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| 02.09.2026 | Commentary: Big Tech is incapable of solving its Frankenstein problem | BOSTON, Massachusetts: Bill Gates, the billionaire co-founder of Microsoft, published a 6,000-word essay on Wednesday (Aug 26) saying that he would slow the development of artificial intelligence if he could. He elaborated in an interview w... |
| 06.08.2026 | Silicon Valley's latest meme obsession: A years-old picture of Chamath Palihapitiya in a chunky turtleneck | Silicon Valley has found its joke of the summer and, like the enormous white sweater at the center of it, it just keeps growing. An image of Chamath Palihapitiya, the founder of venture fund Social Capital, wearing a chunky white turtleneck... |
| 14.07.2026 | Chamath Palihapitiya says soaring AI token spend will hit companies’ earnings | Tech investor Chamath Palihapitiya said AI usage could negatively impact some companies’ earnings. “CEOs and the CFOs, in my opinion, probably have no idea how much tokenmaxxing is going on inside of their organizations,” Palihapitiya told ... |
| 10.03.2026 | Axiom Partners Launches $52M Fund: Driving Real-World AI Solutions | Axiom Partners announced its oversubscribed $52M debut fund. It backs "AI for the Real World." This fund targets early-stage startups creating practical AI applications. These solutions address global capacity crunches in vital se... |
| 09.03.2026 | Axiom Partners: $52 Million Raised For Debut AI Venture Fund | Axiom Partners has launched an oversubscribed $52 million inaugural venture capital fund to back early-stage companies building practical artificial intelligence applications to solve real-world challenges. The San Francisco-based firm was ... |
| 06.03.2026 | Axiom Partners Launches with $52M Fund I to Back “AI for the Real World” | , an early-stage venture capital firm, announced the close of its oversubscribed $52M inaugural fund, dedicated to backing “AI for the Real World” – practical applications of AI that unlock real value at global scale. Founded by former Khos... |
| 30.01.2026 | SpotDraft Fuels On-Device AI Legal Revolution with Qualcomm Investment | SpotDraft, an AI-powered CLM leader, secured $8M from Qualcomm Ventures. This Series B extension boosts on-device AI for legal workflows, enhancing privacy and security. Total funding now stands at $92M. Funds will expand product developmen... |
| 29.01.2026 | China's AI Reshapes Global Tech Landscape: Open-Source Dominance and Price Wars | China's AI industry is rapidly expanding its global footprint. It champions open-source models and aggressive pricing strategies. This approach drives substantial market share growth worldwide. Beijing's "AI Plus" initiative integ... |
| 27.01.2026 | SpotDraft, Nivaan Care, Mysa, Entellus get funding; Aimtron buys US firm | Mysa's co-founders Ashutosh Panigrahi, Arpita Kapoor and Mohit Rangaraju, chief business officer Mohit Jain A startup that simplifies contract management and another that does the same for finance-related workflows, and a third that helps w... |
| 26.01.2026 | 15% рынка за год: китайские AI-модели захватывают мир | "Очень хорошая, быстрая и дешевая" — так CEO Airbnb Брайан Чески описал китайскую модель Qwen от Alibaba, которую компания выбрала вместо ChatGPT для своего ИИ-ассистента поддержки. За год доля китайских AI-моделей на мировом рынк... |
| 09.01.2026 | Кто выигрывает от M&A-экспансии Nvidia: венчурные фонды среди главных бенефициаров | Последней громкой сделкой Nvidia стало соглашение на $20 млрд в формате acqui-hire со стартапом Groq — разработчиком специализированных чипов для искусственного интеллекта. В рамках сделки Nvidia получает эксклюзивную лицензию на технологии... |
| 07.11.2025 | Coding tools Cursor and Windsurf found using Chinese AI in latest releases | Two US-built artificial intelligence coding assistants, Cursor and Windsurf, recently announced the launch of their proprietary models, Composer and SWE-1.5, respectively. The rollout took an unexpected turn when users discovered that both ... |
