Venture Capital stories - Page 5
From side hustles to scalable brands: How marketplaces are paving the way for female entrepreneurs
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digital transformation
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supply chain
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Digital marketplaces are empowering UK women to turn side hustles into scalable brands, bypassing traditional funding bottlenecks.
From optics to outcomes: What real progress for women in tech looks like
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fintech
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risk & compliance
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healthtech
Women in tech win visibility but little venture capital; real progress demands funding that follows performance, not familiar faces.
Women push for faster gender parity in fintech & tech
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fintech
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socs
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risk & compliance
Senior women across fintech, private equity and cyber call for faster gender parity, urging sponsorship, structural change and bold hiring.
Where are the godmothers of AI in the tech industry?
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fintech
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risk & compliance
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ai
Women shape our world, yet lack power over AI systems that govern work, wealth and welfare - where are the true godmothers of AI?.
Conifers hires AI leaders to scale CognitiveSOC growth
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advanced persistent threat protection
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socs
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llms
Conifers adds senior AI leaders Doron Bachar and Elad Hoffer to accelerate CognitiveSOC development and scale its agentic AI SOC platform.
Building in public: Why women entrepreneurs need visibility as much as capital
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social media
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iwd
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opinion
Women founders are closing the start-up gap, but with VC still lagging, visibility and public storytelling are now vital growth capital.
Women are 77% of the NHS workforce. So why are they missing from the tech that's supposed to fix it?
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digital transformation
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it industry
Women power the NHS but are sidelined in healthtech, leaving the tools meant to transform care shaped in rooms they rarely occupy.
How female-led healthtech can close the gender gap
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healthtech
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opinion
Women bear the brunt of chronic illness, but a new wave of female-led health tech aims to tackle root causes and close the gender health gap.
Why closing the gender gap in entrepreneurship is key to unlocking growth
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zendesk
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iwd
With women-led start-ups securing just 2.3% of 2024 VC funds, Cristina Fonseca says closing tech's gender gap is vital for growth.
Carta buys ListAlpha to launch integrated private CRM
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crm
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cloud security
Carta acquires ListAlpha and launches Carta CRM, unifying front-office relationship tools with back-office fund data for private capital firms.
UpGuard unveils Risk Automations to speed cyber fixes
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uc
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cloud security
UpGuard debuts Risk Automations to link cyber risk findings with security workflows, promising faster fixes after USD $75 million raise.
Rooms shape power: How culture signals exclude women in tech
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hybrid & remote work
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marketing
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ict sector
In tech and marketing, women are excluded not just by bias in code or funding, but by domestic load and male-coded networking rituals.
Dyna.Ai raises Series A for agentic AI, lead by Lion X Ventures
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saas
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digital transformation
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fintech
Dyna.Ai secures an eight-figure USD Series A to scale agentic AI from pilots to production in complex, regulated financial enterprises.
AI, women in tech & why progress demands a human lens
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digital transformation
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ai
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it industry
As AI reshapes tech, women still battle entrenched bias; only a deliberately human lens can turn this revolution into real inclusion.
We are not climbing a ladder, we are building it
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digital transformation
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physical security
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genai
Generative AI is levelling the creative-tech field, giving women a rare chance to shape rules, narratives and power from the ground up.
Rainforest adds PayPal to unify vertical software checkout
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crypto
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fintech
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cx
Rainforest adds PayPal, Venmo and PayPal Pay Later to its unified checkout for vertical software, aiming to shift users from cash and cheques.
Sentient unveils Arena to stress-test autonomous AI agents
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fintech
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rpa
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risk & compliance
Open-source lab Sentient has launched Arena, a vendor-agnostic sandbox to stress-test autonomous AI agents in complex, capital-sensitive tasks.
Thai edtech RevisionSuccess joins SMU's BIG incubation programme
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edutech
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ai
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higher education
Thai edtech startup RevisionSuccess enters Singapore's SMU BIG incubator, using AI-native tools to scale its learning platform across Southeast Asia.
UK listeners spot AI voices faster & trust them less
Fri, 27th Feb 2026
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devops
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hyperscale
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cx
UK listeners are quicker than Americans to spot AI-generated voices, and their trust in what they hear plunges once they detect them.
TerraPay & Raenest boost payouts to India, Philippines
Fri, 27th Feb 2026
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fintech
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risk & compliance
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payment technologies
TerraPay links its global payments network to Raenest to speed local-currency payouts to freelancers in India and the Philippines.