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America’s safe harbor could be closing for “unicorn” companies, which currently aren’t required to provide investors with audited financial statements. Driving the news: SEC Commissioner Caroline Crenshaw, a Democrat nominated by former President Trump, said in a speech that regulators haven’t kept up …

Despite continuing talk about a possible recession, slumping tech stocks and a slowdown in the world of startup investing, the business of funding was positively humming last week. After slowing way down last spring, venture outfits disclosed a stunning $8 billion in new capital …

Consider the following puzzle. In 2021 venture capitalists raised $150bn in fresh cash, a record amount. Despite a market slowdown, they broke the record once again in 2022, raising more than $160bn. Chunks of this have already been spent, but close to …

Global venture-capital funding in 2022 may have dipped 35% from 2021, according to a report by analytics company CB Insights, but VCs are still eager to make deals.  It’s a tough market right now, though, and investors need reliable insights, news, and information …

Venture capital firms’ cash piles continued to grow, even as dry powder fell across other private investment strategies. Global venture firms were sitting on $585.5 billion of capital raised but not allocated as of the end of Q3 2022, according …

Venture capitalists in Silicon Valley and other tech hubs are investing money in nuclear energy for the first time in history. That’s changing its trajectory and pace of innovation. “There’s not been a resurgence of nuclear power, ever, since its …

Venture capital investments are on track for the sharpest drop in more than two decades this year, surpassing the declines of the dot-com crash and the financial crisis amid rising interest rates, macroeconomic uncertainties and a public market downturn.  The …

Decentralized finance (DeFi) and Web3 were the primary targets of early-stage startup funding from some of the top private investors in the third quarter, research firm Pitchbook said on Tuesday, even as overall venture capital investments declined. Web3 – a …

The crypto venture space has been thrown for a major loop as the world’s largest crypto exchange Binance first signed a letter of intent to buy rival FTX, which had rapidly crumbled in a wild bank-run-like liquidity crunch, and then …

Nobody wants to go public anymore. After a roaring 2021 initial public offering (IPO) market, featuring boldface names like Rivian and Robinhood, private companies are staying private in 2022 since investor risk appetite for new issues has vanished.

Inflection AI, the new artificial intelligence start-up from DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, has secured $225 million in funding, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission last week. The funding, first reported by TechCrunch, has …

Although current owners might not be so happy, investors that missed out on owning a stake in some of the most celebrated private companies are getting a second chance. That’s because the investible universe in the private market has never …