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| Dec 1, 2025 | Used by Adobe, Canva and Meta, Germany’s Black Forest Labs lands €258 million to scale its visual-AI platform | Freigburg-based Black Forest Labs, the visual intelligence company behind FLUX, today announced a €258 million ($300 million) Series B in order to accelerate research and development, hiring, and infrastructure efforts as the team advances ... |
| Nov 24, 2025 | AI super PAC launches $10 million campaign pushing ‘uniform’ national policy | An AI industry super PAC is launching a $10 million campaign to push Congress to craft a national AI policy.
President Donald Trump’s White House and federal lawmakers are working on bill language to prevent states from enacting certain AI ... |
| Jun 9, 2025 | BET Awards to celebrate 25th anniversary with major star power from Kendrick Lamar to Mariah Carey | Who else is nominated?
Doechii, Drake, Future and GloRilla tied for the second-most nominations with six. Metro Boomin pulled in five nods, while SZA and The Weeknd each scored four. Who are the show’s performers?
Rap icon Lil Wayne, rapper... |
| May 14, 2025 | Sony racks up record profit on robust performance for music, movies and games | One area that lagged among Sony’s sprawling businesses was the financial segment, where revenue stalled. But its film division and its imaging and sensor solutions segment did well.
Sony officials said they were studying how to respond to P... |
| Apr 24, 2025 | The Capitalist: Next Pope odds, ChatGPT etiquette and miserable Brits | Next Pope odds, ChatGPT etiquette and miserable Brits; catch up on the latest City gossip in this week’s edition of The Capitalist
If you thought the death of the Pope was of no consequence in this godless City, think again. It may not have... |
| Apr 21, 2025 | Saying 'Please' and 'Thank You' to ChatGPT Costs OpenAI 'Tens of Millions of Dollars' It's more environmentally friendly (and cost-efficient) to skip the niceties. | It costs millions of dollars to be polite to AI.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman confirmed last week that OpenAI's electricity bill is "tens of millions of dollars" higher due to people being polite to ChatGPT.
Last week, an X user posted: ... |
| Feb 3, 2025 | The Rise of Global Icons: Jisoo and Tems Illuminate the Music Scene | In the world of music, the spotlight often shines brightest on those who dare to step into the unknown. Two artists, Jisoo from Blackpink and Tems from Nigeria, are making waves, each carving their own path in the industry. Their recent ach... |
| Feb 3, 2025 | Grammy 2025: Tems wins ‘Best African music performance’ with Love Me Jeje | At the 67th Annual Grammy Awards 2025, Nigerian singer Temilade Openiyi, known as Tems, secured her second Grammy, winning Best African Music Performance for her song Love Me JeJe.
In a heartfelt acceptance speech, Tems expressed gratitude ... |
| Nov 8, 2024 | Entertainment | Beyoncé leads the 2025 Grammy noms, becoming the most nominated artist in the show’s history | FILE – A view of a Grammy statue appears in the press room at the 65th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 5, 2023, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)
Malone is just behind Beyoncé, with seven nominations, tied with Billie Eilish... |
| Jul 30, 2024 | The Rise of SLANG: A New Era in Music Management | In the bustling heart of New York, a new label is making waves. SLANG, an independent front line label, has emerged from the creative mind of Rene McLean. This isn’t just another label; it’s a bold statement in the ever-evolving music indus... |
| Jul 24, 2024 | INFLUENCE MEDIA PARTNERS & MUSIC INDUSTRY MAVERICK RENE MCLEAN ANNOUNCE NEW FRONT LINE LABEL SLANG | Roster includes four-time GRAMMY and Academy Award winning mega star Will Smith, GRAMMY winning multi-platinum producer Camper, GRAMMY winning RIAA certified diamond producer 30Roc, Leaf, Underachievers, Isaia Huron, and more
NEW YORK, July... |
| Aug 16, 2023 | OpenAI acquires startup founded by ex-Instagram talent for undisclosed sum | Head over to our on-demand library to view sessions from VB Transform 2023. Register Here
OpenAI is making more moves. The company behind ChatGPT and Dall-E 2 just announced it has acquired Global Illumination, Inc., a New York City-based s... |
| Jul 10, 2023 | You don’t need VC to develop a consumer tech product | Tom Okman Contributor
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Tom Okman is the co-CEO and co-founder of Nord Security, a global leader in internet privacy and security solutions and the company behind NordVPN.
For the last decade, scoring a big round of venture c... |
| Jun 14, 2023 | The First Principles of Executive Hiring | How do you scale from a scrappy, early-stage startup with a handful of employees to a growth-stage company with hundreds, or even thousands, of employees? Hire the right executives. These first principles lay the foundation for making those... |
| May 22, 2023 | The Rise of the Composable CDP | In our popular post on emerging data infrastructure, we highlighted technologies that have led to a new wave of data-stack investments. These stacks represent the culmination of a number of trends in the industry, including the migration fr... |
| Apr 26, 2023 | Investing in Orbital Therapeutics | “The fact that proteins are not synthesized directly on genes demands the existence of an intermediate information carrier…which receives genetic information from the gene in the form of an unstable intermediate…a special type of RNA molecu... |
| Mar 23, 2023 | The Future of Ecommerce: How a Product Becomes a Purchase
Phase 1: Discovery
Phase 2: Conversion
Phase 3: Returns and Resale | General Partner Connie Chan on how leading brands are using AI and other technology to combine the serendipitous discovery of offline shopping with the infinite options of online shopping.
