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The success of the artificial intelligence (AI) software ChatGPT has been the biggest win for the technology sector so far this year after a disappointing 2022.  Tech giants and startups alike are racing to replicate the AI platform, which witnessed meteoric success overnight, and billionaire...

An exit is a chance for a startup company to raise capital and provides its investors with an opportunity to see immediate profits or reap bigger potential rewards in the future.  The growth of equity crowdfunding platforms provides more avenues for startup exits. For example, in late 2022,...

Chances are, you saw headlines previously about Congress needing a 15th round of voting to elect Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy.  That’s a level of chaos and dysfunction that hasn’t been seen since 1923, which makes it all the more striking that the same legislative body was...

Kevin O’Leary, aka Mr. Wonderful, has made a lot of bets over the years. He is best known for his appearance on Shark Tank where he invests in many startups. While his Shark Tank deals are well known because they take place in front of millions on live TV, his other startup investments are...

Republic is the third largest equity crowdfunding portal in the U.S. and the owner of the largest U.K. portal, Seedrs. In March of 2021, they launched the “Realm Metaverse Real Estate" fund available exclusively to a handful of accredited investors. In December of 2021, they launched a...

On Aug. 16, President Joe Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act into law, directing billions of dollars to Americans looking to upgrade their homes, businesses and cars. One provision of the law allows Americans making less than $150,000 a year to claim a $7,500 tax credit for buying an electric...

It’s no secret that venture capital (VC) is pouring money into artificial intelligence (AI). Its mainstream prominence and funding environment are rivaling that of blockchain in 2021. Hundreds of startups are implementing AI into their business models, VC Twitter is packed with ChatGPT and AI...

Collaborative robots — frequently called cobots — work in tandem with people and other systems. They work as teams, with different machines offering their own capabilities, so a group can perform advanced multistep tasks. By grouping robots together, users can offload repetitive or...

Ronald Reid was the last person you would expect to be a millionaire. He used safety pins to hold his old coats together and cut his own firewood well into his 90s. He drove a second-hand Toyota Yaris and resisted new purchases. To stay updated with top startup investments, sign up for Benzinga...

For 79 years, if you wanted the right to invest in early-stage companies like Apple in the 1970s, Facebook in 2004, or Airbnb in 2009, you had to be an “accredited investor.” The concept came from a 1933 law that created the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) to guard...

Do you ever feel like it's hard to stay focused and retain new information? Experts have discovered that tuning into brainwave rhythms is a powerful tool to boost learning. Researchers from the University of Cambridge recently discovered that briefly tuning into a person's individual brainwave...

Despite rising interest rates, the housing market is still red hot. With the average 30-year fixed rate mortgage nearing 7%, the average homeowner will pay over double the asking price at the end of those 30 years. Sky-high housing prices and insane interest rates mean being a homeowner isn’t...

3D printing is a revolutionary technology that allows anyone to easily create and manufacture complex products with relative ease. You create the design, and the printers will “print” physical products using sequential layers of material until the object is completed. 3D-printed objects...

Microsoft Corp. Founder Bill Gates fielded charges of hypocrisy in a BBC interview this week after a broadcaster asked how he squared his extensive and carbon-heavy use of private jets to travel with his dire warnings of climate change.  Gates answered that his funding of clean energy projects...

The top-performing stock on the S&P 500 over the last five years isn’t Tesla Inc. It’s not a meme stock soaring thanks to an army of Redditors or a semiconductor chip household name like NVIDIA Corp. Instead, it’s a company called Enphase Energy Inc. (NASDAQ: ENPH). Enphase is...