Activist campaigns have turned CEO decapitation into the new normal. The odds of a CEO getting ousted have jumped from 5% to nearly 20% in just five years. Here’s what leaders need to do before the activists show up with their own script.
According to TechCrunch, at least 80 VC-backed startups have achieved unicorn status in 2025 so far, fueled by an AI investor frenzy. The list includes companies like the $8B AI model developer Reflection and the $5B blockchain payments firm Tempo, but also spans satellite manufacturing, drug discov
Stronghold isn’t your typical fintech. It launched a stablecoin in 2017, partnered with IBM in 2018, and pivoted during the pandemic. Now it’s a full financial infrastructure play.
Walmart’s Cyber Monday event is live with massive discounts on big-ticket items like TVs and Apple gear. According to Tom’s Guide, deals include an LG 48-inch OLED TV for $550 and AirPods 4 for $79. These are some of the last major savings of the year.
Axelspace is positioning Japan as a serious player in the commercial space race. Their GRUS-3 microsatellite constellation, launching in 2026, will dramatically increase Earth observation capabilities. The company leverages Japan’s manufacturing heritage for global impact.
Dutch FinTech company POM has acquired Danish sector peer FarPay to establish a new European standard for automated invoicing and payments. The move combines POM’s receivables management with FarPay’s end-to-end automation capabilities. Both companies were founded in 2014 and will operate as indepen
XBOW has appointed Jonaki Egenolf as CMO and Dean Breda as General Counsel to strengthen its executive team. The company’s autonomous agents recently reached the top of the HackerOne global leaderboard, outperforming human hackers across thousands of targets.
A new class of investors is buying up stagnant VC-backed startups at bargain prices, making them profitable, and holding them forever. The strategy challenges traditional venture capital’s growth-at-all-costs model by prioritizing sustainable cash flow over billion-dollar exits.
AI music startup Suno has invested $32 million in compute power since January 2024 while spending just $2,000 on training data. Meanwhile, Nvidia responds to Google’s chip advances as the AI infrastructure market gets increasingly competitive.
Singapore-based Amperesand has raised $80 million in Series A funding to develop its Medium Voltage Solid-State Transformer platform for AI data centers. The company plans to deploy 30MW of commercial systems in 2026, expanding operations in both the US and Singapore.
