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Tech start-ups

  • Thursday, 26 September, 2024
    News in-depthIndustrial espionage
    How a Chinese billionaire’s Silicon Valley splurge caught the eye of the FBI

    Shan Xiangshuang’s $10bn buyout group quietly became a top US tech investor. That has triggered official concern

    A composite image of Shan Xiangshuang, an aerial photo of Silicon Valley and the FBI crest
  • Wednesday, 25 September, 2024
    Industrial espionage
    FBI probes whether Silicon Valley venture firm passed secrets to China

    Hone Capital became one of the most prolific early investors in US tech start-ups

    Montage of FBI, Hone Capital and CSC Group logos
  • Friday, 20 September, 2024
    News in-depthOpenAI
    Investors pile into OpenAI’s $6bn funding round in unprecedented bet

    Venture groups believe ChatGPT-maker will eventually be the world’s dominant AI company and worth trillions of dollars

    Montage featuring OpenAI chief Sam Altman and the logos of OpenAI and Thrive Capital
  • Sunday, 15 September, 2024
    Venture capital investment
    Insight Partners closes in on $10bn fund as venture deals pick up

    Tech investors cautiously return to market that has been battered over past two years

    A smartphone displaying the logo of Insight Partners in front of a background of fluctuating stock market data on a screen.
  • Sunday, 15 September, 2024
    Venture capital investment
    European tech investment group targets €600mn for debut fund

    Noteus set up by former Eurazeo team to back start-ups as tech investment recovers

    Yann du Rusquec, Noteus chief executive
  • Thursday, 12 September, 2024
    John Thornhill
    The surprising truth about failure in business

    Not everyone learns from things going wrong but progress depends upon it

    Sam Bankman-Fried
  • Thursday, 12 September, 2024
    The Big Read
    How China has ‘throttled’ its private sector

    Venture capital finance has dried up amid political and economic pressures, prompting a dramatic fall in new company formation

    Pony Ma, Jack Ma, Neil Shen, Shanghai skyline and Chinese flag
  • Wednesday, 11 September, 2024
    OpenAI
    OpenAI aims to raise at least $5bn at $150bn valuation

    ChatGPT maker’s value set to nearly double as it seeks more investment to fund ambitious expansion

    OpenAI logo in front of a computer keyboard
  • Sunday, 8 September, 2024
    ICONIQ Capital LLC
    Zuckerberg-backed Iconiq seeks new ways to cash in on start-ups amid IPO drought

    Investment group that acts as family office of top entrepreneurs bets on M&A and secondary markets

    Iconiq partners Seth Pierrepont (left) and Matt Jacobson
  • Thursday, 5 September, 2024
    Business InsightRichard Waters
    AI start-up hopes contrast with pullback in hype for listed stocks

    Volatility looks like becoming the new reality in the sector on public markets

    OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever
  • Wednesday, 4 September, 2024
    Masters in Management
    Business schools target a fair start for women in start-ups

    Masters in management are readying aspiring female entrepreneurs to overcome barriers and biases

    A young woman with a veil touches the tablet which is placed on a lit-up table
  • Sunday, 25 August, 2024
    Start-up incubator Y Combinator backs its first weapons firm

    Investment in maker of ‘low-cost cruise missiles’ a sign of Silicon Valley’s shifting stance towards the arms industry

    The USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier in the Pacific
  • Tuesday, 20 August, 2024
    Americas companies
    Call for entries: The Americas’ Fastest Growing Companies 2025

    Apply for a place in the sixth annual FT ranking of companies in north, central and South America

  • Monday, 19 August, 2024
    Start-up failures rise 60% as founders face hangover from boom years

    Private company shutdowns jump compared with last year despite AI funding frenzy, threatening millions of jobs at VC-backed firms

    Trucks on a motorway
  • Sunday, 18 August, 2024
    Artificial intelligence
    Biggest US companies warn of growing AI risk

    Study finds more than half of Fortune 500 groups cited new technology as a potential hazard in their latest annual reports

    Members of the SAG-AFTRA screen actors guild protest with signs including ‘Human Writers Only’ in Los Angeles, California
  • Wednesday, 14 August, 2024
    Venture capital investment
    Radical Ventures raises nearly $800mn to focus on AI

    Early backer of artificial intelligence pioneers has raised largest fund of its kind

    Radical ventures logo
  • Wednesday, 14 August, 2024
    Artificial intelligence
    Big Tech’s talent raids on AI start-ups sideline early investors

    Early exits for hotly-tipped companies including Inflection and Character. AI highlight challenge for founders as costs rise

    Montage of logos for various AI companies
  • Monday, 12 August, 2024
    Venture capital investment
    Revolut backer Balderton raises $1.3bn for European tech start-ups

    VC funding points to capital returning to Europe as interest in region grows

    Balderton partners Bernard Liautaud and Suranga Chandratillake
  • Sunday, 11 August, 2024
    British Business Bank Plc
    Dozens of UK start-ups helped by taxpayer-funded loans in pandemic face closure

    Future Fund scheme run by the British Business Bank issued 1,190 companies with convertible loans worth £1.14bn

    British Business Bank logo
  • Saturday, 10 August, 2024
    OpenAI
    Where have OpenAI’s founders gone?

    Only two of 11 co-founders of ChatGPT maker are still active at the $86bn company after a series of exits this year

  • Thursday, 8 August, 2024
    Anduril Industries
    US defence tech start-up Anduril raises $1.5bn at $14bn valuation

    The funding, which was co-led by Peter Thiel’s VC firm, will go towards production of autonomous weapons for America and allies

    An Anvil-M drone at Anduril’s headquarters in California
  • Wednesday, 7 August, 2024
    Roche Holding AG
    Roche considers options for $1.9bn cancer data start-up

    Swiss drugmaker examines options for Flatiron Health after acquisition has disappointed

    Roche logo on the side of a building in Basel, Switzerland
  • Tuesday, 6 August, 2024
    Mubadala Investment Company PJSC
    Mubadala races to salvage European start-up investments

    Executives at Abu Dhabi’s $300bn fund lead restructurings and management changes as valuations sink

    Montage Mubadala Getir Wefox and Abu Dhabi skyline
  • Tuesday, 30 July, 2024
    Digital health
    Fertility app Flo valuation reaches $1bn as women’s health market takes off

    Private equity firm General Atlantic backs start-up as it turns to ‘untapped’ market of those experiencing menopause

    Mobile phone being held, displaying Flo app
  • Thursday, 25 July, 2024
    John Thornhill
    Start-ups like Wiz will have to learn the art of living longer

    The decision of the Israeli-founded cyber security company and Google to call off their match has lessons for the tech sector

    The Wiz logo on the screen of a smartphone
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