| 30.09.2025 | One-time ‘SPAC King’ Palihapitiya launches new blank-check vehicle with plan to ‘temper’ retail fervor | Chamath Palihapitiya has launched a $345 million SPAC that he said was more than five times oversubscribed. The vehicle is designed to target companies in AI, energy, defense and decentralized finance. Palihapitiya once helped ignited the S... |
| 25.06.2025 | Seerslab Launches 'AInoon' : Affordable AI Glasses Now on Kickstarter | Y Combinator Alum Seerslab Launches AInoon: Affordable AI Glasses Now on Kickstarter The $174 wearable provides seamless, intuitive access to leading AI models like ChatGPT and Gemini, challenging the premium-priced smart glasses market. SA... |
| 02.05.2025 | Blooming Health: A New Dawn for Social Care Through AI | In a world where social care often feels like a maze, Blooming Health is lighting the way. The company recently secured $26 million in Series A funding, bringing its total to $32.5 million. This investment is not just a financial boost; it’... |
| 28.04.2025 | Conviction, Early: VC4 Announces Investment in Dream Capital | VC4 x Dream Capital VC4 deepens its commitment to top emerging managers with an investment in Dream Capital Fund I. MADRID, Spain, April 28, 2025 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- In 2019, IDC Ventures made an investment in a company that has become a ... |
| 15.04.2025 | Toronto Tech Week Launches Calendar and Announces Homecoming Event | Toronto Tech Week, a weeklong, citywide tech initiative, will host its mainstage event, Homecoming, on June 24, 2025, at Toronto’s Evergreen Brick Works. The official mainstage event will gather over 1,000 in-person attendees — and thousand... |
| 02.01.2025 | Business | 2025 crypto forecast: Bitcoin price predictions | —Financial giant Charles Schwab predicts Bitcoin could reach $1 million if the U.S. establishes a strategic Bitcoin reserve. —Noted venture capitalist Tim Draper estimates a year-end 2025 price of $250,000 for Bitcoin. —Standard Chartered p... |
| 28.11.2024 | World’s Largest Flight Compensation Company Acquires Bulgarian-founded ClaimCompass | Bulgaria, USA ~ Company: AirHelp, an international air passenger rights platform, has acquired Bulgarian ClaimCompass. Both companies are dedicated to helping passengers claim their rights to compensation under EU Regulation 261/2004. With ... |
| 01.05.2024 | From Connie Chan to Ethan Kurzweil, venture capitalists continue to play musical chairs | When Keith Rabois announced he was leaving Founders Fund to return to Khosla Ventures in January, it came as a shock to many in the venture capital ecosystem — and not just because Rabois is a big name in the industry. It was surprising bec... |
| 17.03.2024 | VC Arjun Sethi talks a big game about selling his company-picking strategies to other investors; he says they’re buying it | Arjun Sethi speaks with the confidence of someone who knows more than other people, or at least knows that sounding highly confident can shape perception. Either way, when he tells me over Zoom that “in five years, I’ll have 50% of the worl... |
| 16.03.2024 | SpaceX doc leaks, TikTok ban gains steam, and Grok to go open-source | Hey, folks, welcome to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s regular newsletter recapping noteworthy happenings in tech over the past few days. This week, TechCrunch viewed leaked documents out of SpaceX showing some questionable practices rel... |
| 13.03.2024 | Tierra Biosciences Revolutionizes Protein Synthesis with AI Technology | Tierra Biosciences, a California-based startup, has secured an $11.4 million Series A funding round to expand its innovative platform for custom protein synthesis. Using AI-guided cell-free technology, Tierra is disrupting traditional prote... |
| 12.03.2024 | Tierra Biosciences raises $11.4m series A to expand designer protein-to-order platform | Tierra Biosciences—a California-based startup developing AI-guided cell-free technology to enable high-throughput custom protein synthesis—has closed an $11.4m Series A round led by Material Impact. The round, which adds to the firm’s $6 mi... |
