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Red Bull Ventures, the recently established corporate venture capital arm of the leading sports drink company, has made a significant investment in Apex Capital’s athlete-backed Elite Performance Fund (EPF), becoming a key limited partner as the fund closes. Red Bull Ventures launched in April 2025 and is led by Nai-Tseng Chen, Red Bull’s head of corporate finance, and Sabrina Jones, a former venture investor at Bosch. Apex Capital’s EPF, launched in 2023 with €50 million, focuses on early-sta...
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Light, a Danish AI finance startup, raised $30 million in Series A funding led by Balderton Capital, with other major investors participating. The company builds AI-powered software to automate accounting and finance tasks for businesses, aiming to compete with established firms like Microsoft and Oracle. With the new funding, Light plans to expand its commercial operations, opening offices in London and New York to address growing demand
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NVIDIA commits £2 billion to catalyze the U.K.’s AI startup ecosystem and accelerate the creation of new companies, jobs and globally transformative AI businesses. https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-announces-investment-in-the-united-kingdom-ai-startup-ecosystem @nvidia @hoxton #venturecapital
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Nvidia's CEO Jensen Huang just dropped a bombshell in London: a potential $500 million investment in Wayve, the UK startup pioneering "embodied AI" for self-driving cars. This is part of Nvidia's whopping £2 billion pledge to British tech innovators, including fintech giant Revolut and AI video whiz Synthesia. Standing with PM Keir Starmer post-Trump's visit, Huang declared the UK's first trillion-dollar unicorn will be an AI powerhouse—bold words from the chip kingpin powering it all.Wayve, fre...
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The U.S. Army is rolling out a new initiative, dubbed Fuze, that leaders say will overhaul how the service invests in technology by borrowing from Silicon Valley’s venture capital playbook. The service is betting that venture-style risk-taking can shave years off procurement timelines and will determine whether Silicon Valley speed can mesh with Pentagon scale. https://www.defensenews.com/land/2025/09/15/army-adopts-venture-capital-model-to-speed-tech-to-soldiers/
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Team S
@newnexteam
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Mistral AI raised €1.7B ($2B) at a €11.7B ($13.8B) valuation, led by ASML (11% stake). Investors include Nvidia, Andreessen Horowitz, and Bpifrance. Funds will advance AI research for industrial challenges, boosting Europe's AI sovereignty. Le Chat hit 1M downloads in 2 weeks. https://mistral.ai/new...
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Team S
@newnexteam
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MagicDoor, a Las Vegas-based proptech startup founded in late 2024 by CEO Kasper Søgaard, raised $4.5 million in a seed funding round. The round was co-led by Okapi Venture Capital and Shadow Ventures, with participation from Motley Fool Ventures, VITALIZE Venture Capital, and Early Light Ventures. The company offers an AI-driven platform that automates property management tasks for independent landlords, including listing vacancies, rent collectio...
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Team S
@newnexteam
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Atlas Venture, a prominent biotech venture capital firm, has raised $400 million for its third Opportunity Fund. This fund will provide growth capital to existing biotech startups in Atlas' portfolio, supporting their development in a challenging funding environment. The initiative reflects Atlas' strategy to bolster promising companies, such as Alnylam Pharmaceuticals and Mariana Oncology, amidst a biotech market downturn. This follows their $450 ...
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Team S
@newnexteam
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a month
OpenAI is set to acquire Statsig, a startup that helps software teams test and flag new features, for $1.1 billion in an all-stock deal.
Statsig’s founder and CEO Vijaye Raji will join OpenAI as CTO of applications, supporting companies and developers in building safe, practical AI-powered applications. The acquisition is pending regulatory review, and Statsig will continue operations in Seattle.
This move reflects OpenAI’s ongoing strategy to expand its product and application ca...
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Team S
@newnexteam
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a month
Breakthrough Energy, Khosla Ventures & DCVC have launched a $300M coalition to fund the “missing middle” of climate tech—companies beyond early stage but not yet at scale. Focus areas: carbon removal, green hydrogen & long-duration storage. Goal: close the growth-capital gap holding back critical decarbonisation tech.
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Team S
@newnexteam
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a month
Aurasell, an AI-native CRM platform to automate workflows has raised $30M in seed funding from N47, Menlo Ventures, and Unusual Ventures.
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Team S
@newnexteam
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a month
Andreessen Horowitz is reshaping early-stage venture investing with Speedrun, a new accelerator quietly making waves among first-time founders.
By moving earlier and offering up to $1M in funding, a16z signals a bold commitment to creative entr...
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Team S
@newnexteam
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a month
Exciting news for India’s innovation ecosystem! Eight leading U.S. and Indian venture capital and private equity firms have launched the India Deep Tech Investment Alliance (IDTA), pledging over $1 billion over the next decade to supercharge Indian-domiciled deep tech startups. Sectors poised for growth include AI, semiconductors, quantum computing, robotics, biotech, and space tech. This collaborative effort aligns with India’s RDI scheme and demonstrates a strong commitment to building...
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Team S
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a month
CalSTRS promotes Kirsty Jenkinson to Senior Investment Director of Private Markets & SISS, leveraging her expertise in sustainable investing to lead real estate, private equity, and more. #PrivateEquity #SustainableInvesting #CalSTRS
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Team S
@newnexteam
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GoalVest Venture Capital, a female-founded division of GoalVest Advisory, has announced the first close of GoalVest Venture Growth Fund II, which is targeting a $50 million raise. Approximately 60 Limited Partners (LPs) are participating in this initial close.
