Private Equity
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
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
Menlo Ventures' newest partner, Rama Sekhar, says 'it’s still too darn hard for companies to deploy AI.'
2 min read · 25 January 2024
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
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
VCs are especially interested in start-ups that will make the energy grid more resilient.
10 min read · 01 May 2023
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
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
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
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