Venture Chronicles

09/17/2025

The funding round was led by affiliates of GIC, Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund, and the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA). Both groups are existing backers of Vantage and joined the latest round to support its regional growth.

Vantage Data Centers secured US$1.6 billion from GIC and ADIA to grow its Asia-Pacific platform and acquire a major Johor data centre campus.

09/11/2025

For those looking for proof that gen AI is actually having a significant impact on traditional software vendors, they need look no further than Oracle's explosive Q1 results.

Oracle's growth signals the end of experimental AI and urgent need for enterprises to secure production infrastructure now.

09/08/2025

The stock market rally started off weak, with the S&P 500 and Nasdaq testing their 10-week moving averages, but the major indexes rebounded to record highs Friday morning before the modest reversal.

An Apple iPhone event and inflation reports headline the coming week.

08/25/2025

Artificial intelligence stands as the most breathtaking tech revolution of our time. It’s on par with the original industrial revolution and is weaving itself into every corner of our daily existence.

Artificial intelligence stands as the most breathtaking tech revolution of our time. It’s on par with the original industrial revolution and is weaving itself into every corner of our daily existence. But there’s a secret that the vast majority of investors haven’t uncovered yet. The companies...

08/18/2025

Wall Street's main indexes were set for a muted open on Monday - in a quiet start to a week packed with corporate earnings reports from major retailers and the Federal Reserve's annual symposium in Jackson Hole.

08/12/2025

Slow Ventures’ Creator Fund has invested $2 million into Jonathan Katz-Moses, a popular woodworking content creator with around 600,000 followers, nearly 75 million video views, and his own line of woodworking tools.

This marks the first investment for Slow’s $60 million Creator Fund since its launch in February. The fund looks to help creators launch businesses, under the belief that what made them successful influencers is what can also make them a good founder.

08/06/2025

The new Claude Opus 4.1 model scored 74.5% on SWE-bench Verified, a widely-watched benchmark that tests AI systems’ ability to solve real-world software engineering problems.

Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.1 achieves 74.5% on coding benchmarks, leading the AI market, but faces risk as nearly half its $3.1B API revenue depends on just two customers.

07/28/2025

The fund will invest in early-stage companies, including ventures at the proof of concept, seed, and Series A stages, developing solutions to tackle climate change, resource depletion, and biodiversity loss.

A British transport company founded in 1865 has shut down permanently after a ransomware attack exploited a single weak password, leaving 700 people unemployed. The company, KNP Logistics, became the victim of a cyberattack in 2023 that encrypted its internal systems and made it impossible to contin...

07/17/2025

Mark Zuckerberg and current and former directors and officers of Meta Platforms (META.O), opens new tab agreed to settle claims seeking $8 billion for the damage they allegedly caused the company by allowing repeated violations of Facebook users' privacy, a lawyer for the shareholders told a Delaware judge on Thursday.

Meta investors alleged in the lawsuit that former and current board members completely failed to oversee the company's compliance with the 2012 FTC agreement and claim that Zuckerberg and Sandberg knowingly ran Facebook as an illegal data harvesting operation.

07/16/2025

Sales of Tesla’s Cybertruck have plummeted from their peak last year, to the point that the hulking (and expensive) GMC Hummer EV outsold the polarizing steel-clad curiosity in the second quarter.

As Elon Musk once said, "we dug our own grave with Cybertruck."

07/15/2025

The Trump administration removed a major overhang on Nvidia (NVDA) stock when it cleared the chipmaker to resume selling its H20 artificial intelligence chips in China.

The Trump administration removed a major overhang on Nvidia stock when it cleared the chipmaker to resume selling AI chips in China.

07/14/2025

The AI revolution is accelerating at a pace most of us can’t even fathom. It’s not hype. It’s a recalibration of what it means to build, create and work. Founders who prepare now will lead in what comes next.

Jobs will fade and rise due to AI. But those who learn to screen, train and build dev teams around AI-enabled talent will write the future.