Tag: Venture Capital

SparkLabs closes $50M fund to back AI startups

SparkLabs — an early-stage venture capital firm that has made a name for itself for backing OpenAI as well as a host of...

How Techstars, Meta helped profitable LatAM startup Mercately raise a $2.6M seed

In Latin American countries like Brazil and Chile, messaging platform WhatsApp has become one of the most popular apps to buy things online....

The SEC just made life a little easier for smaller VCs

The Securities and Exchange Commission has updated the dollar threshold for a vehicle to be considered a “qualifying venture fund” to $12 million,...

VCs are so eager for AI startups, they’re buying into each others’ SPVs at high prices

VCs are increasingly buying shares of late-stage startups on the secondary market as they try to get pieces of the hottest ones —...

Harmonyze wants to build AI agents to help franchisors make sense of unstructured data

For some businesses, there is a clear path to growth that doesn’t involve acquiring other companies or expanding organically: franchising. The U.S. has...

Bolt’s wild ultimatum to its VCs will only succeed if they agree, expert says

Bolt’s aggressive ultimatum to its existing shareholders – in which it told them to buy many more shares at higher prices or it...