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...He has recently secured $270mn of new funding from backers including Nvidia, Oracle and Salesforce Ventures, which values Cohere at around $2bn....
...Benchmark’s voluble partner Bill Gurley last week took to X to suggest that the Mangs had found a new way to “goose [their] revenues”. “Expect a massive mess in the end,” he predicted....
...Vogt wrote on the social media platform X that the “last 10 years have been amazing”....
...Both advisers have also said Egon Durban, co-chief executive of venture capital group Silver Lake, should not return to Twitter’s board of directors because he is on too many other company boards....
...The Abu Dhabi conglomerate later posted on X reaffirming its “partnership with Adani”, despite the stock sale....
...Like Silicon Valley’s venture capitalists, retail investors have gone cold on the sector too....
...Deterministic technologies, such as a pocket calculator, will always give you the same answer when you tap in 19 x 37....
...While the bank didn’t disclose why it ditched the deal, DD would venture to guess that crumbling fintech valuations have something to do with it....
...Looking at breadth in the abstract (ie, “X per cent of stocks in index Y are Z per cent off their highs,” or similar) might be less useful than looking at it in concrete terms, however....
...Bezos has stayed mum about how much he has ploughed into the venture, apart from a single comment three years ago that he was spending $1bn a year....
...The Loon closure comes less than a year after X’s windpower venture Makani was shuttered....
...Gaukhar Kossakova did not at the time work for any company owned or operated directly or indirectly by Mr Kulibayev i) Asia Gas Pipeline contracts were awarded by Asia Gas Pipeline LLP, a 50-50 joint venture...
...AGP, the existence of “schemes and arrangements” between Mr Kulibayev and ETK, the receipt by Mr Kulibayev of money from contracts related to the pipeline, nor any benefit having been gained by Petroleum LLC...
...Verily products like Onduo, a joint venture with Sanofi to create a diabetes management platform, might move closer to Google Health....
...London-based Balderton raised a new $400m fund while Stockholm-based EQT Ventures closed its second namesake fund at €660m....
...Mr Brin, meanwhile, had been drawn to Google’s flights of tech fancy at X, the “moonshot factory” he helped set up to incubate its most ambitious new ventures....
...up here to Market Forces, our daily analysis of what’s moving global markets Job moves John Cryan, the former chief executive of Deutsche Bank who was ousted last year, has joined the board of X...
...Venture capital is even more male, with female start-up founders receiving just 2 per cent of VC dollars last year....
...It will be led by Stephen Gillett, who joined X from Google Ventures, the company’s venture capital arm, and was previously chief operating officer of Symantec, one of the world’s largest cyber security...
...Mr Noto is “financially sophisticated, IPO-ready and has legitimacy in the tech community,” said Matt Harris, managing director of Bain Capital Ventures in New York....
...The oldest, original and largest of the Chi-X ventures, Chi-X Europe, was bought by Bats Global Markets for $365m in 2011....
...If venture capitalists remain sceptical, more start-ups could be forced to go public next year....
...Businesses such as Calico, Nest, and Fiber, as well as its investing arms, such as Google Ventures and Google Capital, and incubator projects, such as Google X, will be managed separately from the Google...
...Google Ventures, Google Capital and the Google X research labs will also become subsidiaries....
...“Square squandered its first-mover advantage as the moat around the business built on a disruptive application and a slick device began to dissipate,” wrote Manhattan Venture Partners in a research report...
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