Month: May 2025

Elizabeth Holmes’ partner reportedly fundraising for new blood-testing startup Billy Evans, partner of Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, is working on a new startup that seeks to deliver “human health optimization” through blood testing, according to The New York Times. The Times reportedly spoke to two investors pitched on the startup,

FTC delays enforcement of click-to-cancel rule The Federal Trade Commission voted Friday to delay enforcement of the Negative Option Rule — known widely as the “click-to-cancel” rule requiring companies to make it as easy to cancel a subscription as it was to sign up. The rule, which was first proposed

Week in Review: Instacart CEO heads to OpenAI Welcome back to Week in Review! We’ve got lots of news for you this week: There were CEO shake-ups at Instacart and 11x; the web series is back — kind of; Threads is getting video ads; and much more. Let’s get to

Google will pay Texas $1.4 billion to settle privacy lawsuits Google has agreed to pay the state of Texas $1.375 billion to settle two lawsuits accusing the company of tracking users’ personal location, incognito searches, and voice and facial data without their permission. The lawsuits were brought by Texas Attorney

OpenAI’s enterprise adoption appears to be accelerating, at the expense of rivals OpenAI appears to be pulling well ahead of rivals in the race to capture enterprises’ AI spend, according to transaction data from fintech firm Ramp. According to Ramp’s AI Index, which estimates the business adoption rate of AI

Finland’s Foodiq raises €10M to scale multi-layer foodtech Finnish foodtech Foodiq has raised €10 million in funding to accelerate its international expansion and scale up its proprietary Multi-Layer Cooker (MLC), a manufacturing platform aimed at reshaping how food is produced locally and sustainably. The funding will enable Foodiq to bring

PayPal backer questions “energy and passion” of minority stake co-founders A partner at VC firm Plug and Play today stressed the importance of co-founders having an equal equity split in their startups when they start out, questioning the passion and motivations of those with a minority stake. Plug and Play

Will tokenization go mainstream as founders seek alternatives to traditional funding? Tokenization has become a valuable alternative for founders seeking to avoid the often burdensome traditional VC/PE funding route.  Tokenization of real-world assets (RWA) is the process of converting ownership rights in a real-world asset — such as real estate,

Mondelēz invests in Estonia’s eAgronom to boost regenerative farming across Europe Mondelēz International’s impact investing arm, Sustainable Futures, has made a strategic investment in eAgronom, an Estonia-based agritech startup focused on scaling regenerative agriculture across Europe. The funding, part of eAgronom’s ongoing Series A2 round, aims to support the company’s

Weekly funding round-up! All of the European startup funding rounds we tracked this week (May 05 – May 09) This article is visible for CLUB members only. If you are already a member but don’t see the content of this article, please login here. If you’re not a CLUB member