Your Window Into the Innovation Economy

Delivery is only part of the challenge and risk. That’s true of both the pizza business and healthcare. That insight hit hard at our HealthTech Pizza Tasting during NY Tech Week. With founders, investors, and operators gathered around, we considered key questions. Who’s ready to own the next big slice of risk? What slice of healthcare risk is actually worth owning? And when is one slice better than the whole pie?

Picture this: It’s 9:37 AM on May 14, 2025, and you’re standing in the New Mexico desert watching a small rocket lift off from Spaceport America. What you’re witnessing isn’t just another engine test: it’s history in the making. Venus Aerospace, led by Sarah “Sassie” Duggleby, just achieved what many thought impossible: the first U.S. flight test of her company’s Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine (RDRE). This compact, highly efficient propulsion system is designed to enable hypersonic flight — and redefine how we move through the world.

Courtrooms are slow. Contracts are messy. The workflows? Still rooted in the ’90s despite a few giants like Harvey entering the space. But this won’t be a winner-take-all market. A foundational shift is underway in the legal sector — driven by generative AI, rising cost pressures, and a new wave of founder-led innovation. From deposition prep to document review, automation is no longer a buzzword. It’s shipping and starting to scale.

The past five years have been brutal for cybersecurity leaders. The 2020 SolarWinds breach showed how nation-states could weaponize software supply chains, compromising thousands of organizations across public and private sectors. In May 2021, the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack shut down nearly half the fuel supply for the U.S. East Coast, triggering widespread gas shortages and panic buying. Just a few months earlier, vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange gave attackers access to tens of thousands of email servers worldwide.