| 27.07.2022 | Syapse Raises $35M to Expand Learning Health Network | What You Should Know: – Syapse raises $35M led by an affiliate of Innovatus Capital Partners, LLC (Innovatus)to tackle the challenge of understanding, preventing, and treating complex cancers. – The investment will allow Syapse to expand it... |
| 10.05.2022 | 16 VCs and Term Sheet readers weigh in on the impending private market downturn | This is the web version of Term Sheet, a daily newsletter on the biggest deals and dealmakers. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox. You’ve heard the rumblings. You’ve read the warnings. And you’ve seen the data hinting at an impe... |
| 26.01.2022 | Social Capital Suvretta I : Akili Interactive, a Leader in Digital Medicine, to Become Publicly Traded Through Combination with Social Capital Suvretta Holdings Corp. I - Form 8-K | Akili Interactive, a Leader in Digital Medicine, to Become Publicly Traded Through Combination with Social Capital Suvretta Holdings Corp. I • Akili's leading digital therapeutic platform combines science and technology to address cognitive... |
| 26.01.2022 | Akili Interactive, a Leader in Digital Medicine, to Become Publicly Traded Through Combination with Social Capital Suvretta Holdings Corp. I | Akili’s leading digital therapeutic platform combines science and technology to address cognitive impairments in patients, reimagining how central nervous system medicines are designed, developed, and delivered Transaction will support comm... |
| 26.01.2022 | PureTech Health : PureTech Founded Entity Akili Interactive, a Leader in Digital Medicine, to Become Publicly Traded Through Combination with Social Capital Suvretta Holdings Corp. I - Form 6-K | PureTech Health plc PureTech Founded Entity Akili Interactive, a Leader in Digital Medicine, to Become Publicly Traded Through Combination with Social Capital Suvretta Holdings Corp. I In addition to PureTech's advanced Wholly Owned Pipelin... |
| 18.01.2022 | Social Capital Suvretta III : Revolutionary Chronic Kidney Disease Therapeutics Company ProKidney to Become Publicly Traded via Business Combination with Social Capital Suvretta Holdings Corp. III - F... | Revolutionary Chronic Kidney Disease Therapeutics Company ProKidney to Become Publicly Traded via Business Combination with Social Capital Suvretta Holdings Corp. III • ProKidney offers a first-of-its-kind, patented disease-modifying autolo... |
| 26.07.2021 | Romanian travel tech startup Framey raises $1M to disrupt travel planning | Bucharest, Romania ~ Company: The Romanian travel tech startup, Framey, has recently raised a $1 million seed funding round led by ICE Capital from Dubai and backed by Europe-based JECO Capital. Founded in 2019, Framey is developing a mobil... |
| 31.05.2021 | Eight travel tech startups from SEE to watch | Company: The pandemic has had an enormous impact on the travel industry, closing tourist attractions, hotels, bars and restaurants, and limiting transportation. Now with restrictions being lifted and COVID-19 vaccine passports introduced, t... |
| 28.09.2020 | Crypto Long & Short: The OCC’s Stablecoin Statement Is a Seed of Financial Innovation | An unsurprising statement from a financial regulator is sending some welcome signals that point to a spurt of innovation ahead. The U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) issued a statement earlier this week saying that nation... |
| 22.09.2020 | Today's Entrepreneur: Justine Lassoff | If you are an entrepreneur, why? I want to change the world Today's entrepreneur is Justine Lassoff, co-founder of LOVE GOODLY, an ecommerce platform for natural, eco products through curated trial boxes that with each purchase supports a c... |
| 21.09.2020 | Chamath Palihapitiya’s Social Capital Holds Bitcoin From 2013, Mulls Public Listing | A Silicon Valley fund manager holds bitcoin purchased seven years ago as it mulls being publicly traded. Palo Alto, Calif., investment firm Social Capital invested in bitcoin (BTC) in 2013, CEO Chamath Palihapitiya revealed Tuesday in an in... |