This fundraising milestone follows the good performance of Fund I, which celebrated the IPO of CoreWeave, a leading AI infrastructure company, in late March 2025. Since its IPO, CoreWeave’s value has increased approxima...
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Team S
@newnexteam
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a month
After navigating several years of "tempestuous" conditions, marked by subdued dealmaking, exit activity, and fundraising following an "unsustainable level of exuberance" in 2021, the market is showing clear signs of recovery. A 25% rebound in global private equity and venture capital dealmaking value in 2024 indicates a cautious but growing optimism for steadily improving market conditions in the year ahead and beyond. Show more
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Team S
@newnexteam
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a month
Though the UK has a broad and diverse innovation base, VC investment is increasingly concentrated in high-growth, early-stage sectors where the UK has an edge.
https://privatebank.barclays.com/insights/navigating-the-uk-venture-capital-landscape-08-2025/
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Team S
@newnexteam
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a month
Continuation vehicles are becoming important in today’s private investment world. They allow investment managers to keep holding onto their best-performing assets longer, instead of being forced to sell them when their original fund reaches its end. If you’re new to the concept or just want a clear overview, here’s everything you need to know - from what they are to how they get set up and why they matter.
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Team S
@newnexteam
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a month
Time Magazine recently ranked the top US VC firms. At NEWNEX, we’re taking it a step further — building a platform that brings all VCs together to syndicate directly, collaborate on deals, and network without intermediaries.
Join www.newnex.io, get verified, and start connecting with fellow investors today.
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Team S
@newnexteam
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a month
Venture capital (VC) investment in Europe experienced a modest decline in the second quarter of 2025, reflecting growing investor caution amid an uncertain geopolitical and trade environment. According to recent data, total VC funding dropped from $16.3 billion in Q1 2025 to $14.6 billion in Q2 2025. https://www.newnex.io/b...
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Team S
@newnexteam
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2 months
Almost every major IPO listing in Q2 hit the public markets below its peak valuation, the data from PitchBook adds. Some examples include:
MNTN (at IPO, valuation was down from $2 billion to $1.1 billion),
Circle (dropping from $7.7 billi...
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Team S
@newnexteam
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2 months
Porsche Automobil Holding SE and Deutsche Telekom AG are in discussions to serve as anchor investors for a new €500 million venture capital fund focused on European defense technology companies.
The fund will be managed by DTCP, an investment firm that was previously part of Deutsche Telekom. This initiative comes amid rising European military spending, especially following Russia’s invasion o...
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Team S
@newnexteam
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2 months
Private market funds lag US stocks over short and long term State Street private equity index outpaced by S&P 500 over 3 months and 1, 3, 5 and 10 years for first time since 2000
Private market funds, including private equity, private debt, and venture capital, have underperformed US large-cap stocks across all standard time horizons for the first time since 2000. According to the State Street private equity index, private market funds returned 7.08% in 2024, compared to ...
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Team S
@newnexteam
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2 months
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has invested €20 million in Spire Capital Partners Fund I, a new independent private equity fund based in Poland. The fund, with €90 million under management, will focus on equity and quasi-equity investments in technology-enabled small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Poland and across central and eastern Europe. Typical investments will range from €5 to €20 million, targeting companies with established market positions and st...
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Team S
@newnexteam
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2 months
Korea Investment Partners (KIP), one of South Korea’s leading venture capital and private equity firms, has invested $10 million in SpaceX. While relatively small compared to the multi-billion-dollar rounds the company has attracted in recent years, the move signals growing international participation in the space sector’s most valuable private company. KIP’s entry comes as SpaceX is estimated to be valued at around $400 billion, placing it among the most valuable privately held enterprises i...
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Team S
@newnexteam
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2 months
In the first half of 2025, the U.S. venture capital landscape revealed a stark divide, with just 12 firms securing over 50% of all venture capital raised, according to PitchBook’s analysis. This concentration underscores a growing trend where elite, multi-strategy firms dominate fundraising, while smaller and first-time fund managers face significant hurdles.
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Team S
@newnexteam
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2 months
Bain Capital Ventures (BCV) has taken a decisive step to strengthen its presence in Israel by appointing Ron Miasnik as the firm’s first partner dedicated to the Israeli market. At just 26, Miasnik is one of the youngest partners at a global venture capital powerhouse, tasked with spearheading BCV’s strategy, deal flow, and portfolio expansion in one of the world’s most vibrant tech ecosystems.
The appointment comes after a year in which BCV invested more tha...
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Team S
@newnexteam
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2 months
The venture capital firm Team8 Capital is in the advanced stages of raising a new fund of $250–300 million, Calcalist has learned. This will be the second fund the firm’s partners have raised since the outbreak of the war in Israel on October 7, 2023, and the third overall since the fund’s inception.
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Team S
@newnexteam
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Rillet, a New York-based accounting and ERP start-up, has just clinched $70 million in Series B funding—only 10 weeks after its $25 million Series A round. The latest investment was co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and ICONIQ, with Sequoia, Oak HC/FT, and existing backers also participating. Notably, Andreessen Horowitz’s Alex Rampell and ICONIQ’s Seth Pierrepont will join Rillet’s board as part of the deal.
Founded in 2021, Rillet provides an AI-powered ERP platform that integr...
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Team S
@newnexteam
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2 months
Tesi, a government-backed investor, manages €3B+ and helps bridge risk gaps in early-stage VC, biotech, and deep tech.
Europe’s VC ecosystem is evolving fast, with strengths in deep tech and life sciences—but we still need robust late-stage capital and a true pan-European tech exchange to retain high-growth companies.
Fund manager due diligence is getting sharper: alignment, transparency, and “skin in the game” matter more than ever for long-term partnerships...
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