The Latest Breaking News from Ventures

Index Ventures, Union Square Ventures back trading app Fomo at $550 million valuation

The startup previously raised $17 million in a round led by Benchmark.

Fortune · Jun 22

Checker Raises $8M from Galaxy Ventures, Al Mada Ventures and Framework Ventures to Unify Fragmented Digital Asset Markets for Institutions

NEW YORK, May 20, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Checker, a global network that enables financial institutions to plug into stablecoins and digital asset liquidity, cross-border payments, treasury, and credit via a single API, announced today that it has raised $8M in funding from Galaxy Ventures, Al Mada Ventures, and Framework Ventures.…

AAP · May 19

“Leo was somewhat disgusted that he played an indirect role in the newfangled radical and rambunctious sounds that were taking over radio airwaves”: How the Fender Jazzmaster became the one offset to rule them all – even if no one really used it for jazz

Joe Pass was one of the few jazz cats who used the Jazzmaster for what it was designed for. But that didn't stop it being a sleeper hit for Fender, and a future classic

Guitar World · Oct 12, 2025

Sinclair CEO Chris Ripley: Despite Diamond Disappointment, Sports Is Still the Broadcaster's Crown Jewel (Bloom)

Ripley and Sinclair look to move beyond their bankrupt RSN subsidiary and onto new means and ways to distribute live sports

Broadcasting & Cable · Aug 14, 2023

Tom Hamilton: "I thought, I'll be damned if I'm going to play eighth-notes on the root all my life!"

Aerosmith’s long-serving bassist reflects on becoming a "music-book junkie", channeling John Paul Jones and "smoking a bowl" before writing Sweet Emotion

Guitar World · Jun 9, 2023

Ballymena cemetery software company PlotBox wins £5M investment

London-based Guinness Ventures are lead investors

Birmingham Post · Jun 2, 2023

St Pauls Adventure Playground closes for at least a month

The team are carrying out repairs to the playground

Bristol Post · May 30, 2023

How Choose Your Own Adventures helped me win the Booker prize

Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka on how the gamebooks he grew up with became a literary gateway for curious young readers around the world

The Guardian - UK · May 27, 2023

Verizon reshuffles corporate venture arm leadership amid companywide cost-cutting efforts

Verizon Ventures has two new leaders.

Fortune · Jan 19, 2023

Jeff 'Skunk' Baxter is a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee and a ballistic missile and anti-terrorism expert

SAN DIEGO — Jeff "Skunk" Baxter, a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee, a man of international intrigue and a secret agent?

Tribune News Service · Aug 1, 2022