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Tech start-ups

  • 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

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  • 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

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  • Wednesday, 17 July, 2024
    Artificial intelligence
    ‘Godmother of AI’ Fei-Fei Li builds $1bn start-up in 4 months

    Stanford computer scientist’s ‘spatial intelligence’ venture wins backing from investors including Andreessen Horowitz

    Fei-Fei Li, co-director of Stanford University’s Human-Centered AI institute, at the Bloombury Technology Summit
  • Tuesday, 16 July, 2024
    Venture capital investment
    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

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  • Sunday, 14 July, 2024
    Alphabet Inc
    Google parent in talks to buy cyber security start-up Wiz for $23bn

    Acquisition of cloud specialist would be largest in Alphabet’s history

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  • 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

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  • Wednesday, 10 July, 2024
    Advanced Micro Devices Inc
    AMD to buy Silo AI for $665mn in drive to compete with Nvidia

    All-cash acquisition by California-based chipmaker is the largest of its kind in Europe in a decade

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  • Wednesday, 10 July, 2024
    Venture capital investment
    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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  • Thursday, 4 July, 2024
    IPOs
    UK should penalise start-ups that take state aid but list abroad, says lobby group

    UK Finance, a banking body argues for clawback of tax breaks to halt flow of business overseas

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  • Monday, 1 July, 2024
    Rebooting Britain’s capital markets
    UK start-ups turn to Silicon Valley to fill void left by risk-averse pension funds

    Bolder reform of retirement funds is a contentious part of attempts to reboot Britain’s capital markets 

    Matthew Scullion and John Symonds
  • Sunday, 30 June, 2024
    News in-depth
    Nigeria’s food delivery industry whets investors’ appetite

    Sector forecast to double in value over eight years but soaring inflation will erode families’ spending power

  • Friday, 28 June, 2024
    Artificial intelligence
    Nvidia partner Lambda Labs seeks $800mn as AI computing demand soars

    Silicon Valley start-up that rents out servers powered by chip giant seeks to capitalise on investor interest

    An Nvidia Cop. Quantum-X800 InfiniBand Platform
  • 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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  • Wednesday, 19 June, 2024
    Artificial intelligence
    OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever announces rival AI start-up

    Safe Superintelligence Inc to focus on safety and comes a month after star researcher quit the ChatGPT maker

    Ilya Sutskever
  • 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

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  • Tuesday, 11 June, 2024
    Checkout Group Ltd
    Senior executive at UK payment company Checkout.com to leave

    Chief operating officer Céline Dufétel to depart what was once Europe’s most valuable start-up

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  • Tuesday, 11 June, 2024
    Social Media
    Photo-sharing app BeReal acquired by Voodoo for €500mn

    Paris-based platform popular with young people is bought by French video game developer

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  • Monday, 10 June, 2024
    Brent Hoberman
    The UK is at risk of losing Europe’s tech crown

    Companies need the next prime minister to act as their champion on the global stage

    A red London bus drives around Old Street roundabout in Shoreditch London
  • Friday, 7 June, 2024
    The Big Read
    The failed startup, the Candy brother and the £100mn lawsuit

    Robert Bonnier secured backing from Nick Candy for his fledgling social media app, but the property tycoon now says he was duped

    Robert Bonnier, centre, Nick Candy, right. Logos of Audioboom, Aaqua, LVMH and Apple
  • Friday, 7 June, 2024
    Venture capital investment
    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
  • Thursday, 6 June, 2024
    Special ReportAfrica’s Fastest Growing Companies
    Africa businesses struggle to recover from Covid pandemic

    List of top 125 shows companies that have performed well in difficult times

    An illustration shows four people engaging in various shopping activities using giant smartphone screens as doorways. On the far left, a woman carries a basket on her head while opening a refrigerated section of a phone. Next, an older woman walks out of a phone carrying shopping bags. In the third phone, a young man picks fresh produce handed to him by a vendor. On the far right, a man in a red shirt, possibly a store employee, smiles and waves from behind another smartphone screen. The scene is set against an orange sky and grassy ground
  • Monday, 3 June, 2024
    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
  • Thursday, 23 May, 2024
    News in-depthBuilder.ai
    Builder.ai: The wild ride of a Microsoft-backed tech unicorn

    Founder of one of the UK’s best-funded start-ups has been dogged by legal disputes during a meteoric business career

    Montage of Builder.ai logo, phones and Sachin Dev Duggal
  • Tuesday, 21 May, 2024
    Technology sector
    AI data labelling start-up Scale valuation doubles to $14bn

    Alexandr Wang’s company brings in $1bn in latest fundraising round as investors bet that data is the new oil

    Person holding cellphone with logo of Scale AI on screen in front of business webpage
  • Wednesday, 15 May, 2024
    Artificial intelligence
    PolyAI secures near $500mn valuation in boost to UK’s AI ambitions

    London-based start-up behind artificial intelligence call centre assistants secures funding

    Person holding mobile phone with logo of PolyAI
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