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Europe’s VCs must embrace risk — or resign the AI era to US control
Europe’s AI startups are losing ground to the US — and their own investors are to blame. Only 5% of global venture capital is raised in…
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VCs are growing wary of ‘AI-washing’ — and backing real innovation
Venture capital investment surged to a 10-quarter high of€108.3bn in Q1 2025, fuelled by artificial intelligence, which accounted for over…
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VCs should still chase agtech Cinderellas
Most ag startups don’t fit the venture capital (VC) model. But here’s the thing—most companies in most industries don’t fit either. VC is…
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Figma IPO: Here are the payouts for CEO Dylan Field and Index, Greylock, Kleiner, Sequoia VCs as FIG stock starts trading on NYSE
Figma Inc.’s IPO is one of the most talked-about public offerings in tech this year, and it’s happening today. A few people stand to make…
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Trump policies aren’t stopping VCs from plowing big money into climate tech
It’s not an easy time to run a climate tech company in the U.S. But data from the first half of the year shows something surprising:…
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European VCs just made a record bet on this fusion energy underdog
Two years ago, German startup Proxima Fusion emerged from stealth with big ambitions to make a little-known stellarator fusion machine a…