100X.VC in talks to aid Japanese & Hong Kong firms for their early-stage investments in India

Anne Kim explains the term and wealth gap are “a huge factor feeding the discontent driving our current politics”

Iceland-founded early-stage investor Frumtak Ventures has raised a €80.3 million fourth fund, Frumtak IV, in a single close. The fund was oversubscribed

Index Ventures, a leading global venture capital firm, today announced $2.3 billion in new funds to forge relationships with exceptional entrepreneurs who are creating transformative, category-defining businesses. Combined with Index’s existing $300 million Origin seed fund, Index is deploying $2.6 billion in capital to back founders from seed to IPO. This brings Index’s total capital raised since its founding to $15 billion. The firm’s fundraise comes at a pivotal moment for the global startup ecosystem. The rise of transformative technologies such as AI, the emergence of tried-and-tested playbooks for hyper-growth companies, and the critical mass of experienced global talent are feeding into and accelerating one another. The result is that entrepreneurs stand at a historical tipping point in which they have unprecedented opportunities to create new, category-defining businesses. AI opens up entirely new industries for VC investment “Even though technology has transformed our daily li