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As America’s AI boom drains venture capital from Africa, the continent’s startups are turning to domestic funding sources, like pension funds and local venture capital firms (Rivaldo Jantjies/Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsMay 28, 2026

Featured Podcasts Invest like the best: Dan Loeb – Lessons from 30 years of investing The leading destination for learning…

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A look at “Stanford inside Stanford,” where venture capital firms pursue 18- and 19-year-old students, offering them mentorship and funding in an effort to convert their promises into profits (Theo Baker/The Atlantic)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 25, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: Apple after Tim Cook, OpenAI’s new Mojo, Meta’s internal tracking escape The Big Technology Podcast…

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Modus, which creates AI agents for audit workflows and invests in established accounting firms, has raised a $5 million seed and $80 million Series A led by Lightspeed (Ryan Lawler/Axios)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 8, 2026

Ryan Lawler / Axios: Modus, which creates AI agents for audit workflows and invests in established accounting firms, has raised…

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Anthropic plans to invest $200 million in a new venture with private equity firms to sell AI tools to their portfolio companies; it is in talks to raise $1 billion for the effort (Wall Street Journal)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 7, 2026

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Ultra-rich families spend more on private investment firms as their wealth grows

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 19, 2026

Huang elders | Instant | Getty ImagesA version of this article first appeared in CNBC’s Inside Wealth newsletter with Robert…

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Sources: Leading venture capital firms operating in India are expected to commit to investments ranging from $300 million to $500 million each in the Indian AI ecosystem at the AI Impact Summit (The Economic Times)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 17, 2026

Economic times: Sources: Leading venture capital firms operating in India are expected to commit to investments ranging from $300 million…

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Where billionaires’ investment firms placed their bets in January

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 5, 2026

Key PointsInvestment firms of the ultra-rich started the new year with aggressive investments, including in a motorcycle racing team.But 2026…

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JPMorgan’s asset management unit cuts ties with proxy advisory firms to use its AI-powered Proxy IQ platform to help with U.S. voting, an industry first (Jack Pitcher/Wall Street Journal)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 7, 2026

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A group of private equity firms led by Permira and Warburg Pincus agrees to buy Clearwater Analytics, in a deal valuing the financial software maker at $8.4 billion, including debt (Ryan Gould/Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 21, 2025

Ryan Gould / Bloomberg: A group of private equity firms led by Permira and Warburg Pincus agrees to buy Clearwater…

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Where billionaire investment firms placed their bets in November

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 4, 2025

Key PointsFamily office dealmakers have yet to pick up the pace, even as the end of the year approaches.But billionaire…

China’s maritime outposts could distract Taiwan’s allies in the event of an invasion from Beijing – Radio Free Asia

The Dalai Lama undergoes left knee surgery in New Delhi – Radio Free Asia

Satellite photos reveal Vietnamese construction boom in controversial Spratly channel – Radio Free Asia

Can ASEAN’s green goals survive the data center boom? – The diplomat

Hong Kong’s Victoria Park remains silent on anniversary of Tiananmen crackdown – Radio Free Asia

The bank will deploy more powerful agents this year

Airlines discover the grass isn’t always greener with new engines

Texas Butcherworm Cases Don’t Endanger Food Supply, Brooke Rollins Says

Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly launch obesity pills, prepare for Medicare coverage

United CEO rejects airline mergers after US rejection

BBC Scares Trump of His Own Defamation Lawsuit

Mike Johnson ceded his power as Speaker of the House to Trump

Hakeem Jeffries goes on Fox News and calls them out for ignoring GOP bigots

Trump Melts Down and Leaves to Meet the Press When Asked for Evidence of Election Rigging

Trump holds sit-down event in Wisconsin as apparent decline deepens

Vinyl Equity, an SEC-registered transfer agent that launched a payments platform earlier this year, raised a $20 million Series A round led by Jump Capital (Ryan Lawler/Axios)

In an interview, Aravind Srinivas, CEO of Perplexity, said the company plans its IPO for 2028, regardless of the success of Anthropic and OpenAI’s IPOs (Arjun Kharpal/CNBC)

US FCC waives deadline for Amazon to deploy half of its Leo satellites by July; Amazon is still scheduled to launch all 3,232 satellites by July 30, 2029 (Michael Kan/PCMag)

Microsoft has disabled more than 70 of its repositories on GitHub, including Azure-related tools like azure-functions-host, after hackers added credential-stealing malware to them (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)

Meta invests $115 million in workforce academy, free 5-week program to train Americans to build data centers, offering job guarantees on Meta construction sites (Wall Street Journal)

Browsing: firms

As America’s AI boom drains venture capital from Africa, the continent’s startups are turning to domestic funding sources, like pension funds and local venture capital firms (Rivaldo Jantjies/Bloomberg)

A look at “Stanford inside Stanford,” where venture capital firms pursue 18- and 19-year-old students, offering them mentorship and funding in an effort to convert their promises into profits (Theo Baker/The Atlantic)

Modus, which creates AI agents for audit workflows and invests in established accounting firms, has raised a $5 million seed and $80 million Series A led by Lightspeed (Ryan Lawler/Axios)

Anthropic plans to invest $200 million in a new venture with private equity firms to sell AI tools to their portfolio companies; it is in talks to raise $1 billion for the effort (Wall Street Journal)

Ultra-rich families spend more on private investment firms as their wealth grows

Sources: Leading venture capital firms operating in India are expected to commit to investments ranging from $300 million to $500 million each in the Indian AI ecosystem at the AI Impact Summit (The Economic Times)

Where billionaires’ investment firms placed their bets in January

JPMorgan’s asset management unit cuts ties with proxy advisory firms to use its AI-powered Proxy IQ platform to help with U.S. voting, an industry first (Jack Pitcher/Wall Street Journal)

A group of private equity firms led by Permira and Warburg Pincus agrees to buy Clearwater Analytics, in a deal valuing the financial software maker at $8.4 billion, including debt (Ryan Gould/Bloomberg)

Where billionaire investment firms placed their bets in November