Founders

Founders are the individuals who establish and lead companies or ventures, responsible for initiating business ideas, securing funding, and guiding the organization's growth and strategy.

Why it’s in the news: Founders are in the news due to significant venture capital funding being directed specifically at them in various regions and sectors, including AI and crypto.

Latest on Founders

• ETSA 2026: Indian founders eyeing early IPOs instead of private capital: Meesho CEO Vidit Aatrey
• Where will India's deep tech be in 10 years? Pixxel, Agrani Labs, BrainSight AI founders explain
• Ecosystem Roundup: Granite Asia, Google bundle cash and compute for Asia’s AI founders
• While VCs crowd into San Francisco, Endeavor Catalyst raises $320M for founders ‘elsewhere’
• Granite Asia, Google AI Futures Fund team up to back Asia’s AI founders
• Anthropic Expands Discounts and Support for Founders
• For years, forming a startup in London was enough to dazzle venture capital firms. Now, founders must show success or be forced to change strategy.
• The public isn't being told what this means for accountability.
• Seven co-founders securing permanent voting control isn't a governance structure—it's a founder insurance policy.
• Founders are pitching models trained on Western datasets, optimized for Western regulatory environments, and built on assumptions about data quality that don't hold across Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, or the Philippines.
• do they read that as vision protection, or as a warning that their capital won't buy them governance rights?
• Anthropic is doing this specifically to protect non-shareholder trustees on the board — people with no financial stake in outcomes, selected by founders, insulated from investor accountability.

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