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BBG Ventures raises $60 million for its latest fund and moves beyond just backing female founders

BBG Ventures raises a $60 million fund and adds new investors like Pivotal Ventures, California End…

Leena Rao   


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Founder Ritesh Agarwal invests Rs 830 crore in OYO's latest funding round; Platform raises Rs 1,457 crore

​​Post the equity dilution in the Series G funding, Agarwal's holdings will increase from 29.97 per…

PTI   


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Curtains down for Koo; founders say little yellow bird bids final goodbye

Koo ,at its peak, grossed about 2.1 million daily active users, about 10 million monthly active use…

PTI   


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Dunzo co-founder Mukund Jha plans to start his own AI company, seeks to raise up to Rs 80 crore from Together Fund

Dunzo co-founder Mukund Jha, who stepped down from the company's board last year, is set to launch …

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These tech investors are trawling UC Berkeley to fund the next Perplexity or Databricks

The House Funds invests in a conveyor belt of entrepreneurial talent coming out of the University o…

Melia Russell   


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Meet Jeff Smith, the hedge-fund investor taking on Pfizer

Since 2011, Starboard Value's Jeff Smith has extracted board seats and profits from corporate Ameri…

Alex Morrell   


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Boomers had Jobs. Millennials had Zuck. Where are Gen Z's tech founders?

Silicon Valley has long been obsessed with young, disruptive founders. But Gen Z is less sure about…

Amanda Hoover   


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What's in a title? How hedge funds and their employees use the industry's lack of consistency to their advantage

Hedge fund titles have become a part of the industry's talent war. "It's extremely tough to know wh…

Bradley Saacks   


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World Tourism Day: Here's where India is travelling to, and how you too, can join the bandwagon

Don't let your travel fund sit idle in a savings account. You can invest it in various short-term i…

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Why quant giant D.E. Shaw seeks out academics, doctors, and veterans to work at the $60 billion hedge fund

The firm is known for recruiting talent from outside of finance to work at the long-running asset m…

Bradley Saacks   


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Chris Kirchner, founder of Goldman Sachs-backed Slync, was sentenced to 20 years for fraud and laundering startup funds

Chris Kirchner, a startup founder convicted of defrauding investor was sentenced to 20 years in fed…

Emma Cosgrove   


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Could not buy concert tickets for Diljit Dosanjh or Coldplay? Here's what you can do with all the unspent funds

Many fans were unable to secure tickets for Coldplay's 2025 concert in Mumbai despite high demand a…

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The investors behind OpenAI's historic $6.6 billion funding round

OpenAI has raised $6.6 billion in a new funding round that's also one of the largest private invest…

Alex Bitter,Ana Altchek,Hasan…   


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Why everyone in tech is talking about 'founder mode'

Instead of delegating to direct reports, Y Combinator cofounder Paul Graham said founders should st…

Shubhangi Goel   


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EdTech revival? PhysicsWallah raises $210 million, catapulting the firm’s valuation to $2.8 billion

PhysicsWallah secures $210 million in funding, boosting its valuation to $2.8 billion amid challeng…

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Why VCs love obnoxious founders

VCs don't care if you're a nice person. They want founders who take massive risks.

Nate Silver   


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After F&O trading platform, CoinSwitch's founders launch zero-commission Mutual Funds with Lemonn

PeepalCo's Lemonn platform is now offering zero-commission Mutual Funds, competing with top Indian …

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Zomato's net profit jumps 389% YoY, board approves Rs 8,500 crore fund-raise proposal

Ahead of the IPO of rival food and grocery delivery competitor Swiggy, Zomato's board also approved…

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There's a catch in OpenAI's $6.6 billion funding deal that no one is talking about

OpenAI reportedly has to become a for-profit entity in two years or give back investor money from i…

Natalie Musumeci,Alex Bitter   


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2 founders of a crypto mixer charged with laundering funds from the dark web

Prosecutors say Samourai Wallet, which anonymized crypto transactions, laundered hundreds of millio…

Geoff Weiss