#venture-capital

#venture-capital

Last year, her worlds collided when she decided to launch her own fund, Sugar Free Capital, a firm that focuses on investing in technical founders from MIT. She nabbed LPs, including the family offices of heavy-hitting tech executives from companies like Nvidia and Citadel, and on Monday announced the closing of Sugar Free's $32 million inaugural fund. One premise of the fund is found in the name.

The stat that women receive less than 2% of VC funding is often cited-but that figure tells only part of the story.

Operating from his unique vantage point between Vancouver's innovation ecosystem and Dubai's capital markets, al Homsi identified critical market gaps that traditional recycling methods could not address. His investment in Aduro Clean Technologies (NASDAQ: ADUR, CSE: ACT) was based on a fundamental insight: existing mechanical recycling technologies were inherently limited by contamination challenges, creating an opportunity for breakthrough chemical processes enhanced by artificial intelligence.

The Jacobs Institute Steering Committee guides the strategic direction of the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute, a cornerstone of Cornell Tech's mission to fuse academic excellence with real-world impact through programs in health tech, urban tech, and connective media, as well as startup incubation, facilitated by the Runway program. These accomplished leaders bring deep expertise in cloud computing, urban development, financial technology, and venture capital - fields that are shaping the future of digital life.

The reaction is: 'Oh my God, this is all hype,' 'This stuff doesn't work. We're wasting our time.' Disaster, right? But if you dig into it, the real issue—and this is pervasive—is about evaluations. What are you trying to accomplish, and how do you evaluate it? And that's an organizational issue and a process issue. You have to understand the limitations of where we are with what AI can do, effectively benchmarking and evaluating from there: Is this effective or not?

The deluge of speculative tech investments unleashed by artificial intelligence is unparalleled in history. Never before has a technology which promises so much - but currentlydoes so little - managed to capture enough funding to threaten the US economy should it fail. With that kind of cash on the line, one would assume thattech startups have done their homework on the complicated reality of AI development before courting untold millions of dollars from overzealous investors - that's sort of their job, after all.

Depending on how you think about it, there's half a dozen or more approaches to the hardware. And I became excited that within the hardware approach, the neutral atom approach was high potential. So we backed [Thompson's] company called Logiqal. What happens if you're right? I'm a venture investor, and we believe in convexity-taking risks on things that most likely won't work, but if they do work could be 500x in value.

As artificial intelligence becomes a buzzword in nearly every healthcare startup pitch, investors are finding it increasingly challenging to distinguish which ones are actually worth the hype. That's why, during a Thursday panel discussion among venture capitalists at the MedCity INVEST Digital Health conference in Dallas, this question was posed: What metrics do you want to see founders highlighting more often when they're pitching, and what is one red flag that makes you question the validity of their technology? The session was moderated by Neil Patel, head of ventures at Redesign Health.

Wayve said it has signed a letter of intent with Nvidia to evaluate a $500 million strategic investment in the U.K. startup's next funding round. Nvidia participated in Wayve's $1.05 billion Series C round that closed in May 2024. A Wayve spokesperson confirmed that the $500 million tentative commitment is part of Nvidia's AI startup investment pledge. Nvidia said during an event Thursday the £2 billion commitment would include funds from venture-capital investors Accel, Air Street Capital, Balderton, Hoxton Ventures and Phoenix Court.

The Startup Battlefield 200 global pitch competition at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, taking place October 27-29 at San Francisco's Moscone West, is just weeks away, and the stakes have never been higher. Twenty founders will pitch their companies on the Disrupt Stage, but only one will walk away with the $100,000 equity-free prize and the coveted Disrupt Cup.

This Builder Stage session brings together Katie Stanton ( Moxxie Ventures), Thomas Krane ( Insight Partners), and Sangeen Zeb ( GV). They've seen thousands of decks, led major rounds, and helped steer startups from scrappy beginnings to breakout scale. You'll hear what actually moves a pitch from "maybe" to "we're in," including the metrics that matter, how to tell your growth story, and what causes investors to walk away.

In 2021, global femtech investment peaked at before plunging to just €1.1bn the next year, amid a tech funding apocalypse and capital making a headlong dash towards AI. Several factors contributed to this decline - broader market conditions, withering investor risk appetite, and natural sector maturation. But the surge in AI funding coinciding with a plunge in femtech investment highlights serious issues with capital allocation.

Clayton Jacobs, the CEO of influencer marketing company CreatorDB, thinks there can be a "healthy middle class" of content creators. Jacobs told Business Insider that he usually recommends CreatorDB's clients go with a "pool of medium-sized creators" that "often will perform better than a single large creator if they're the same price." Using data analytics and AI, CreatorDB wants to prove that to brands.

Arch - $52M Series B Arch, a private market investment tracking platform, has raised $52M in Series B funding led by Oak HC/FT. Founded by Jason Trigg, Joel Stein, and Ryan Eisenman in 2018, Arch has now raised a total of $77.5M in reported equity funding. GreenLite - $49.5M Series B CONSTRUCTION TECH GreenLite, a platform that streamlines the permitting process for construction, has raised $49.5M in Series B funding led by Insight Partners. Founded by Benjamin Allen and James Gallagher in 2022, GreenLite has now raised a total of $86M in reported equity funding.

"No question: we're early," said Krane. "Third pitch, top of the second inning, driving at Formula One speeds." He added: "This is a pitch clock that we've never seen before. This game is moving incredibly quickly, for better and for worse."

"This is like a dream job, where I get to help early stage companies make noise, but then I also get to help the late-stage companies prepare for IPOs," Machiz says.

the very best of DARPA technology gets scaled and into the market and is made available to the warfighter.

AlixLabs has developed technology to shrink semiconductors like transistors and memory. They are building a pilot facility in Lund to handle wafers for global players like Intel and Taiwan's UMC. But their SEK 165M round has proven hard to fill in Europe. "Interest in Asia is much greater," says CEO Jonas Sundqvist, who keeps the round open for overseas investors. A few blocks away, NordAmps is raising SEK 65M for nanowire transistors that boost analog circuits with higher speed and lower energy use.

When Arianna Simpson was 22 years old, she plowed her savings into Bitcoin. She had left her college job and traveled with a friend through Zimbabwe, witnessing firsthand the consequences of hyperinflation. When she returned, she became enamored with the idea of crypto as a potential salve. Aside from investing the contents of her bank account, Simpson started a blockchain lunch meetup at her next post, Facebook. She wrote a blog post on multisignature wallets that landed her a job at the infrastructure startup BitGo,

The AI news cycle of the summer captured themes including the challenge of starting a career, the importance of technology in the China/U.S. trade war, and mounting anxiety about the impact of the technology. But in terms of finance and investing, Deutsche Bank sees markets "on edge" and hoping for a soft landing amid bubble fears. In part, it blames tech CEOs for egging on the market with overpromises, leading to inflated hopes and dreams, many spurred on by tech leaders' overpromises.