Investor Profile: Gili Raanan
Gili Raanan Founder, Cyberstarts Age - 56 Residence - Michmoret, Israel Citizenship - Israel Rank : #3 on The Midas Seed List (2025) #24 on The Midas List: Top…
Pitch That Actually Lands: How to prepare, what to say, and what investors really want
You can craft a beautiful deck and still lose the room. Investors buy clarity, conviction, and a believable path to scale. This piece walks through the practical work you should…
John Paul DeJoria: From Homeless to Billionaire With Shampoo, Tequila and Pure Grit
A Tough Beginning That Shaped His Drive John Paul DeJoria’s early life looked nothing like the life he eventually built. Born in Los Angeles in 1944 to immigrant parents, he…
Net-Zero Power, Global Reach; Proxima Fusion building stellarators to power the future
When Proxima Fusion launched in Munich in 2023, most observers viewed commercial fusion energy as a distant dream. Yet today, as the company closes in on a major engineering milestone, it…
The Second Act: How Mirador Therapeutics Is Rewriting the Rules of Immune Medicine
After selling his last company for nearly $11 billion, Mark McKenna is back with $400 million and a bold mission: to create breakthrough therapies for diseases that affect millions worldwide.…
Unbundling Carbon: Greenlyte Is Turning Air Into Assets
Team, trajectory, and the startup rewriting climate tech Imagine walking through the air and scooping up invisible carbon dioxide like coins into a jar. That might sound like science fiction.…
Eion’s Rocks, Real Results: Scaling a Farm-First Carbon Removal Play
Rethinking Carbon Capture When you picture giant machines sucking CO₂ from the sky, think again. In a Midwest field this year, the strategy looks much more like a tractor and…
Larry Ellison: The College Drop-Out Who Built a Software Empire
A Start Far from Privilege Larry Ellison was born in New York City in 1944 and adopted by a working-class family. His early life was not glamorous. He dropped out…
The Doctor’s Scribe: Abridge Reclaiming Time in Medicine
A Pittsburgh startup is using artificial intelligence to tackle one of healthcare’s most persistent problems, and it’s working. Dr. Shiv Rao remembers the weight of it all. After long days…
Zhou Qunfei: The Touch-Screen Queen Who Built a Global Tech Empire
She remembers the blistering heat of the factory floor even today. As a teenager in Shenzhen, Zhou Qunfei worked from 8 am to midnight or sometimes till 2 am assembling…