Major oil company explores $4 billion sale of shale holdings while insisting this is definitely not panic.
Read full article →Canadian explorer with largest North American helium position somehow still needs venture capital to prove helium exists where it says it does.
Read full article →Peter Lake departs the White House energy council, leaving his transformational infrastructure vision behind—like all the others.
Read full article →NorthStrive Companies will advise NorthStrive Acquisition Corp on deal sourcing—a financial ouroboros eating its own tail for $100 million.
Read full article →When a celebrity investor and two venture firms collectively decide that 'vibe coding' is a defensible market category.
Read full article →Miles Wang hasn't founded anything yet, but investors are already pricing his future regrets.
Read full article →Nothing says 'trust us with your capital' like alleging your supposed partners are corporate spies.
Read full article →A company whose business model remains a mystery has mysteriously become twice as valuable.
Read full article →SpaceXAI's Grok 4.5 launch is really just Cursor with a new logo and a press release.
Read full article →Bending Spoons owns AOL and Vimeo but remains a mystery—the M&A equivalent of a sound without a listener.
Read full article →DumbCapital covers venture capital and M&A in North America with the skepticism these markets have long deserved and rarely received. We are not impressed by large numbers. We are not moved by press releases. All articles are satirical commentary based on real, publicly reported deals. Nothing here is financial advice.