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Corporates Are Getting Aggressive In AI Deals — Who Could Be Next?
Late last month, we took a look at the plethora of artificial intelligence funding deals some of the world’s biggest tech companies and their venture arms have been taking part in for the last several...
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Nothing Raises Something — $96M
Consumer tech developer Nothing locked up a $96 million funding round just about two weeks ahead of its new smartphone launch. The new round was led by Highland Europe, with participation from existing...
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Mid-Year Report: Who Could Still Go Public In 2023?
This article is Part Three of our Mid-Year Report on an eventful 2023 in tech, startups and venture capital. Part One took a look at data and trends over the last six months. Part Two shared survey...
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Makeup Unicorn Oddity’s IPO Comes As Beauty Funding Falters
Beauty is a pretty unattractive area for startup investors lately. So far this year, just over $300 million in venture funding went to the category, down more than 50% from the same period last year....
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Funding For Drone Delivery Startups Still Flying High Amid VC Downturn
Those who follow the startup world are accustomed to pitches about how our future lives will look. Sometimes it never pans out. Other times, shifts happen surprisingly fast. For consumer drone...
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Walmart Buys Out Tiger Global’s Flipkart Stake, Valuing Startup at $35B
Retail giant Walmart bought out Tiger Global Management’s remaining stake in India-based startup Flipkart in a deal that values the e-commerce decacorn at $35 billion. That valuation is down from the...
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China’s Early-Stage Funding Softens
Venture funding in Asia dropped 44% in the second quarter of 2023, but surprisingly, the decline was not directly related to a pullback by investors in Chinese startups, as might be expected. With...
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These Funded Startups Want To Make Fashion Less Wasteful
A couple generations ago, mending clothes was something families commonly did. We put patches on ripped pants, sewed up sweaters for another season, and even fixed sock holes. Today, you’d be...
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Food Investors Bet On Healthy, Convenient, Fermented And Highly Caffeinated
Food and beverage startups broadly fall into two categories: old standbys and avant garde experiments. The first group consists of companies making new-and-improved versions of things we already enjoy,...
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From Construction To AI Diagnostics, Here Are 5 Areas Where Seed Investors...
Predicting the future — once the realm of crystal balls and tea leaves — is now a full-fledged profession. Hundreds of professional futurists now work in government, academia and other sectors,...
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