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How to Raise a Seed Round in 2026 When the Easy Money Is Gone
How to raise a seed round is a question that looks very different in 2026 than it did three years ago. The easy money is gone, and most of the guides still circulating online describe a market that no longer exists. This piece covers the story, the d...
Janet Harrison
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GUIDES What Investors Look for in a Pitch Deck Is Not What Most Founders Think
Most pitch decks get archived before the third slide. What separates the ones that earn a meeting comes down to signals VCs have learned to read fast, and most founders are optimizing for the wrong ones.What investors look for in a pitch deck is rarely what founders spend the most time building. The financial model, the five-year projections, the exhaustive competitive matrix with your logo in eve...
Judith Murphy
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What Investors Look for in a Pitch Deck Is Not What Most Founders Think
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AI Nvidia sells $20 billion in bonds as AI demand outpaces its own cash generation
Nvidia launched its first corporate bond offering since 2021, raising $20 billion across seven tranches to fund its AI chip ambitions. The deal, led by Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan, and Morgan Stanley, signals that the AI infrastructure boom has become as much a fixed-income story as an equity one. With hyperscaler capital spending on pace to top $725 billion in 2026 and AI-related debt nearing $1.2 trillion industry-wide, the cost of capital is now stratifying sharply between companies with locke
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Nvidia sells $20 billion in bonds as AI demand outpaces its own cash generation
PatSnap's dual IPO filing sets Hong Kong and Singapore against each other
PatSnap has confidentially filed for a simultaneous dual IPO on the Hong Kong and Singapore stock exchanges, Bloomberg reported on June 15, targeting between $300 million and $400 million in a listing that could happen as soon as late 2026. The dual filing forces both Asian exchanges into direct competition for the same deal, and PatSnap's reception will be a key test of what the market currently thinks B2B AI analytics businesses are worth, five years after the company's $1 billion unicorn valu
Enflame's STAR Market IPO puts Tencent's chip strategy on public trial
Enflame Technology is seeking $830 million in a STAR Market IPO that exposes China's most technically credible Nvidia alternative to public scrutiny. ...
5 min 406 views Julian Lim
Enflame's STAR Market IPO puts Tencent's chip strategy on public trial
Kazakhstan bets on Nvidia-backed Firebird to become Central Asia's AI hub
Kazakhstan signed a $10 billion AI infrastructure deal with US startup Firebird Inc. on June 15, backed by Nvidia and centered on a planned Data Cente...
5 min 509 views Walter Schulze
Kazakhstan bets on Nvidia-backed Firebird to become Central Asia's AI hub
FINQ's AI-run ETFs beat the S&P 500 in their debut and the industry is taking notes
FINQ's AIUP and AINT, the first SEC-registered ETFs managed entirely by autonomous AI, beat the S&P 500 in their debut quarter, with AINT returning 27...
4 min 317 views Judith Murphy
FINQ's AI-run ETFs beat the S&P 500 in their debut and the industry is taking notes
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Strategy keeps buying Bitcoin while sitting over ten billion dollars in the red
Judith Murphy ·
Strategy keeps buying Bitcoin while sitting over ten billion dollars in the red
Michael Saylor posted Strategy's orange dots chart on June 14 with the caption "Still adding dots," signaling another Bitcoin purchase even as the company's 845,000-coin treasury sits around $11 billion in the red. The signal followed a June 8 acquisition of 1,550 BTC for $101 million and came weeks after Strategy's first Bitcoin sale since 2022. Saylor is also pitching a new Bitcoin Per Share valuation framework that could reshape how investors benchmark corporate Bitcoin holders.
What Is a Smart Contract and Why Should Business Owners Care
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What Is a Smart Contract and Why Should Business Owners Care
What is a smart contract? It's a piece of code on the blockchain that executes automatically when conditions are met, with no intermediary required. Uniswap has processed more than $2 trillion in trading volume this way, but most pitches about smart contracts oversell the use case and skip the risks.
Ripple aims for $1 billion in revenue by year-end and XRP doesn't count
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Ripple aims for $1 billion in revenue by year-end and XRP doesn't count
Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse publicly committed to a $1 billion revenue run rate by end of 2026, with one deliberate catch: XRP holdings on the company's balance sheet don't factor into the number. The target, confirmed June 14, rests on enterprise client fees, cross-border payment infrastructure, and deals including the $1.25 billion Hidden Road acquisition and a Convera partnership processing $190 billion annually. It's Ripple's clearest argument yet that it deserves to be valued like a fintec
A crypto token’s wipeout makes AI security an investor problem
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A crypto token’s wipeout makes AI security an investor problem
Bloomberg reported that a crypto token lost roughly half its value after an AI-linked hacking threat. The selloff shows why investors now need to treat AI agents, automated security workflows and trading bots as part of a token’s risk profile.
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