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#Newswire: The European Investment Fund (EIF) has committed up to €30 million to Nordic Foodtech VC's second fund, which targets early-stage agrifood technology companies across Northern Europe. Backed by InvestEU, the pledge brings the Helsinki-based fund close to its €80 million target size and aims to help science-based startups in agriculture, food, aquaculture, and biosolutions bridge the gap from research to commercial use.

#Agrifood #VentureCapital #FoodTech

https://www.proteinreport.org/newswire/european-agrifood-tech-startups-get-investment-boost-30-million-eif-commitment-finnish-fund/press-release

@anildash has written a few pieces about “cancer” capital recently, and his most recent, “Cancer Capital: It Sucks For Founders, Too!” gets specific about malfeasance: https://www.anildash.com/2026/09/09/cancer-capital-founders/

Also: Hey Anil, could you relax the kerning on that big-outline title font? It’s so tight it looks like it’s going to explode and shred my face.

#venturecapital

https://www.europesays.com/people/221219/ Quote of the day by Peter Thiel: People are spending way too much time thinking about climate change, way too little thinking about AI #ArtificialIntelligence #ClimateChange #eBay #EconomicForce #PalantirTechnologies #Paypal #PeterThiel #TechnologyImpact #VentureCapital

https://www.laviezine.com/1635935/the-ex-airbnb-exec-betting-silicon-valley-can-reshape-san-francisco-dining/ The ex-Airbnb exec betting Silicon Valley can reshape San Francisco dining #BoomLoop #money #restaurants #SanFrancisco #SmallBusiness #VentureCapital

Report: Glasgow tech ecosystem reaches £5.6bn

Glasgow’s technology ecosystem has reached a combined value of £5.6 billion, with new data pointing to continued growth…
#Glasgow #UnitedKingdom #UK #GB #Scotland #Headlines #News #Europe #EU #Britain #deeptech #GreatBritain #healthtech #startups #venturecapital
https://www.europesays.com/uk/1193262/

https://www.europesays.com/uk/1193262/ Report: Glasgow tech ecosystem reaches £5.6bn #Britain #DeepTech #Glasgow #GreatBritain #healthtech #Scotland #startups #UK #UnitedKingdom #VentureCapital

French A.I. Start-Up Mistral Raises $3.5 Billion as Part of Strategy Shift

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/business/mistral-ai-fund-raising.html

French A.I. Start-Up Mistral Raises $3.5 Billion as Part of Strategy Shift

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/business/mistral-ai-fund-raising.html

French A.I. Start-Up Mistral Raises $3.5 Billion as Part of Strategy Shift

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/business/mistral-ai-fund-raising.html

French A.I. Start-Up Mistral Raises $3.5 Billion as Part of Strategy Shift

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/business/mistral-ai-fund-raising.html

French A.I. Start-Up Mistral Raises $3.5 Billion as Part of Strategy Shift

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/business/mistral-ai-fund-raising.html

📊 Пошук капіталу та інвестиційних можливостей часто перетворюється на закритий процес, доступний лише вузькому колу осіб. Платформа vir.group змінює цей підхід, створюючи відкритий простір для взаємодії між фаундерами та інвесторами.

Підприємці можуть розміщувати свої проекти для пошуку фінансування, а інвестори — відбирати перспективні стартапи на ранніх стадіях розвитку. Це інструмент для тих, хто цінує системний підхід до формування портфеля та пошуку нових ринкових рішень.

Сервіс доступний через веб-версію, а також як застосунки для iOS та Android. Приєднуйтесь до спільноти, щоб знаходити нові можливості для зростання.

#virgroup #Інвестиції #Стартапи #VentureCapital #Підприємництво #InvestmentPlatform

https://vir.group/post/117233892269343840

📊 Пошук капіталу та інвестиційних можливостей часто перетворюється на закритий процес, доступний лише вузькому колу осіб. Платформа vir.group змінює цей підхід, створюючи відкритий простір для взаємодії між фаундерами та інвесторами.

Підприємці можуть розміщувати свої проекти для пошуку фінансування, а інвестори — відбирати перспективні стартапи на ранніх стадіях розвитку. Це інструмент для тих, хто цінує системний підхід до формування портфеля та пошуку нових ринкових рішень.

