NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct 23, 2025--
B Capital, a global multi-stage investment firm, today announced key highlights from its 2025 Annual General Meeting (AGM) and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Summit. The events brought together more than 200 CEOs, investors and industry luminaries to discuss how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming businesses, investment strategies, leadership and global markets.
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B Capital Highlights AI-Driven Investment Momentum and Global Thought Leadership at 2025 Annual General Meeting and CEO Summit
B Capital Highlights AI-Driven Investment Momentum and Global Thought Leadership at 2025 Annual General Meeting and CEO Summit
B Capital Highlights AI-Driven Investment Momentum and Global Thought Leadership at 2025 Annual General Meeting and CEO Summit
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With the theme “Venture at AI Velocity,” B Capital’s 2025 AGM and CEO Summit reflected the firm’s dedication to partnering with visionary founders building enduring, technology-enabled businesses around the globe. The event further demonstrated the firm’s commitment to harnessing leading-edge AI technology to drive results.
“Our strategy was designed for this moment,” said Howard Morgan, Chairman and General Partner of B Capital. “With our exceptional team, global reach and commitment to advancing AI responsibly, we’re shaping the next generation of transformative companies.”
Annual General Meeting: Venture at AI Velocity
B Capital’s 2025 AGM spotlighted firm updates and portfolio highlights, as well as emphasized the strong foundation the firm has built to drive the next phase of the AI evolution.
B Capital’s leadership underscored four key differentiators that will help position the firm to succeed in the current market environment:
“AI is not a sector, but rather, a foundational capability that amplifies everything we do,” said Eduardo Saverin, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of B Capital. “Our platform connects expertise, technology and global reach in a way that allows us to invest and operate at AI velocity.”
The AGM featured a lineup of key opinion leaders, including:
CEO Summit: Leadership and Purpose in an Era of Acceleration
Now in its second year, B Capital’s CEO Summit was designed to provide the firm’s portfolio company founders and CEOs with an opportunity to focus on leadership, while also learning from one another and world-class operators across industries. This year, B Capital convened roughly three dozen CEOs building transformative companies across tech, AI, healthcare and resilience tech.
“Our CEO Summit exemplifies the highly curated ecosystem we’ve built at B Capital, bringing together the brightest minds in technology and business to exchange ideas that shape industries,” said Raj Ganguly, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of B Capital. “Innovation is never a solo act – it’s learned, shared and constantly evolving. This summit reinforces how our value-add goes far beyond capital; it’s about building a community that drives meaningful, long-term impact.”
The program, which focused on scaling responsibly, leading through uncertainty and building enduring cultures, featured:
The CEO Summit concluded with a fireside chat with David Rubenstein, Co-Founder and Chairman of The Carlyle Group.
About B Capital
B Capital invests globally in extraordinary founders and businesses shaping the future through technology. With more than $9 billion in assets under management and dedicated stage-based funds, the firm focuses on seed to early- and late-stage venture growth investments, primarily in the technology, healthcare and resilience tech sectors. Founded in 2015, B Capital has an integrated, global team across nine locations in the U.S. and Asia. The firm’s value-add platform, together with the consulting expertise of its strategic partner, The Boston Consulting Group, provides entrepreneurs with the tools and resources to scale quickly and efficiently, expand into new markets and build market-leading businesses. For more information, click here.
B Capital Highlights AI-Driven Investment Momentum and Global Thought Leadership at 2025 Annual General Meeting and CEO Summit
B Capital Highlights AI-Driven Investment Momentum and Global Thought Leadership at 2025 Annual General Meeting and CEO Summit
B Capital Highlights AI-Driven Investment Momentum and Global Thought Leadership at 2025 Annual General Meeting and CEO Summit
NAKHON RATCHASIMA, Thailand (AP) — A construction crane collapsed onto an elevated road near Bangkok, killing two people on Thursday, a day after another crane fell on a moving passenger train in northeastern Thailand and killed 32 people.
