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Artificial Intelligence
AI agents will not scale inside companies only because models get better. They will scale when companies can control what agents are allowed to do. A chatbot answers a question. An agent does work.
Team S11 days ago
Venture investors who spent the last few years chasing AI software deals are now chasing something much heavier: reactors.
Team S19 days ago
German startups raised EUR 3.4 billion between April and June 2026, according to new data from KfW Research, the research arm of Germany's state-owned development bank.
Team S20 days ago
European IPO activity is showing signs of recovery after several subdued years. But the rebound is not simply about more companies going public.
Team S1 month ago
May 2026Late on Tuesday night, Sam Altman posted on X that OpenAI had offered to invest $2 million in tokens into every startup in the current Y Combinator batch.
Team S3 months ago
May 2026 The World Economic Forum, in collaboration with Stanford Graduate School of Business, just published its most comprehensive look yet at the state of venture…
Praveen Paranjothi3 months ago
May 2026For decades, ordinary investors largely invested in public companies after they became successful.The biggest wealth creation often happened much earlier in…
Team S3 months ago
April 7, 2026Anthropic announced Claude Mythos Preview on April 7. The launch came with an unusual condition: Anthropic said it would not release the model to the general…
Praveen Paranjothi4 months ago
7 April 2026The UK government has expanded three entrepreneurship tax relief schemes effective 6 April 2026.
Team S4 months ago
9 April 2026The core fund investing team from Sapphire Partners, the LP investing arm of Sapphire Ventures, is joining LGT Capital Partners' venture capital platform.
Team S4 months ago
March 2026GP stakes as a concept is not new. Minority ownership stakes in fund management companies have existed since the early 2000s, and Goldman Sachs raised the…
Praveen Paranjothi4 months ago
Private credit, also called direct lending, refers to loans made by non-bank institutions directly to companies.
Team S4 months ago
March 2026 | Based on McKinsey x IVCA LP Survey, November 2025India has quietly become the most attractive private market destination in Asia-Pacific.
Team S4 months ago
Elon Musk launched TeraFab in late March 2026 with $20 billion in initial funding.
Team S4 months ago
March 2026The venture capital model is not broken.But it is evolving faster than most people in the industry are willing to say out loud.The structure hasn't changed…
Praveen Paranjothi4 months ago
26 March 2026The venture capital market is undergoing a structural shift.
Praveen Paranjothi5 months ago
Stripe's latest valuation of $159bn reflects a deeper shift in how private markets are functioning, how capital is being deployed, and how a small group of companies are…
Team S6 months ago
A comprehensive analysis by Macfarlanes (February 2026) lays out the macroeconomic forces shaping private capital markets.
Praveen Paranjothi6 months ago
