How lean marketing can help Indian start-ups avoid the ‘growth at all costs’ trap
Every founder believes their idea is a smart one. The Indian start-up ecosystem is overflowing with innovation, so…
Bending Spoons Cofounders Become Billionaires After Italian Startup Raises At $11 Billion Valuation
Bending Spoon’s Luca Ferrari and his three cofounders started to acquire apps back in 2014. Fresh from signing…
Can a startup be worth a trillion dollars?
Sometime in August, my editor and I became interested in a question that turned out to be less…
Element Ventures Welcomes Sam Andersen as Investment Partner
Provo, Utah – October 24, 2025 Element Ventures today announced that Sam Andersen has joined the firm as…
Europe Venture Fund Lakestar Calls Halt On New Startup Bets
Facebook, Spotify and Revolut investor Klaus Hommels says that his fund Lakestar has closed its door to external…
VC bet on $3 billion AI firm ElevenLabs after one meeting with founder
Carles Reina, GTM manager at Eleven Labs, shared why he invested in AI company. Eleven Labs The angel…
Generation Lab raises $11 million, becoming Accel’s first longevity bet
The word “longevity” derives from Latin, and more or less means “long life” or “great age.” Each translation…
Milwaukee companies that make dog chews, NA drinks receive $100,000
A doggie chew made from coffee tree wood. A non-alcoholic party punch drink. Technology to help identify lead…
Practical Law: Employment and Employee Benefits in Singapore (2025): Allen & Gledhill
21 October 2025
Allen & Gledhill Partners…
Canadian startups aren’t all feeling the Buy Canadian love
When Jason Robinson set out to build a cleantech manufacturing plant in southern Ontario, the moment seemed made…
Exclusive: Flow Engineering raises $23 million Series A led by Sequoia to power hardware’s new era
17 years later, Singh still can’t talk about the details of that business (at least, not to a…
Raising $100 million is easier than $1 million — a tragedy for early-stage companies
Recently, my company, XPANCEO, closed a $250 million Series A round at a $1.35 billion valuation. It was…