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Lucid Motors says its latest fundraising round is 'going well' amid rumors of...
The Silicon Valley-based electric-car startup, Lucid Motors is said to be entertaining a possible sale to Ford Motor Company, Bloomberg reported on Monday.The publication, citing people familiar with...
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Facebook's ex-CTO said he'd be 'very surprised' if consumer internet...
Adam D'Angelo, Facebook's former chief technology officer (CTO) and the founder of Q&A site Quora, is skeptical about Europe's chances of creating a consumer internet company on the same scale as...
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TransferWise's cofounders have swapped the CEO role between themselves again
The cofounders of London fintech startup TransferWise have swapped the CEO role amongst themselves again.Kristo Kaarmann is taking over from Taavet Hinrikus as the boss of the international money...
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What it’s like when someone offers you $600 million, and you say no
Aaron Levie dropped out of college to start Box, a cloud-based file storage company for enterprises that is now publicly traded. But six years in, Levie had an opportunity to sell his business.Citrix...
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A Luxembourg VC has raised a $170 million fund to invest in European and...
Luxembourg-headquartered venture capital firm Mangrove announced on Wednesday that it has raised a $170 million (£130 million) fund to invest in European and Israeli startups.Mangrove has raised four...
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Startups with unique names get more funding— at least in the beginning (YHOO)
As if having an awesome product isn't hard enough: A study published in the peer-reviewed academic journal Venture Capital has found that a startup's name can seriously affect how a company is...
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5 years ago, 2 roommates launched TheSkimm, a newsletter now read by 5...
TheSkimm launched five years ago, on July 21 2012. Business Insider wrote the first article on the company ever. We sat down with founders Carly Zakin and Danielle Weisberg a few months ago to catch up...
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The fabulous life of Airbnb's Brian Chesky, one of the youngest and richest...
Brian Chesky didn't know much about tech before starting Airbnb.The 35-year-old CEO majored in industrial design in college and dabbled in hockey and bodybuilding in his 20s. But now, he's grown an...
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Tech mentors were left confused after they were locked out of Canary Wharf's...
Mentors of Level39, the tech incubator space in Canary Wharf's tallest tower, were left confused after they found themselves locked out of the exclusive space with no explanation.Several Level39...
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Carwow has raised £30 million from big name investors for its car sales site
Online car marketplace Carwow has raised £30 million for its website, which tries to help people get the best price on a new car by introducing them to a range of dealers.Total investment in the...
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The funding 'lifeblood' for new Silicon Valley startups is drying up
The bloom is off seed funding, the business of providing money to brand-new startups, as investors take a more measured approach to financing emerging U.S. technology companies.Seed-stage financing has...
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This startup is solving a huge problem for over 45 million video gamers, and...
"If the headline of this article read: 'This company wants to help Nintendo with its mobile app,' I would be content with that,"Discord CEO Jason Citron tells me. Citron is joking, but he's on to...
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This startup, borne from a failed $500 million Silicon Valley darling,...
• Aiqudo wants to make every app on your smartphone controllable with voice commands, regardless of what device or voice assistant you prefer.• The company has ties to Quixey, a much-hyped Silicon...
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This Brooklyn startup raised $8 million to make dog chow that's good enough...
If you want to work at the Farmer’s Dog, the fresh made and personalized meal delivery service for dogs, you have to be prepared to do one thing first – eat the dog chow. This might seem like a ghastly...
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Today's hottest tech companies were founded by men born between 1981 and 1984...
Men born between 1981 and 1984 are highly overrepresented at the top of the tech world.There are a number of factors to explain the pattern, beginning with the introduction of the PC in the...
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Electric trike-maker Arcimoto is going public — here's a closer look at its...
It's easy to tell the difference between a motorcycle and car, right? One has two wheels, one has four.Except that there are now plenty of vehicles available that have three wheels.There's the Can-Am...
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I'm an investment adviser who helps tech employees with stock options —...
Congratulations! You've been awarded incentive stock options in your company.This may be the most amount of money you've seen in your lifetime. As such, you would be best served developing a solid...
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The 'Father of Android' reveals what his startup incubator does to help...
Andy Rubin has a different take on how a startup incubator should operate.After leaving Google in 2014, Rubin, the reputed father of the Android operating system, launched his own incubator, dubbed...
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It's getting harder to cash out of 'unicorns'
With Friends like these…Goldman Sachs’ hedge fund, Goldman Sachs Investment Partners, has offloaded over $75 million of Spotify shares, or “less than half” of its stake, in recent weeks, Sky News“has...
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A California state senator wants to make it illegal for investors to sexually...
A California state senator is hoping to create a new law that would punish sexual harassment by venture capitalists.Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson, a Democrat from Santa Barbara, is introducing a bill this...
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