Today, most of the Western world revolves around s... |
| Feb 14, 2023 | Doing More with Moore: Biotech’s Tech Moment | Eroom’s Law (the backwards Moore) is the often cited, and arguably inaccurate, observation that drug discovery gets slower and more expensive over time. It’s certainly a slog, but R&D efforts have yielded 378 new FDA-approved drugs betw... |
| Feb 1, 2023 | The Price Isn’t Right: 3 Pricing and Packaging Pitfalls to Avoid | We’ve previously discussed some common issues around pricing and tips for bottom up pricing and packaging, but growth-stage companies often encounter less obvious problems when structuring product packages and pricing models as they scale. ... |
| Jan 30, 2023 | Longevity Startup VitaDAO Raises $4.1m, Backed By Pfizer, Balaji Srinivasan | VitaDAO is developing drug assets as IP-NFTs VitaDAO, scientific illustration by Dani Bergey |
| Jan 22, 2023 | Dataiku Announces $200 Million Investment
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Dataiku announces $200 Million Series F funding — read the full announcement here.
“Enterprises overwhelmingly understand that now is the time to embrace AI —or risk falling behind,” said Florian Douetteau, co-founder and ...... | Dataiku announces $200 Million Series F funding — read the full announcement here.
“Enterprises overwhelmingly understand that now is the time to embrace AI —or risk falling behind,” said Florian Douetteau, co-founder and CEO of Dataiku.
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| Dec 13, 2022 | Dataiku Announced a $200 Million Series F funding at a $3.7 billion valuation | The Series F investment brings Dataiku’s total primary funding since inception to approximately $600 million. This latest investment reinforces Dataiku’s leadership position and will help accelerate its platform capabilities and prepare the... |
| Dec 13, 2022 | Selling to SMBs, a Founder’s Playbook | The 2010s era of VC-backed healthtech was largely an enterprise game, with most founders pursuing large payors, hospital systems, or jumbo employers as customers. This was because enterprises were the customers with enough budget and IT sop... |
| Dec 1, 2022 | Andreessen Horowitz's buzzy tech publication Future is shutting down | This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
Future was the next big thing in media.
Launched in June of 2021, it was billed as a buzzy new tech publication from prestigious venture ca... |
| Nov 29, 2022 | Your First Biotech BD Hire | Now more than ever, business development is top of mind for biotech founders. Scientific collaborations have always been an essential piece of the drug development ecosystem, enabling small biotech companies to accelerate and maximize the i... |
| Nov 4, 2022 | Andreessen Horowitz is 'betting heavily' on edtech for the next decade, says general partner Katherine Boyle. Here's why. | Katherine Boyle is a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Andreessen Horowitz This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
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| Oct 31, 2022 | Partner Bank Compliance and the Impact on Fintech (October 2022 Fintech Newsletter) | This first appeared in the monthly a16z fintech newsletter. Subscribe to stay on top of the latest fintech news.
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Partner Bank Compliance and the Impact on Fintech
Last month, Bancorp Bank, a U.S. bank that commonly part... |
| Oct 26, 2022 | DeFi Must Be Defended | As the crypto policy world debates the future of stablecoins and the legal culpability of decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) governance voters, don’t sleep on the Digital Commodities Consumer Protection Act (DCCPA). The bipartisan ... |
| Oct 24, 2022 | Apex Space takes on satellite bus ‘bottleneck’ with seed round led by a16z | Apex Space, a startup that aims to transform satellite bus manufacturing, emerged from stealth Monday with a $7.5 million seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz.
The Los Angeles-based company has set its sights on the satellite bus — the par... |
| Oct 14, 2022 | Morgan Stanley CEO James Gorman says there's about to be a "washout" of fintech valuations and a wave of consolidation. Here's how the bank is thinking about potential deals. | Morgan Stanley CEO James Gorman. REUTERS/Aaron P. Bernstein/File Photo This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
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| Oct 4, 2022 | I binge-listened to tech podcasts for a week, and what I learned about Silicon Valley is kind of scary | This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
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Recently I volunteered to listen to as many podcasts about tech investing and venture capital as my soul could handle. Which was... |
| Sep 8, 2022 | Who will survive the fintech winter of 2022? | As a financial technologist specializing in mortgage since long before “fintech” was a thing, I appreciate how tough market cycles force us to focus.
