Private equity’s quiet powerhouse, Lead Edge Capital (LEC), has traditionally kept a low profile, despite its extensive track record of investments in high-growth companies like Alibaba, Spotify, and Uber. But recently, LEC has emerged as one of the most vocal and active players in the secondary venture capital (VC) market, signaling major confidence in this…

As artificial intelligence moves from experimental labs into everyday implementation across industries, the biggest differentiator between success and failure isn’t just processing speed, accuracy, or data volume. Increasingly, it’s empathy. While it might seem counterintuitive to associate a deeply human emotion with machine intelligence, numerous experts and industry leaders argue that empathy — not just…

The rapid rise of artificial intelligence (AI) has opened new opportunities for global innovation, productivity, and societal transformation. From large language models reshaping enterprise efficiency to autonomous systems driving next-gen automation, AI is no longer merely experimental—it is foundational. However, as this powerful tool accelerates to the core of economies and governments, worrying signs are…

In the midst of growing turbulence in the pre-seed funding landscape, San Antonio-based venture capital firm Active Capital has unveiled a $28 million fund aimed at addressing one of the most precarious choke points in the startup journey: the funding gap for early-stage B2B SaaS startups. With fewer checks being written and macroeconomic uncertainties tightening…

As quantum computing steadily crosses the threshold from theoretical promise to commercial application, a new frontier is taking shape—cloud quantum computing. A term once relegated to science fiction is rapidly emerging as a trillion-dollar industry as financial institutions, national governments, AI developers, and Fortune 500 companies pour staggering sums into infrastructure, talent, and intellectual property….

The U.S. Senate’s recent advancement toward an AI development moratorium marks one of the most consequential policy inflection points in the tech industry’s history. On June 22, 2025, the Senate Parliamentarian authorized congressional committees to proceed with legislation that could temporarily restrict certain artificial intelligence initiatives, particularly those classified as advanced or high-risk (Axios, 2025)….