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“The greatest difficulty in the world is not for people to accept new ideas, but to make them forget about old ideas.” I often think of this quote by John Maynard Keynes when portfolio companies approach me for guidance around doing deals with large corporate clients. The success and failur

When we first read PitchBook's data on global venture investment in Q3, the first conclusion that my colleague Alex Wilhelm and I reached was that startups around the world wouldn't be mistaken to expect another quarter of declines. As usual, the numbers are nuanced: European startups were

Wanda Fish Technologies, an Israeli food tech startup, secured $7 million in seed funding to accelerate the initial production of cultivated bluefin tuna. Cultivated, or cell-cultivated, technology involves creating animal proteins from cells without the need to slaughter the animal. The cells are

The U.K. care home sector was pegged as a £7.7 billion market in 2021, according to most recent estimates, yet capacity is shrinking at a time when the average age of the general population continues to grow. Throw into the mix a lack of transparency over pricing and service availability, and it&#

Circular, backed by Y Combinator, is a service that offers consumers in Singapore and Australia subscriptions to high-end electronics, like iPhones, Samsung Galaxy, iPad Pros and MacBook Pros. Not only does it want help people get devices at lower prices, but also keep them in circulation for as lo

Onsurity, an Indian startup that offers monthly subscription-based insurance solutions to micro, small and medium enterprises, startups and growing businesses, has raised $24 million in a funding round led by the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC). The Series B round also sa

Getsafe, a German-based digital insurtech startup, has acquired the German portfolio of Luko, a French insurtech startup that recently neared insolvency before agreeing to be acquired by British insurer Admiral Group in a transaction that didn’t include its German or Spanish operations. Getsa

Building a startup takes a lot of time and work. You need to not only build a great product, but you also need to hire, raise money, spend that money, and do it all in a way that will minimize mistakes and maximize profits. There's oceans of advice, too, on how to run a business. Events are one

Women and underrepresented founders are not going to wait around for the VC industry to transform itself, so what can be done in the meantime? The organization I work for, Village Capital, recently worked with the International Finance Corporation (IFC), academic researchers, and a consortium of pa

Discussions about what the future of social media might look like have become increasingly common over the last year. Elon Musk’s acquisition — and gutting — of Twitter, a slew of new social media startups, and Meta’s launch of Threads have made it clear that the next five years won

The promise of electric aviation has been weighed down by the limited range of batteries and the long certification process. Regent co-founder and CEO Billy Thalheimer, who previously worked at Aurora Flight Sciences, has looked to maritime — and more specifically, electric seagliders — for the

Welcome to Startups Weekly. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. As I sat down to write this week's Startups Weekly, I do what I do every week: Read every story on technewss. This week, that meant reading 212 stories on the site, and you know what I'm left with? An overwhelmi

Autumn on planet Earth didn't start until the equinox a few weeks ago, but the axis shifted months ago in Startupworld, where VC winter has desperate founders smashing up the furniture for firewood. Metaphorically speaking, of course. We're definitely in a down market, but f

There haven’t been many neobanks cropping up lately, so I was a little surprised to learn that Lupiya recently raised a $8.3 million Series A. The company claims it is trying to make the world better “by creating a landscape that promotes an economically empowered Zambia.” For th