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...VCs are sitting on a record $300bn of “dry powder” — money raised that has not yet been deployed....
...The VC firms would likely require outside capital, as well as expertise in the technical aspects of running financial institutions that they lack....
...And hyped-up VCs are still frantically chasing AI start-ups aiming to apply the technology to different fields....
...Well, consider that VC has pumped and dumped nearly every industry it could get its hands on over the past decade....
...No wonder prominent VCs such as Ben Horowitz have praised the kingdom as a “start-up country”....
...The closest thing to rocket launchers that European VCs invested in were scooters, much to the derision of the Parisians who have just banned them....
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...The VCs, including General Catalyst, Greylock and Kleiner Perkins, advocated a similar strategy in their letter....
Venture capital fundraising hit a record-high. Now, the bonanza is over. What does that mean for the future of start-ups?
...Suggested reads China presses Japan to change course on chip export curbs (FT) China weighs export ban for rare-earth magnet tech (Nikkei Asia) Vietnam pledges to solve ‘pain points’ for tech start-ups and VCs...
Tiger Global making about one investment every two days, according to PitchBook data
Venture capital fundraising hit a record-high last year. Now, the bonanza is over
Activist hedge fund steps up focus on private markets as it urges Intel to rethink manufacturing
...FTX rebranded LedgerPrime’s crypto futures platform as FTX US Derivatives LLC and said the remaining business would become a family office making investments solely for Alameda Research....
...“Other VC-backed companies are going to have very different financials....
...Behold, the quarterly performance of VC funds tracked by Refinitiv....
...Atomico, the VC firm founded by Skype’s Niklas Zennström in 2006, published its annual State of European Tech report today, with a headline number of $121bn invested this year — nearly three times the 2020...
...Now it lists just eight: 48) Loan Transactions and Technology LLC / Edge Tradeworks Edge Tradeworks, which previously operated under the “Loan Transactions and Technology” name, offer loan trading tools...
...The value of VC investment in Chinese semiconductor companies increased 446 per cent in the second quarter compared with the first, to a record $8.9bn. 3....
...If completed, this would be the third-largest acquisition of a European VC-backed fintech, according to Dealroom data....
...became less about how we’re helping Wyoming and more about how we can sort of game this regulatory sandbox to benefit people who have no intention of ever moving to Wyoming, other than maybe setting up an LLC...
...Our VC correspondent Miles Kruppa has a profile of Malka and his Ribbit Capital. 5....
...His theory was that, since VC cash was bountiful at advantageous terms, it would be irresponsible not to take it. That dynamic seemed to play out in 2020 in the public company capital markets too....
...But today, he is investing furiously through his various VC firms Founders Fund, Valar Ventures, Mithril Capital Management and Thiel Capital. Where is he putting his money?...
...(Institutional Investor) Inconclusive data Alloy, a Silicon Valley start-up in part funded by billionaire VC entrepreneur Reid Hoffman, thought it had the key to fixing the Democratic party’s haphazard...
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