| 18.08.2020 | Chamath Palihapitiya’s next big Hustle | Chamath Palihapitiya, the founder of Social Capital, does not do minority investing anymore. If he finds a startup he likes, he just buys it outright. The billionaire co-founded Social Capital in 2011, and seven years later, he pivoted the ... |
| 13.04.2020 | Billionaire Chamath Palihapitiya has reaped a 997% return since 2011. He shares his 3-part strategy for navigating today's coronavirus-hit market - and outlines how he's mining real estate for opportu... | Advertisement Chamath Palihapitiya, CEO of Social Capital, has developed an intuitive framework for thinking about investments during today's coronavirus-driven stock selloff. By employing this methodology, he's able to zero-in on sectors a... |
| 12.02.2020 | Taking a page from SimCity, UrbanFootprint pitches new tools for urban development | For decades, the best urban planning simulation wasn’t a simulation for urban planners at all, but the wildly popular city building game, SimCity, says Peter Calthorpe, an expert in the field and the co-founder of UrbanFootprint. Calthorpe ... |
| 03.01.2020 | Pachama launches to support global reforestation through carbon markets | The world’s forests are ablaze, under threat from illegal logging and disappearing due to the less dramatic environmental degradation wrought by drought and other signs of climate change. It’s part of the negative feedback loop that seems t... |
| 17.01.2019 | Ghanaian healthtech company mPharma secures over $9m in Series-B funding | Accra based medicine benefits and inventory manager mPharma has raised over $9-million in a Series-B funding round from as yet undisclosed investors. Uganda-based tech publication Digest Africa reported on Tuesday (15 January) that the $9 7... |
| 17.01.2019 | Ghanaian healthtech company mPharma secures over $9m in Series-B funding | Accra based medicine benefits and inventory manager mPharma has raised over $9-million in a Series-B funding round from as yet undisclosed investors. Uganda-based tech publication Digest Africa reported on Tuesday (15 January) that the $9 ... |
| 14.01.2019 | Breakdown of biggest VC raises in Midwestern states in 2018 | As the new year gets underway, 2018’s fundraising numbers are rolling in, allowing us to get a snapshot of how the Midwest’s top startups fared. It was a good year for the Midwest, which we define here as Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Ind... |
| 11.01.2019 | Breakdown of biggest VC raises in Midwestern states in 2018 | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today! As the new year gets underway, 2018’s fundraising... |
| 11.01.2019 | Breakdown of biggest VC raises in Midwestern states in 2018 | As the new year gets underway, 2018’s fundraising numbers are rolling in, allowing us to get a snapshot of how the Midwest’s top startups fared. It was a good year for the Midwest, which we define here as Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Ind... |
| 05.09.2018 | Nigerian ISP startup Tizeti closes $3m Series A round led by 4DX Ventures | Lagos-based ISP startup Tizeti, and its Wifi.com.ng service, has closed a $3-million Series-A round led by 4DX Ventures. Tizeti builds and operates solar-powered towers while also providing residences, businesses, events and conferences wi... |
| 05.09.2018 | Tizeti Secures $3 Million Series A to expand in West Africa | Share this: Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)Click to share on Skype (Opens in new... |
| 05.09.2018 | Nigerian ISP startup Tizeti closes $3m Series A round led by 4DX Ventures | Lagos-based ISP startup Tizeti, and its Wifi.com.ng service, has closed a $3-million Series-A round led by 4DX Ventures. Tizeti builds and operates solar-powered towers while also providing residences, businesses, events and conferences wit... |
| 05.07.2018 | Term Sheet — Thursday, July 5 | A GLOBAL HUNT Good morning, Term Sheet readers. Paid Content You can't secure what you can't see From ExtraHop Katara bought the majority stake held by India’s Sahara Group as well as a 25% stake held by real-estate investor Ashkenazy Acqui... |
