Venture capital normally starts to slow down in the last couple of months of the year — the record-breaking 2021 excluded, obviously. Last month did feel that way, with fewer rounds being announced and funding being down. However, there were … Continue reading 4 Surprising Startup Deals You Should Not Miss In December
While Jersey City is just an 11-minute train ride from Manhattan’s financial district, it’s historically been worlds apart when it comes to startup funding. Ditto for the state of New Jersey as a whole. Despite being the most densely populated U.S. state … Continue reading New Jersey’s Startup Scene
How much of a startup investor’s success can be attributed to luck? Defining luck Winning a high-stakes poker tournament as a beginner requires luck. Making a comfortable living as a professional poker player requires ability. Of those two scenarios, it’s … Continue reading Luck’s Role In Venture Capital
For years now, startup investors have been busily writing checks to founders applying artificial intelligence in creative new ways to their respective industries. That momentum continued in 2022, with investors signing on to back some rather quirky applications of AI … Continue reading From Wigs To Fish, Some Very Quirky AI Startups Got Funded In 2022
Last year, financial services was the leading sector for venture investment, with at least $131 billion globally going into startups in the space. This year, the industry still ranks among the largest recipients of venture capital funding. However, investment to … Continue reading Here’s How Far Fintech Funding Has Fallen
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway upped its stake in Japan’s five biggest trading houses, according to the News on Monday from Bloomberg. And lately the Far East seems to have caught his and Berkshire’s eye with the firm pouring even more … Continue reading Berkshire’s bulked-up stakes in the Japanese trading firms
The giant UK insurer Legal & General (L&G) reared its head on Friday to reveal the damage it took during September’s pension fund storm: a measly $12 million, a LDI (Liability Driven Investment) pension fallout, as it turns out. Legal & General … Continue reading Legal & General expects £12m impact from LDI pension fallout
Syla Technologies is a prop-tech company centered on ‘Rimawari-kun’, the largest real estate crowdfunding service in Japan. Real estate is the second largest asset class after bonds and stocks, but its full potential has not been realized due to market inefficiencies … Continue reading Japanese Asset Management platform Syla Technologies files for $17M US IPO
Malaysian biotech CytoMed Therapeutics (GDTC) has filed for a proposed $15M initial public offering. CytoMed is a biotech company spun off from Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore’s lead R&D agency in public sector and focus on translating … Continue reading Malaysian biotech CytoMed Therapeutics files for $10M US IPO
Over the last few years, insiders as a group have been huge sellers of technology stocks. The need to diversify their holdings combined with stock prices that had been bid up to levels unhinged from reality contributed to these large … Continue reading Datadog: The Technology New Star With Recent Insider Buying
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