Business & Funding

Stories tagged business & funding.

Payload (space) / CTVC (climate) / Newcomer (VC)13 Aug, 14:09
AI Frenzy Brings Dual Valuation Deals into the Mainstream(opens the publisher's site in a new tab)
Prestige firms are monetizing their brand names by getting better prices than others in the same funding round
OpenAI News13 Aug, 09:00
OpenAI appoints Dali Rajic as Chief Revenue Officer
OpenAI appoints Dali Rajic as Chief Revenue Officer to lead its global revenue organization and help businesses realize the full value of AI.
openai.com/index/dali-rajic-chief-revenue-offic…(opens the publisher's site in a new tab)
SEC / CFTC press & enforcement10 Aug, 18:00
SEC Charges Private Fund Adviser Adit Ventures Management, Its CEO and Affiliated General Partners in Alleged Fraud
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged New York-based investment adviser Adit Ventures Management LLC, its CEO Eric Munson, and three affiliated general partners, Adit Ventures LLC; Adit Ventures II LLC; and Adit Ventures III LLC (the…
sec.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2026-73-sec-cha…(opens the publisher's site in a new tab)
Artificial Lawyer / LawSites / Legaltech News06 Aug, 14:40
Exclusive: Coming Out of Stealth, Paravo Launches What It Calls the First AI ‘Revenue Engine’ for Law Firms(opens the publisher's site in a new tab)
Rarely do law firms lose clients on merit, argues Cesar Tapia. They lose them before intake ever happens – to missed calls, slow follow-up and dead voicemail. Today, Tapia and his cofounder Eslam Odeh are launching their answer to that problem – Paravo, a startup emerging from stealth with what it…
SEC / CFTC press & enforcement05 Aug, 18:30
SEC Establishes Financial Reporting and Accounting Unit in Enforcement Division
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced it is establishing a new specialized unit within the Division of Enforcement to provide the dedicated expertise, focus, and capacity to pursue accounting and financial reporting fraud cases as well…
sec.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2026-72-sec-est…(opens the publisher's site in a new tab)
IonQ / Google Search Central04 Aug, 10:28
IonQ | IonQ Completes Acquisition of SkyWater Technology
IonQ completes its acquisition of SkyWater Technology, creating the only vertically integrated full-stack quantum platform to accelerate quantum computing.
ionq.com/news/ionq-completes-acquisition-of-sky…(opens the publisher's site in a new tab)
IonQ / Google Search Central04 Aug, 10:28
IonQ | IonQ Receives Regulatory Approval for SkyWater Acquisition
IonQ receives final regulatory approval to acquire SkyWater Technology, creating a vertically integrated U.S. quantum platform. Closing set for July 31, 2026.
ionq.com/news/ionq-receives-regulatory-approval…(opens the publisher's site in a new tab)
SEC / CFTC press & enforcement30 Jul, 13:53
SEC Announces Continuation of Small Business Advisory Committee Meeting
The Securities and Exchange Commission announced that the Small Business Capital Formation Advisory Committee meeting held on July 21, 2026, will reconvene August 6, 2026, at 1 p.m. ET, virtually, on SEC.gov. The committee will…
sec.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2026-71-sec-ann…(opens the publisher's site in a new tab)
SEC / CFTC press & enforcement27 Jul, 19:59
Small Business Forum’s Report to Congress Highlights Recommendations to Improve Capital-Raising Policy
The Securities and Exchange Commission released a report to Congress today highlighting policy recommendations from the SEC’s 45th Annual Government-Business Forum on Small Business Capital Formation. The report provides a summary of the forum…
sec.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2026-70-small-b…(opens the publisher's site in a new tab)
Artificial Lawyer / LawSites / Legaltech News27 Jul, 18:31
LawNext: From Product to Practice – Why Casetext’s Former CTO Founded General Legal, An AI Native Law Firm(opens the publisher's site in a new tab)