Сервіс доступний через веб-версію, а також як застосунки для iOS та Android. Приєднуйтесь до спільноти, щоб знаходити нові можливості для зростання.

#virgroup #Інвестиції #Стартапи #VentureCapital #Підприємництво #InvestmentPlatform

https://vir.group/post/117233892269343840

Майже половина венчурних інвестицій в Україні цього року пішла в defense tech.

Решта галузей ділять залишок капіталу і конкурують жорсткіше, ніж рік тому. Інвестор давно не купує ідею. Він питає про десятки реальних клієнтів чи одиниць продукту, що вже працюють у полі.

Для фаундера поза defense це означає інший порядок дій: спочатку тракшн, потім раунд. Не навпаки.

Хто з вас підіймав раунд поза defense-напрямом цього року? Що зрештою переконало інвестора?

#інвестиції #стартапи #підприємці #фінанси #фаундери #venturecapital

Майже половина венчурних інвестицій в Україні цього року пішла в defense tech.

Решта галузей ділять залишок капіталу і конкурують жорсткіше, ніж рік тому. Інвестор давно не купує ідею. Він питає про десятки реальних клієнтів чи одиниць продукту, що вже працюють у полі.

Для фаундера поза defense це означає інший порядок дій: спочатку тракшн, потім раунд. Не навпаки.

Хто з вас підіймав раунд поза defense-напрямом цього року? Що зрештою переконало інвестора?

#інвестиції #стартапи #підприємці #фінанси #фаундери #venturecapital

Майже половина венчурних інвестицій в Україні цього року пішла в defense tech.

Решта галузей ділять залишок капіталу і конкурують жорсткіше, ніж рік тому. Інвестор давно не купує ідею. Він питає про десятки реальних клієнтів чи одиниць продукту, що вже працюють у полі.

Для фаундера поза defense це означає інший порядок дій: спочатку тракшн, потім раунд. Не навпаки.

Хто з вас підіймав раунд поза defense-напрямом цього року? Що зрештою переконало інвестора?

#інвестиції #стартапи #підприємці #фінанси #фаундери #venturecapital

Майже половина венчурних інвестицій в Україні цього року пішла в defense tech.

Решта галузей ділять залишок капіталу і конкурують жорсткіше, ніж рік тому. Інвестор давно не купує ідею. Він питає про десятки реальних клієнтів чи одиниць продукту, що вже працюють у полі.

Для фаундера поза defense це означає інший порядок дій: спочатку тракшн, потім раунд. Не навпаки.

Хто з вас підіймав раунд поза defense-напрямом цього року? Що зрештою переконало інвестора?

#інвестиції #стартапи #підприємці #фінанси #фаундери #venturecapital

https://www.europesays.com/ie/676929/ Exclusive: Ineffable Intelligence adds 6 “cofounders,” hiring from Google DeepMind and InstaDeep #AI #AIAgents #alphago #ArtificialIntelligence #ArtificialIntelligence #DeepMind #DeepMindTechnologies #Éire #GoogleDeepmind #IE #Ireland #MachineLearning #ReinforcementLearning #Technology #VentureCapital

L’Europa ha le idee, i talenti e i risparmi: quello che continua a mancare è il capitale necessario per trasformare le imprese innovative in grandi protagonisti globali.

Nel 2025 gli investimenti in capitale di rischio in Europa hanno raggiunto circa 66 miliardi di euro, contro oltre 339 miliardi di dollari negli Stati Uniti. E non perché agli europei manchino le risorse: circa 10.000 MILIARDI di euro di risparmi delle famiglie dell’Unione sono ancora detenuti in depositi bancari.

Il problema è che troppo poco di quel capitale arriva alle imprese ad alta crescita. E così l’Europa finanzia ricerca, forma talenti e fa nascere innovazione, ma spesso sono capitali stranieri a sostenerne la crescita e a raccoglierne poi i frutti.

Per questo Volt vuole una vera Unione dei risparmi e degli investimenti: mercati più integrati, garanzie pubbliche mirate e un ruolo maggiore dei fondi pensione nel capitale di rischio europeo.

L’autonomia economica europea passa anche da qui: dare alle nostre imprese i capitali per crescere in Europa, invece di continuare a produrre innovazione che altri trasformano in potere economico.

