High-net worth individuals

David Yong: Who Is This Singaporean Multi-Millionaire Featured in Netflix’s ‘Super Rich in Korea'?

The million-dollar question remains: who is David Yong, and why is he super rich?


Tim Cook Gets $16 Million After Selling Roughly 200,000 Apple Shares

Tim Cook sold 196,410 Apple shares this week, according to an SEC filing...

Joe Lewis: British Billionaire Who Admitted to US Insider Trading Argues He Shouldn’t Go to Jail

British billionaire Joe Lewis pled guilty to insider trading and sought supervised release for three years and a $5 million punishment instead of jail time...

EQT Plans to Divest 20% Stake in Ottobock to Its Existing Major Shareholders

Swedish global investment company EQT will return 20% of Ottobock's investment to its significant shareholders...


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Matrix Capital's Goel buys Manhattan apartment from Seagram heir in $19M deal
David Goel, the manager of Waltham, Massachusetts-based hedge fund Matrix Capital Management, bought a three-bedroom apartment in Manhattan fro Charles Bronfman, the heir of Canadian beverage firm Sea
Miami startup Kairos raises $1.2M in Series A funding for facial recognition software
Miami, US-based anti-fraud startup Kairos AR raised $1.2 million in a Series A funding round led by Boca Raton-based investment firm New World Angels for the development of its facial recognition soft
Beat the Q bags $1M in funding to partially fund acquisition of Australian app eCoffeeCard
Waterloo, Australia-based mobile payment startup Beat the Q bagged $1 million in funding from high-net worth individuals to partially fund its planned acquisition of Sydney-based loyalty app eCoffeeCa
US startup Knox Payments raises $900K from angel investors for faster online checkouts
US-based payments startup Knox Payments raised $900,000 in funding from Virginia-based angel investors to launch a limited beta version of its service that allows merchants to accept direct payments f
Mobilizing money from Wealthy Families in Peru & Latin America And Why Family money is Not Angel money—Day #3 in Lima, Peru
Entrepreneurs’ most frequent complaint is how challenging it is to raise money, especially risk capital; founders in developing countries have even more difficulty since the amounts of venture money f
Irish billionaire Denis O'Brien picks up minority stake in US startup Spritz
Irish telecom tycoon Denis O'Brien picked up a minority stake in San Francisco, US-based startup Spritz to see how the latter's easy reading app could help improve the literacy rate in developing area
American startup Open Labs updates StageLight software to let users create music with Timbaland
Austin, Texas-based hardware and software startup Open Labs updated its StageLight software to allow users to create and edit their own music with the help of hip-hop superstar Timbaland.
Li Ka-Shing leads $23M investment in US-based fake egg startup
Li Ka-Shing, the richest man in Asia, led a $23-million investment round in Silicon Valley, US-based synthetic egg startup Hampton Creek which is preparing to conquer the Asian market.
Google's Eric Schmidt to donate $1M to firms that use technology to solve world problems
Google Chairman Eric Schmidt said he will be putting money where his mouth is and donating $1 million to companies that will use technology to find solutions to global problems, TechCrunch reported.
Online carbuying platform carwow launches with £1.3m in seed round
Balderton Capital led the seed investment round for London-based carwow, an online website for those who want to buy new cars. Episode 1 Ventures, Samos Investments and angel investors also joined in
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