Judith Murphy

Judith Murphy is a financial journalist and market analyst covering AI, technology stocks, and emerging market trends. She has contributed to multiple financial publications and brings a data-driven approach to her coverage of the technology sector and its impact on global markets.

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Judith Murphy · Jun 16, 2026 · 10:33 AM

How to Value a Pre-Revenue Startup Before VCs Do It for You

How to value a pre-revenue startup is a question most founders approach blind, letting investors set the terms without understanding the framework behind the number. The Berkus Method, Scorecard Method, and Risk Factor Summation are the tools VCs actually use, and knowing them before you walk into a room changes what you can negotiate.

Judith Murphy · Jun 16, 2026 · 9:25 AM

Japan's taxi app Go surged 21% on its Tokyo debut, and its blueprint beats Uber's playbook

Go Inc. raised ¥88.6 billion ($553 million) in Japan's largest IPO of 2026, debuting 21% higher on the Tokyo Stock Exchange after a 25-times oversubscribed offering backed by BlackRock, Wellington, and Goldman Sachs. The taxi-aggregation company's regulatory-partnership model , built to work within Japan's strict licensing rules rather than around them , offers a sharper blueprint than the disruption playbook Uber spent years trying to force on the same market.

Judith Murphy · Jun 16, 2026 · 4:28 AM

Singapore researchers build a battery-free skin patch that tracks blood pressure around the clock

Researchers at the National University of Singapore have published a prototype battery-free skin patch in Nature Electronics that tracks blood pressure continuously by measuring the travel time of blood from heart to wrist. The device draws power wirelessly from a smartphone and eliminates the need for cuffs or charging, targeting a gap in how cardiovascular conditions are monitored across a full day and night.

Judith Murphy · Jun 16, 2026 · 3:52 AM

NewCore launches with $66 million to give AI agents proper enterprise identities

NewCore emerged from stealth on June 15 with $66 million in seed funding at a $300 million valuation, building an identity security platform designed from scratch for enterprises managing both human employees and autonomous AI agents. CEO Zohar Alon, who previously sold Dome9 to Check Point, is taking the fight directly to Okta and Microsoft, arguing that legacy identity platforms built for human authentication can't be retrofitted to govern the machine identities now proliferating at enterprise

Judith Murphy · Jun 15, 2026 · 5:05 PM

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

Judith Murphy · Jun 15, 2026 · 11:38 AM

What Investors Look for in a Pitch Deck Is Not What Most Founders Think

What investors look for in a pitch deck is rarely what founders spend the most time building. Most decks get archived before the third slide, not because the design is wrong, but because the signals VCs read fastest are ones most founders treat as secondary. Here's what actually determines whether a deck earns a meeting or gets passed.

Judith Murphy · Jun 15, 2026 · 11:21 AM

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 27.13% against the benchmark's 10.07%. The four-month numbers are real but the bigger story is the regulatory template the SEC has now set, and how fast larger asset managers will move to replicate it.

Judith Murphy · Jun 15, 2026 · 5:44 AM

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.

Judith Murphy · Jun 14, 2026 · 8:24 PM

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.

Judith Murphy · Jun 14, 2026 · 2:15 PM

Ant Group is rebuilding Alipay around AI after its regulatory reset

Ant Group is preparing a major Alipay overhaul built around AI services after years of regulatory pressure. The bigger question is whether the company can turn its billion-plus-user payments app into a wider consumer platform without reviving Beijing's old concerns.

Judith Murphy · Jun 14, 2026 · 8:52 AM

Microsoft is weighing whether Xbox still belongs inside the mothership

Microsoft has reportedly discussed restructuring Xbox into a subsidiary, joint venture, spinout, or eventual sale candidate, though no deal is imminent. The talks come as Xbox faces layoffs, weak hardware economics, and pressure to concentrate spending on franchises such as Halo, Fallout, and The Elder Scrolls.

Judith Murphy · Jun 14, 2026 · 12:27 AM

Dyson is using self emptying to defend its vacuum prices

Dyson's new cordless vacuum lineup gives the company a stronger flagship, but the V10 Konical and Auto empty Dok may matter more. The dock turns self emptying and accessory compatibility into a retention strategy as Shark, Samsung and robot vacuum rivals push similar convenience at lower prices.

Judith Murphy · Jun 13, 2026 · 6:19 PM

UAL's Nerve Lab puts children's screen time under a sharper lens

University of the Arts London's Nerve Lab is using AI analytics, wearable brain imaging and motion capture to study how children respond to media and learning tools. The story is less about screen-time panic than about whether children's content and edtech can be measured with enough precision to change classification, regulation and product design.

Judith Murphy · Jun 13, 2026 · 9:07 AM

Tesla’s Autopilot problem now has a ten dollar face

Tesla drivers in China are reportedly using cheap plastic heads and small display tricks to fool in-cabin monitoring cameras. The workaround shows why AI-assisted driving is now a hardware-security and compliance problem as much as a model-performance story.

Judith Murphy · Jun 13, 2026 · 3:44 AM

Paramount has cleared its biggest U.S. hurdle to buy Warner Bros

The Justice Department has approved Paramount Skydance's $111 billion plan to buy Warner Bros. Discovery, clearing the largest U.S. antitrust obstacle. The deal now turns on state and international reviews, integration risk and whether David Ellison can make scale work as AI and streaming reshape media economics.

Judith Murphy · Jun 12, 2026 · 9:18 PM

Europe 2031 gives the continent until summer to avoid AI irrelevance

A scenario report released June 11 by MIT researcher Michiel Bakker warns that Europe controls just 5% of global AI compute against the US's 80%, and that the EU's €200 billion InvestAI pledge is dwarfed by a single year of American spending. The report identifies summer 2026 as the last actionable window before the gap becomes self-reinforcing, with Mistral's capital constraints offered as a concrete illustration of what institutional underinvestment looks like in practice.