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  • Tuesday, 21 May, 2024
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    Alexandr Wang’s company brings in $1bn in latest fundraising round as investors bet that data is the new oil

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  • Wednesday, 15 May, 2024
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    London-based start-up behind artificial intelligence call centre assistants secures funding

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  • Tuesday, 14 May, 2024
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    Norrsken closes €320mn impact investing fund to hunt for unicorns

    Venture group that backed Northvolt secures new money from institutions such as Credit Suisse and BMW’s pension fund

    Niklas Adalberth
  • Friday, 26 April, 2024
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    The Americas’ Fastest Growing Companies

    The FT’s fifth annual ranking of the region’s businesses by revenue growth. Plus: outsourcers tap into remote work boom; Shopify targets more growth from bigger clients; Brazil’s alternative to electric vehicles; and Vertex Pharmaceutical’s potential answer to the opioid crisis

  • Friday, 26 April, 2024
    Special ReportThe Americas’ Fastest Growing Companies
    Latin American developer outsourcers capitalise on remote work boom

    Agencies providing overseas-based staff for US clients have prospered

  • Monday, 22 April, 2024
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    Africa-focused fund draws early investors to tech industry

    TLcom Capital doubles previous amount to raise $154mn for continent’s start-ups in a move that could help ease sector gloom

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  • Friday, 19 April, 2024
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    AI start-up Mistral in talks to raise €500mn at €5bn valuation

    One-year-old French start-up approached by multiple investors who view it as Europe’s answer to OpenAI

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  • Tuesday, 16 April, 2024
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    Andreessen Horowitz raises $7.2bn and sets sights on AI start-ups

    Silicon Valley venture capital group hauls in one of the largest funds since downturn in tech sector

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  • Friday, 12 April, 2024
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    As the start-up downturn continues, it has become difficult to persuade investors to part with their money

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  • Friday, 5 April, 2024
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    Ex-Tinder CEO Renate Nyborg thinks advanced AI can help

  • Thursday, 4 April, 2024
    Special ReportThe Americas’ Fastest Growing Companies
    FT ranking: The Americas’ Fastest-Growing Companies 2024

    This fifth annual list is based on revenue growth achieved between 2019 and 2022

  • Wednesday, 3 April, 2024
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    The sixth annual ranking of companies in the region with the highest growth. Health tech businesses thrive post-pandemic even as VC funding drops. Plus: Singapore draws in start-ups; new models of corporate success in Japan; India’s EV expansion

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  • Wednesday, 3 April, 2024
    Special ReportFT High-Growth Companies Asia-Pacific
    How Singapore became Asia’s go-to hub for start-ups

    The city-state’s location, high reporting standards and reputation for stability make it an attractive base in the region

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  • Wednesday, 3 April, 2024
    Venture capital investment
    Venture capital reckons with the end of ‘megafund’ era

    Data shows a ‘sustained slowdown’ has persisted in the first quarter of 2024 as a lack of exit options weighs on fundraising efforts

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  • Monday, 1 April, 2024
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    HMRC undermining innovation by failing to award R&D tax credits, say start-ups

    Scheme is designed to support companies that work on cutting-edge projects

    Matthew Miller of the Really Clever company
  • Saturday, 30 March, 2024
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    Chaotic departure of StabilityAI chief raises doubts over start-up’s future

    Emad Mostaque’s resignation from group valued at $1bn came after legal skirmishes and battles with investors

    A montage of photos of Emad Mostaque and a Stability AI logo shown on a screen of a phone
  • Thursday, 28 March, 2024
    Fate of Byju’s founder rests with Indian court as investors try to oust edtech chief

    Once country’s most valuable start-up, the company is beset with allegations of mismanagement and governance failings

    Byju Raveendran
  • Monday, 25 March, 2024
    Special ReportFT 1000: Europe’s Fastest Growing Companies
    Digital transformation drives gains for IT and software groups

    Financial services among biggest spenders as higher rates lead to bigger margins and surplus cash for tech

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  • Monday, 25 March, 2024
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    China’s answer to Instagram makes first profit

    Shanghai-based unicorn known as ‘little red book’ brought in $500mn in net profit last year

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  • Thursday, 21 March, 2024
    News in-depth
    Men behind Microsoft-backed start-up Builder.ai named in Indian criminal probes

    Court documents show Sachin Dev Duggal and Saurabh Dhoot face questions from authorities over past business dealings

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  • Wednesday, 20 March, 2024
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    Microsoft bets on start-ups to extend AI lead with hiring of Inflection chief

    Satya Nadella’s appointment of Mustafa Suleyman continues strategy of developing ties with fledging AI companies

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  • Wednesday, 20 March, 2024
    Artificial intelligence
    Rival nations seek to poach top UK and European AI start-ups

    Canada and UAE lobby companies as global competition over developing cutting-edge technology heats up

    Hewlett-Packard Enterprises staff operating an AI robot, which was developed with German start-up Aleph Alpha, at a technology fair
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