Family office investing in fusion energy shows how investors have gained the upper hand in the startup world

Ian Osborne’s VC firm Hedosophia has teamed up with a wealth of family offices to lead an investment of $100 million in Xcimer Energy which plans to use laser beams to generate power from nuclear fusion.

As the French farmers have shown, you won’t get communities to like green initiatives if you disrupt their lifestyles and leave them out of pocket when interest rates are rising.

Where once you might have expected private equity to clinch the deal, Florida’s Reinhart family has purchased Ranch Road Cargo, a manufacturer of mobile storage systems.