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Inside Citi Ventures’ AI Playbook: From Compliance Automation to Hyper-Personalization

March 18, 2025
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EU Tech Founders Unite to Battle Startup ‘Brain Drain’ to US
Europe // March 12, 2025

European tech founders are teaming to keep young startup talent from leaving the continent. As the Financial Times (FT) reported Wednesday (March 12), the effort — dubbed Project Europe — is a 10 million euro ($10.9 million) fund that will offer 200,000 euros (or about...

VC Fundraising Jumps As Investors Bet on ‘Transformative’ AI
artificial intelligence // March 10, 2025

Excitement for artificial intelligence (AI) has reportedly brought American startup investment to a three-year high. But as the Financial Times (FT) reported Sunday, much of this funding from the venture capital (VC) space has been focused on a few very large private tech firms. Upwards...

General Catalyst Reportedly Weighing Initial Public Offering
IPO // March 03, 2025

Is venture capital (VC) firm General Catalyst on its way to becoming a public company? The investment group is in the “very early stages” of considering an initial public offering (IPO), Axios reported Friday (Feb. 28), citing multiple sources. If the plans proceed, the report...

AI Startups: 3 Companies Collectively Raise $2.3 Billion
artificial intelligence // February 25, 2025

What happens when three AI startups walk into a room? They walk out with a fortune. Startups in robotics and cloud artificial intelligence (AI) have collectively raised $2.3 billion, dominated by Figure, which makes humanoid robots for home and business. Figure, backed by OpenAI, Nvidia...

Interviews & Exclusives
Inside Citi Ventures’ AI Playbook: From Compliance Automation to Hyper-Personalization

March 18, 2025
As Citi’s venture capital arm, Citi Ventures scours a broad swath of startups from around the world to zero in on those that are generally aligned with the banking giant’s business strategy. From that vantage point, Citi Ventures has a good view of the artificial intelligence (AI) advances percolating from the cutting edge of Silicon […]

Late-Stage Digital Health Ventures Feel Funding Pinch

January 17, 2025
Digital healthcare is at a pivotal moment, with innovation, funding and expansion creating new opportunities and challenges for startups and established companies. In 2024, digital health venture funding reached $10.1...

Trending: Could OpenAI’s $6.5 Billion Fundraising Drive Signal New AI Gold Rush?

September 23, 2024
OpenAI’s reported bid to raise $6.5 billion at a $150 billion valuation could signal a new era in artificial intelligence (AI) commercialization, potentially reshaping entire industries and sparking a fierce...

Forestay’s New $220M Fund Targets the ‘Inflection Point’ in AI Startups

July 11, 2024
High interest rates usually spell trouble for venture capital (VC) firms. But with a hot hand to play like AI and cybersecurity, and a shrewd evaluation strategy for potential investments,...

Quick Reads
EU Tech Founders Unite to Battle Startup ‘Brain Drain’ to US

March 12, 2025
European tech founders are teaming to keep young startup talent from leaving the continent. As the Financial Times (FT) reported Wednesday (March 12), the effort — dubbed Project Europe — is a 10 million euro ($10.9 million) fund that will offer 200,000 euros (or about $218,000) to help entrepreneurs aged 18-25 build tech startups. “The […]

VC Fundraising Jumps As Investors Bet on ‘Transformative’ AI

March 10, 2025
Excitement for artificial intelligence (AI) has reportedly brought American startup investment to a three-year high. But as the Financial Times (FT) reported Sunday, much of this funding from the venture...

General Catalyst Reportedly Weighing Initial Public Offering

March 03, 2025
Is venture capital (VC) firm General Catalyst on its way to becoming a public company? The investment group is in the “very early stages” of considering an initial public offering...

DeepSeek Considers Raising Outside Funding Amid Demand for AI Chatbot

February 19, 2025
Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) startup DeepSeek is reportedly considering raising outside funding for the first time, weeks after its AI chatbot app made headlines around the world. The company was...