| 25.06.2018 | Costello Raises $2.1M to Accommodate Growing Customer Demand | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints Costello, the Indianapolis-based software startup, this week announced that it has raised $2.1 million in seed funding. A number of local and out-of-state investors contribute... |
| 30.05.2018 | As Propeller Health closes latest fundraise, it expands digital drug delivery ambitions beyond inhalers | Propeller and Aptar initially collaborated in 2016 on an integrated connected metered dose inhaler. They plan to co-market the technologies coming out of the joint venture — Propeller will manage the digital services and Aptar Pharma will m... |
| 03.05.2018 | ‘$8.6m Series A round well timed as Africa’s Talking was looking at expansion’ | Africa’s Talking Series A $8.6-million funding round led by IFC Venture Capital was the startup’s first major round of investment and came just as the Nairobi-based software company is looking to expand into more African countries, the comp... |
| 03.05.2018 | ‘$8.6m Series A round well timed as Africa’s Talking was looking at expansion’ | Africa’s Talking Series A $8.6-million funding round led by IFC Venture Capital was the startup’s first major round of investment and came just as the Nairobi-based software company is looking to expand into more African countries, the comp... |
| 19.04.2018 | mSurvey raises $3.5m from TLcom Capital-led Series A round, eyes SA market | Nairobi-based mobile survey platform mSurvey has announced that it raised $3.5-million in Series A round led by venture capital firm TLcom Capital. mSurvey CEO Kenfield Griffith told Ventureburn the round was concluded in Q1 this year. Ot... |
| 19.04.2018 | mSurvey raises $3.5m from TLcom Capital-led Series A round, eyes SA market | Nairobi-based mobile survey platform mSurvey has announced that it raised $3.5-million in Series A round led by venture capital firm TLcom Capital. mSurvey CEO Kenfield Griffith told Ventureburn the round was concluded in Q1 this year. Othe... |
| 19.03.2018 | UPDATE: AI-Powered Online Farmers Market Farmstead Raises $4.8m in Seed Funding | *** First Published on October 5, 2017. Updated March 19, 2018 to include additional funding.*** Farmstead, a new artificial intelligence-powered farm to doorstep grocery delivery startup has raised $4.8 million in seed funding from Resolut... |
| 16.02.2018 | Equity podcast: Uber’s losing billions, Amazon lays off hundreds and somehow Instacart gets more money | Welcome to “Equity,” TechCrunch’s venture capital and tech business podcast. On this week, we were joined by Mike Ghaffary from Social Capital, who was the perfect guest because he used to run Eat24, when it was Yelp’s food delivery busines... |
| 18.12.2017 | Agritech Platform Farmcrowdy Closes $1Million Seed Funding Round | Share this: Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)Click to share on Skype (Opens in new... |
| 12.12.2017 | Facebook bats back after a second former exec accuses it of negatively impacting society | Yesterday, The Verge published comments made by investor and former Facebook executive Chamath Palihapitiya, quoting his interview last month at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, where he echoed recent comments made by former Facebook... |
| 28.11.2017 | NFX accelerator launches first institutional fund of $150 million to disrupt the VC model | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today! NFX, a San Francisco-based accelerator program, a... |
| 28.11.2017 | NFX accelerator launches first institutional fund of $150 million to disrupt the VC model | NFX, a San Francisco-based accelerator program, announced today that it is launching its first institutional seed fund, which closed at $150 million. Limited Partners (LPs) range from endowments to founders and fund of funds, among others. ... |
| 09.11.2017 | 70 years of VC innovation | Cyril Ebersweiler Contributor Cyril Ebersweiler is co-founder and managing partner of HAX, and a general partner at SOSV. More posts by this contributor 10 key lessons about tech mergers and acquisitions from Cisco’s John Chambers What ever... |
