Anna Heim
It wasn’t a surprise to learn that former scooter unicorn Bird is pursuing a reverse stock split. The company isn’t treading new ground here — it isn’t the only tech firm that has IPO’d in the past couple of years to consolidate its equity in hopes of keeping...
For platform engineering teams, the big question is: build or buy?
Helping developers do more in less time has become a priority for organizations. As the ambit of SaaS sprawls ever wider and DevOps grows more popular, companies are discovering that they need to alleviate the cognitive load on...
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This week, I look into three topics that don’t have to be an “either/or” situation: France or the...
How far has the psychedelics medicines industry come over the past 12 months? Well, it depends on where you look.
If you look at the stock market, the view isn’t very good: the charts are all down and in the red, and all you can see are psychedelics companies...
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Generative AI isn’t just about creative endeavors and parlor tricks. Investors and Big Tech alike are betting that...
The recent, and now past, venture capital boom was a global affair. While traditionally busy markets like North America and Europe benefited from the explosion in capital, other regions with more nascent startup scenes also saw big gains in their ability to attract funding. Southeast Asia is a...
The Exchange goes hunting to understand what a key group of fintech startups may be worth - or not
Alex Wilhelm
Anna Heim
8 hours
While the banking world watches American lender First Republic publicly convulse after its earnings report detailed a widespread evaporation of its deposit base, the startup world of...
Companies collectively spent $61 billion on cloud infrastructure in Q4 2022, and there’s more growth to come. Yet, businesses are poorly protected from losses caused by cloud downtime.
“Cloud service providers typically offer service level agreements (SLAs) that outline their commitments to service availability and performance,” AV8 general partner...
Ever since the tech downturn began affecting startups, a question kept coming up: What if we are witnessing a correction?
The question implied that the way deals were done in the past couple of years, mostly during late-2020 and nearly all of 2021, were the exception, not the rule,...
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I spent quite a bit of time lately looking at the latest in insurtech. What’s great about zooming...
