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Sources: HongShan, formerly Sequoia China, has invested only a quarter of the ~$9B it raised in 2022 and has been increasingly looking beyond China for deals (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/neil-she…

Neil Shen’s HongShan Is Slow to Deploy Its $9 Billion Capital, Looks for Deals Outside China
When venture capital giant Sequoia decided to carve off Sequoia China two years ago in response to growing tensions between the U.S. and China, the newly independent China firm was expected to continue pouring its huge funds into Chinese startups. Renamed HongShan (Mandarin for Sequoia), the ...

The greatest thing capitalism has ever done was convince you that your fatigue, depression, and other responses to the capitalist system are actually your personal failures.

"We shouldn’t be surprised, because capturing communities with false promises only to sell us out is business as usual in the corporate internet. The founders handled the transition horribly, even by tech industry standards, and the pain and disruption it creates in our lives is real. Yet capital is constantly pulling the rug on online communities... For corporations, it’s always profits over people"

When We Get Komooted
Following the sale of Komoot to private equity, Josh Meissner explores the broken relationship between corporate capital and our communities...

"The Seven Capital Sins of Open Science"
1. Worshiping the 'age factor'
2. Ignoring the value of data reuse and complexity
3. Disrespecting other disciplines
4. Publishing data without a supplementary paper
5. Creating and maintaining a nightmare for machines
6. Refusing to support investment in general infrastructure
7. Creating data without a FAIR and explicit data stewardship plan.

The Seven Capital Sins of Open Science
Years ago I made a set of cartoons depicting what I consider the seven major roadblocks to effectively realise an Open Science (rather FAIR science actually). These were distilled from my intensive work on the European Open Science Cloud, GO FAIR and also my presidency of CODATA.

Far-Right Watch Lists Are Putting Black Professors in Danger
https://capitalbnews.org/black-professors-watch-list-threats-kirk/

Online platforms offering astrological advice are thriving in India, with the leading app Astrotalk claiming about 84% of its 70M users are under the age of 35 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-0…

Star Charts and Stock Tips: Venture Capital Bets on Financial Astrology
An age-old belief in astrology has snowballed into a $7 billion industry as a younger generation seeks celestial guidance.

Investors are suddenly pulling out of #AI #BCI?…

Investors Are Suddenly Pulling Out of AI
As billions of dollars flood the AI industry in 2025, investors have begun exiting in droves, and the money isn't coming with them.

Great reframing by Malcolm Harris at 52:50 here: When a capitalist says they need more profit to invest in something socially beneficial like housing, that profit is a fee they collect from the public, and a blockage that exists *because* there's a capitalist class that controls the money we need. That's really insightful and I'd never thought of it that way.

Polymarket raised "double-digit millions" from 1789 Capital, which Donald Trump Jr. joined as a partner in 2024; Trump Jr. will join Polymarket's advisory board (Dan Primack/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/08/26/trump-jr-vc-fund-polymarket

Scoop: Donald Trump Jr.'s VC firm bets on Polymarket
1789 Capital invested double-digit millions of dollars into Polymarket

Pharmacy benefit management startup Capital Rx raised $400M, including a $252M Series F; it has raised $607M to date and was valued at $3.25B pre-Series F (Claire Rychlewski/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/health-tech-deals/2025/09/23/capi…

Capital Rx raising $400M from Wellington, General Catalyst
The company bills itself as a transparent alternative to the traditional PBM model.