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    • Thursday, 21 September, 2023
      GGV Capital
      Venture firm GGV Capital to split off China business after US pressure

      Move follows similar decision by rival Sequoia Capital and Biden order to limit American investment in Chinese tech

      Jenny Lee
    • Thursday, 14 September, 2023
      Helsing
      Defence tech start-up Helsing raises funds at €1.5bn valuation from Saab

      €209mn deal is latest example of sector defying VC downturn amid Ukraine war, and rising tensions between China and west

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    • Monday, 11 September, 2023
      Instacart Inc
      Instacart’s cut-price IPO to test Wall St appetite for new tech listings

      Stock market debut values US grocery delivery company at less than a quarter of 2021 price

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    • Monday, 11 September, 2023
      Special ReportDecarbonisation
      Accelerators switch on to cleantech opportunities

      The world’s biggest booster schemes for business start-ups are increasingly focusing on climate ventures

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    • Friday, 8 September, 2023
      LexGetir
      Getir: down round highlights rapid delivery sector crash Premium content

      Higher interest rates have dried up flow of venture capital as consumers return to in-store shopping

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    • Friday, 8 September, 2023
      Cryptofinance
      Venture capital not done with crypto yet Premium content

      Plus, updates on FTX and Grayscale

      A representation of cryptofinance
    • Wednesday, 6 September, 2023
      Due Diligence
      Can Sequoia get its spark back? Premium content

      Plus, CVC bets on infrastructure and Arm’s target IPO valuation faces sceptical investors

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    • Tuesday, 5 September, 2023
      News in-depthSequoia Capital
      Investors raise questions after Sequoia Capital’s turbulent year

      Silicon Valley’s premier venture firm undergoes ‘profound change’ after China splits and soured bets on FTX and Twitter

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    • Friday, 25 August, 2023
      Indian business & finance
      India’s first ‘unicorn’ of 2023 boosts tech sector’s hopes of funding revival

      Delivery service Zepto passes $1bn valuation after raising $200mn despite ‘terrible investing market’

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    • Wednesday, 23 August, 2023
      Venture capital funds prop up young companies as inflation bites

      Cash deployed by UK VCTs was up 8 per cent last year

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    • Thursday, 17 August, 2023
      Venture capital funds are mostly just wasting their time and your money

      Howling at the moonshots

    • Thursday, 10 August, 2023
      News in-depthUS-China relations
      US investors face uncertain future in China after tech ban

      Private equity and venture capital funds targeted in Biden administration’s crackdown

      A montage of Joe Biden, the China flag and the logos of Sequoia, Warburg Pincus and General Atlantic
    • Saturday, 5 August, 2023
      Bertelsmann SE & Co KGaA
      Bertelsmann Investments to plough $700mn into Chinese start-ups

      German venture capital fund bucks widespread gloom among western investors

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    • Wednesday, 2 August, 2023
      Brookfield Asset Management Inc
      Brookfield and Sequoia offshoot launch fund to target cut-priced start-ups

      Pinegrove Capital hopes to take advantage of plunging valuations of venture-backed groups

      Bruce Flatt
    • Thursday, 27 July, 2023
      Sequoia Capital
      Sequoia Capital cuts back fund for crypto investments

      Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm has been retrenching amid sharp reversal in private markets

    • Sunday, 23 July, 2023
      UK economy
      MPs urge changes to tax relief to boost UK’s regional start-ups

      Call for reform with London and the South East accounting for 80% of VC investment

      Chancellor Jeremy Hunt
    • Wednesday, 19 July, 2023
      Michael Moritz
      Michael Moritz leaves Sequoia Capital after almost 40 years

      Departure from start-up dealmaking follows venture capital group announcing plan to split off its China and India units

      Michael Moritz
    • Friday, 14 July, 2023
      Tech start-ups
      US tech: dwindling funding rounds will create bonfire of the start-ups Premium content

      At the seed stage, deal values this year have dropped by more than a quarter from Q1 to Q2

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    • Friday, 14 July, 2023
      News in-depthTech start-ups
      Silicon Valley start-ups explore sales as funding runs dry

      Wave of consolidation expected across tech as cash-strapped companies seek buyers or risk going out of business

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    • Tuesday, 11 July, 2023
      Temasek Holdings Pte Ltd
      Singapore’s Temasek reports worst returns in 7 years

      Value of state-owned investor’s portfolio slides after ‘the most challenging year for markets over the last decade’

      Rohit Sipahimalani
    • Sunday, 9 July, 2023
      Sequoia Capital
      Sequoia China’s push into Singapore sets up fight against Indian arm

      Plans to expand into south-east Asia dealmaking from city-state puts it in direct competition with India-based Peak XV

      Neil Shen
    • Thursday, 6 July, 2023
      John Thornhill
      European tech investors need to up their ambitions

      It is currently safer and cheaper for fund managers wanting tech exposure to buy publicly traded companies on Nasdaq

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    • Tuesday, 4 July, 2023
      Food & Beverage
      Venture capital funds cool on plant-based meat start-ups

      Pullback by consumers is chilling a sector that boomed before the rapid rise in interest rates

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    • Wednesday, 28 June, 2023
      LexElaine Moore
      The Lex Newsletter: every start-up is now an AI start-up Premium content

      Hopes for the future size of the market have encouraged VCs to write big cheques but challenges lie ahead

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    • Monday, 26 June, 2023
      Inside BusinessTabby Kinder
      Silicon Valley braces for the worst as funding dries up

      Painful adjustment looms for start-ups as they burn down cash reserves

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