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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: World-Model Startup Odyssey Leads With $310M In Slower Week For Large Deals

The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: World-Model Startup Odyssey Leads With $310M In Slower Week For Large Deals

This week was not an exceptionally busy one for large funding deals, though we saw sizable rounds in a lively mix of sectors ranging from AI to fintech to quantum

AT&T Ventures’ Head Vikram Taneja On The New Rules of Seed-Stage Defensibility

AT&T Ventures’ Head Vikram Taneja On The New Rules of Seed-Stage Defensibility

In an interview with Crunchbase News, Vikram Taneja, head of AT&T Ventures, shares why he believes that while AI has drastically lowered the barrier to building

The Boardroom Blind Spot: When Success Hides Disruption

The Boardroom Blind Spot: When Success Hides Disruption

Boards should not wait for poor performance before confronting disruptive technologies like AI and quantum computing. Instead, writes guest columnist and strategic

‘This System Wasn’t Built For Me’: Black Founders Became Investors To Change Venture Capital

‘This System Wasn’t Built For Me’: Black Founders Became Investors To Change Venture Capital

The consistently low numbers of U.S. venture funding to Black founders led some to turn to investing in an effort to help level the playing field. Crunchbase News

I Sold My AI Startup Before Revenue: Here’s What Investors Missed — And Founders Shouldn’t

I Sold My AI Startup Before Revenue: Here’s What Investors Missed — And Founders Shouldn’t

The greatest long-term value in AI will come from companies solving deep technical challenges at the model and infrastructure level rather than application-layer

SpaceX Acquires AI Coding Tool Cursor For $60B In Year’s Largest Startup M&A Deal

SpaceX Acquires AI Coding Tool Cursor For $60B In Year’s Largest Startup M&A Deal

The acquisition of Cursor gives SpaceX a foothold into the enterprise software development market, where AI-assisted coding has taken off and led large companies

Silicon Is Back: Playground Global’s Decade-Long Bet On Hardware, Energy And Deep Tech Looks Prescient

Silicon Is Back: Playground Global’s Decade-Long Bet On Hardware, Energy And Deep Tech Looks Prescient

In the decade-plus since Playground Global's founding, it has built its investment thesis around the idea that breakthroughs in science and engineering — not just