The work on an extension of the Rama 2 Road expressway — a major artery leading from Bangkok — has become notorious for construction accidents, some of them fatal.
The crane collapsed at part of the road project in Samut Sakhon province, trapping two vehicles in the wreckage, according to the government’s Public Relations Department.
Transport Minister Phiphat Ratchakitprakarn said on Thai TV Channel 7 that two people had died. It was unclear if anyone else had been trapped in the wreckage.
There was uncertainty about the number of victims because the site is still considered too dangerous for search teams to enter, said Suchart Tongteng, a rescue worker with the Ruamkatanyu Foundation.
“At this moment, we still can’t say whether another collapse could happen,” he said, citing dangling steel plates. “That’s why there are no rescue personnel inside the scene, only teams conducting on-site safety assessments.”
At the site of Wednesday's train derailment, the search for survivors ended, Nakhon Ratchasima Gov. Anuphong Suksomnit said. Three passengers listed as missing were presumed to have gotten off the train earlier, but that was still being investigated.
Officials believed 171 people had been aboard the train’s three carriages, which were being removed from the scene Thursday.
The crane that fell, crushing part of the train, was a launching gantry crane, a mobile piece of equipment often used in building elevated roadways.
Police were still collecting evidence and interviewing witnesses and have not pressed charges, provincial Police Chief Narongsak Promta told reporters.
South Korea's Foreign Ministry reported a South Korean man in his late 30s, was among the dead.
The high-speed rail project where the accident occurred is associated with the plan to connect China with Southeast Asia under Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative.
In August 2024, a railway tunnel on the planned route, also in Nakhon Ratchasima, collapsed, killing three workers.
Anan Phonimdaeng, acting governor of the State Railway of Thailand, said the project’s contractor is Italian-Thai Development, with a Chinese company responsible for design and construction supervision.
A statement posted on the website of the company, also known as Italthai, expressed condolences to the victims and said the company would pay compensation to the families of the dead and hospitalization expenses for the injured.
Transport Minister Phiphat said Italthai was also the lead contractor on the highway project where Thursday's accident took place, though several other companies are also involved.
The rail accident had already sparked outrage because Italthai was also the co-lead contractor for the State Audit Building in Bangkok that collapsed during construction last March during a major earthquake centered in Myanmar. The building's collapse was the worst quake damage in Thailand and about 100 people were killed.
Twenty-three individuals and companies have been indicted, including Italthai's president and the local director for the company China Railway No. 10, the project’s joint venture partner. The charges in the case include professional negligence and document forgery, and Thailand's Department of Special Investigation has recommended more indictments.
The involvement of Chinese companies in both projects has also drawn attention, as has Italthai and Chinese companies’ involvement in the construction of several expressway extensions in and around Bangkok where several accidents, some fatal, have occurred.
In Beijing, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said Wednesday the government was aware of the rail accident and had expressed condolences.
Associated Press writers Wasamon Audjarint in Bangkok and Hyung-jin Kim in Seoul, South Korea, contributed to this report.
Relatives of victims and others wait at a hospital, a day after a construction crane fell into a passenger train in Nakhon Ratchasima province, Thailand, Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)
Relatives wait at a hospital to receive bodies of victims, a day after a construction crane fell into a passenger train in Nakhon Ratchasima province, Thailand, Thursday, Jan.15, 2026. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)
Forensic workers inspect the site of a train accident, a day after a construction crane fell into a passenger train in Nakhon Ratchasima province, Thailand, Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)
A cuddly toy lies on the ground at the site of a train accident, a day after a construction crane fell into a passenger train in Nakhon Ratchasima province, Thailand, Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)
A construction crane that collapsed on the Rama 2 Road elevated expressway in Samut Sakhon province, Thailand on Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Arnun Chonmahatrakool)
A construction crane that collapsed on the Rama 2 Road elevated expressway in Samut Sakhon province, Thailand on Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Arnun Chonmahatrakool)
A construction crane that collapsed on the Rama 2 Road elevated expressway in Samut Sakhon province, Thailand on Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Arnun Chonmahatrakool)
