry
New VC firm Chemistry raised $350 million for its debut fund, Forbes reported on Wednesday. The firm was launched by Mar...
IT総合 Promise Bio exits stealth backed by Pfizer and AstraZeneca
The first thing Promise Bio CEO Ronel Veksler wants you to know about the biotech company he co-founded, is that it̵...
IT総合 Ro CEO Zachariah Reitano says the benefits of being a private company are growing
Ro co-founder and CEO Zachariah Reitano said while he’d “never say never” about potentially taking the...
IT総合 Paccurate helps companies ship in smaller boxes, saving them money while helping the earth
Paccurate co-founder and CEO James Malley likes to joke that once you get into supply chain tech, the category doesnR...
IT総合 Uprise wants to help small businesses make better financial decisions
Small business creation has been on the rise in the U.S. since the pandemic. There are a lot of tech tools designed to h...
IT総合 Acrew Capital hits five years, raises $700m
Acrew Capital has raised $700 million in fresh funds. The San Francisco-based venture capital firm announced in a blog p...
IT総合 Eclipse opens an NYC office with plans to bolster its presence on the East Coast
After nearly a decade, industrials-focused VC Eclipse expanded out of Silicon Valley. The firm opened its second office ...
IT総合 How Paladin’s drones helped Asheville during Hurricane Helene
When Hurricane Helene hit Asheville, North Carolina in September, the city’s police department reached out to...
IT総合 Data center tech is exploding but adoption won’t be easy for startups
The data center industry is expanding rapidly to keep up with the flywheel growth of AI. While these data centers are ne...
IT総合 Here’s the full list of 39 US AI startups that have raised $100M or more in 2024
In the first half of 2024 alone, more than $35.5 billion was invested into AI startups globally.
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IT総合 Venture studio Diagram expands into climate tech with oversubscribed fund
Eight-year-old Diagram is expanding its startup incubator model into climate. The Montreal-based venture studio, which l...