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              Tech start-ups

              • Tuesday, 15 October, 2024
                Podcaster Stebbings raises one of Europe’s biggest venture funds

                British firm 20VC pulls in $400mn to invest in early stage tech start-ups

                Harry Stebbings
              • Monday, 7 October, 2024
                Venture capital investment
                US funding drives investment for European military tech start-ups

                American venture capital funds have provided lion’s share of investment to nascent sector this year

                Defence tech start-up Helsing
              • Sunday, 6 October, 2024
                Lex
                Why tech unicorns struggle to avoid the glue factory Premium content

                More companies are reaching the $1bn valuation milestone, but growing from horned foal to winged steed is getting tougher

                OpenAI’s Sam Altman
              • Thursday, 3 October, 2024
                John Thornhill
                The conflicted investment case for defence tech

                There’s a bull market for the fast-changing sector but investing and innovating in weapons carries risks

                A Ukrainian drone operator watches as artillery strikes Russian positions.
              • Wednesday, 2 October, 2024
                Character.ai abandons making AI models after $2.7bn Google deal

                AI start-up’s new chief says race to build large language models against Big Tech got ‘insanely expensive’

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              • Wednesday, 2 October, 2024
                Africa
                Call for entries: Africa’s Fastest Growing Companies 2025

                Apply now to be considered for our fourth annual ranking of high-growth businesses on the continent

              • Monday, 30 September, 2024
                OpenAI
                SoftBank to invest $500mn in OpenAI

                Japanese group led by Masayoshi Son set to join $6.5bn funding round that would value start-up at $150bn

                Sam Altman
              • Friday, 27 September, 2024
                Artificial intelligence
                AI start-ups generate money faster than past hyped tech companies

                New data from payments group Stripe suggest artificial intelligence groups are making revenues at an unprecedented rate

                Combination montage of chart lines going up, a computer and money.
              • Thursday, 26 September, 2024
                News in-depthIndustrial espionage
                How a Chinese billionaire’s Silicon Valley splurge caught the eye of the FBI

                Shan Xiangshuang’s $10bn buyout group quietly became a top US tech investor. That has triggered official concern

                A composite image of Shan Xiangshuang, an aerial photo of Silicon Valley and the FBI crest
              • Wednesday, 25 September, 2024
                Industrial espionage
                FBI probes whether Silicon Valley venture firm passed secrets to China

                Hone Capital became one of the most prolific early investors in US tech start-ups

                Montage of FBI, Hone Capital and CSC Group logos
              • Friday, 20 September, 2024
                News in-depthOpenAI
                Investors pile into OpenAI’s $6bn funding round in unprecedented bet

                Venture groups believe ChatGPT-maker will eventually be the world’s dominant AI company and worth trillions of dollars

                Montage featuring OpenAI chief Sam Altman and the logos of OpenAI and Thrive Capital
              • Sunday, 15 September, 2024
                Venture capital investment
                Insight Partners closes in on $10bn fund as venture deals pick up

                Tech investors cautiously return to market that has been battered over past two years

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              • Sunday, 15 September, 2024
                Venture capital investment
                European tech investment group targets €600mn for debut fund

                Noteus set up by former Eurazeo team to back start-ups as tech investment recovers

                Yann du Rusquec, Noteus chief executive
              • Thursday, 12 September, 2024
                John Thornhill
                The surprising truth about failure in business

                Not everyone learns from things going wrong but progress depends upon it

                Sam Bankman-Fried
              • Thursday, 12 September, 2024
                The Big Read
                How China has ‘throttled’ its private sector

                Venture capital finance has dried up amid political and economic pressures, prompting a dramatic fall in new company formation

                Pony Ma, Jack Ma, Neil Shen, Shanghai skyline and Chinese flag
              • Wednesday, 11 September, 2024
                OpenAI
                OpenAI aims to raise at least $5bn at $150bn valuation

                ChatGPT maker’s value set to nearly double as it seeks more investment to fund ambitious expansion

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              • Sunday, 8 September, 2024
                ICONIQ Capital LLC
                Zuckerberg-backed Iconiq seeks new ways to cash in on start-ups amid IPO drought

                Investment group that acts as family office of top entrepreneurs bets on M&A and secondary markets

                Iconiq partners Seth Pierrepont (left) and Matt Jacobson
              • Thursday, 5 September, 2024
                Business InsightRichard Waters
                AI start-up hopes contrast with pullback in hype for listed stocks

                Volatility looks like becoming the new reality in the sector on public markets

                OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever
              • Wednesday, 4 September, 2024
                Masters in Management
                Business schools target a fair start for women in start-ups

                Masters in management are readying aspiring female entrepreneurs to overcome barriers and biases

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              • Sunday, 25 August, 2024
                Start-up incubator Y Combinator backs its first weapons firm

                Investment in maker of ‘low-cost cruise missiles’ a sign of Silicon Valley’s shifting stance towards the arms industry

                The USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier in the Pacific
              • Tuesday, 20 August, 2024
                Americas companies
                Call for entries: The Americas’ Fastest Growing Companies 2025

                Apply for a place in the sixth annual FT ranking of companies in north, central and South America

              • Monday, 19 August, 2024
                Start-up failures rise 60% as founders face hangover from boom years

                Private company shutdowns jump compared with last year despite AI funding frenzy, threatening millions of jobs at VC-backed firms

                Trucks on a motorway
              • Sunday, 18 August, 2024
                Artificial intelligence
                Biggest US companies warn of growing AI risk

                Study finds more than half of Fortune 500 groups cited new technology as a potential hazard in their latest annual reports

                Members of the SAG-AFTRA screen actors guild protest with signs including ‘Human Writers Only’ in Los Angeles, California
              • Wednesday, 14 August, 2024
                Venture capital investment
                Radical Ventures raises nearly $800mn to focus on AI

                Early backer of artificial intelligence pioneers has raised largest fund of its kind

                Radical ventures logo
              • Wednesday, 14 August, 2024
                Artificial intelligence
                Big Tech’s talent raids on AI start-ups sideline early investors

                Early exits for hotly-tipped companies including Inflection and Character. AI highlight challenge for founders as costs rise

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