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This Week in FinTech: From Latin America to Africa, Funding Focuses on B2B and Platforms

April 18, 2025
funding
British Startups Look to US as Homegrown Funding Grows Scarce
Startups // April 13, 2025

British startups are reportedly weighing a move to the U.S. as investment declines. Startups in the U.K. took in just £16.2 billion ($21.1 billion) last year, the Financial Times (FT) reported Sunday (April 13), citing data from Dealroom. That figure, the report said, is the...

Report: Andreessen Horowitz Seeks to Raise $20 Billion for American AI Startups
Investments // April 08, 2025

Andreessen Horowitz is reportedly seeking to raise $20 billion for a tech investment fund focused on growth-stage investments in American artificial intelligence (AI) companies. The fund will seek global investors that want to invest in the U.S. tech industry at a time when President Donald...

Tariff-Related IPO Delays Leave VCs ‘Trying to Triage’
Markets // April 08, 2025

With several high-profile IPOs in limbo, the venture capital/startup space is in crisis mode. As Bloomberg News reported Tuesday (April 8), 2025 was supposed to be a year in which the environment for initial public offerings (IPOs) flourished. But with President Donald Trump’s new tariffs rocking the...

Uncertainty Overload: Tariffs Cast Shadow on FinTech Funding and Growth
Opinion // April 07, 2025

So far, there have been 10 Mondays in the Trump administration, each possessing its own variety of manic behavior. “Manic Mondays,” we’ve been calling them. For example, there was the Monday when the CFPB looked like it was going to be deleted. Then there was...

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Uncertainty Overload: Tariffs Cast Shadow on FinTech Funding and Growth

April 07, 2025
So far, there have been 10 Mondays in the Trump administration, each possessing its own variety of manic behavior. “Manic Mondays,” we’ve been calling them. For example, there was the Monday when the CFPB looked like it was going to be deleted. Then there was the Monday where it wasn’t. Then there was the Monday […]

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...

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...

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British Startups Look to US as Homegrown Funding Grows Scarce

April 13, 2025
British startups are reportedly weighing a move to the U.S. as investment declines. Startups in the U.K. took in just £16.2 billion ($21.1 billion) last year, the Financial Times (FT) reported Sunday (April 13), citing data from Dealroom. That figure, the report said, is the lowest since 2020. At the same time, American tech startups […]

Report: Andreessen Horowitz Seeks to Raise $20 Billion for American AI Startups

April 08, 2025
Andreessen Horowitz is reportedly seeking to raise $20 billion for a tech investment fund focused on growth-stage investments in American artificial intelligence (AI) companies. The fund will seek global investors...

Tariff-Related IPO Delays Leave VCs ‘Trying to Triage’

April 08, 2025
With several high-profile IPOs in limbo, the venture capital/startup space is in crisis mode. As Bloomberg News reported Tuesday (April 8), 2025 was supposed to be a year in which the environment...

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 —...