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Funding for startups in the cybersecurity sector jumped 69% in the first quarter from the prior quarter, according to Crunchbase wsj.com/articles/cyber…
Venture firm Caffeinated Capital led the latest round of financing for Varda Space Industries wsj.com/articles/varda…
New York saw a 3.6% net gain in tech worker relocations last year, while San Francisco had a 3.7% net loss wsj.com/articles/new-y…
Venture firms are investing in fewer startups than they did last year. But they still have a huge amount of capital to deploy—$560 billion globally, according to Preqin. wsj.com/articles/ventu…
For a VC firm to drum up interest in its second fund by selling shares in its portfolio companies is well outside the norm. But Santa Barbara Venture Partners says the strategy is working for them. wsj.com/articles/exits…
The Big Apple attracted the greatest share of tech workers who were on the move last year, a report by venture firm SignalFire finds wsj.com/articles/new-y…
Venture firms struck slightly fewer deals in the first quarter than they did a year ago. But some general partners say the tide may be turning. wsj.com/articles/ventu…
Startup Varda Space Industries has raised a total of $145 million in venture funding wsj.com/articles/varda…
Jack Altman’s venture firm Alt Capital is launching an accelerator called Generate aimed at business software startups wsj.com/articles/jack-…
One fledgling VC firm has found a way to generate interest in a second fund by exiting some of its holdings without the typical IPO or acquisition wsj.com/articles/exits…
Biolinq, a startup that is developing a glucose monitor, has just raised $58 million to do clinical trials of their device on people with Type 2 diabetes who don’t use insulin wsj.com/articles/inves…
More people left startups than joined them in 2023, according to a new report from Carta, a reversal after years of swelling payrolls wsj.com/articles/start…
Pelago, which offers virtual treatment for smoking and opioid and alcohol abuse, plans to use its latest $58 million to develop programs to prevent addiction outright wsj.com/articles/pelag…
Venture firms fueled the rise of AI. Now they are using it themselves. wsj.com/articles/ventu…
Celestial AI offers semiconductor technology that boosts bandwidth and memory capacity while reducing lag and power consumption wsj.com/articles/chip-…
Longevity startup Loyal raises $45 million in venture capital to commercialize its anti-ageing drugs for dogs wsj.com/articles/dog-l…
Pelago, which offers virtual substance-abuse treatment to companies, has raised $58 million in a Series C round wsj.com/articles/pelag…
Celestial AI raises $175 million Series C round, latest display of how eager investors are to back hardware startups developing tech for artificial intelligence wsj.com/articles/chip-…
AnHeart Therapeutics discloses it will merge with publicly traded drugmaker Nuvation Bio wsj.com/articles/m-a-g…
BigID, a cybersecurity startup that has expanded into shielding data used in generative AI, was valued at $1 billion in its recent fundraising wsj.com/articles/data-…
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Startups aren't on the hot seat now, but Washington's inquiries into Google, FB, etc, aren't just a Big-Tech problem. Policy-makers & the public are more aware of tech's downsides. Startups won't get away with unchecked growth the way Big-Tech did wsj.com/articles/chern… @WSJVC
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