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  • Monday, 24 February, 2020
    Venture funds race for capital despite valuation fears

    VCs seek larger sums and aim to secure funding early in the year

  • Monday, 24 February, 2020
    FT Wealth
    Tech tycoons aim for new frontiers

    Silicon Valley founders stand out with their appetite for risk

  • Thursday, 20 February, 2020
    Commodities
    Bill Gates-backed fund leads $20m investment into lithium start-up

    Breakthrough Energy Ventures promises a more efficient way to extract the mineral

  • Tuesday, 11 February, 2020
    Technology sector
    UK university spinouts fail to gain from record equity funding

    £12bn invested in early-stage ventures in 2019, but funding for university enterprises fell 10%

  • Monday, 10 February, 2020
    Sequoia targets $1.3bn south-east Asia, India fund

    Silicon Valley group plans to make later-stage investments

  • Monday, 10 February, 2020
    Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States
    Alibaba leads Chinese retreat from Silicon Valley

    Fears of greater scrutiny bring multiyear Chinese spending spree to end

  • Monday, 3 February, 2020
    John Thornhill
    Venture capitalists should harpoon more whales

    The worry for Silicon Valley is that the impulse for creative destruction is now fading

  • Tuesday, 28 January, 2020
    Inside BusinessHenny Sender
    Investors embrace millennial co-living in Asia’s megacities

    Sequoia and Warburg Pincus are funding sharing companies despite WeWork collapse

  • Tuesday, 28 January, 2020
    Private equity
    Boom in ‘lucky dip’ deals as investors back shells

    A record $13.4bn was raised in the US by ‘Spacs’ last year

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  • Wednesday, 22 January, 2020
    We Company
    WeWork sells stake in women-focused office business

    Sale of The Wing holding comes as management attempts to revive group after cash crunch

  • Wednesday, 22 January, 2020
    Ecommerce
    Indonesia’s Tokopedia targets $1.5bn in fresh funds

    Temasek, SoftBank and Alibaba are expected to invest in ecommerce platform

  • Tuesday, 21 January, 2020
    US & Canadian companies
    Lux Capital embroiled in legal dispute with close friends

    Early shareholders allege they were forced to sell out for less than the value of their stakes

  • Wednesday, 15 January, 2020
    Tech start-ups
    UK-based tech start-ups enjoy £10bn funding bonanza

    Investment jumps 44% in 2019 as Europe closes gap on US and China

  • Tuesday, 14 January, 2020
    Tech start-ups
    Hedge fund puts $550m into tech stock option financing

    Investment in SecFi comes as start-up employees look for ways to unlock wealth before IPO

  • Friday, 10 January, 2020
    FT AlphavilleJamie Powell
    Venture capital for the ‘forgotten’

    If by forgotten, you mean affluent urban areas.

  • Thursday, 9 January, 2020
    Indian business & finance
    Investors pay price as India’s tech market cools

    There are still reasons for optimism as young population expected to drive growth

  • Thursday, 9 January, 2020
    FT AlphavilleJamie Powell
    Silicon Valley reinvents Victorianism

    The gig economy becomes the ghost economy.

  • Tuesday, 7 January, 2020
    US investors throwing money at hottest start-ups

    Fundraisings for groups such as challenger bank Chime have been heavily oversubscribed

  • Wednesday, 18 December, 2019
    Singapore
    Singapore steps up as south-east Asia’s strategic tech investor

    Island state is spending to upgrade its economy again

  • Wednesday, 11 December, 2019
    Investments
    VCTs attract highest number of investors in a decade

    £716m pours into the funds in 2018-19, but advisers warn of the high risk profile

  • Friday, 6 December, 2019
    FT WealthStephen Foley
    WeWork debacle has a silver lining

    The collapse in the company’s valuation has implications for investors in start-ups

  • Tuesday, 3 December, 2019
    Special ReportFT Wealth: December 2019
    Family offices turn attention to tech companies

    A fifth of new venture capital funds raised in Europe come from private wealth

  • Thursday, 28 November, 2019
    AnalysisFT Alphaville
    Rejoice! Venture capital wants to pay for your holiday

    Just when you thought real-estate couldn’t get anymore financialised. 

  • Thursday, 21 November, 2019
    Tech start-ups
    Latest funding round values start-up Celonis at $2.5bn

    Data processing group now belongs to elite group of German unicorns

  • Wednesday, 20 November, 2019
    Trading technology
    Fintech start-up Capitolis raises another $40m

    Latest cash infusion will be used to invest in technology and make new hires

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