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Slovakia's Factories and Israel's Venture Capital Are a Natural Fit
Israel filed 15,180 patents in 2024 to Slovakia's 466, yet Slovakia runs one of Europe's strongest factory bases. Their ...
How a Mother's School-Run Problem Became Zum, a $1.7 Billion School Transport Startup
Ritu Narayan left eBay to build Zum, a tech-driven school bus platform now valued at $1.7 billion with $333 million in 2...
How a Former eBay Executive Built a $1.7 Billion School Transport Company
Zum says its route optimization cut one district's bus fleet from 236 to 193 and saved $3.5 million a year, fueling a pu...
Thrive Capital's Joshua Kushner Warns AI Euphoria Is Eroding Venture Discipline
Thrive Capital's first investor letter discloses $60bn in assets and a 41% gross IRR while its founder argues Silicon Va...
From Teenage Carpenter to AI Founder: The Trunk Tools Story
Sarah Buchner turned a construction career that began as a teenage carpenter into Trunk Tools, an AI startup helping con...
Private Equity: The Third Financing Route Behind Listed PE Firms
Private equity finances unlisted companies over multi-year horizons and outperformed broad stock markets from 2000 to 20...
Inside Israel's Scale-Up Machine: 9,000 Startups and Deep Nasdaq Links
Government R&D policy, school-level tech exposure and a small home market have made Israel one of the world's densest st...
How Israel Transformed from Emerging Market to a Global Scale-Up Nation
With over 9,000 startups, record funding, and the highest engineer density on earth, Israel's innovation ecosystem has f...
Monashees Opens San Francisco Office to Bridge LatAm Startups and AI Gold Rush
Latin American VC pioneer Monashees is planting a flag in Silicon Valley, aiming to connect LatAm founders with the AI f...
Aureka Biotechnologies Raises $100M to Advance Biological Foundation Models
Shanghai-based AI-native biotech Aureka has secured $100 million in a Series B round led by Granite Asia, bringing total...
How AI Is Killing the SaaS Playbook and Reshaping Venture Capital
AI is dismantling the old SaaS investment model, pushing venture capital toward enormous bets on winners and tiny cheque...
Skift Launches Quarterly Brief Charting $39.6B in Travel Deal Activity for H1
A new free report from Skift Research maps 242 deals, three take-privates, and a venture slump, with Asia-Pacific demand...
AI Dominates July Venture Capital Deals as Khosla, Y Combinator Lead Rankings
Khosla Ventures led the most new rounds while Y Combinator participated in the highest volume; Coatue’s $10 billion Blue...
Why Companies Are Staying Private Longer — And What It Means for Investors
The median age of U.S. companies at IPO has doubled since the late 1990s, with more firms choosing to remain private lon...
This VC swapped an intern for AI and cut his workloads — here's what he pays
A Singapore-based venture capitalist says a $120-a-month AI stack — chatbots, coding tools and custom agents — replaces ...
Polymarket Eyes $20 Billion Valuation in New Funding Round
The prediction market platform is reportedly seeking $1 billion at a $20 billion valuation, just months after a $15 bill...
Data Shows 94% of YC’s Repeat Founders Return Only Once; AI Enables Leaner Second Acts
Crunchbase News analysis of YC data shows repeat founders peak at 65 in 2025, most return exactly twice after an average...
Google AI Brain Drain: Hassabis Steps Down as CEO, Jeff Dean and Top Researchers Exit
Alphabet shares fell 4% after Demis Hassabis moved to chairman of DeepMind and chief scientist Jeff Dean announced he wa...
AI Strategy Can Destroy Startup Exit Value, M&A Adviser Warns
Strategic adviser Itay Sagie argues that rushed AI adoption can read as vendor dependency and integration risk to acquir...
Menlo Ventures Raises $3B for AI-Focused Funds in Its Biggest Fundraise Ever
The 50-year-old Silicon Valley firm is putting $3 billion behind a bet on AI's next phase, with a barbell strategy that ...
Benioff-Backed June Raises $20M to Automate Enterprise AI Deployment
Former Salesforce executives launch June with $20M from Marc Benioff's Time Ventures to automate the messy work of enter...
Horizon3 raises $250M at $2B valuation as AI-powered security testing demand grows
Horizon3 tripled its valuation in 14 months with a $250M Series E, as enterprises shift from annual pen testing to conti...
Nvidia's $5B Safe Superintelligence Bet Leads Week's Biggest Startup Funding Rounds
A reported $5 billion Nvidia investment in Safe Superintelligence headlined a week that saw roughly $8.2 billion raised ...
Where $5M–$10M Seed Rounds Are Clustering: Proptech, Cancer Biotech, Space and Robotics
A Crunchbase analysis of about 800 seed financings finds $5M–$10M rounds clustering in proptech, cancer therapeutics, sp...
Teen AI Founders Have More Money Than Ever — and Less Room to Fail
AI tools let founders start companies in their teens, but investors now demand growth in months, not years — and every s...
Fusion's best-funded firm raises another $1bn, hires the banker behind Moderna's IPO
Commonwealth Fusion Systems has raised another $1 billion — roughly 30% of all fusion investment ever — and hired Modern...
DataBahn raises $40M to sell the data 'plumbing' AI agents depend on
Texas startup DataBahn has raised a $40M Series B to sell a neutral data layer for AI agents — betting enterprises need ...
Monaco Forum Shifts Blue Finance From Conviction to Market Building
The second Blue Economy and Finance Forum in Monaco moved beyond proving the ocean is investable, focusing instead on th...
Turkey's TKYB Posts 31% Profit Surge, Locks in €650M for Green and SME Projects
State development bank's H1 net profit rises 31% to over TRY 5 bn; NPL ratio at 0.52%; €650M in new international credit...
Germany's Startup Funding Rises 14% but €30bn Annual Gap Leaves Tech Sector Behind
Chancellor Merz touts record startup numbers, yet new data shows German tech is failing to match the global AI boom, wit...