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How Abhinava Sikdar Is Helping Investors Enhance Value in Energy
A new breed of specialists is emerging to help investors better understand and optimize value beyond the traditional buy-and-hold strategy. Among them is commodities quant Abhinava Sikdar.
Agent-to-Agent Protocols and Why Interoperability Will Define the Next Billion-Dollar
Companies that define infrastructure standards like Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Agent-to-Agent Protocol (A2A) typically command higher valuations, alongside cybersecurity and data-moat applications.
Ukraine: A Worrying Asymmetry in Precision Strikes
July 2025 has proven to be a critical juncture in the Ukraine-Russia war. Russia has intensified its targeting of Ukrainian ammunition depots, supply chains, and critical military infrastructure hubs, multiplying Deep Precision Strikes (DPS).
Chris Krehmeyer
Beyond Housing's portfolio includes more than 800 rental units as well as commercial and retail properties, a health center, entertainment and hospitality venues, and more. The secret to Beyond Housing's significant, scalable social impact is cross-sector collaboration.
Assessing IUX Position in the Brokerage Industry
Founded in 2016 as a brokerage startup, IUX established a clear ambition to penetrate high-growth financial markets across the globe.
What Grand Pharma Reveals About the Risks of Foreign Investment
Cross-border licensing and biotech partnership deals with Chinese firms have surged in recent years, reshaping the global life sciences landscape. Amid this surge, one player has been especially active: Grand Pharmaceutical Group Limited—known as Grand Pharma—a Hong Kong–listed pharmaceutical group with roots in mainland China.
Random Video Chat Apps and Sites Driving Growth
Here are the top 10 random video chat apps and sites currently shaping this space.
Life Surge Review
Christian business education has found a distinctive voice through Life Surge, an organization that draws thousands to events across the United States. Life Surge reviews from participants reveal experiences that blend worship and practical financial training, creating what attendees describe as transformational gatherings.
Lesley Li
As Head of Strategic Partnerships at Chargeblast and Founder & CEO of Lumina Media, Lesley Li is shaping the future of payments and creator partnerships while serving as a Merchant Risk Council (MRC) instructor and recognized global voice in fintech.
Research-Driven Innovation Behind Alcohol Armor
While the $3.2 billion hangover cure market floods consumers with anecdotal claims and untested formulations, Glenn Devitt developed Alcohol Armor.
Data Science Is Rewriting the Rules of Private Equity Secondaries
The private equity secondaries market has long operated as a realm where instinct, reputation, and relationships shaped every major decision. Today, that playbook is becoming obsolete.
Dubai's Crypto Underground
Dubai's position as a world cryptocurrency hub has attracted over $34 billion in digital asset inflows, positioning the emirate as a blockchain powerhouse.
Alex Chiniborch
For Alex Chiniborch, founder of Alluca Financial and one of Dubai's most outspoken voices in wealth preservation, gold is no longer a relic—it's a requirement.
Flo Health
As the world's most downloaded women's health application and a newly minted unicorn with over $200 million in funding, Flo Health is leveraging its market position to address a critical global health challenge: the widespread lack of menstrual health knowledge among women in low and middle-income countries.
Broken Tee Vodka
Every great round of golf ends at the 19th hole. It's where bets are settled, stories are told, and the day's best shots are replayed over a well-deserved drink. But for founder Chris Bishouty, something was always missing from the bar rail. The result is Broken Tee Vodka.
Modern Homestead
Together, Breslin and DeMarco are gravity. They orbit one another with ease, but pull everyone else into their world too. They're the couple behind Modern Homestead, the hit TV show that turns their rural Tennessee experiment into a spectacle of trial, error, and triumph.
Pronto Mobile Co-Founders, Jeff Buckwalter and Pete Macnee
With full mobile penetration and low churn rates in the US, there's simply no business case for the major operators to do better. Enter Pronto Mobile with a completely different approach.
Aurmor.ai
Aurmor.ai is defining a new category in youth sports brain injury prevention and recovery. The company has pioneered the concept of Cumulative Neural Load (CNL), a framework for identifying, measuring, and mitigating the accumulation of repeated Motion-Induced Brain Stress (MiBS) during athletic activity.
The Big Beautiful On-Chain Software Systems for Crypto Adoption
While the promise of blockchain technology and decentralized finance is driving unprecedented innovation, the path to mass adoption is anything but straightforward. Five primary challenges are shaping the landscape for issuers, investors, and regulators alike.
The Rise of Rare Earths Mining in North America
Rare earth elements (REEs) have emerged as some of the most strategically important resources of the 21st century. At the forefront of North America's rare earths resurgence is MP Materials Corp. (MP), owner and operator of the Mountain Pass mine in California—the only fully integrated rare earth mining and processing facility on the continent.
Alpha Watt Condemns Indivisible's Disruptive Actions Targeting Dafter's Economic Progress
Alpha Watt, a vital contributor to the Upper Peninsula's (UP) economic growth through its bitcoin mining data center in Dafter, is addressing the damaging actions of Indivisible, a billionaire-funded activist group reportedly backed by George Soros.
Dennis Tomala
As global markets evolve, a select group of leaders is not only adapting but actively shaping what comes next. Dennis Tomala is one of those rare individuals. As founder of HYGH Capital, Tomala has emerged as a pioneering voice in the fusion of traditional investment strategy and blockchain innovation.
BodiGuide Fluid Monitoring device
Many current heart failure monitoring methods are ineffective, costly, and inaccessible to much of the population (particularly in the US). BodiGuide, led by CEO Deborah Kessler, has created a way to change the game in heart failure management.
Software Market Reality Check: Public Stocks Performance Impact on Startups
Public SaaS companies are navigating a new post-pandemic equilibrium where sustainable profitability is preferred to the low-margin, high-growth environment of the pandemic market boom.
Sophia  Kleshchuk
We spoke with Sophia Kleshchuk, a seasoned expert in product development and investor relations, about why today's space and defense startups need a tailored IR and communications strategy to stand out.
Inside CyberInsider's Investigative Approach
In September 2021, ProtonMail quietly scrubbed a bold claim from its website: "We do not keep any IP logs which can be linked to your anonymous email account." The deletion came after French authorities arrested an activist whose IP address ProtonMail had logged and provided under court order.
Steerco
Software companies spend millions on Customer Success teams to stay ahead of churn and expansion. Still, they don't consider the reality of their situation: that most of the work, such as that involved with QBRs, can be fixed with automation. Steerco aims to change that.
Anton Alikov
Over the past 10–15 years, fintech has grown from a niche industry to a powerful transformative driver in the global economy. Financial technologies have penetrated into many areas of human activity, and now they are all around us.
A Hedge Fund Manager's Staggering Rise and Fall
In 2019, following stints at hedge funds Citadel LLC and Schonfeld Strategic Advisors, Blotnick launched his own fund: Brattle Street Capital LLC, named after the street he grew up on in Cambridge. Everything was going his way—until it wasn't.
Emperio Capital
Many high-growth entrepreneurs find themselves stuck in a capital bottleneck, from document-heavy applications to endless underwriting delays, that threatens to derail momentum before it even starts. Emperio Capital is quietly rewriting the rules of startup finance.
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