The counterfeit goods crisis presents a dual challenge. Luxury brands lose over $30 billion annually to fakes, while shoppers in the booming $210 billion second-hand market lack a reliable way to verify the authenticity of their purchases. Veritas aims to…
According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, the Trump administration’s EPA administrator, Lee Zeldin, is preparing to repeal the 2009 “endangerment finding.” That finding established that greenhouse gases pose a threat to human health and welfare. The repeal…
In recognition of Safer Internet Day, Google has announced updates to its privacy tools, “Results about you” and its non-consensual explicit image removal features. The “Results about you” tool, which already lets users request the removal of Search results containing…
Modern enterprises generate enormous amounts of security data. However, legacy tools like Splunk still require companies to store all of it in a single location before they can detect threats. This is a slow and costly process that is increasingly…
Former GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke has raised the largest-ever seed round for a developer tool startup, according to lead backer Felicis. His new company, Entire, has secured sixty million dollars at a three hundred million dollar valuation. Entire provides an…
India has ordered social media platforms to increase their policing of deepfakes and other AI-generated impersonations. The government has also sharply shortened the time these companies have to comply with official takedown orders. This move could reshape how global tech…
Hauler Hero has secured fresh funding as demand for its AI-powered waste management software continues to grow. The New York-based startup raised $16 million in a Series A round led by Frontier Growth. The round included participation from I2BF Global…
AI video generation startup Runway has raised a $315 million Series E round. This investment nearly doubles the company’s valuation to $5.3 billion, according to a source familiar with the matter. The fresh funds will allow Runway to pre-train the…
For much of his career, Mohamed Mohamed worked at institutions like BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, and McKinsey. He observed that these firms treated real estate as a computational problem. They utilized proprietary data pipelines, internal valuation models, simulation tools, and early…
Primary Ventures has closed a $625 million Fund V, focused on seed investing nationwide. This is a sizeable fund for a firm that focuses solely on early-stage investing, and it perhaps showcases how the size of early-stage rounds has dramatically…
