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Robots to the rescue

The market for humanoid robots may approach $40bn in about 10 years as these nimble machines take on jobs that are repetitive or dangerous and where turnover is high.

10 min read · 01 July 2024

SBVP turns to secondaries to satisfy LPs’ thirst for liquidity

The late-stage software investor managed to produce three exits in four weeks to end Q1 2024 even as exits via traditional routes drop quarter-on-quarter.

6 min read · 22 April 2024

Chatbots are cool, but AI infrastructure is where the big money is: Sekhar

Menlo Ventures' newest partner, Rama Sekhar, says 'it’s still too darn hard for companies to deploy AI.'

2 min read · 25 January 2024

How a UK venture firm is using AI to make better investments

Richard Blakesley is using AI to vet investments for the Boost Fund, noting that 'the early-stage fundraising process is plagued by bias of all sorts: expert bias, pattern-recognition bias, network bias and so forth.'

7 min read · 11 July 2023

Why Alumni Ventures went all in on AI

Mike Collins, founder and CEO of Alumni Ventures, shares his vision for AV to ‘become the most AI-powered VC in the industry’ and the progress the firm has made so far.

8 min read · 21 June 2023

Venture capital's quest for tech solutions to global warming

VCs are especially interested in start-ups that will make the energy grid more resilient.

10 min read · 01 May 2023

Dawn Capital's youngest partner highlights firm's nurturing culture

At 29, Dan Chaplin has been promoted three times in five years and now co-leads the London VC firm’s fintech and digital assets segment.

3 min read · 23 February 2023

Valuations fall as nontraditional investors pull back

The outsized capital demands of investors in late-stage deals have caused corporate VCs, hedge funds and others to flee VC amid a less alluring risk/return profile as exits dry up.

5 min read · 21 February 2023

Female founders prove resilient as they seek equal share of VC dollars

A new report on women in VC shows that female-founded companies are weathering current market conditions at least slightly better than their male-founded counterparts..

4 min read · 03 November 2022

From watches to smart shorts: Wearable fitness trackers draw the eye of investors

A new generation of start-ups is targeting the $45bn fitness tracking market, which is forecast to grow to $192bn by 2030.

5 min read · 03 October 2022

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