| 25.10.2017 | Social Capital has started investing in startups, sight unseen | There’s little question that former Facebook executive and venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya thoroughly enjoys challenging the way that startups are funded. Because he has the hot hand, so to speak, he’s able to get away with it, too.... |
| 18.10.2017 | High-end Brazilian job recruitment marketplace Revelo raises $4.6 million | Revelo, a job marketplace that puts the responsibility on companies to contact candidates, has raised $4.6 million in its latest financing. The company, unlike traditional job boards, puts high-end, high-profile Brazilian job seekers at the... |
| 14.09.2017 | Term Sheet — Thursday, September 14 | UNICORN STATUS Good morning, Term Sheet readers. Paid Content You can't secure what you can't see From ExtraHop Today, we learned that Magic Leap, a Florida-based wearable tech company, is raising $500 million in fresh funding at a valuatio... |
| 14.09.2017 | Social Capital to take startups public without an IPO | Silicon Valley venture firm Social Capital just completed the first step in its mission to take startups public without an IPO. The team has listed something called a special purchase acquisition company, known as a SPAC. More common outsid... |
| 24.08.2017 | Social Capital to help startups go public without an IPO | Silicon Valley venture firm Social Capital plans to help startups go public without the dreaded IPO process. And it’s something different from what Spotify is doing. Social Capital is creating a shell company known as a “SPAC” that exists s... |
| 18.08.2017 | Term Sheet — Friday, August 18 | ET CETERA Good morning from stormy NYC. Paid Content You can't secure what you can't see From ExtraHop That could change in California. A group called the Equal Rights Advocates has sponsored an amendment to the California Unruh Act, propos... |
| 17.08.2017 | Social Capital adds a new partner to the mix: Mike Ghaffary | If you’ve worked in tech in the Bay Area over the last decade or more, you quite possibly know Mike Ghaffary, a USC grad who nabbed both his MBA and JD from Harvard before beginning to work his way through a number of well-known institution... |
| 20.07.2017 | Growth Guide: How to Set Up, Staff and Scale a Growth Program | with special contributions from Gustaf Alstromer Advice from 25 preeminent growth experts at top startups “Growth hacks,” like Hotmail’s inclusion of a signup link in its user’s default email signature, can be extremely helpful in driving ... |
| 13.07.2017 | San Fran-Based Cover Announces Series A to Bring Computer Vision to Insurance | San Fran-based Cover announced it has raised $8M in a Series A round led by Social Capital, bringing its total funding to date to $11M. The mobile first insurance startup allows users to begin their insurance journey by taking a few picture... |
| 27.06.2017 | OMG Digital raises $1.1M to drive expansion and content to African millennials | Share this: Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)Click to share on Skype (Opens in new... |
| 26.06.2017 | Nigerian startup Tizeti announces $2.1m Y Combinator funding round | Tizeti, a Nigerian startup which develops solar powered WiFi towers with its Wifi.com.ng service, today announced it had secured $2.1-million in funding through US-based Y Combinator from several investors. “Today’s seed announcement allow... |
| 26.06.2017 | Tizeti raises $2.1m seed funding to give even more Nigerians unlimited internet | Share this article: Tizeti, the company behind (wifi.com.ng), has just closed seed funding of $2.1 million from international investors including Western Technology Investment, Social Capital, Vy Capital, Picus Capital, Ace & Company, L... |
| 26.06.2017 | Nigerian startup Tizeti announces $2.1m Y Combinator funding round | Tizeti, a Nigerian startup which develops solar powered WiFi towers with its Wifi.com.ng service, today announced it had secured $2.1-million in funding through US-based Y Combinator from several investors. “Today’s seed announcement allows... |
