Iain Martin

London

Senior Editor at Forbes

Senior Editor @Forbes. Formerly Storyful Asia Editor

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Articles

VC Hemant Taneja's Next AI Frontier

3 weeks ago | forbesmiddleeast.com | Iain Martin
Inside Amazon's race to rule the skies-and the Aussie leading the charge

1 month ago | forbes.com.au | Mark Whittaker |David Axe |Stephen Pastis |Iain Martin

David Carbon went from fixing washing machines in Melbourne to building Amazon's global drone fleet. Now he's eyeing Australian skies. David Carbon, the Australian leading Amazon's ambitious drone delivery program, wants to see its autonomous aircraft flying across his home country - preferably before he retires. But when asked for a timeline on that, or perhaps his age, Carbon sidesteps like a drone dodging a Hills Hoist. "Not immediately, but not in the too distant future ...
Lista Forbes: os Maiores Investidores de Venture Capital do Mundo em 2025

1 month ago | forbes.com.br | Iain Martin

O longo congelamento nas ofertas públicas iniciais (IPOs) e fusões parece estar começando a derreter, e, em um segmento do mercado de startups, os negócios estão fervendo. Em 2025, um pequeno grupo de mega startups como SpaceX, OpenAI e Stripe agora alcança avaliações superdimensionadas, raramente vistas em empresas privadas. E os primeiros investidores dessas empresas estão agora subindo rapidamente na Lista Midas, o ranking da Forbes dos principais investidores de venture capital do mundo.
Este capitalista de riesgo quiere usar la economía de EE.UU. como laboratorio de inteligencia artificial

1 month ago | forbescentroamerica.com | Iain Martin

Los inversores siempre animan a las startups a impulsar la innovación. Hemant Taneja, de General Catalyst, está aplicando este consejo a su propia empresa.
Lista Midas: estos son los principales capitalistas de riesgo del mundo en 2025

1 month ago | forbes.com.mx | Iain Martin

Durante las últimas dos décadas, una gran salida a bolsa o una venta fueron clave para que los inversores de capital riesgo se hicieran un hueco en la Lista Midas. Ahora, las elevadas valoraciones de una nueva generación de startups privadas de gran tamaño como OpenAI, SpaceX y Databricks están revolucionando las clasificaciones de los mejores inversores tecnológicos del mundo.
This Top VC Wants To Use Main Street America As An AI Lab

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Iain Martin

This Top VC Wants To Use Main Street America As An AI LabDaily Cover Investors are always encouraging startups to push the innovation envelope. General Catalyst’s Hemant Taneja is applying that advice to his own firm. Sitting in the offices of General Catalyst, overlooking Oracle Park—where the San Francisco Giants play—and the sweeping bay stretching …
RankIng The World’s Top Venture Capitalists In 2025

1 month ago | forbes.com | Iain Martin

The Midas List returns for its 24th year with another definitive ranking of the 100 best tech investors in the world. Over the last two decades, a big stock market listing or sale were key for VCs to land a spot on the Midas List. Now the soaring valuations of a new crop of super-sized private startups like OpenAI, SpaceX and Databricks are shaking up the rankings of the world’s best tech investors.
This Top VC Wants To Use Main Street America As An AI Lab

1 month ago | forbes.com | Iain Martin

Investors are always encouraging startups to push the innovation envelope. General Catalyst’s Hemant Taneja is applying that advice to his own firm. Sitting in the offices of General Catalyst, overlooking Oracle Park—where the San Francisco Giants play—and the sweeping bay stretching beyond it, CEO Hemant Taneja explains how his venture capital firm is going to transform how Americans access health care: by buying and running a hospital.
Open-Air Theatre with majestic Matterhorn backdrop returns for summer 2025

1 month ago | matterhornchalets.com | Iain Martin

From June to August 2025, Europe’s highest open-air stage will once again come alive as the venue for ‘The Matterhorn Story’, performed in front of the iconic Matterhorn in Zermatt. A decade after its premiere, this historic drama returns to mark the 160th anniversary of the first ascent of the Matterhorn.
It's time for Scotland to rethink women's healthcare

1 month ago | heraldscotland.com | Iain Martin

Of course, I understand first-hand the immense pressures facing the NHS. Resources over-stretched, staff under strain, and demand only continues to climb. We cannot continue, however, to let our mothers, daughters, sisters and friends fall through the cracks simply because the system wasn’t built with them in mind. Alongside my NHS work, I oversee gynaecology services at McKeown Medical where we recently surveyed over 1,200 women across Scotland.