Top news of the week: 05.02.2023.
Tiger Global Cuts Fundraising Target as Startup Market Cools
The prolific startup investor is aiming to raise $5 billion, less than half of its initial ambition for a large venture-capital fund.
Hot or Not for 2023? Investing predictions from an angel investor
Maninder Dhaliwal, managing partner at the Startup Studio Accelerator and Venture Fund, shares her bets on which industries will be scooping up cash this year.
Founders, Please Submit Your Founder's Choice VC Rankings
The voting deadline closes Feb. 7. Founders vote on their preferred investors.
New School Foods’ filet looks and tastes like salmon, but it’s actually plants
New School Foods created a proprietary muscle fiber and scaffolding platform for making whole-cut salmon alternatives.
Egyptian financial services provider MNT-Halan valued at $1B in $400M funding
The round includes $260 million in equity financing and $140 million through two securitized bond issuances, investments that will now see MNT-Halan command a valuation of about $1 billion.
Venture capital for Black entrepreneurs plummeted 45% in 2022, data shows
Black entrepreneurs saw historic gains in securing VC funding after the George Floyd racial justice reckoning, but financing dropped 45% in 2022.
Lavender lands $13.2M for its AI-powered email marketing engine
Lavender, a startup applying AI -- including generative AI -- to email marketing, has raised $13.2 million in a venture funding round.
Tiger Global says India returns have ‘sucked historically’ but remains bullish
Tiger Global believes India is likely to produce the highest equity returns globally, its partner Scott Shleifer said.