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  • Tuesday, 6 May, 2025
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  • Monday, 5 May, 2025
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  • Thursday, 17 April, 2025
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    Collaboration not disruption is key to start-up success in Asia, say academics

    South-east Asia should look to Japan and South Korea rather than Silicon Valley, research suggests

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    Venture capital group could join last-gasp bid by allies of Donald Trump to take control of video app owned by ByteDance

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  • Wednesday, 19 March, 2025
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    Female-led start-ups are increasingly starved of funding

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  • Thursday, 13 March, 2025
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  • Sunday, 9 March, 2025
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  • Sunday, 9 March, 2025
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  • Monday, 3 March, 2025
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    Anthropic’s valuation triples to $61.5bn in bumper AI funding round

    Start-up raises $3.5bn from Silicon Valley venture firms in race against OpenAI and DeepSeek

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  • Monday, 3 March, 2025
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  • Friday, 28 February, 2025
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  • Monday, 24 February, 2025
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    Pre-product AI ‘company’ now valued at $30bn

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  • Monday, 24 February, 2025
    Qatar
    Qatar uses sovereign wealth to entice venture capital to Doha

    QIA will continue to invest most of its wealth outside the Gulf state but wants to make the country a regional hub for VC

  • Sunday, 23 February, 2025
    VC backed by Cambridge university launches £100mn start-up fund

    Cambridge Innovation Capital’s fund counts Aviva Investors and an arm of British Business Bank as backers

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  • Friday, 21 February, 2025
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