For some individuals and companies, this is your first mortgage down cycle. For others, it... |
| Sep 7, 2022 | Foundations for Successful Fintech Infrastructure (and Several Tradeoffs to Consider) | Over the past several years, the field of fintech infrastructure has exploded with venture capital investment and entrepreneurial attention. Between the emergence of Stripe, Plaid, and other category-defining decacorns; the continued launch... |
| Sep 7, 2022 | Lawyers, Legislators And Labels: What Is ‘Crypto’ Anyway? | Lee Reiners, the executive director of the Global Financial Markets Center at Duke Law School, has a firm line on digital financial services. The former regulator is of the general opinion that the crypto boom of recent memory had more to d... |
| Sep 1, 2022 | To reach fintech’s next level, infrastructure providers must address these pain points | Laura Spiekerman Contributor
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Laura Spiekerman is the co-founder and chief revenue officer of Alloy, an identity-decisioning platform for banks and fintech companies.
We’ve all seen the headlines: Fintech is struggling. Sinc... |
| Aug 22, 2022 | Как ИИ-копирайтеры меняют SEO | Хотя ИИ-копирайтинг постепенно развивался уже несколько лет, до недавнего времени результаты были недостаточно хороши, чтобы воспринимать их всерьез. Лишь сейчас мы начинаем видеть последствия того, что компании массово используют письменны... |
| Aug 22, 2022 | Зачем разработчики создают сразу несколько сторонних проектов | За последние два года Стоукс создал и запустил восемь крошечных интернет-бизнесов — от приложений до сайтов. И хоть большинство из них провалились, вместе всех их можно считать ramen profitable («на лапшу хватает») — прибыли от них было дос... |
| Aug 15, 2022 | FS Weekly 45: How to define your priorities after product/market fit + other readings | Entrepreneurship, Technology, and Society | 15 August 2022 | No. 45
Hi there: I'm Ruhul. I convene Future Startup Weekly to help you understand entrepreneurship and the technology landscape in Bangladesh and beyond. If you enjoy this, feel... |
| Aug 12, 2022 | The Best Leaders Turn Crisis Into Opportunity | Chris is CEO of Tercera, founder and former CEO of Appirio, and a serial entrepreneur with 25+ years of tech experience. |
| Jul 28, 2022 | How to close biopharma’s data science and engineering skills gap | In biopharma research and development, laboratory data now exist in petabytes. Today’s fastest liquid-handling robots can dispense samples into 384 wells in a matter of seconds. Vaccines, which have traditionally been grown in eggs or cell ... |
| Jun 27, 2022 | Introducing Future of Work Week | Since graduating from the University of Michigan in 2021, Chase Chapman hasn’t taken the traditional employment route. Instead of going into a corporate or nonprofit job, she’s been a member of decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) ... |
| Jun 24, 2022 | In Defense of Pay-as-You-Go | Down markets can underscore the volatility of fintech companies with pay-as-you-go pricing, but these companies align cost and value for a low barrier to adoption, fast and high rates of expansion, and strong customer retention.
The domina... |
| Jun 2, 2022 | What connects the stock market contraction to startup valuations? | Daniel Faloppa Contributor
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Daniel Faloppa founded Equidam after completing his M.Sc. in Finance and Investments at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, with the goal of making valuations less problematic for ... |
| Jun 2, 2022 | What Founders Should Know About Raising Debt (May 2022 Fintech Newsletter) | This first appeared in the monthly a16z fintech newsletter. Subscribe to stay on top of the latest fintech news.
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What Founders Should Know About Raising Debt
For fintech lending companies, capital is akin to inventory, ... |
| Jun 1, 2022 | Payvidors, Unbundled: Opportunities in Healthcare Fintech | There’s long been chatter about the analogies between financial services and healthcare. Both are massive, regulated markets with technological adoption challenges, legacy oligopolies, and tons of customer pain – and even fear! Both exhibit... |
| Jul 10, 2021 | Trillion-dollar horses, surfeit funding rounds and Future’s future | Welcome back to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s inspired by what the weekday Exchange column digs into, but free, and made for your weekend reading. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here.... |
| The 27 most promising consumer startups of 2022, according to VCs | Redpoint Ventures/Greylock/Kleiner Perkins/Menlo Ventures/Insider This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
We asked top venture capitalists to name the most promising consumer star... |
| Analyst Take: Turbulent economy hurts fintech funding—here’s how startups can act | Fintech funding continued its downward spiral in the second quarter—and gave no indication of bottoming out. Fintechs must hunker down, trim fat from their operations, and refocus on their core value propositions.
In the short term, fintech... |
| 10 rising-star consumer companies that VCs say are the ones to watch | Prose; Charlotte; Nutrafol; Our Place; Marianne Ayala/Insider This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
Each startup on this list has raised $90 million or less in VC funding.
VCs a... |
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Overture VC’s Shomik Dutta on Investing in Climate Change Technology | On this episode of the LA Venture podcast, Shomik Dutta, co-founder and managing partner of Overture VC, talks about how his firm is tackling climate change.
Before moving into the venture capital world, Dutta was invested in politics. Much... |
| 50 consumer startups that have raised millions from VCs over the years, including Shein, Juul, and Gopuff | Course Hero; GOAT; OfferUp; Instacart; SHEIN; Turo; StockX; Rachel Mendelson/Insider This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
These 50 companies that sell products to consumers hav... |
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| VCs are placing their bets and dollars on digital marketplaces over direct-to-consumer brands. Here's why. | Thiago Prudencio/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
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