L Catterton has sold its majority stake at a steep discount to the DTC era’s peak valuation. Common stockholders get nothing. The Everlane board signed on Saturday. Shein, the Chinese-founded ultra-fast-fashion giant, is acquiring Everlane, the San Francisco-based direct-to-consumer apparel brand, from majority owner L Catterton, according to reports in Bloomberg. The transaction values Everlane […]
The Tampa-based, Sun Capital-owned software services firm is folding the SAP- and IWG-trusted UK digital agency into its Digital Experiences practice. Deal terms were not disclosed. Exadel, the Tampa-based software-development and consulting firm, has acquired Tangent, the London-based digital experience consultancy, the company said on Monday. Terms were not disclosed. Tangent will continue to operate […]
An order posted on Saturday tells Apple to hand over financial information to India’s competition regulator. It also tells the regulator not to issue a final ruling before 15 July. The Delhi High Court told Apple over the weekend to ‘fully cooperate’ with the Competition Commission of India in its ongoing antitrust investigation of the […]
A federal judge in San Francisco wanted more detail on lawyers’ fees and lead-plaintiff payments before signing off on what would be the largest copyright settlement in US history. A federal judge in San Francisco declined on Thursday to give final approval to Anthropic’s proposed $1.5bn settlement with authors who say the company trained its […]
Barclays Climate Ventures and Two Seas Capital led the British precision-liquid-cooling company’s Series B, with existing backers ABC Impact, Northern Gritstone, Edinv, and British Patient Capital all returning Iceotope, the British precision-liquid-cooling company, has closed a $26 million Series B round to expand its product line and patent portfolio as the AI hardware cycle pushes […]
For ten months, Figma has been a case study in how quickly Wall Street can fall out of love. The company went public on 31 July 2025 at $33 a share, soared past $140 on its debut, and has spent most of 2026 in freefall, battered by Google’s free Stitch design tool, Anthropic’s Claude […]
Joshua Kushner’s Thrive Capital has taken a roughly $100 million stake in Shopify, according to Bloomberg, which cited people familiar with the matter. The investment is notable less for its size, $100 million is a rounding error in a firm that raised more than $10 billion for its latest fund, than for what it signals […]
Alex Karp has spent the past fortnight telling anyone who will listen that Palantir Technologies is indispensable. Retail investors and the German military have arrived at the opposite conclusion, and their timing is almost perfectly synchronised. In the week through 13 May, individual investors were net sellers of $82 million worth of Palantir shares, […]
OpenAI’s partnership with Apple, announced to considerable fanfare in June 2024, is fracturing. The AI company’s lawyers are actively working with an outside legal firm on options that could include sending Apple a formal notice alleging breach of contract, according to Bloomberg, which cited people familiar with the deliberations. No lawsuit has been filed, […]
Boston Consulting Group is doing something slightly unusual with its new AI sales agent. It is teaching it how to fail. The agent, called Jamie, is being trained not only on the call transcripts, engagement patterns, and conversational habits of BCG’s strongest-performing sellers, but also on the behaviours that did not work, the approaches […]
