CEO shakeup at Vow amid restructure at lab-grown meat startup
Blackbird-backed startup Vow has cut jobs and gotten a new CEO as it looks to use its cell-culture technology to expand beyond the development of lab-grown meats.
Start-up funding
Amazon discussing $50 billion investment in OpenAI, report says
Amazon is in talks with OpenAI to potentially invest $50 billion into the artificial intelligence startup, according to The Wall Street Journal, potentially valuing the company as high as $830 billion.
If venture capital is about innovation, why does it always look the same?
Cut Through Venture’s latest quarterly report shows 100% of Series B+ funding went to man-only startup teams, confirming what women founders already know: Australia’s venture ecosystem rewards sameness. But it doesn’t have to be this way.
Australian start-up funding rebounds to over $1 billion across Q3
Despite a continued drought of mega-deals, Australia’s venture funding climbed back to the billion-dollar mark in Q3, driven by a surge in accelerator activity and heightened investor appetite for deep-tech and AI-focused companies.
Australian start-up funding slumps to $695 million across Q3
Deal numbers might be high but the absence of those over $100 million has seen start-up funding tank to Q1 levels after a six-quarter high (in Q2).