Global games investment rose 38% from $3.1 billion to $4.3 billion in 2024, according to a report by game venture capital firm Hiro Capital.And if you look at games, mixed reality, and sports tech, the numbers showed over $10 billion was invested in those categories in 2024, based on data from Dealroom that was analyzed by Hiro Capital.Despite an overall funding downturn in the world, global ga...

BCG’S annual survey offers a snapshot of over 540 global investors’ perspectives on market performance, risks, and management priorities. They are bullish about market performance for the next three years and much less concerned about the short term than in our previous survey.Bullishness for the next 12 months is the highest in a decade and the second highest in the 13 year history of the su...

Largo.ai, the AI-driven analytics platform for the film, TV and advertising industries, has secured $7.5M in investment with Sylvester Stallone among the newest backers of the company as it closed its Series A financing round. Co-led by Los Angeles-based TI Capital and Switzerland and Los Angeles-based QBIT Capital, funding round participants for Largo.ai include Boston’s Atreides Management,...

As we look ahead to 2025, there is no shortage of expert forecasts and predictions for what will happen to the world’s economy, markets, geopolitics, and technology in 2025.In this now sixth year of our Prediction Consensus (part of our comprehensive 2025 Global Forecast Series presented by Inigo Insurance), we’ve summarized the most common predictions and forecasts by experts into a single v...

Google’s X “moonshot factory” this week announced its latest graduate. Heritable Agriculture is a data- and machine learning-driven startup aiming to improve how crops are grown. As the firm noted in an announcement post published Tuesday, plants are incredibly efficient and impressive systems. “Plants are solar powered, carbon negative, self-assembling machines that feed on sunlight and wa...

Instant coffee in a tube has arrived, courtesy of a Zurich, Switzerland-based startup called No Normal Coffee.While toothpaste-like coffee dispensing may seem novel to much of the coffee-drinking world, the format itself is actually quite Swiss, dating back to the post World War II era. Shelf-stable tubed food pastes can still be found throughout grocery stores in Switzerland — from simple con...

We surveyed 50 senior strategy leaders to understand their genAI implementation tactics — and why some teams are seeing better results than others.Generative AI is the leading tech priority for corporate strategy teams in the next year.But only 32% of strategy leaders report active genAI deployments at their organizations.To identify pain points and success stories for genAI adoption, we surve...

The custom bus features aircraft-inspired curves and sci-fi interiors, created by DC2 Mercury.At the 2025 Bharat Mobility Auto Expo, one of the standout attractions wasn’t a cutting-edge car or electric vehicle. Instead, it was a custom-designed bus, created as a mobile showroom for Goldmedal Electricals, a prominent homegrown Indian company. This unique vehicle combines a futuristic, spacecra...

The AI bubble hasn’t burst yet, at least when it comes to consumer spending on AI apps.Led by OpenAI’s ChatGPT, overall spending on AI apps jumped to $1.42 billion in 2024, according to app analytics firm Appfigures. This marks a 274% increase from 2023 (the app launched in May of that year). Among tens of thousands of competitor apps — some of which license OpenAI’s own technology — ChatG...