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Venture capital investment

  • Thursday, 18 July, 2024
    Financials
    US regulators serve up a shot aimed at Serena Williams-backed venture

    SoLo Funds lets borrowers set their own flat fees but consumer authorities want it to state costs as a yearly interest rate

    Serena Williams at the Espy awards
  • Thursday, 18 July, 2024
    Inside BusinessRichard Waters
    Venture capital has an exit problem

    A big overhang of ageing — and unsold — private tech companies has developed

    The Wiz logo on a smartphone
  • Tuesday, 16 July, 2024
    Klarna AB
    Klarna lines up banks for long-planned US listing

    Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs set to secure top roles on fintech’s potential offering

    The Klarna logo on a phone
  • Tuesday, 16 July, 2024
    Venture capitalists in line for windfalls from Google’s $23bn Wiz deal

    Deal would be rare bright spot for investors who have struggled to return money to backers in recent years

    Wiz logo
  • Tuesday, 16 July, 2024
    News in-depthIntel Corp
    Intel venture arm’s China tech stakes raise alarm in Washington

    Silicon Valley chipmaker has invested in more than 40 Chinese start-ups while also receiving billions in US grants

    An Intel chip
  • Thursday, 11 July, 2024
    Xiaohongshu
    Chinese social media sensation Xiaohongshu wins major foreign VC backing

    Yuri Milner’s DST Global takes stake at $17bn valuation in rare investment from overseas after China’s tech crackdown

    A woman uses her phone under ginkgo trees on an autumn day in Beijing, China
  • Wednesday, 10 July, 2024
    Biotech
    Biotech investor behind Moderna raises $3.6bn for new ventures

    Incubator Flagship Pioneering plans to finance and launch array of companies using AI for pharmaceutical development

    A person receives a booster shoot of the Moderna coronavirus vaccine
  • Wednesday, 10 July, 2024
    Index Ventures raises $2.3bn to chase AI breakthroughs

    Venture capital firm has poured more than half of its recent investments into artificial intelligence

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  • Monday, 8 July, 2024
    HongShan
    Sequoia Capital’s former China unit raises new $2.5bn start-up fund

    Neil Shen’s HongShan creates renminbi vehicle with more scope to invest in sensitive technologies than previous $9bn fund

    Neil Shen speaking at an investment conference
  • Thursday, 27 June, 2024
    Helsing
    German AI defence start-up Helsing poised to triple valuation to $4.5bn

    Silicon Valley investors Accel and Lightspeed part of latest fundraising round talks that would raise almost $500mn

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  • Tuesday, 18 June, 2024
    Aerospace & Defence
    Europe spurs investment in defence tech start-ups

    Head of €1bn Nato fund says geopolitical tensions and conflicts are pushing the region to catch up fast with the US

    research satellite from Space Forge
  • Friday, 14 June, 2024
    Lightspeed Management Co LLC
    Silicon Valley’s Lightspeed shifts focus to secondary markets

    Move is a sign of how traditional investment models are under threat by a challenging VC environment

    Montage of Bejul Somaia and Ravi Mhatre and lightspeed logo
  • Monday, 10 June, 2024
    FT CollectionsTech Exchange
    Index Ventures’ Danny Rimer: ‘The talent is what’s going to drive the difference’

    Markets and technology matter, says the VC veteran, but people are the decisive factor in choosing investments

  • Saturday, 8 June, 2024
    Pharmaceuticals sector
    Charities create fund to invest in spinal cord injury companies

    Launch highlights growth of venture philanthropy to boost search for treatments and cures

    x-ray shows spinal cord
  • Friday, 7 June, 2024
    US tech sector pressures Chinese venture capital to divest

    Start-up stakes are being sold to American investors in anticipation of Washington restricting foreign ownership

    Joshua Xu speaks onstage at an event with the words Collision in the background
  • Wednesday, 5 June, 2024
    Private equity
    StepStone raises record cash pool to buy venture capital stakes

    Private capital group spots opportunity to purchase discounted holdings from investors seeking exits

    Screens announce the listing of private-equity firm TPG, during the IPO at the Nasdaq Market site in Times Square
  • Monday, 3 June, 2024
    Tech start-ups
    Investors revive enthusiasm for European tech start-ups

    Early Spotify backer Creandum raises €500mn in ‘record time’ as venture capitalists predict return to growth this year

    A man and a woman working at computers in a Creandum office
  • Friday, 31 May, 2024
    Financial services
    Private capital has raised more money than it has returned

    Returns for me; not for thee

  • Thursday, 30 May, 2024
    Technology sector
    Investor TCV raises $3bn to back growth-stage start-ups

    US firm is confident of opportunities to fund more established tech companies three years after a boom pushed up prices

    Still from the TV series Selling Sunset
  • Thursday, 30 May, 2024
    Special ReportImpact Investing
    India’s venture capitalists seek to verify the impact they make

    Funds want domestic and foreign investors to see the effects of backing climate tech, microfinance and agrifood businesses

    Agricultural workers manually harvesting wheat in a field. They are lifting and stacking bundles of wheat onto a thresher attached to a tractor. The atmosphere is dusty, with all workers wearing casual field clothes and head coverings
  • Thursday, 23 May, 2024
    xAI
    Musk’s xAI secures new backing from Andreessen, Lightspeed, Sequoia and Tribe

    Billionaire’s artificial intelligence start-up closes in on $6bn funding round as it seeks more financial firepower

    Elon Musk and xAI logo
  • Wednesday, 22 May, 2024
    Temasek’s venture capital arm to launch first Japan-focused fund

    Singapore’s Vertex group plans to raise $65mn to invest in software and ‘deep tech’ start-ups

    Chua Kee Lock
  • Tuesday, 14 May, 2024
    Impact investing
    Norrsken closes €320mn impact investing fund to hunt for unicorns

    Venture group that backed Northvolt secures new money from institutions such as Credit Suisse and BMW’s pension fund

    Niklas Adalberth
  • Thursday, 9 May, 2024
    Indian business & finance
    Private equity targets India’s healthcare sector with record investments

    Increases in doctors’ bills, insurance and ‘lifestyle diseases’ are expected to boost hospital revenues

    Nurses provide medical care to a patient on a ward for heat stroke patients at a government hospital in Chennai
  • Sunday, 28 April, 2024
    Silicon Valley’s General Catalyst closes in on $6bn fund for tech start-ups

    Venture capital firm’s success underlines divergence between big names and smaller groups as fundraising slows more broadly

    Hemant Taneja
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