venture capital

Sequoia Capital’s reported decision to join a gargantuan funding round for Anthropic marks a clear inflection point in the venture-capital era of artificial intelligence — a moment when traditional VC boundaries and long-standing “don’t-back-competitors” taboos yield to the pressure of a...

Sequoia Capital is preparing to join a mammoth funding round for Anthropic that would push the Claude-maker toward a headline valuation in the hundreds of billions and mark a striking departure from the old venture playbook of backing a single winner in a category. The move — reported in...

Silicon Valley’s fundraising bonanza of 2025 ended not as a trickle but as a tidal wave: the largest private U.S. companies pulled in a record haul of capital that year, with AI startups capturing the vast majority of the money and a handful of megadeals accounting for a disproportionately large...

Perplexity’s CEO has quietly rewritten a small but symbolic rule of Silicon Valley fundraising: skip the slides, bring the AI. In a recent conversation with business-school hosts, Aravind Srinivas — cofounder and CEO of Perplexity — said he no longer prepares traditional pitch decks for...

Denmark’s new quantum fund has just shifted the geopolitical and commercial map for quantum computing: a Copenhagen-based venture platform called 55 North closed an initial €134 million first round toward a €300 million target, anchoring a capital stack that already includes QuNorth’s €80...

Amazon Web Services’ startups czar Jon Jones has left the company after roughly a year in the role, a departure that lands amid a broader wave of executive exits at AWS in 2025 and deepens scrutiny of the cloud giant’s ability to hold ground in the fiercely contested AI talent wars. Background /...

Amazon Web Services has lost Jon Jones, its vice president who ran the global startups and venture-capital outreach, in a move that crystallizes a wider 2025 pattern of executive churn and intensifying competition for AI talent across the cloud sector. Background / Overview Jon Jones joined AWS...

IBM’s strategy is deliberate: build industry-minded, governed AI that plugs into legacy systems and regulated workflows rather than chase consumer hype—and that choice may not win the popularity contest, but it can win durable enterprise value if the company executes the engineering...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming the consumer sector, offering unprecedented opportunities for innovation and growth. Over the next three to five years, companies that strategically invest in AI technologies are poised to gain significant competitive advantages. This article...

Taghash, a prominent SaaS platform specializing in venture capital (VC), private equity (PE), and family office workflows, has unveiled its latest innovation: the AI-integrated Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server. This groundbreaking development is poised to revolutionize how investment firms...

As artificial intelligence continues to redefine enterprise workflows, the worlds of venture capital (VC) and private equity (PE) find themselves at a major inflection point. The rapid adoption of AI-powered tools has created both tremendous opportunities and new vulnerabilities—particularly...

Microsoft’s recent announcement of plans to lay off approximately 9,000 employees—less than 4% of its global workforce—marks the company’s most significant round of job reductions since 2023. This strategic move, confirmed by a company spokesperson and widely reported by multiple trusted...

Microsoft has recently overhauled its startup support initiatives, transitioning from the previous Microsoft for Startups program to a new two-track system designed to better align with the diverse needs of emerging companies. This strategic shift, effective from July 1, 2025, introduces...

OpenAI, the renowned artificial intelligence research organization, is reportedly seeking to loosen its ties with Microsoft, its largest investor, due to concerns over potentially anticompetitive terms in their partnership. According to a report by the Wall Street Journal, OpenAI executives have...

London’s Olympia Hall crackled with energy as London Tech Week commenced, positioning the UK not just as a global technology hub, but as a crucible for artificial intelligence innovation at a pivotal moment in history. Amid the bustling halls and vibrant panels, one truth echoed from keynote to...

NVIDIA’s DGX Cloud Lepton is poised to become a significant force in democratizing high-performance AI infrastructure throughout Europe and beyond, bridging the critical gap between ambitious developers and the unprecedented power of the global NVIDIA compute ecosystem. As demand for AI-driven...

In a world increasingly dominated by artificial intelligence and automation, trust is the new currency. When a company carries the backing of Microsoft—a tech titan responsible for some of the most trusted platforms and services on the planet—expectations of transparency, legitimacy, and genuine...

Few signs are as indicative of a sector’s maturation—and its rapidly escalating cloud needs—as an early-stage unicorn in legaltech committing to a $150 million Azure deal over just two years. An internal Microsoft memo, surfaced in Business Insider reporting, reveals that Harvey, the generative...

Hong Kong’s position as a technology bridge between East and West has long attracted talent and investment, but the recent launch of the TechConnect co-incubation programme by Microsoft Hong Kong and the Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation (HKSTP) promises to recalibrate the...

The accelerating pace of AI innovation continues to reshape the global technology landscape, and Google’s latest move underlines both the company’s ambition and the competitive intensity in the sector. This week, Google unveiled the AI Futures Fund—a new initiative designed to empower startups...