Michael Dell has placed financial bets on autonomous driving through two distinct channels: his family office DFO Management, formerly MSD Capital, and Dell Technologies Capital, the corporate venture arm of...
SoftBank Group Corp., the Japanese holding company founded by Masayoshi Son in 1981, rewrote the rules of global venture capital by writing cheques larger than most startup rounds. It began...
Former world No. 1 Andy Murray officially retired from professional tennis in August 2024 after the Paris Olympics. But his second act in technology and start-up investing began years earlier,...
By 2018, more than 250 privately held venture-backed companies worldwide had reached a valuation of $1 billion or more. The term unicorn, coined by venture capitalist Aileen Lee in 2013...
In July 2019, SoftBank Group Corp. announced Vision Fund 2, a planned $108 billion technology investment vehicle meant to replicate the scale of its first $100 billion fund. SoftBank itself...
Tel Aviv is home to more than 2,000 active startups as of 2023, a density per capita that exceeds any city outside the San Francisco Bay Area. That concentration did...
A growing cohort of professional footballers is skipping the traditional post-retirement roles of punditry and coaching in favor of venture capital, private equity, and tech startups. The shift reflects a...