#Startup #Innovazione #VentureCapital #Europa #Competitività #EuropaFederale #Volt #VoltItalia #VoltEuropa

AI Is Failing At An Overwhelming Majority of Companies Using It, MIT Study Finds

https://onlinemarketingscoops.com/2026/08/21/ai-is-failing-at-an-overwhelming-majority-of-companies-using-it-mit-study-finds/

Kazakhstan’s startup scene is drawing global investors as more founders build technology for international markets from day one https://ow.ly/5h2850Zq1PM #Kazakhstan #Startups #VentureCapital #TechInvestment #StartupGrowth

How a New Generation of Startu...

CRED Founder Kunal Shah Appointed Global Head of WhatsApp

#TycoonWorld #Meta #CRED #KunalShah #WhatsApp #MetaInvestment #IndianStartups #FintechIndia #StartupNews #TechNews #SeriesHFunding #VentureCapital #StartupFunding #DigitalPayments #CreditCardPayments #BengaluruStartups #IPO #CREDIPO #ArtificialIntelligence #MetaAI #WhatsAppBusiness #WhatsAppMonetization #FintechInnovation #IndiaTech #UnicornStartup #LeadershipChange #BusinessNews #TechIndustry

https://tycoonworld.in/cred-founder-kunal-shah-appointed-global-head-of-whatsapp/

https://winbuzzer.com/2026/05/27/paul-graham-says-ai-written-founder-emails-erode-trust-xcxwbn/

Paul Graham argues AI-written founder emails erode trust before a pitch lands, while studies on AI-generated messages point to weaker recipient reactions.

#AI #PaulGraham #YCombinator #GenAI #Entrepreneurship #VentureCapital #GenAI

How inflated ARR metrics are used to promote and legitimize AI startups

📰 Original title: How VCs and founders use inflated ‘ARR’ to crown AI startups 

🤖 IA: It's clickbait ⚠️
👥 Users: It's clickbait ⚠️

View full AI summary: https://en.killbait.com/how-inflated-arr-metrics-are-used-to-promote-and-legitimize-ai-startups.html?utm_source=mastodon_world&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=killbait.mastodon_world

#business #arr #aistartups #venturecapital

How Elon Musk Used SpaceX to Benefit Himself and His Businesses

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/24/technology/elon-musk-spacex-loans.html

VC funding is increasingly concentrated in AI-native startups, but capital alone does not create long-term advantage. In 2026, the strongest AI companies will win through proprietary datasets, domain expertise, and scalable execution. Beyond AI adoption, what is your startup’s true moat? #AIStartups #VentureCapital #Startups #SaaS #Founders

A striking takeaway from our conversation with Raghav Kapoor: Southeast Asia has seen ~$74B invested into tech since 2014, but less than $23B out in exits. That gap says a lot about IPO readiness, private market structure, and what founders need next.

Read/listen at https://youtube.com/shorts/929Zs7VKuoY

#AnalysePodcast #SoutheastAsia #VentureCapital #PrivateMarkets

Corporate Incubators Gain Traction Among Millennial Founders

Millennial entrepreneurs are using corporate incubators more often. They want to grow their companies faster than going to business school. This helps them get money from investors.

#StartupGrowth, #MillennialFounders, #CorporateIncubators, #VentureCapital, #BusinessStrategy

https://newsletter.tf/millennial-founders-choose-corporate-incubators-faster-growth/

More millennial founders are choosing corporate incubators. This is a faster way to grow their companies compared to traditional methods like business school.

#StartupGrowth, #MillennialFounders, #CorporateIncubators, #VentureCapital, #BusinessStrategy
https://newsletter.tf/millennial-founders-choose-corporate-incubators-faster-growth/

Fortune Tech: Anthropic testing Mythos; Apple’s opens Siri, OpenAI shelves porn bot

Good morning. In case you missed the breaking news last night, a federal judge has blocked the Trump…
#NewsBeep #News #Artificialintelligence #AI #AIagents #ArtificialIntelligence #coding #FortuneTech #Iran #MarkZuckerberg #Meta #nocopyright #Nvidia #OpenAI #samaltman #Technology #UK #UnitedKingdom #venturecapital
https://www.newsbeep.com/uk/501483/

