A Belgian AI startup just secured serious funding to be your company’s strategic sparring partner. Trendtracker’s platform analyzes trends to predict business futures, and investors are betting big on its global potential.
London’s Hummingbird Ventures has a winning, if controversial, investment thesis: back founders with childhood trauma. Partners Barend Van den Brande and Firat Ileri look for “outliers” with grit, leading to huge wins like BillionToOne and Kraken.
Uber is partnering with Shopify to bring its one-hour and same-day delivery network to Shopify Plus merchants. The integration, announced Wednesday, December 10, aims to help retailers compete on speed without the cost of building their own logistics. This move heats up the battle for control of the
AppDirect has acquired lifecycle management platform vCom for $100 million. The move is a key piece in the company’s plan to build a unified procurement suite for all business technology, from software to mobile services.
Is AI in a bubble? Five venture capitalists with billions to deploy hashed it out at a Fortune breakfast. The consensus? Maybe, but the long-term potential is unimaginably huge.
Mondu, a Berlin-based B2B payments fintech, has secured a €100 million debt facility from J.P. Morgan Payments. The capital will fuel its European expansion and integrate its solutions into the bank’s partner network, targeting a market projected to hit €1.5 trillion in 2025.
EpilepsyGTx has secured a €28 million Series A to push its lead gene therapy, EPY201, into Phase 1/2a trials. The treatment aims to stop seizures in severe epilepsy patients with a single, localized brain injection.
A new venture fund is launching to tackle Europe’s healthcare crisis with tech. Catalpa Ventures has closed €30 million to invest in early-stage HealthTech startups, with its first bet on a heart failure telemedicine platform.
Surge AI’s CEO Edwin Chen says the AI industry is chasing “slop” optimized for leaderboards, not truth. It’s a damning critique of how we measure progress.
LinkedIn is scrapping its long-running associate product manager program, a classic Silicon Valley entry point. It’s being replaced with a new program focused on creating “full-stack builders” who can code, design, and manage products. This reflects a major shift in how tech companies are thinking a