As chief technology officer at Casetext, Ryan Walker helped build CoCounsel, one of the first and most consequential generative AI legal assistants — a product so significant it led to the company’s $650 million acquisition by Thomson Reuters. But Walker came away unsatisfied. Although the legal…
Bitcoin Optech / Fintech Takes / Fintech Business Weekly / Net Interest26 Jul, 13:00
Celsius Execs Ordered to Pay Combined $16.1m Over Deceptive Claims(opens the publisher's site in a new tab)
Twenty State AGs Ask Regulators To Press Pause on High APR Lenders’ Bank Acquisitions, OCC Rejects Wise Charter App, Augustus Valuation Hits $1Bn, Samsung's Apple Card Knockoff
SEC / CFTC press & enforcement23 Jul, 15:04
SEC Announces Roundtable on Preparations for 24-Hour Trading
The Securities and Exchange Commission announced today that it will host a roundtable on Sept. 17, 2026, to discuss moving towards 24-hour trading in the U.S. equity markets, including preparations to support overnight trading, operations and resiliency…
sec.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2026-69-sec-ann…(opens the publisher's site in a new tab)
Last Week in AI21 Jul, 10:30
LWiAI Podcast #249 - Fable 5 ban, SpaceX Cursor + IPO, OSS Aplenty(opens the publisher's site in a new tab)
Exploring the Fable 5 ban, SpaceX’s strategic acquisition, and a burst of open source advancements
Last Week in AI21 Jul, 10:03
LWiAI Podcast #248 - Opus 4.8, MAI, Anthropic IPO, Minimax-M3(opens the publisher's site in a new tab)
Exploring Claude Fable 5’s impact, Siri AI’s latest enhancements, and the competitive IPO landscape shaping AI’s future
Last Week in AI21 Jul, 09:38
LWiAI Podcast #247 - Opus 4.8, MAI, Anthropic IPO, Minimax-M3(opens the publisher's site in a new tab)
New Models, IPO Announcements, and the Rise of Open Source Competitors
Artificial Lawyer / LawSites / Legaltech News16 Jul, 12:31
Relativity President Chris Brown on the Gavel Acquisition, Opening Up to Claude, and the ‘Gangbusters’ Growth of aiR(opens the publisher's site in a new tab)
Last week, Relativity announced that Chris Brown, its chief product officer since 2018, had been named the company’s president, effective July 13. In the new role, Brown continues to lead Relativity’s product organization while adding marketing and technology partnerships to his scope — a change…
Artificial Lawyer / LawSites / Legaltech News07 Jul, 14:35
Norm Ai Hits Unicorn Status with $120M Series C at $1.2 Billion Valuation(opens the publisher's site in a new tab)
Norm Ai, the New York-based legal and compliance AI company, today announced a $120 million Series C round at a $1.2 billion valuation, crossing the unicorn threshold and joining a growing but still select club of legal AI companies valued at $1 billion or more. Khosla Ventures led the round, in…
Vercel (blog + changelog)07 Jul, 07:00
Vercel acquires Better Auth to accelerate open source auth
Better Auth TypeScript authentication library Vercel is acquiring, the company behind the open source, which has 4.7M+ weekly npm downloads and more than 850 contributors. Founder Bereket Engida and the core team are joining Vercel to continue their work on Better Auth and agent identity. published…
vercel.com/blog/vercel-acquires-better-auth(opens the publisher's site in a new tab)
Artificial Lawyer / LawSites / Legaltech News30 Jun, 17:48
After the BARBRI Deal, Lega’s Christian Lang Says the Governance Platform Isn’t Going Away, But It Is Going to School(opens the publisher's site in a new tab)
When I wrote last week about BARBRI’s acquisition of Lega, I had not yet had the chance to speak with Lega founder Christian Lang, who was traveling. So I closed that post with what was admittedly conjecture on my part – that the large-language-model governance product that defined Lega when it…
Docker / HashiCorp / Grafana / Datadog / Honeycomb / Fly.io30 Jun, 00:00
Datadog acquires Adaptive ML
Datadog has acquired Adaptive ML, a platform for building, owning, and deploying specialized AI agents and models.
