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Another heavy hitter from Wall Street is diving into the crypto treasury craze. On Wednesday, a group of investors announced that it plans to establish a $671 million company dedicated to stockpiling the cryptocurrency Avalanche. Bart Smith, the former head of the crypto arm of the quantitative trading firm Susquehanna, will be CEO. Dubbed Avalanche Treasury Co., the company plans to go public on the Nasdaq in the first quarter of 2026 via a special purpose acquisition vehicle, Mountain Lake Acquisition Corp.

We designed it this way, almost entirely institutionally backed, because, as I have learned, these vehicles are not ideal for most retail investors. They are for investors who can underwrite the volatility, place it as part of a broader structured portfolio and have the capital to support the company over the long run.

He says, 'Hold on for a second. You mean to tell me you're leaving this company for some tiny, little internet bookstore that nobody's ever heard of ... that has got to be the stupidest decision I've ever heard anyone made,' Risher recalled.

The stat that women receive less than 2% of VC funding is often cited-but that figure tells only part of the story.

"Toyota is looking for the next new new thing in mobility, climate, AI, and industrial automation. Its answer is $1.5 billion in new capital that will focus on, and invest in, the lifecycle of startups - from the first seeds of an invention through its growth stage and eventually to mature companies. Toyota made two related announcements Tuesday that provide a snapshot of the company's growing interest in the startup ecosystem."

Brent Ridge , MD, cofounded Beekman 1802 in 2008 and has worked alongside Josh Kilmer-Purcell to lead the company ever since. Prior to his entrepreneurial career, Ridge was Vice President of Healthy Living at Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia. He also built a distinguished medical career as a specialist in geriatric medicine, completing a fellowship at Mount Sinai School of Medicine and joining the faculty there as an assistant professor.

In a wide-ranging conversation with Bitcoin Magazine, the Strategy co-founder sketched out an "endgame" where his firm builds a trillion-dollar bitcoin balance sheet - and then uses that capital base to help reinvent the global credit system. "I think the endgame is we accumulate a trillion dollars worth of bitcoin and then we grow it 20, 30% a year," Saylor told Bitcoin for Corporations Managing Director George Mekhail. "The endgame is get to a trillion dollars of collateral growing 30% a year" At the core of Saylor's vision is scale. He believes Strategy - and other Bitcoin treasury companies likely to follow - can ultimately accumulate a trillion dollars worth of BTC.

Capital Rx | Judi Health - $252M Series F HEALTHTECH Capital Rx, a full-service pharmacy and health benefits management platform, has raised $252M in Series F funding led by Wellington Management and General Catalyst. Founded by AJ Loiacono, Joseph Alexander, and Ryan Kelly in 2017, Capital Rx has now raised a total of $601M in reported equity funding. The company also announced it is rebranding itself to Judi Health.

Per the Economic Policy Institute, childcare for one infant in the U.S. costs more than public college tuition in 38 states. That, plus the reality that many people work remotely, makes the idea of a space that mixes childcare, coworking, and fitness needs appealing to parents. That's especially true in a world where more remote work means people are parenting more in bubbles than in villages.

I think that OpenAI is likely going to be the next multi-trillion dollar hyperscale company ... If that's the case, the opportunity to invest before they get there, this is some of the smartest investments we can possibly imagine... We love the opportunity to invest. We don't have to invest, right? And it's not required for us to invest, but they're giving us the opportunity to invest. This this new partnership is about helping OpenAI to build their own self-build AI infrastructure for the first time, right?

Analysts wrote that much of that revenue comes from month-to-month subscribers who may churn as quickly as they signed up, putting the durability of those flashy numbers in doubt. While these young companies have disclosed surging ARR, they could have "questionable economics," the analysts wrote, noting that sales gains like this could come from short-term subscribers who might not stick around.

On the other, there was a short period of time when Checkout.com was valued at a whopping $40 billion, as part of its $1 billion Series D round closed in 2022. By the end of that year, with the venture world crashing into a bear market, it had already internally slashed its valuation to $11 billion. So $12 billion represents a billion-dollar step up from that.

The reaction is: 'Oh my God, this is all hype,' 'This stuff doesn't work. We're wasting our time.' Disaster, right? But if you dig into it, the real issue—and this is pervasive—is about evaluations. What are you trying to accomplish, and how do you evaluate it? And that's an organizational issue and a process issue. You have to understand the limitations of where we are with what AI can do, effectively benchmarking and evaluating from there: Is this effective or not?

At TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, happening October 27-29 at Moscone West in San Francisco, Box CEO and co-founder Aaron Levie takes the Disrupt Stage for a candid conversation on what invention really looks like inside a public company, what AI is changing (and not changing) in enterprise software, and why staying sharp means questioning everything - even your own best ideas. The evolution of a cloud original

The British Smaller Companies VCTs target business services companies, which is a pretty deep pond to fish in. The strategy is clearly paying dividends, making BSC and BSC2 the second and third best performing VCTs over five years respectively. The current crop of investments includes some cracking companies, including financial adviser review platform Unbiased, which is expanding rapidly in the US, and digital special effects studio Outpost VFX, which has worked on projects like Captain America and Rings of Power.

"What started as frustration turned into a mission to fix one of the most overlooked problems in the supply chain, the final stretch of the last mile," he told TechCrunch.

Nvidia announced Monday it would invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI in stages, with OpenAI using the money to "build and deploy at least 10 gigawatts of AI data centers with Nvidia systems."

On Wednesday, Enterprise AI model-maker Cohere said it raised an additional $100 million - bumping its valuation to $7 billion - in an extension to a round announced in August. The August round was an oversubscribed $500 million round at a $6.8 billion valuation, the company said at the time.

The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for NYC startups for 9/24/2025 featuring funding details for Syllo, and much more. This page will be updated throughout the day to reflect any new fundings. Syllo - $5.75M Syllo, an AI-powered litigation workspace for attorneys, has raised $5.75M in funding according to a recent SEC filing. The filing indicates that the round comes from two investors. Founded by Jeffrey Chivers and Theodore Rostow in 2019, Syllo has now raised a total of $15.5M in reported equity funding.

In a session overflowing with experience and hard-won lessons, he will share his unvarnished take on the world 15 years from now - a future he believes will be defined by unprecedented abundance, massive job displacement, and transformational change across every sector. This is advice entrepreneurs need to hear - not just what they want to hear - to build enduring companies in turbulent times.

Tim Chen, solo VC at his firm Essence VC, just closed his fourth fund, a fresh $41 million, without even trying. Limited partner investors (LPs) were so eager to invest, they pre-empted it, he told TechCrunch. He hadn't even time to generate a pitch deck. True, $41 million might not sound like much in this age of multi-billion venture firms and solo VCs like Jack Altman (who just raised his second giant fund, at $275 million).

Now, investors want in on that same bet: Telo announced Tuesday it has closed a $20 million Series A funding round. The round was co-led by designer Yves Béhar and Tesla co-founder Marc Tarpenning (who are also Telo co-founders), with additional investment from Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, and early stage funds like TO VC, E12 Ventures, and Neo.

Priced at $15.50 per American Depositary Share (ADS) in its initial public offering, the stock has tumbled roughly 25% to around $11.53 per share amid broader market jitters and sector headwinds. Harsher still, shares languish 74% below the stratospheric peak of $44 per share they hit in February. That's when ( NvidiaNASDAQ:NVDA) unveiled a $24.7 million, 1.7 million-share stake that ignited a trading frenzy, doubling the stock's value in days.

This is hard to admit, but I got scammed out of $1.25 million. The money is gone, and I can't get it back. But instead of hiding, I've decided to share my story. My recent post on X about the $1.25 million scam went viral with more than 4 million views and thousands of reposts and comments. MrBeast even chimed in that he would give a $100,000 reward to anyone who could help track down the scammers.

Despite the stock market's incredible September surge, IPO season has been relatively tame, at least compared to the first half. Undoubtedly, it may come as a bit of a surprise to some to witness StubHub (NYSE:STUB) dropping immediately out of the gate, especially when you consider the secular trends surrounding live experiences. Either way, I think the initial disappointment could set the stage for a shining buying opportunity at some point down the road.

The spiral staircase leading up to the roof-deck at Los Angeles's Tesla Diner is beautiful, or at least it is expensive-looking. It has video screens overhead and glowy lights at the base of each step and its own special soundtrack, a down-tempo, bleepy-bloopy composition that whooshes in as a notable contrast to the main dining room's dad rock. Glass display cases set into the walls hold human-size robots. Otherwise, every surface is covered in slick plastic, pure white.