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We asked 17 top cannabis investors to name startups in the industry that they think are poised for major growth in 2021. Here's the full list of 26 startups. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more ...

Cannabis has always been essential to some. While it had seemed to start last year in a bit of a correction, demand for it during the pandemic (and its widespread designation as an essential business) ...

In June 2021, Ralf Wenzel founded the grocery delivery startup JOKR to meet the demand of millions of people who had discovered the convenience of online shopping for food. One month later, the ...

Venture capital shattered records in 2021 and is headed into another bullish year. Behind all the dealmaking were the venture capitalists at firms large and small. Here are 55 rising-star VCs expected ...

Happy New Year to all of this column’s readers! I think I speak for us all when I say “good riddance” to 2020, and for this reason – and the fact that we’ve covered the topic of the ongoing effects of ...

We asked a group of investors at successful venture capital firms to name the startups poised for success next year. VCs named so many consumer startups that we couldn't include them all on our big ...

2021 has been a record-breaking year for the venture-capital world, from the amount of money VC funds have raised to the number of unicorns — startups valued at over $1 billion — they have crowned.

After enduring eight rounds of chemotherapy, Kate Dilligan, founder of Ad Astra portfolio company Cooler Heads, began revolutionizing the cold cap industry so that other solid-tumor patients could ...

Investment platform OurCrowd has emerged as the most active venture capital investor in Israel this year as record amounts of capital flood into the country's startup ecosystem. So far in 2021, VCs ...