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Rillet, a New York-based accounting and ERP start-up, has just clinched $70 million in Series B funding—only 10 weeks after its $25 million Series A round. The latest investment was co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and ICONIQ, with Sequoia, Oak HC/FT, and existing backers also participating. Notably, Andreessen Horowitz’s Alex Rampell and ICONIQ’s Seth Pierrepont will join Rillet’s board as part of the deal.
Founded in 2021, Rillet provides an AI-powered ERP platform that integr...
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Tesi, a government-backed investor, manages €3B+ and helps bridge risk gaps in early-stage VC, biotech, and deep tech.
Europe’s VC ecosystem is evolving fast, with strengths in deep tech and life sciences—but we still need robust late-stage capital and a true pan-European tech exchange to retain high-growth companies.
Fund manager due diligence is getting sharper: alignment, transparency, and “skin in the game” matter more than ever for long-term partnerships...
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Berlin’s artificial intelligence startup n8n has become the latest European tech unicorn, after venture capital firm Accel is said to lead a funding round pushing its valuation to $2.3 billion—up from $350 million just four months earlier. Meritech Capital, among other investors, is expected to join the hundreds-of-millions-euro round, reflecting a booming appetite for AI bets across the continent.
Bloomberg reports that Accel overcame competing offers from heavyweights like ...
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SoftBank Group has kicked off fiscal 2025 with a dramatic upswing, posting a robust net profit of 421.8 billion yen ($2.87 billion) in the first quarter. This surge underscores a remarkable financial turnaround for the Japanese conglomerate, propelled by a bold investment strategy centered on artificial intelligence.
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Index Ventures’ returns: An initial $86.5 million stake turned into nearly $6 billion at IPO, helping Index reap well over $11 billion across exits with other portfolio companies like Scale AI and Wiz
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Frazier Life Sciences has closed a new $1.3 billion venture fund aimed at early-stage biotechnology investments. The fund will support the creation and development of startups focused on preclinical and early clinical-stage therapies.
This move places Frazier among the leading biotech venture firms recently raising large funds, reflecting continued interest in innovation despite challenging market conditions.
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Venture capital firm CRV has raised a $750 million fund—its 20th—to invest exclusively in early-stage startups. This marks a significant strategic shift for the firm, which is moving away from late-stage investing after returning a large portion of capital from a previous follow-on fund. CRV believes that doubling down on seed and Series A investments aligns better with its strengths and offers higher long-term returns.
The decision to scale back came after concerns that late...
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Companies staying private longer has structurally hurt the publicly traded small caps, and moreover has helped the mega caps, because they can buy the private companies and hoover up those growth engines
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Anaconda, a leading provider of open-source tools and enterprise-grade solutions for data science and machine learning, has raised $150 million in Series C funding. The funding round was led by Insight Partners, a prominent global venture capital and private equity firm.
This latest capital injection marks a significant milestone for Anaconda as it aims to expand its platform capabilities and accelerate the adoption of its Python-based data science solutions across industries...
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San Francisco-based artificial intelligence startup Anthropic is in advanced discussions to raise between $3 billion and $5 billion in a funding round that would value the company at $170 billion, according to sources familiar with the matter. The round, led by Iconiq Capital, underscores the intense investor enthusiasm for AI companies driving innovation in the rapidly expanding generative AI market. This news comes just months after Anthropic secured $3.5 ...
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The Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS), a $211 billion pension fund, is increasingly concerned about the influx of retail investor capital into private equity and real estate, which is projected to grow from $4 trillion to $13 trillion by 2032, potentially accounting for 22% of global alternative assets. This surge, discussed at a recent TRS investment committee meeting, raises risks around liquidity, transparency, and valuations, as retail investors could swell fund sizes, dilute insti...
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Major asset managers like EQT, Franklin Lexington, and Oaktree are launching semi-liquid funds aimed at retail investors. These offer lower minimums (as low as £25K) and periodic liquidity windows, making private markets more accessible
1. Increased Accessibility: Private markets, including private equity and venture capital, are now more open to retail investors due to regulatory changes and new investment platforms.
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The Berlin Commissioner for Data Protection has formally requested Google and Apple to remove the DeepSeek AI application from the application stores due to GDPR violations.
The commissioner, Meike Kamp, alleges that DeepSeek’s owner, Hangzhou DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence, based in Beijing, unlawfully collects data from German users and transfers them for processing in servers in China.
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Vugene, a Lithuanian startup specializing in multi-omics data analysis, has raised €1 million in a seed funding round led by Superhero Capital, with participation from ScaleWolf and angel investors including Darius Žurauskas, Donatas Karčiauskas, and Gytis Labašauskas. The company aims to transform complex biological data into actionable insights for researchers tackling global health challenges such as cancer, neurodegenerative diseases, and rare disorders.
