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Despite recent successes, IPO market still won’t fully open until 2025

Experts say macroeconomic factors including the upcoming election and the current state of the economy will deter too many IPOs this year.

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Climate tech investment roars back with an $8.1B start to 2024

Companies focused on reducing CO2 emissions raised big sums, second only to Q3 2023.

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Inside TC’s Techstars investigation and how AI is accelerating disability tech

The downturn in venture capital funding has impacted startups, VC firms, and accelerators alike. One company in the final category, Techstars, has been shaking up its operations for some time now, leading to a number of departures. TechCrunch got curious about what happened, so we dove deep into exactly how it all went down. We […]

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Microsoft says it released 30 responsible AI tools in the past year

The company also grew its responsible AI team from 350 to over 400 people in the second half of 2023

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Elon Musk’s Grok Will Get All Its News From X

AI-generated news summaries on X will combine breaking news and social commentary, but not news articles.

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Walmart heir Lukas Walton’s Builders Vision puts S2G on a path to independence

Walmart heir Lukas Walton, worth $28 billion, is bringing on new limited partners to expand S2G’s investment reach.

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Haun Ventures is riding the bitcoin high

Haun Ventures has made 48 investments, including some of its token positions, across its early-stage $500 million and $1 billion later-stage acceleration funds.

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From Connie Chan to Ethan Kurzweil, venture capitalists continue to play musical chairs

When Keith Rabois announced he was leaving Founders Fund to return to Khosla Ventures in January, it came as a shock to many in the venture capital ecosystem — and not just because Rabois is a big name in the industry. It was surprising because unlike in many other fields, venture capitalists don’t traditionally move […]

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A new venture capital supergroup is forming

Startups are not shying away from big projects. That’s my takeaway from news that The Browser Company’s Arc browser is now generally available for Windows users, just as Island raised a massive grip of capital for its enterprise-focused browser tool. It’s very encouraging to see startups going after core pieces of technology and not just […]

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Chicago-based Hyde Park Venture Partners closes $98M Fund IV with two investments made so far

Hyde Park Venture Partners is known for having visibility into more than 90% of mid-continent startups and being early backers of companies like ShipBob, FourKites, G2, LogicGate and Dentologie.

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