| 20.06.2017 | Term Sheet — Tuesday, June 20 | “I GOT A FEELING I’M OFF SCRIPT” NEW MONEY + NEW PRODUCT: Managed by Q, a New York City-based on-demand office services startup, has launched a marketplace for its office management products, offering self-service cleaning, plumbing, electr... |
| 17.05.2017 | CreativeLive lands $25M to expand online learning platform further into the enterprise | The Shins frontman performs an acoustic set at CreativeLive’s Seattle studio as part of Chase Jarvis Live. (GeekWire Photo / Nat Levy) CreativeLive, which offers streamed classes taught by experts from a variety of disciplines, has landed a... |
| 18.01.2017 | Iris Automation raises $1.5 million to help drones sense and avoid obstacles | Iris Automation Inc. has raised $1.5 million to bring “sense and avoid” technology, and truly self-flying capabilities, to drones used for industrial tasks. Even for human pilots, identifying obstacles and deciding precisely how to maneuver... |
| 27.12.2016 | Price.com raises $2 million to hunt for low prices on ecommerce sites | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today! Market comparison tool Price.com announced today ... |
| 27.12.2016 | Price.com raises $2 million to hunt for low prices on ecommerce sites | Market comparison tool Price.com announced today that it closed a $2 million investment to launch a “one-stop shop for finding savings and discovering the best deals online, on a mobile device, or in-store.” Price.com works in the backgroun... |
| 20.12.2016 | Greylock just hired Josh McFarland, who sold his Greylock-backed company to Twitter | James Slavet says he has been trying to recruit entrepreneur Josh McFarland for eight years. That’s just two years after Slavet joined the early-stage venture firm Greylock Partners as a partner in 2006. Apparently, Slavet’s charm offensive... |
| 14.12.2016 | Newer VC firms are trouncing their predecessors when it comes to diversity | Over the last three months, the venture firm Social Capital has worked with the media outlet The Information to put together a look at the most diverse venture firms for the second year in a row. The teams say they gathered more than 6,000 ... |
| 07.12.2016 | Video: Chamath Palihapitiya at Post Seed 2016 | Social Capital Founder sits down with Semil Shah At our Post Seed 2016 event last Dec.1, Chamath Palahipitiya, Founder & CEO, Social Capital LP, sat down with Semil Shah, Founder & CEO of Haystack in a Fireside Chat. Post Seed is ho... |
| 05.12.2016 | Chamath Palihapitiya: Trump opens the door for discussion | At Post Seed, the Social Capital CEO spoke about which companies will thrive in a Trump presidency Editor's note: Our Splash Health, Wellness and Wearables event is coming up on March 23 in San Francisco. We'll have Mario Schlosser, Founder... |
| 26.11.2016 | Venture capitalists and the search for moonshots | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. In Silicon Valley, there are companies that prefer to target low-hanging fruit, problems that may not be significant but that have a hi... |
| 26.11.2016 | Venture capitalists and the search for moonshots | In Silicon Valley, there are companies that prefer to target low-hanging fruit, problems that may not be significant but that have a high likelihood of gaining traction quickly. But a few are bucking this trend, instead opting to look at th... |
| 10.11.2016 | Today's Entrepreneur: Daniela Corrente | No. 1 mistake: Build a product before finding a market fit Today's entrepreneur is Daniela Corrente, CEO and CoFounder at Reeelit. Reeelit enables shoppers to save in daily installments for what they want, while looking for deals. No debt, ... |
| 09.11.2016 | Video: LeadGenius Anand Kulkarnis' fundraising lessons | Founder & President of LeadGenius shares his Splash Talk at SplashX At our inaugural SplashX event last July 28, 2016, VC Panel Anand Kulkarni, Founder, President, & Chief Scientist of LeadGenius, which just raised $10 million in a ... |
