Good morning. This article is an on-site version of our FirstFT newsletter. Sign up to our Asia, Europe/Africa or Americas edition to get it sent straight to your inbox every weekday morning It’s Budget day in the UK, where chancellor Jeremy Hunt is set to announce billions of pounds to… Read Full Article Here FT
International funding for Chinese start-ups dried up last year, pushing many fledgling technology companies to raise capital and list at home instead of on Wall Street. Dollar investments in the country’s new companies fell by nearly three-quarters last year, declining to 19 per cent of the total capital put into start-ups from 39 per cent […]
Women-Led Web3 Startups Raise 4X Less Funding Than Those … Blockworks Source link
Photo Illustration: Mateusz Slodkowski/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Binge-watching TV shows could soon help you find love on a dating app. Driving the news: Austin-based dating app Bumble this week announced a partnership with Netflix to create a game centered around the streaming service’s most popular shows, including “Emily in Paris,” “Squid Game,” “Selling Sunset,” […]
Lauren Vollon. Credit: Bocconi University Venture capital firms (VCs), sophisticated investors in early-stage startups, are important players in the startup industry. The majority of startups exit through a Merger and Acquisition (M&A) deal. However, empirical evidence on private M&A contracting is limited due to data constraints. My job market paper, titled “Venture Capital and Private […]
Running any tech startup is a monumental task. However, running a startup in the world of Web3, with its layers of technical know-how, fast-evolving ecosystem, and constantly shifting demands from regulators, is undoubtedly harder. That is often where accelerators come in. Put simply, an accelerator is an organization that helps existing startups grow and develop. […]
Machines that have been taught to understand and learn similarly to humans are said to have artificial intelligence (AI). They can be introduced to carry out operations that ordinarily demand human intellect, such as speech recognition, understanding natural language, and decision-making. AI can take many forms, including computer vision, natural language processing, and machine learning. […]
The world’s oldest large organisms are bizarre creatures. One of them, an eyeless, mouthless, gutless fish called Dickinsonia, absorbed food through its flat body as it slunk along the ocean floor. Then there’s a sort of U-shaped slug known as Kimberella, which may have eaten while moving backwards. But as unusual as these 550-million-year-old species […]
While the era of NFT’s exchanging hands for expensive fees seems like a different time now, the NFT technology has always been attractive for more than one reason. NFTs are cryptographic assets that hold metadata and identification codes hosted on a blockchain. Unlike fungible tokens, NFTs cannot be exchanged or used for commercial transactions, and cannot […]
$1 Billion Fund to Bet on Abu Dhabi Global Market Web3 Start-ups Venom foundation is the first blockchain to receive a license by the ADGM which allows the issuance of utility tokens Abu Dhabi-based blockchain platform Venom Foundation and investment manager Iceberg Capital announced they will allocate $1 billion of funding to Web3 and blockchain […]