datadoghq.com/blog/datadog-acquires-adaptive-ml(opens the publisher's site in a new tab)
Ethereum Foundation / Solana / a16z crypto / Chainalysis24 Jun, 12:28
Investing in Ornn: A Market for Compute
a16z crypto leads Ornn's $33 million seed funding round.
a16zcrypto.com/posts/article/investing-in-ornn(opens the publisher's site in a new tab)
Artificial Lawyer / LawSites / Legaltech News22 Jun, 11:57
BARBRI Acquires Lega, Completing the Startup’s Pivot From AI Governance to Experiential AI Training(opens the publisher's site in a new tab)
BARBRI, the legal education company best known for bar exam preparation, has acquired Lega, the AI startup that launched in 2023 with a focus on large language model governance but which has been evolving into helping legal professionals develop AI fluency through practical, experiential learning…
Ethereum Foundation / Solana / a16z crypto / Chainalysis19 Jun, 21:37
Charts: Prediction markets just hit $10B in their biggest week ever
Prediction markets hit a record $10.8 billion in weekly trading volume in the week ending June 15 — their biggest week ever. Several big events coincided that contributed to the all-time high: the SpaceX IPO, a U.S.-Iran peace deal, the NBA Finals, the Stanley Cup, and the opening of the World Cup…
a16zcrypto.com/posts/article/prediction-market-…(opens the publisher's site in a new tab)
Artificial Lawyer / LawSites / Legaltech News15 Jun, 13:34
Relativity Acquires Document Automation Company Gavel, Extending Its Legal Data Platform Into Word(opens the publisher's site in a new tab)
Relativity, the Chicago-based legal data intelligence company best known for the e-discovery and litigation platform RelativityOne, has acquired Gavel, the Los Angeles-based document automation and AI drafting company founded by Dorna Moini (pictured above). Relativity said the move will enable it…
OpenAI News11 Jun, 00:00
OpenAI to acquire Ona
OpenAI plans to acquire Ona to expand Codex with secure, persistent cloud environments, enabling long-running AI agents across enterprise workflows.
openai.com/index/openai-to-acquire-ona(opens the publisher's site in a new tab)
Artificial Lawyer / LawSites / Legaltech News10 Jun, 13:25
Clio Acquires Jurisage, Paving the Way for Canadian Launch of Clio Work and Other Canadian AI Tools(opens the publisher's site in a new tab)
Clio has acquired Jurisage, the Canadian legal AI and data company, in a deal it is describing as “a foundational investment in the future of legal AI in Canada. The deal brings together one of Canada’s most comprehensive AI-ready legal datasets with Clio’s “Intelligent Legal Work Platform,” the…
Databricks / ClickHouse / DuckDB / Supabase / Neon / PlanetScale04 Jun, 07:00
Supabase Series F
Supabase has raised a $500M Series F at a $10B pre-money valuation, led by GIC.
supabase.com/blog/supabase-series-f(opens the publisher's site in a new tab)
Smashing Magazine / CSS-Tricks / web.dev / Chrome for Developers / LogRocket15 May, 10:00
Ten Data-Backed Truths Of User Experience ROI(opens the publisher's site in a new tab)
Every extra second of friction has a measurable business cost. Carrie Webster shares ten data-backed UX facts that link user experience directly to revenue, retention, and long-term growth.
IonQ / Google Search Central11 May, 16:28
IonQ | IonQ Posts Q1 2026 Earnings with Record Revenue
The company reported Record GAAP Revenues of $64.7 Million, Representing 755% Year-On-Year Growth, Fueled by Quantum Computing Growth and Expansion of the Quantum Platform and raised full year guidance.
ionq.com/news/ionq-announces-first-quarter-2026…(opens the publisher's site in a new tab)
The Defiant / DL News / Protos / CryptoSlate05 May, 21:04
Drift to issue ‘recovery tokens’ in wake of $295m hack(opens the publisher's site in a new tab)
Developers behind Solana-based derivatives exchange Drift proposed on Tuesday a recovery plan that would funnel protocol revenue to users who lost money in a devastating April hack. The developers also proposed relaunching the protocol before July “a leaner, perps-native exchange with an emphasis…