‘Secondaries summer’ is over, but 2024 looks promising
Secondary venture activity has ebbed and flowed over the last few months, following a particularly busy summer. But 2024 may see investors returning...
Startups are doing fine, but scale-ups and unicorns are in deep water
It seems the younger a startup is today, the better its fundraising prospects.
Recent data from Carta pushes back against the narrative that 2023...
The animated VTuber Ironmouse won Content Creator of the Year at the Game Awards
This year at the Game Awards, the coveted Content Creator of the Year award went to Ironmouse, a fan-favorite VTuber. It marks the...
Secondaries investors tell us what’s hot heading into 2024
Since the market corrected in 2022, late-stage funding rounds have been few and far between. It’s been hard to predict what is still...
Bitcoin continues climbing, Block releases hardware wallet, Robinhood expands to EU and VCs may...
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With its second app, Amo wants to make photo-sharing as simple taking a photo
Less than three weeks ago, French startup Amo released ID. As I hinted in my article covering this much-anticipated launch, ID was Amo’s...
UK’s CMA is looking at whether Microsoft and OpenAI tie-up is a ‘relevant merger’
The whirlwind management drama at OpenAI last month ended with co-founder Sam Altman reinstated within a week of his surprise dismissal and a...
Threads is rolling out its hashtags without the hash symbol globally
Meta’s social network Threads got a major update Thursday as the company started rolling out tags (without the hash symbol) on the platform....
India’s top VCs face fresh obstacles as startup investment plummets
High-flying venture investors in India managing hundreds of millions of dollars are tempering expectations, making early-stage startup bets that in best-case scenarios they...
ContactMonkey lands $55M investment to grow its email software for internal comms
Email is quite profitable, as it turns out. Or rather, email communications software is.
Today, Toronto-based ContactMonkey, a platform that lets companies create, send...