Venture Capital & Emerging Companies

As we head into the second half of 2025, the prospects for innovation in robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) seem limitless.  It is difficult to find an industry that hasn’t touted the potential for robotics and AI to bring significant growth and advancement: from agriculture to warehousing and logistics. Key sectors, including healthcare, financial services, retail, and manufacturing, are integrating robotics into their physical processes and attempting to optimize other aspects of their businesses through the use of AI, including the use of surgical robotics to enhance precision and efficiency in medical procedures and the adoption of robotics to increase safety, productivity and quality in manufacturing and logistics.

Proposed Section 899 of the Internal Revenue Code, incorporated into “The One, Big, Beautiful Bill,” aims to impose retaliatory tax measures against certain “applicable persons” from “discriminatory foreign countries.”

Read about Walkabout, a very interesting company with an app that aggregates everything on the internet locally, helping neighbors to connect in meaningful ways in person.

Artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as an influential technology, driving notable investments across various industries in recent years. In 2024, venture capital (VC) funding for AI companies reached record levels, signaling ongoing interest and optimism in the sector’s potential. Looking ahead, 2025 is anticipated to bring continued innovation, with promising funding opportunities and a growing IPO market for AI-driven businesses.

Prospective purchasers of blockchain assets can now navigate through global exchanges (i.e., Coinbase or Kraken) to invest in various forms of tokens. Investments in tokens, however, are only the tip of the iceberg for those who are interested in undertaking financial exposure in blockchain projects.

This issue of MintzTech Connect covers venture capital funds warehousing investments and their challenges, provides practical guidance for directors of early- and growth-stage corporations concerning their fiduciary duties, and a spotlight on Surgimatix, an early-stage medical device company pioneering the first proprietary laparoscopic device that delivers suture-like fixation in seconds.

Read about Surgimatix, an early-stage medical device company pioneering the first proprietary laparoscopic device that delivers suture-like fixation in seconds.

Most high-growth companies find themselves in a race against the clock, trying to use whatever capital they may have to achieve milestones prior to hitting their cash-out date. When markets are tight, as they have been over the past several months, founders and boards confront the reality of a liquidity crisis on a nearly daily basis in their scenario planning. It can come in the form of a potential buyer or investor deciding to walk away from a deal, a current investor experiencing its own liquidity crunch, or unfavorable data coming at an unfavorable time. Whatever the cause, when a company approaches insolvency, it is often an existential event, forcing the board of directors to think carefully about how to help the company make decisions in view of the board’s changing fiduciary duties, as well as how those duties may be impacted by a company’s declining cash position. 

This edition of Mintz Venture Watch reports on the firm’s VC transaction activity in the first half of 2024. During this period, Mintz represented issuers and investors in the technology, life sciences, energy, and other sectors in 73 transactions valued at more than $980 million.

This issue of MintzTech Connect covers a federal court ruling blocking the nationwide enforcement of the FTC’s noncompete rule, a checklist for foreign companies expanding into the US, and a spotlight on GUDEA, a tech company using AI-driven tools to help companies predict, map, and influence information flows across social networks.

Read about GUDEA, a technology company with AI-driven tools that enable organizations to predict, map, and influence information flows across social networks before they impact public perception.

This article provides a checklist of action items for foreign companies making an initial expansion into the US, covering essential topics like choosing a business structure, navigating laws and regulations concerning immigration, employment, and taxes, and securing funding.

This article provides information for international angel investors and venture funds looking to invest in start-ups in the United States, including on investment frameworks like how terms are handled, regulatory considerations, and US tax implications.

This article provides a detailed overview of how company founders can create an effective board deck to prepare for a meeting with investor directors.

Read about Radicle Science, a B-corp transforming the supplement industry’s approach to clinical trials and efficacy validation through virtual trials that greatly expand the scale and diversity of trial participants.

This issue of MintzTech Connect covers the FTC’s controversial final rule banning most post-employment non-competes, qualified small business stock issues affecting the conversion of an LLC into a corporation, clinical trial innovator Radicle Science, and an event co-sponsored by Mintz and the Sustainable Media Center, which focused on the impact of social media on today’s youth.

This alert provides an overview of critical steps companies can take to ensure that an M&A exit event runs smoothly, including ensuring internal agreement on the sale, establishing an M&A team, attending to legal housekeeping matters, and carefully reviewing term sheets received from potential bidders.