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Arch Venture Partners storms to almost $3bn for biggest-ever fund in rapid capital raising return

Biotech investment specialist Arch Venture Partners has raced to almost $3bn for the final close of its biggest fund yetSorry, you need to subscribe...

Shore Capital passes $3bn AUM by closing second food and beverage fund

Microcap investor Shore Capital Partners has hauled in almost $300m for the final close of its second dedicated food anSorry, you need to subscribe to...

Sycamore Partners buys early years education franchiser Goddard Systems

Retail and consumer-focused private equity house Sycamore Partners has bought the owner of education franchise The GoddaSorry, you need to subscribe to read this...

Ugly Quarter for Crypto and Tech Stocks Ends; No Joy for Ron Johnson

Tonight we’re closing the books on the second quarter of 2022, a period no one is likely to mourn. The stock market’s slide turned...

Coatue-Backed Shopping Startup Lays Off 20% of Staff After Exaggerating Tech Capabilities to Potential Investors

Shopping startup Nate, which touted its use of artificial intelligence–powered checkout technology while it was actually relying on overseas workers to power transactions, has...

Layoffs at Unity and Niantic; Croquet.io’s Web-First Metaverse Vision

Forget the euphemistic term “belt-tightening.” News yesterday of layoffs at Unity and Niantic, affecting around 4% and 8% of their respective workforces, has demonstrated...

Bloomberg VC Arm Adds $150 Million to Investing War Chest

Roy Bahat, head of venture firm Bloomberg Beta, has a sticker on his laptop that reads TTFM—a quippy acronym for “take the f–ing money.” It’s...

Sequoia Capital Reportedly Raising 2 New Funds Despite Chilling VC Climate

Maybe the good times aren’t over. Sequoia Capital—which has invested in some of the biggest names in the startup world, from Apple to Instacart—is raising...

Mid-year Recap: Web3 and Science Collide

Scientists have acknowledged for years that there are large structural problems in science: the funding system is dysfunctional, results are frequently unreproducible, and scientific...

The Importance of Partnerships in the Great Unbundling

The API economy and a Cambrian explosion of apps are transforming best-in-class tech from monolithic tools to a stack of 20 applications that work...

Investing in the pillars of the Metaverse

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Makers of Self-Driving Trucks Face a Long Haul to Profitability

The frustrated co-founder of robotruck pioneer TuSimple demanded answers from his executives at a tense meeting in late January. The company, which went public...

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