AI Boom Siphons Billions From Crucial Energy Innovation Funding

AI is a double-edged sword for the energy sector. The rapid integration of large language models into everything…
#NewsBeep #News #Entrepreneurship #AIinvestment #AU #Australia #Business #CleanEnergy #climategoals #energyinnovation #energysecurity #EVmarketdecline #geothermalenergy #IEAreport #Nuclearfusion #VentureCapital
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/530897/

#AndreessenHorowitz’s Rising Influence Over Trump-Era #AI Policy
#SiliconValley’s richest #venturecapital firm emerges as a “lobbying juggernaut” for minimal AI regulation.
Sounding board is firm’s chief #lobbyist, #CollinMcCune. The firm, colloquially known by the shorthand #a16z for the 16 letters between the A and Z in its name, arguably has veto power over any AI-related proposals, according to one former #WhiteHouse official.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-02-10/trump-s-ai-policy-shaped-by-vc-tech-giant-andreessen-horowitz
https://archive.ph/mMhHx

https://winbuzzer.com/2025/12/01/black-forest-labs-hits-3-25b-valuation-pivots-to-visual-intelligence-with-series-b-xcxwbn/

#AI #GenAI #BlackForestLabs #VentureCapital #OpenSourceAI #VisualIntelligence #FLUX2 #MultimodalAI #AIReasoning

Black Forest Labs Hits $3.25B Valuation, Pivots to ‘Visual Intelligence’ with Series B

Swarming to San Francisco’s A.I. Boom: a New Crop of 20-Something CEOs - Some dropped out of M.I.T., Georgetown and Stanford. Others decided not to go to college.... - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/technology/ai-young-ceos-san-francisco.html #collegesanduniversities #computersandtheinternet #artificialintelligence #mercor.iocorp(mercor) #delvetechnologiesinc #sanfrancisco(calif) #foodybrendan(2003-) #kaushikkarun(2004-) #entrepreneurship #venturecapital #artisanaiinc #cognitionai

"I Got 1% of My Share Value": Windsurf's Employee #2 Exposes Harsh Reality of AI Talent War

#AI #Startups #Tech #VentureCapital #EmployeeEquity #Windsurf #CognitionAI #OpenAI #Acquihires

https://winbuzzer.com/2025/07/26/i-got-1-of-my-share-value-windsurfs-employee-2-exposes-harsh-reality-of-ai-talent-war-xcxwbn

Resilience, Grit, and One Hard Truth About #Startups - Ariel Shtarkman from Undivided Ventures https://youtube.com/shorts/IFsGz5s_9IM

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#startupmindset #venturecapital #founderadvice #dailygrind
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London-based B2B startup Synthesia, pioneers in hyper-realistic AI avatar tech, raises $180M in Series D funding led by NEA at a $2.1B valuation. The future of AI-powered video creation is here! 🚀 #AI #TechNews #B2B #Startups #VentureCapital #AIavatars #SeriesD #Innovation

Digital Asset Trader Auros to Invest Over $50M in Crypto Startups Through Its Newly Established VC Arm - To lead the investment efforts, the company appointed Julien Auchecorne as head of Auros ... - https://www.coindesk.com/business/2024/07/08/digital-asset-trader-auros-to-invest-over-50m-in-crypto-startups-through-its-newly-established-vc-arm/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=headlines #venturecapital #marketmakers #exclusive #finance #news #vc

@zukunftmobil ich finde, #Staatsbürgschaften sind kein passendes Instrument für #VentureCapital. Das muss von begeisterten privaten Geldgebern kommen, und zwar im Zweifelsfall als #Eigenkapital, das dann am späteren Erfolg auch partizipiert. so würde ein Schuh draus. Warum der Staat das Risiko tragen, aber die späteren möglichen Gewinne anderen überlassen soll, ist nicht einzusehen. Selten dass ich #Aiwanger dankbar bin. #Flugtaxi ein "Kernbereich"??? CSU-StM Blume peinlich! #Volocopter #Wissing

As the AI hype train slows, the industry faces challenges. Inflection.AI's co-founder Mustafa Suleyman departs for Microsoft, steering away from Pi. Cohere, despite its Google roots, reports a modest $22M in annual revenue. The shift suggests a critical reevaluation of AI's immediate potential & its market reality
#ai #openai #funding #investment #microsoft #google #inflection #stability #cohere #revenue #hype #leadership #braindrain #technology #money #venturecapital #startup #capital

Hear Shai Oster offer his thoughts on why Sequoia Capital has decided to split off their India & Southeast Asia despite there being no current geopolitical tensions with India, unlike the situation in China.

