Google CEO denies offering to buy a startup for $600 million that later went up in flames
Google CEO Sundar Pichai testified briefly Friday at the federal financial conspiracy trial surrounding buzz-to-bust startup Ozy Media, countering founder Carlos…
I Spent a Week Eating Discarded Restaurant Food. But Was It Really Going to Waste?
It’s 10 pm on a Wednesday night and I’m standing in Blessed, a south London takeaway joint, half-listening to a…
At least 35 of America’s billionaires are Ph.D.s. As academic jobs become scarce, doctorates should get down to business
Samantha Dewalt is managing director of the Lehigh@NasdaqCenter, an exclusive education-industry partnership between Lehigh University in Pennsylvania and the Nasdaq…
Deal Dive: VCs are no longer gunshy about firearm startups
Kai Kloepfer started biometric “smart” gun startup Biofire as a science fair project after the Aurora, Colorado, mass shooting in…
As Iran-backed groups attack Red Sea ships, investors are backing startups assisting global cargo
Multiple shocks to global supply chains brought about first by the pandemic and more recently by Iran-backed Houthis targeting cargo…
Here are the fintech startups that could go public in 2024
Could 2024 be the year for fintech IPOs? Quite possibly, according to F-Prime Capital’s State of Fintech 2024 report. F-Prime…
Zero interest-rate babies are facing their day of reckoning. It’s time this generation of startups learns how to fly
A decade of low interest rates and cheap capital birthed a startup generation of “zero interest-rate babies.” Now that rising…
Speedinvest closes fourth fund at $380 million to back early-stage startups in Europe
Vienna-based early-stage VC Speedinvest has closed its fourth early-stage fund, Speedinvest 4, at €350 million (around $380 million at today’s…
Branson backed VC firm raises £250M to back technology start-ups
A venture capital firm backed by Sir Richard Branson has raised $250 million to invest in technology businesses in Britain,…
Startups must strategize and budget for AI-assisted software development in 2024
Of all enterprise departments, product and engineering spend by far the most on AI technology. Doing so effectively stands to…