| 07.11.2016 | Video: At our inaugural SplashX, July 28,2016 - 99designs | David Kaplan shared how 99designs raised a round when VC funding dried up At our inaugural SplashX event last July 28, 2016, VC Panel David Kaplan, CFO of 99designs, a fast-growing on-demand marketplace for freelance graphic designers, shar... |
| 04.11.2016 | Video: Fireside chat Adam Goldenberg and Bambi Francisco | Adam Goldenberg, CEO & Founder of JustFab, gave us an overview of how his company is doing At our Vator Splash LA 2016 event last Oct. 13, Adam Goldenberg, Co-CEO Techstyle Fashion satdown with Bambi Francisco, Founder & CEO, Vator ... |
| 03.11.2016 | Video: Doubledutch Founder Lawrence Coburn's startup lessons | How the company came up with its mobile events app and trials and tribulations of getting to scale At our Vator Splash LA 2016 event last Oct. 13, Lawrence Coburn, Founder & CEO, Doubledutch in a Splash Talk. Splash is Vator's startup c... |
| 02.11.2016 | Video: Lightspeed VP, Mucker Capital and Wavemaker Partners on LA startup scene | At Vator Splash LA 2016, panelists:Erik Rannala, Eric Manlunas and Alex Taussig discussed over lunch At our Vator Splash LA 2016 event last Oct. 13, Jefferson Graham (Columnist, USA Today) moderated the Lunch Time Panel. The panelists of th... |
| 02.11.2016 | Today's Entrepreneur: Ian Stephens | No. 1 mistake: Going it alone or being terrible at delegation Today's Entrepreneur is Ian Stephens. Ian is a Founder and CEO at Magnolia Moonshine and a Co-Founder and CMO at Reely. Magnolia Moonshine Cocktails are old-fashioned recipes mad... |
| 01.11.2016 | Video: LA's Most Exciting Growth Stories | Fireside chat: Leura Fine and Sean Brecker shared Growth stories with Eva Ho At our Vator Splash LA 2016 event last Oct. 13, Eva Ho (Managing Partner, Fika Ventures) as Moderator and Leura Fine (Founder & CEO, Laurel & Wolf), Sean B... |
| 31.10.2016 | Video: Splash Talk - Startup M&A Framework | My new book on startup acquisitions: Magic Box Paradigm At our Vator Splash LA 2016 event Oct. 13 2016, Ezra Roizen, founder of Advsr in a Splash Talk. Here is the video. Get a copy of Ezra Roizen's Magic Box Paradigm: A framework for start... |
| 31.10.2016 | Today's Entrepreneur: David Laiderman | No. 1 mistake: Fail to forecast Today's Entrepreneur is David Laiderman. David is a Founder at OPER (Order. Pay. Earn. Redeem). OPER (Order. Pay. Earn. Redeem) is the first mobile payment of it's kind offering free transactions to merchants... |
| 28.10.2016 | Today's Entrepreneur: Cullen Gallagher | No. 1 mistake: Completely giving up on entrepreneurship after failures Today's Entrepreneur is Cullen Gallagher. Cullen Gallagher is a Co-Founder and CEO at Reely. Reely is an end-to-end content solution for sports leagues and content provi... |
| 28.10.2016 | Video: Fireside Chat with Tri Tran and Bambi Francisco | Vator Splash LA 2016 - Tri Tran shares lessons learned At our Vator Splash LA 2016 event last Oct. 13, Tri Tan, Founder & CEO, Munchery sat down with sat down with Bambi Francisco Roizen, Founder & CEO of Vator, Inc. in a Fireside C... |
| 27.10.2016 | Video: Fireside Chat with Andre Haddad and Bambi Francisco | Vator Splash LA 2016 - Andre Haddad shared lessons learned At our Vator Splash LA 2016 event last Oct. 13, Andre Haddad, CEO, Turo sat down with sat down with Bambi Francisco Roizen, Founder & CEO of Vator, Inc. in a Fireside Chat. See ... |
| 26.10.2016 | Video:Fireside chat Nick Green and Bambi Francisco | Vator Splash LA 2016, Nick Green shared lessons learned At our Vator Splash LA 2016 event last Oct. 13, Nick Green, Founder & CEO, Thrive Market sat down with Bambi Francisco Roizen, Founder & CEO of Vator, Inc. in a Fireside Chat. ... |
| 26.10.2016 | Today's Entrepreneur: Cody Barbo | No. 1 mistake: Not seeking out mentors Today's Entrepreneur is Cody Barbo. Cody is a Founder and CEO at Industry. He is an entrepreneur from California. Industry is a professional network, marketplace, and hiring solution for top talent in ... |
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