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Venture funds raised $41.6bn worldwide in the first half of this year, down from $60bn in H1 of last year, according to exclusive research by Venture Capital Journal.

Humain is an AI company owned and funded by the Public Investment Fund, Saudi Arabia's $925bn sovereign wealth fund.

Leyla Holterud 'is the ideal leader to scale our European platform and the bridges we have been building between Europe and the rest of the world for well over a decade,' says Vintage co–managing partner Asaf Horesh.

The aviation investment manager plans to raise a new fund that will build on JetBlue Ventures’ existing portfolio and expand founders’ access to more strategic relationships around the world.

Shine Capital is seeking to raise $200m for its third fund, less than three years after quickly raising its sophomore fund.

The fund is backed by 'prominent Saudi institutional investors,' public investment fund Jada Fund of Funds, Saudi Venture Capital and Sanabil Investments.

VCs invested a total of $9.1bn in emerging venture markets in 2024, down from $15.3bn in 2023 and a high of $25.1bn in 2021.

Our LP Perspectives 2025 Study finds investors are warming to venture capital after giving it the cold shoulder.

Roman and Kirill Gurskiy left EY in 2017 to pursue their passion at GEM Capital and they have never looked back.

Stripe's $1.1bn acquisition of Bridge signals more mainstream acceptance of stablecoins among fintech players, especially those eyeing scale-up opportunities in developing markets.