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#ShaiOster #ChinaTech #alibaba #SequoiaCapital #SequoiaChina #HongShan #IPO #SequoiaIndia #PeakXV #venturecapital #vcasia

Paraphrased: "If it's not useful and #accessible to the #poor and #disabled, it's neither #radical nor #revolutionary"

The U.S., and most of the "West" / #GlobalNorth, no longer has a radical or revolutionary mindset.

Neither #VentureCapital nor #HedgeFunds have or can deliver bold, #innovative results, only #vampiric variations on what exists.

Until that #paradigm is demolished, we can't hope to build the new #world we all desperately need.

#ReimagineEverything

https://youtu.be/5Mn5jNx4dbc

Examining Worldcoin’s Concentrated Supply at Token Launch - Following the Monday, July 24, launch of the worldcoin (WLD) token, the cryptocurr... - https://news.bitcoin.com/examining-worldcoins-concentrated-supply-at-token-launch/ #artificialintelligence #digitalidentification #distributionstrategy #universalbasicincome #supplyconcentration #optimismblockchain #significantholders #toolsforhumanity #cryptocurrency #venturecapital #marketmakers #sanfrancisco #wldaddresses #tokenlaunch #wld

Silicon Valley: The Mecca for Venture Capital May Be Cooling on Crypto - The storied birthplace of the U.S. tech industry is dripping with talent and money. But c... - https://www.coindesk.com/consensus-magazine/2023/06/27/silicon-valley-the-mecca-for-venture-capital-may-be-cooling-on-crypto/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=headlines #artificialintelligence #consensusmagazine #cryptohubs2023 #venturecapital #siliconvalley #developers #features #ai

Genetically Modified Trees Planted in U.S. Forest for First Time - Living Carbon, a biotechnology company, hopes its seedlings can help manage climate chang... - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/16/science/genetically-modified-trees-living-carbon.html #geneticallymodifiedfood(gmos) #geneticengineering #your-feed-science #livingcarbonpbc #treesandshrubs #venturecapital #globalwarming #research

Sequoia Capital, Paradigm among VCs facing "tricky" FTX investor lawsuit - It’s a “tricky case,” as it is unknown what obligation these firm... - https://cointelegraph.com/news/sequoia-capital-paradigm-among-vcs-facing-tricky-ftx-investor-lawsuit #josephbankman-fried #seriesbfundinground #privateequityfirms #carolineellison #sequoiacapital #venturecapital #thomabravo #paradigm #garywang #sbf

How 6 venture capitalists are thinking about 2023 — and their advice to startups - From top left, clockwise: T.A. McCann; Sheila Gulati; James Newell; S. “Soma” Som... - https://www.geekwire.com/2023/how-6-venture-capitalists-are-thinking-about-2023-and-their-advice-to-startups/ #unlockventurepartners #madronaventuregroup #cascadeseedfund #venturecapital #voyagercapital #pslventures #tolacapital #startups

Lifestyles of the Rich and Gullible: Theranos and Ozy Edition - Average investors were not able to get in on the last decade’s start-up boom in private m... - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/09/business/ozy-theranos-startup-lawsuits.html #securitiesandcommoditiesviolations #highnetworthindividuals #holmeselizabeth(1984-) #fraudsandswindling #weworkcompaniesinc #venturecapital #ozymediainc #theranosinc #start-ups #headspin #ubiome

The GoPro-ification of the iPhone - Hello friends, and welcome back to Week in Review!
Last week, we talked about some... - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/cEG8dre1kiQ/ #tabletcomputers #venturecapital #applesilicon #mobilephones #weekinreview #extracrunch #iphone12pro #technology #appleinc #iphone5s #reporter #google #iphone #russia #apple #gopro #major #ebay #ipad #musk #ios #tc

What we can learn from edtech startups’ expansion efforts in Europe - Rhys Spence
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