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The share of U.S. startup funding going to companies with Black founders hit a multiyear low in 2024, even as overall funding ticked slightly higher. Only around $730 million — or 0.4%

In general, it has not been a good deal for private equity firms to list their portfolio holdings over the past decade. This is shown by a review conducted by Dagens industri.

Photo: Luke Walker (Getty Images) A thousand unicorns. That’s how many billion-dollar startups India could produce over the next two decades — and it’s why investors are betting on it to power

TOKYO, May 26, 2025–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. (Tokyo: 4183; President & CEO: HASHIMOTO Osamu), a global chemicals manufacturer based in Japan, today announced the launch of its second Corporate Venture Capital Fund

By Kate Clark and Katie Roof, Bloomberg There’s a crisis brewing for the next generation of venture capitalists. While Silicon Valley heavyweights like Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz are still able to