Posts by Liam Redmond
Preventive Health Startup Function Draws a Major Growth Round
Preventive health company Function just closed $450 million in growth financing from General Catalyst’s Customer Value Fund, the Austin startup announced in late July. The company, valued at $2.5 billion in an oversubscribed round last fall, wants to prove that catching problems early costs less than treating them late. For founders, the check is interesting,…
Read MoreVenture Capital Funding Hits a Record High as AI Dominates
Global venture capital funding reached a record $510 billion in the first half of 2026, according to Crunchbase data published in early July. That single half-year total already tops the $440 billion investors deployed across all of 2025. So the money is clearly back. Still, the headline hides a harder truth for most founders, because…
Read MoreNew Business Applications Hit a Record Pace in 2026
The latest Census figures tell a story every founder should hear: new business applications are running at a record pace in 2026. Americans filed roughly 524,000 applications in June alone, and about 3.08 million so far this year. That total is up nearly 17 percent from the same stretch last year. So more people are…
Read MoreStartup Operations: 5 Decision Rules Founders Set Early
The founders drawing attention this summer are not the loudest ones, according to a July roundup of startup trends. They are the ones with disciplined startup operations, built on rules they wrote before the pressure arrived. Here is why that matters for your company. Decisions made in a panic tend to be expensive. When cash…
Read MoreAI for Small Business: Pie Raises to Grow Main Street
New funding for ai for small business keeps arriving, and Pie just added a fresh round to expand its growth platform for Main Street. The startup raised $19.5 million in a Series A led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, which brings its total funding to $23.7 million. If you run a local shop or service, the…
Read MoreAI Coding Tools Are Reshaping Who Builds Software
New ai coding tools are reshaping who writes software and how fast, with GitHub now reporting roughly 180 million developers and about one new sign-up every second. Its latest Octoverse report ties much of that surge to AI, which has helped push TypeScript to the top of the language charts. If you run a small…
Read MoreSmall Business Marketing in 2026: Why Posting Isn’t Winning
The 2026 marketing story is not that founders stopped posting, as this month’s social media marketing trends make clear. It is that posting stopped working on its own. Small business marketing now rewards teams that turn attention into conversations, not teams that simply fill a content calendar. Here is why that matters for your business…
Read MoreSupply Chain Automation Draws $11M as AI Enters the Back Office
London startup Intropy has raised $11 million in seed funding to push supply chain automation into one of the least glamorous corners of business, spare parts. Felix Capital led the round on July 30, with Quiet Capital, General Catalyst, and firstminute Capital joining. The company sells an AI system that plugs into a manufacturer’s core…
Read MoreDBS names former Ping An chief innovation officer Jonathan Larsen to board
He is expected to strengthen overall board composition with his financial services expertise [SINGAPORE] DBS Group Holdings on Monday (Aug 3) announced the appointment of financial services and technology veteran Jonathan Larsen to the boards of both the group and DBS Bank . The appointment takes effect immediately. Larsen, 60, is expected to strengthen the…
Read MoreHackers hit Bitcoin’s safest hiding place in ongoing attack
Published Mon, Aug 3, 2026 · 02:12 PM HACKERS have found a software flaw in a brand of “cold” Bitcoin wallet – considered one of the safest places to store cryptocurrency – and are siphoning tens of millions of dollars in an ongoing attack. Late last week, Canada-based Coinkite notified users of its Coldcard devices…
Read MoreLiberty among WNBA trade deadline losers with key questions looming
The WNBA trade deadline historically is a dull date in the calendar. The league’s hard salary cap makes it difficult to maneuver midseason trades. That didn’t change in the new collective bargaining agreement, which drastically increased player wages. But this year’s deadline did yield two notable trades, including a blockbuster move that sent Kelsey Plum…
Read MoreDBS raises Sheng Siong’s target price to S$3 despite expectation of earnings easing when SG60 vouchers expire
[SINGAPORE] DBS Group Research analyst Chee Zheng Feng raised his target price on supermarket operator Sheng Siong to S$3 from S$2.80, on the back of a 28 times higher forward price-to-earnings ratio. He believes the market is now willing to accept a higher valuation premium of the counter, given the “scarcity value of a pure…
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