Venture Capital

Jan 22nd 2022The Power Law. By Sebastian Mallaby. Penguin Press; 496 pages; $30. Allen Lane; £25NOT EVERYONE is a fan of venture capitalists (VCs). One academic famously questioned whether they...

Tiger Brands has put its money where its mouth is and appointed Barati Mahloele as director of the company’s Venture Capital Fund, launched in mid-2021. The fund is viewed as...

The Private Equity-Venture Capital (PE-VC) industry recorded a phenomenal growth of $63 billion in investments (through more than 1,200 deals) during 2021, a 57% rise over the $39.9 billion in...

A top biotech venture-capital firm is advising its portfolio firms not to go public right now. While a record number of biotechs had IPOs last year, the public market has...

Mustafa Suleyman has been working in artificial intelligence for 12 years, trying to figure out how to use machine learning systems and AI to do important things in the work...

Unicorn startups are everywhere these days. CB Insights’ unicorn tracker — keeping tabs on privately-held companies valued at $1 billion or more — is quickly approaching 1,000 companies. And earlier...

A16z, a VC company with investments in Protocol Labs, Polychain Capital and Opensea among others, is now planning to raise $4.5 billion for its latest fund, which is focused solely...

Despite pandemic disruptions and labor shortages, Philadelphia's venture capital firms thrived in 2021. The Philadelphia Alliance of Capital and Technologies (PACT) said it's "the highest market we have ever hit,"...

Israeli venture capital firm Viola Ventures has closed its sixth fund of $250 million to invest in early-stage Israeli startups focused on areas like fintech, deep tech, digital health, enterprise...

Shamil Karim (Left) and Yash RathodCHENNAI: Diginoor.io, a NFT marketplace founded by Chennai teenagers Shaamil Karim & Yash Rathod, has raised $1 million funding from Contrary Capital, Polygon Fund, Sandeep...