(PDF) Bain - LP and PE Firms Embrace ESG
ESG has grown beyond its socially conscious roots to become a core component of creating value in...
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With $400M For Uniphore, Investors Affirm Conversations With AI Bot...
If you’ve ever interacted online with a customer service rep who seemed highly responsive and po...
Spoke Launches Music Therapy App for Gen Z, Raises $1.5M
A new startup is launching what it calls “functional music”, and it’s raised institutional bac...
Watershed’s $70M Fund Raising Confirms Investor Enthusiasm For Dig...
San Francisco-based carbon management software provider Watershed announced on February 8th that...
(PDF) Bain - Global M&A Report 2022
As markets take off, strategic acquirers are evolving to meet new challenges.- Total M&A deal...
(Infographic) U.S. Inflation : Past, Present, and Future
The inflation rate in the U.S. has surged, reaching 7% year-over-year in December 2021. This mark...
Deutsche Bank Survey Shows Most Would Hodl Even If Crypto Markets C...
Deutsche Bank’s “The Future of Cryptocurrencies” report found fewer than half of crypto trader...
Novoloop Says It’s Worked Out How to Upcycle Plastic Waste, Raises...
Upcycling polyethylene (the normal ubiquitous plastic we are all familiar with) into high-value p...
RedRoute Wants Answering Customer Service Calls to be as Easy as Us...
RedRoute, a voice-based customer service experiences and conversational artificial intelligence s...
(Infographic) MSCI - A Visual Guide to 5 Types of Climate Indexes
If average temperatures continue to rise at their current rate:- 10% of the world’s economic val...
Pimloc Raises $7.5M for Visual AI That Protects Privacy
U.K.-based Pimloc has closed a £1.4 million (~$1.8 million) seed funding round led by Amadeus Ca...
Lung-Health Startup Respira Labs Inhales $2.8M to Help Breathe Easier
Respira Labs, a medical technology company specializing in respiratory care, which first unveiled...
Swiss Startup Scandit Hits Unicorn Status with $150M Series D
Zurich-based Scandit closed a $150 million Series D led by Warburg Pincus that gives the scanning...
(M&A) Apple Buys Startup That Makes Music With Artificial Intelligence
AI Music will be used to bulk up Apple’s audio technology. It’s increasingly rare for the tech...
SoftBank, Goldman Sachs Mint Unicorn in Indian Commerce Startup Ela...
SoftBank Vision Fund 2 and Goldman Sachs are in talks to back Indian commerce startup ElasticRun,...
Metaworse ? Facebook has Faltered, Just Months After Its Rebrand
By now you've probably seen that the artist-formerly-known-as-Facebook has had a rough week, notc...
Has Facebook Reached Its Growth Limit ?
We’ve been hearing variations of the same story for years: "Facebook is no longer cool", "people...
ESG by the Numbers : Sustainable Investing Set Records in 2021
Even with the current market tumult, anyone who thinks ESG is a bubble might want to hedge their...
(PDF) Earning Report : Alphabet Reports Big 4th-Quarter Beat ; Stoc...
Google's parent company Alphabet was the latest member of big tech to give an update on its busin...
TenSixteen Bio Scores $40M to Intercept Disease at its Earliest Stages
A San Francisco startup has gotten a big boost in its efforts to research genetic mutations. TenS...
As Inflation Soars, A Look at What’s Inside The Consumer Price Index
After many years of historically low inflation, consumer prices in the United States continued th...
Reframing Volatility
It’s hard to stay optimistic when you’re losing money.[click to enlarge]When markets get volati...
Tom Brady’s Buzzy Celebrity NFT Startup Autograph Banks $170M
Autograph, an NFT agency co-founded by athlete Tom Brady with a particularly deep bench of star p...
(PDF) Capgemini - Top Trends in Payments : 2022
2021 was a year of transition for the payments industry as we moved towards Payments 4.X − an ev...
French Robotic Exoskeleton Maker Wandercraft Raised $45M
The technology hasn't lived up to expectations. But a new round of funding and an ambitious plan...
(Video) Former SpaceX Engineers Raised $50M to Build a Tesla for Fr...
Parallel Systems, a company founded by three former SpaceX engineers to build autonomous battery-...
(M&A) Microsoft Makes a Move - Buying Gaming Company Activision Bli...
Just last week we were discussing how fast the video game industry was growing, exploring why Zyn...
Turing Labs, Which Uses AI to Help Formulate CPG Products, Raises $...
Working remotely has become the norm for a lot of desk-based employees, and there have been a num...
Rebundle Raises $1.4M for Plant-based Hair Extensions
This morning Rebundle, a hair-focused startup based in St. Louis, announced that it has raised $1...
(PDF) PwC - Living in a World of Unicorns
Venture-backed giants are scaling up and transforming markets as varied fintech, electric vehicle...
Inflation : What's Rising The Most ?
This week inflation in the US hit a number not seen for 40 years, as prices rose on average 7% fr...
(PDF) The EY Global ESG (Integrity) Report 2022
The EY Global Integrity Report 2022 reveals how a focus on governance can help reimagine corporat...
