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A Tiny Hedge Fund Is Becoming a Thorn in the Side of Energy Giant BP

London-based Bluebell Capital Partners has a history of aiming at big targets, and sometimes hitting them. London-based Bluebell Capital Partners has a history of aiming at big targets, and sometimes hitting them. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All trademarks belong to their rightful owners, all materials to their authors. If you…

endiya partners fund: Endiya Partners announces third fund with corpus of up to $125 million

Venture capital fund Endiya Partners, focussed on deeptech, health, software-as-a-service and artificial intelligence startups, is set to launch its third fund with corpus between Rs 800 crore and Rs 1,000 crore ($100 million and $125 million).The early-stage firm’s latest fund, its largest so far, will continue with the same investment thesis as its first and second funds, and will start deploying in a quarter or 3-4 four months from now, founder and managing director Sateesh Andra told ET.Elevate Your Tech Prowess with…

Homebrew targets $50M for new fund

Venture capital firm Homebrew is targeting $50 million for a new fund, according to a new filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The filing comes as a bit of a surprise considering that Homebrew nearly two years ago said it was pursuing a more stage-agnostic evergreen model that would be funded solely by Satya Patel and Hunter Walk, Homebrew’s general partners. But many firms raise more than one fund at any given time to target particular opportunities; for example, some early-stage firms raise a…

Elon Musk says He’ll help fund AI effort to decipher Roman Scrolls

Elon Musk will provide financial support to a project using artificial intelligence to digitally unfurl ancient scrolls that'd been unreadable for centuries. Bloomberg Businessweek reported this week on a breakthrough in the project, which is known as the Vesuvius Challenge and run by Nat Friedman, the former chief executive officer of GitHub. A group of contestants successfully took scans of scrolls from the Roman town of Herculaneum, which had been charred by the volcanic eruption that buried Pompeii, and used AI to…

CRED to acquire mutual fund startup Kuvera in wealth management push

Indian fintech startup CRED has reached an agreement to buy mutual fund and stock investment platform Kuvera as part of an expansion into wealth management. The $6.4 billion Bengaluru-headquartered startup said it was attracted by Kuvera’s experienced team and expertise in enabling customers to invest directly in mutual funds and stocks with advisory and tracking tools. Kuvera, which manages assets of over $1.4 billion for its 300,000 strong user base, has emerged as a platform-of-choice for…

Thiruvananthapuram, Kozhikode Metro To Go Live Soon, Government Allocates fund of Rs 239 cr for Kochi Phase II

Curated By: Shahrukh ShahLast Updated: February 06, 2024, 13:07 IST Kochi Metro. (File photo) It has been reported that the allocation of funds will speed up the pending tasks, and will contribute a big hand for the ongoing construction of rail projects.In a revolutionized move to boost local transportation and implementation of the metro rail projects in Kozhikode and Thiruvananthapuram, the state government has allocated funds of Rs 239 crore. The development took place at the time when the state was presenting its

Early-stage UK VC Episode 1 closes $95M third fund

London firm builds 'data-driven deal sourcing tools' Early stage European venture capital (VC) firm Episode 1 has closed its third fund at £76 million ($95 million), as the London-based investor turns to in-house “data-driven deal sourcing tools” to find the next big thing. Founded in 2013, Episode 1 has a handful of exits to its name from the 70 or so companies it’s invested in over the past decade — these include 3D mapping platform FatMap, which was acquired by Strava last year,…

Mint Primer: Govt’s ₹1-trillion deep tech fund: why we need it, and is it enough?

The interim union budget for FY25 announced the setting-up of a ₹1 trillion-corpus to fund deep-tech ventures. This gives India’s nascent deep-tech sectors a shot in the arm. However, there will be challenges. Mint explains why the corpus is significant. Why does deep-tech need govt support?Deep-tech includes sectors that are heavily driven by engineering, research and development, and innovation. This niche area covers technologies that are yet to go mainstream. Innovation of…

etherealx funding: Spacetech startup EtherealX raises funding from Campus Fund, others

Spacetech startup EtherealX, which is working on reusable launch vehicles for satellites, has raised its first institutional funding from investors such as Campus Fund, BlueHill Capital and Riceberg Ventures.The funding amount, which was not disclosed, will be used for the startup’s 40 kilonewton, privately developed semi-cryogenic rocket engine, founder and CEO Manu Nair told ET. Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering CollegeCourseWebsiteIndian School of BusinessISB Product ManagementVisitMITMIT

Comcast, Walmart, Pfizer, and Coca-Cola Fund the GOP’s Minority Rule

In North Carolina, “unaffiliated” voters outnumber registered Democrats who, in turn, outnumber registered Republicans — yet Republicans hold not just a slim majority, but a veto-proof one in both chambers of the state’s General Assembly. That veto-proof majority is what allowed Republicans to pass an abortion ban last year that 45 percent of North Carolina voters oppose and only 23 percent support. How is that possible? And why is it the case that Republicans have been able to wield such power, not just in North…