Browsing: Startups

Area Girl Scout members participate in the MakeHER Fair, a celebration of female entrepreneurship, Saturday, Oct. 10, 2026. (Photo by Paul Giovine/WHAM)

As liquidity in venture capital declines, the secondary market is increasingly important for investors and companies, says Hans Swildens, partner in Goldman Sachs Asset & Wealth Management, on Goldman Sachs Exchanges: Great Investors. Swildens explains why companies are staying private longer and how artificial intelligence is creating opportunities as well as headwinds for portfolios. In this…

Oraseya Capital announced that the Dubai Integrated Economic Zones Authority has expanded the venture capital fund from AED 500 million to AED 1 billion.

Pascal Siakam’s PS43 Foundation runs the Siakam Ed Tech Engine, an accelerator program supporting startups in K-12 education.

Ronnen Harary, the co-founder of the Canadian toy company Spin Master, led a pitch competition and discussion at Penn last week. 

FARGO, N.D., Oct. 12, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Sharp Biomedical, a medical device company pioneering accessible, safe, and manual procedures for outpatient pain clinics, announced today the successful closing of its pre-seed funding round. The round was led by gener8tor 1889, a North Dakota venture capital fund, with participation from several physician angel investors.

Flexcompute raised a strategic investment from Samsung Ventures and Applied Ventures, the venture capital arm of Applied Materials, to accelerate development of its Physics World Model. Other investors also participated in the financing.

Australian startups closed out 2025 with their strongest run of fundraising since the 2021 boom, and the numbers landed in a tight cluster rather than a single tidy figure. Depending on which tracker you read, local founders pulled in somewhere between $5.1 billion and $5.48 billion across 390 announced deals, a jump that several reports…

The EU Council formally approved a new defense innovation program designed to accelerate emerging technologies from prototype to operational use, the European Council reported on October 12.

Golbriak Space, an Estonian space laser communications company, has raised 4 million euro ($4.5 million) in seed funding. This was co-led by Join Capital and PhontonVentureswith participation from Takeoff Accelerator. The company announced the new funding, Oct. 8