Vugene leverages ...
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Hamilton Lane, a leading global private markets investment firm, has announced the launch of the Hamilton Lane Venture Capital and Growth Fund (HLVCG), a new evergreen investment vehicle registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940. https://www.newnex.io/blogs/venture-capital/hamilton-lane-launches-us-ventu...
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3 months
Three decades ago, Venture Capital Trusts (VCTs) were launched with a clear mission: to fuel innovation and entrepreneurship across the UK by connecting private investors with early-stage, high-growth companies. As VCTs celebrate their 30th anniversary in 2025, let’s look at how they’ve changed, the numbers behind their impact, and what the future holds.Show more
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4 months
Lyft just made a bold move: the U.S. ride-hailing giant is buying European taxi app FreeNow for $200 million, marking its first-ever expansion into the European market.
Why This Deal Matters
For years, Lyft has focused on North America, but this acquisition signals a new chapter. FreeNow, founded in 2009 as myTaxi and headquartered in Hamburg, Germany, is no small player. The app operates in over 150 cities across nine countries—including the U.K., Germany, France, and ...
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4 months
Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock, has issued a sobering warning about the state of the U.S. economy, suggesting that the country is "very close, if not already in, a recession." His comments come at a time when financial markets are grappling with heightened volatility, and economic indicators are flashing warning signs that have left investors nervous about the future.
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4 months
Media capital is a strategy where media companies trade unsold ad inventory (TV, digital, print, radio, out-of-home) for equity in high-growth consumer brands.
Venture capital (VC) funding is slowing, and digital advertising costs are rising, pushing the adoption of media capital.
Media firms benefit from new revenue streams; brands gain scalability.
Examples include SevenVentures (Germany), Channel 4 Ventures (UK), and AggregateMedia (independent pion...
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4 months
Historically, university endowments have been among the most significant limited partners (LPs) for venture capital funds. Today, they still represent approximately 15-20% of all venture capital dollars raised, with the lion's share coming from the 30 largest endowments. This substantial financial commitment has helped drive technological innovation and economic growth for decades.
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Construct Capital, a venture capital firm co-founded by Dayna Grayson and Rachel Holt, has raised $300 million for its second fund. The firm focuses on investing in industrial technology startups, particularly those aiming to modernize supply chains, manufacturing, and logistics.
This latest fund brings Construct Capital’s total assets under management to $520 million. With this new capital, the firm plans to expand its portfolio of early-stage companies that are transforming...
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5 months
Google LLC today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Wiz, Inc., a leading cloud security platform headquartered in New York, for $32 billion
https://blog.google/inside-google/company-announcements/google-agreement-acquire-wiz/
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Praveen Paranjothi
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To be useful and helpful to people, AI models for robotics need three principal qualities: they have to be general, meaning they’re able to adapt to different situations; they have to be interactive, meaning they can understand and respond quickly to instructions or changes in their environment; and they have to be dexterous, meaning they can do the kinds of things people generally can do with their hands and fingers, like carefully manipulate objects.
While our previous work...
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5 months
The report reveals that VC funding in 2024 reached $13.7 billion, marking a 1.4 times increase compared to 2023 levels.
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5 months
A subtle but significant shift is underway among founders in Y Combinator’s latest cohort, as some opt to raise smaller funding rounds despite strong investor interest—a trend one venture capitalist calls a “vibe shift.” Reported by TechCrunch on March 11, 2025, this change reflects a growing preference for maintaining ownership and leveraging AI-driven efficiencies over chasing large venture capital (VC) checks. Terrence Rohan, an investor with Otherwise Fund and a Y Combinator backer since ...
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Praveen Paranjothi
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5 months
I am delighted to welcome Nick, Partner at Big Pi Ventures, Greece.
Nick invests in early and growth-stage tech companies globally that can have a touch point in Greece. Nick was previously a Partner at Prime Ventures, Netherlands where I was a LP Board Member before. I am glad he has joined the Newnex community
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On March 5, 2025, BleepingComputer reported that Insight Partners, a leading U.S.-based venture capital and private equity firm managing nearly $90 billion in assets, was struck by a cyberattack. The breach, confirmed by the company, involved unauthorized access to its information systems through a sophisticated social engineering attack. Detected on January 16, 2025, the incident has raised concerns about the security of sensitive data held by one of the world’s most influential t...
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Since its inception in 2021, OpenAI’s Startup Fund has emerged as a powerhouse in the AI investment landscape, channeling millions into some of the most promising startups in artificial intelligence. Unlike traditional tech giants that dip into corporate coffers, OpenAI takes a unique approach—raising capital from external investors like Microsoft to fuel its venture fund. With $175 million in its main fund and an additional $114 million through special purpose vehicles (SPVs), OpenAI is bett...
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