Goldman Sachs leads investment in software delivery startup Harness at $5.5 billion valuation

Goldman Sachs leads investment in software delivery startup Harness at .5 billion valuation

Jyoti Bansal, co-founder and CEO of Harness, speaks at the company’s Unscripted conference in London on Sept. 25, 2025. Harness Almost nine years ago, Jyoti Bansal sold AppDynamics to Cisco for $3.7 billion just as the software startup was set to go public. Bansal’s latest venture, Harness, is now worth substantially more than that, after … Read more

This is the No.1 reason startups fail in the first two years, according to the founder of Europe’s largest pre-seed fund

This is the No.1 reason startups fail in the first two years, according to the founder of Europe’s largest pre-seed fund

Concept Ventures was an early investor in billion dollar AI firm Eleven Labs. Reece Chowdhury A venture capitalist says one of the biggest reasons startups fail hinges on the relationship between co-founders. Reece Chowdhry, founding partner of Concept Ventures, said early teams often split within two years because their co-founders clash or lack a shared … Read more

Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun is leaving to create his own startup

Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun is leaving to create his own startup

Yann LeCun, known as one of the godfathers of modern artificial intelligence and one of the first AI visionaries to join the company then known as Facebook, is leaving Meta. LuCun said in a LinkedIn post on Wednesday that he plans to create a startup that specializes in a kind of AI technology that researchers … Read more