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  • Monday, 11 December, 2023
    Artificial intelligence
    Nvidia emerges as leading investor in AI companies

    US chipmaker takes stakes in groups that are also its customers to strengthen position in emerging sector

    A montage of Nvidia’s logo on a smartphone screen and a computer motherboard
  • Tuesday, 5 December, 2023
    Artificial intelligence
    Elon Musk’s start-up xAI seeks to raise $1bn

    X owner’s generative artificial intelligence company says it has already raised $135mn

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  • Tuesday, 5 December, 2023
    LexQuantum technologies
    Quantum computing: IBM timeline could power up funding Premium content

    The tech group may be a leader in the sector, but progress is slow-moving

    IBM’s quantum system two, the foundation of the company’s next generation quantum computing system architecture
  • Sunday, 3 December, 2023
    News in-depthVenture capital investment
    Tech funds adopt private equity strategies in race to return cash to investors

    Silicon Valley venture capital firms rush to establish ‘continuation funds’

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  • Wednesday, 29 November, 2023
    LexElaine Moore
    OpenAI’s secrecy imperils public trust Premium content

    Start-up is a private company but Sam Altman’s unexplained exit and sudden reinstatement have wider repercussions

    OpenAI chief Sam Altman in Washington earlier this year
  • Tuesday, 28 November, 2023
    Venture capital investment
    Funding for European tech companies plunges by nearly half

    Start-ups on the continent are expected to raise $45bn in 2023, down from $82bn last year, as US investors pull back

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  • Friday, 24 November, 2023
    The Top LineAnne-Sylvaine Chassany
    The lessons of the OpenAI soap opera for Europe

    Crisis at US start-up demonstrates hyper-reliance on Big Tech

    Xavier Niel
  • Thursday, 23 November, 2023
    LexIPOs
    IPOs: start-ups that missed their moment risk alienating employees Premium content

    Dearth of listings has meant a lack of exits for staff with stock options

    The Instacart logo showing on the digital billboards of the Nasdaq stock exchange
  • Tuesday, 21 November, 2023
    Israel-Hamas war
    Israeli venture capital deals slow sharply since start of Hamas war

    Drop-off in dealmaking hits country’s growing tech sector and threatens early-stage start-ups

    Israeli soldiers tanks at the Gaza border
  • Wednesday, 15 November, 2023
    FT Series
    Tech Champions

    The Financial Times invited readers to name European companies that are using new technology to meet the business challenges of 2023 — from geopolitical tensions to the rise of AI. Here are the shortlisted businesses, and this year’s winners

  • Wednesday, 15 November, 2023
    FT SeriesTech Champions
    DeepL rides high amid AI translation boom

    The German company’s neural networks have given it an edge, but competition is fierce

    A user looks at a DeepL translation on a laptop
  • Tuesday, 14 November, 2023
    GIC Private Ltd
    GIC chief says investors should prefer Big Tech to start-ups on AI

    Singapore’s tech-focused sovereign wealth fund says established companies are seeing AI wins with existing customers

    Lim Chow Kiat
  • Sunday, 12 November, 2023
    Venture capital investment
    Investors shake up VC market by raising money to buy out start-ups

    Aim is to take advantage of economic headwinds to acquire promising businesses at a discount

    San Francisco-based Arising Ventures, has been looking to buy up start-ups with viable business models but slowing growth
  • Sunday, 12 November, 2023
    Batteries
    Tech start-ups race to make EV battery recycling sustainable

    Industry anticipates surge in disposals as first batch of electric vehicles nears end of 10-year life cycle

    A worker cleans ‘black mass’, a mix of battery metals, off plates at a battery recycling facility in Kingston, Canada
  • Saturday, 11 November, 2023
    Media
    Entrepreneurs launch global media buying and marketing agency for start-ups

    Media executive Marc Boyan and Founders Forum boss Brent Hoberman join forces to help struggling start-ups

    Brent Hoberman and Marc Boyan
  • Monday, 6 November, 2023
    Lidl owner co-leads $500mn deal to fuel German AI start-up

    Investment in Aleph Alpha involves equity injection, research grants and commitments to joint business development

    Aleph Alpha chief executive Jonas Andrulis
  • Monday, 30 October, 2023
    Sex party planner Killing Kittens predicts profitable exit for UK government

    Company vows to be ‘pin-up’ for Future Fund scheme that lent money to start-ups during pandemic

    Emma Sayle
  • Sunday, 29 October, 2023
    Chinese equities
    China tech IPOs decline as regulators turn tough on start-ups

    Policy reversal leads to record number of listing applications pulled this year from tech-focused Star Market

    Li Qiang, centre left, and Yi Huiman, centre right, strike a gong to launch the Star Market in Shanghai in July 2019
  • Sunday, 29 October, 2023
    InterviewArtificial intelligence
    Investor frenzy will overvalue AI tech start-ups, says early OpenAI backer

    Many are ‘investing because everybody else is’ and most will lose money, claims Vinod Khosla

    Vinod Khosla
  • Thursday, 19 October, 2023
    OpenAI
    ChatGPT parent OpenAI seeks $86bn valuation

    Planned stock sale would make the chatbot maker one of the world’s most valuable private companies

    Sam Altman
  • Thursday, 19 October, 2023
    John Thornhill
    The VC industry needs to rip up the playbook and start again

    The boom is over but Silicon Valley’s optimism is masking problems with investor capital and returns

    Aerial view of the cities of Mountain View and Palo
  • Wednesday, 18 October, 2023
    Employment Hero reaches £1bn valuation and targets UK expansion

    Workplace software start-up defies market conditions to raise almost £140mn from investors

    Montage of Employment Hero logo and website
  • Monday, 16 October, 2023
    General Catalyst Partners
    General Catalyst in German VC tie-up as part of European tech push

    Silicon Valley firm to merge with Berlin-based La Famiglia for regional start-up expertise

    Jeannette zu Fürstenberg
  • Friday, 13 October, 2023
    News in-depthIsrael-Hamas war
    ‘Start-up Nation’ goes to war

    Israeli tech companies say up to 15% of staff called up as reservists leading to unprecedented industry disruption

    Montage showing Israeli army reservists being transported in military vehicles to join their army base, south of Tel Aviv
  • Wednesday, 11 October, 2023
    Cambridge
    Cambridge aims to double its number of ‘unicorns’ by 2035

    Universities, local government and industry to announce plan to boost innovation and expand multinationals in the city

    Cambridge Biomedical campus: Cambridge has 5,500 businesses that carry out research, development or innovation, generating more than £20bn in revenues a year
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