In Food Tech, Barriers-to-Entry Impact Valuations

Chile-based NotMilk may be alluring to investors because of its plant-based product traits and its de facto celebrity endorsement by Jeff Bezos. Not all food-tech companies are so fortunate. The key to capturing investor capital may be found in answering…

Startup Amplifies Its Operational Deceit

Bad Blood is the story of the rise-and-fall of Theranos, a Silicon Valley startup that was set on revolutionizing healthcare. As a case study, the book should become required reading in every business-school entrepreneur program. Theranos’ founder, Elizabeth Holmes, dropped…

‘Pump and Dump’ Schemes Are Global Phenomena

Authorities in Hong Kong are seeing new twists on securities fraud. In the latest wave of “pump and dump” schemes involving micro-cap stocks, fraudsters appear to be targeting investors in distant jurisdictions, such as Singapore and Macau. These stock-price manipulators…

AI Transforms Institutional Investment

Cranganore Inc announces the launch of new investment fund for offshore investors. The Plotinus 2 Pi Fund, sponsored by Plotinus Asset Management, uses artificial intelligence to manage an overlay on a broad index of US stocks. The product is designed…

US Hoteliers Play Waiting Game in Cuba

A case can be made that the dearth of activity by US hotel companies in Cuba is opening doors for other, non-US organizations. Spain-based Melia, for instance, now operates some 30 properties across the island; they may be looking to…

Washington Retreats, Havana Endures

Cuba may seem like an international sideshow, but that view is one of ignorance, rather than wisdom. Americans, in particular, have long miscalculated the wherewithal of the Cuban regime. Consider one simple fact: The nation has managed to survive deftly…

Sports Venues Suffer From Mall Disease

The American mall is not the only part of discretionary consumer economy on the wane. There is a quiet rumbling among owners and operators of sports venues—stadiums, arenas, and the like—that their attendance figures are in secular decline. Football and…