Founder Wins $10K for Her Safety-Driven Lipstick Company. Here’s the Strategy She Used to Craft Her Pitch.
On this episode of the “Post-Pitch Podcast,” Joy Hoover discusses funding and growing Esoes, her cosmetics company with a mission.
This international surveillance project aims to protect wheat from deadly diseases
When Dave Hodson walked through wheat fields in Ethiopia in 2010, it seemed as if everything had been painted yellow. A rust fungus was in the process of infecting about one-third of the country’s wheat, and winds had carried its spores far and wide, coating everything in their path. “The fields were completely yellow. You’d…
December 2023
OpenAI Introduces New Governance Model for AI Safety Oversight
Led by Aleksander Madry, a new team evaluates potential risks in unreleased AI models, focusing on cybersecurity threats and other dangers.
Spotify starts divesting from France in response to new music-streaming tax
Spotify is pulling support for two music festivals in protest against a controversial new tax directed at music-streaming platforms operating in France, and threatened more action will follow in the coming months. Antoine Monin, managing director for Spotify in the France and the Benelux regions, took to X this week to decry a new tax […]
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India’s Ola Electric files for $662 million IPO
India’s Ola Electric seeks to raise $661.8 million in an initial public offering, the Bengaluru-headquartered startup said in draft papers filed with the country’s market regulator on Friday. The paperwork for the initial public offering follows Ola Electric raising $384 million from Temasek and Indian government-backed lender State Bank of India in a debt-heavy funding […]
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SVB, SBF and (more) OpenAI: The 2023 chronicles, pt. 2
Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This is the second of a two-part series looking back at 2023. Mary Ann and Alex called on two colleagues to help us chat through some […]
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A dual-use ‘Slack+location+payments’ startup raises Seed to serve humanitarian, military scenarios
When Helsing raised a $223 million Series B round, the tech world saw it as continued confirmation that Defence was unquestionably back on the investing agenda. Further confirmation comes today in the form of a $5.5 million Seed round for UK defense tech startup Labrys Technologies, led by Germany’s Project A Ventures. Also participating were […]
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Black senators voice concerns over impact of tech layoffs on minority workers
Members of the Congressional Black Caucus have written to the US Acting Secretary of Labor expressing concerns over the disproportionate impact tech layoffs could have on Black workers,
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Arkon Energy raises $110M to grow U.S. bitcoin mining capacity, launch AI cloud service in Norway
About $80 million will be used to build new data centers in Ohio, North Carolina and Texas as part of a plan to increase the company’s total megawatts by 130% by mid-2024.
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Every company wants to be on the first page of a Google search. These are the proven techniques for climbing the ranks.
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