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Tech start-ups

  • Sunday, 11 August, 2024
    British Business Bank Plc
    Dozens of UK start-ups helped by taxpayer-funded loans in pandemic face closure

    Future Fund scheme run by the British Business Bank issued 1,190 companies with convertible loans worth £1.14bn

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  • Saturday, 10 August, 2024
    OpenAI
    Where have OpenAI’s founders gone?

    Only two of 11 co-founders of ChatGPT maker are still active at the $86bn company after a series of exits this year

  • Thursday, 8 August, 2024
    Anduril Industries
    US defence tech start-up Anduril raises $1.5bn at $14bn valuation

    The funding, which was co-led by Peter Thiel’s VC firm, will go towards production of autonomous weapons for America and allies

    An Anvil-M drone at Anduril’s headquarters in California
  • Wednesday, 7 August, 2024
    Roche Holding AG
    Roche considers options for $1.9bn cancer data start-up

    Swiss drugmaker examines options for Flatiron Health after acquisition has disappointed

    Roche logo on the side of a building in Basel, Switzerland
  • Tuesday, 6 August, 2024
    Mubadala Investment Company PJSC
    Mubadala races to salvage European start-up investments

    Executives at Abu Dhabi’s $300bn fund lead restructurings and management changes as valuations sink

    Montage Mubadala Getir Wefox and Abu Dhabi skyline
  • Tuesday, 30 July, 2024
    Digital health
    Fertility app Flo valuation reaches $1bn as women’s health market takes off

    Private equity firm General Atlantic backs start-up as it turns to ‘untapped’ market of those experiencing menopause

    Mobile phone being held, displaying Flo app
  • Thursday, 25 July, 2024
    John Thornhill
    Start-ups like Wiz will have to learn the art of living longer

    The decision of the Israeli-founded cyber security company and Google to call off their match has lessons for the tech sector

    The Wiz logo on the screen of a smartphone
  • Thursday, 25 July, 2024
    Special ReportBusiness Legal Leaders
    Start-ups attract chief legal officers in search of a challenge

    More varied work and faster pace are tempting some corporate general counsel to make the switch

    A laboratory scene with two scientists. The person in the foreground is slightly out of focus, wearing a white lab coat and safety glasses. The person in the background is pointing at something on a laptop screen
  • Wednesday, 24 July, 2024
    US warns tech start-ups on security threats from foreign investors

    Counter-intelligence centre says hostile states such as China could gain sensitive data and intellectual property

  • Wednesday, 24 July, 2024
    Moral Money
    A helping hand through the green tech ‘valley of death’ Premium content

    Climate start-ups have struggled to raise finance to prove their systems at scale

    A digital image of a long white structure next to a solar park in a desert
  • Thursday, 18 July, 2024
    Financials
    US regulators serve up a shot aimed at Serena Williams-backed venture

    SoLo Funds lets borrowers set their own flat fees but consumer authorities want it to state costs as a yearly interest rate

    Serena Williams at the Espy awards
  • Thursday, 18 July, 2024
    Inside BusinessRichard Waters
    Venture capital has an exit problem

    A big overhang of ageing — and unsold — private tech companies has developed

    The Wiz logo on a smartphone
  • Wednesday, 17 July, 2024
    Artificial intelligence
    ‘Godmother of AI’ Fei-Fei Li builds $1bn start-up in 4 months

    Stanford computer scientist’s ‘spatial intelligence’ venture wins backing from investors including Andreessen Horowitz

    Fei-Fei Li, co-director of Stanford University’s Human-Centered AI institute, at the Bloombury Technology Summit
  • Tuesday, 16 July, 2024
    Venture capital investment
    Venture capitalists in line for windfalls from Google’s $23bn Wiz deal

    Deal would be rare bright spot for investors who have struggled to return money to backers in recent years

    Wiz logo
  • Sunday, 14 July, 2024
    Alphabet Inc
    Google parent in talks to buy cyber security start-up Wiz for $23bn

    Acquisition of cloud specialist would be largest in Alphabet’s history

    The Wiz logo displayed on a phone screen
  • Thursday, 11 July, 2024
    Xiaohongshu
    Chinese social media sensation Xiaohongshu wins major foreign VC backing

    Yuri Milner’s DST Global takes stake at $17bn valuation in rare investment from overseas after China’s tech crackdown

    A woman uses her phone under ginkgo trees on an autumn day in Beijing, China
  • Wednesday, 10 July, 2024
    Advanced Micro Devices Inc
    AMD to buy Silo AI for $665mn in drive to compete with Nvidia

    All-cash acquisition by California-based chipmaker is the largest of its kind in Europe in a decade

    An employee inspects AMD graphics processing units at a crypto farm in Romania
  • Wednesday, 10 July, 2024
    Venture capital investment
    Index Ventures raises $2.3bn to chase AI breakthroughs

    Venture capital firm has poured more than half of its recent investments into artificial intelligence

    The Mistral AI website on a smartphone
  • Thursday, 4 July, 2024
    IPOs
    UK should penalise start-ups that take state aid but list abroad, says lobby group

    UK Finance, a banking body argues for clawback of tax breaks to halt flow of business overseas

    Visitors pass skyscrapers in the City of London
  • Monday, 1 July, 2024
    Rebooting Britain’s capital markets
    UK start-ups turn to Silicon Valley to fill void left by risk-averse pension funds

    Bolder reform of retirement funds is a contentious part of attempts to reboot Britain’s capital markets 

    Matthew Scullion and John Symonds
  • Sunday, 30 June, 2024
    News in-depth
    Nigeria’s food delivery industry whets investors’ appetite

    Sector forecast to double in value over eight years but soaring inflation will erode families’ spending power

  • Friday, 28 June, 2024
    Artificial intelligence
    Nvidia partner Lambda Labs seeks $800mn as AI computing demand soars

    Silicon Valley start-up that rents out servers powered by chip giant seeks to capitalise on investor interest

    An Nvidia Cop. Quantum-X800 InfiniBand Platform
  • Thursday, 27 June, 2024
    Helsing
    German AI defence start-up Helsing poised to triple valuation to $4.5bn

    Silicon Valley investors Accel and Lightspeed part of latest fundraising round talks that would raise almost $500mn

    Person looks at computer screens showing military operations
  • Wednesday, 19 June, 2024
    Artificial intelligence
    OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever announces rival AI start-up

    Safe Superintelligence Inc to focus on safety and comes a month after star researcher quit the ChatGPT maker

    Ilya Sutskever
  • Tuesday, 18 June, 2024
    Aerospace & Defence
    Europe spurs investment in defence tech start-ups

    Head of €1bn Nato fund says geopolitical tensions and conflicts are pushing the region to catch up fast with the US

    research satellite from Space Forge
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