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Millennials love these popular products — but Trump's second round of tariffs...

In June, President Trump announced that the US planned to levy a 25% tariff on $50 billion worth of Chinese-imported products.There's two rounds of tariffs taking place, the first of which goes into...

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VCs are fleeing ex-Facebook exec Chamath Palihapitiya's firm to launch an...

Investors are fleeing Social Capital, the young venture firm founded by early Facebook executive Chamath Palihapitiya, to start a fund of their own.Ted Maidenberg, a founding partner of Social Capital,...

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The CEO of a startup that's raised a modest $57 million in funding explains...

SpotHero, an app that lets drivers find, reserve, and pay for parking spots on their phones, almost didn't make it through the brief era where on-demand parking services were all the rage.Hundreds of...

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Most people probably haven't heard of the FoundersCard — but its members have...

The Insider Picks team writes about stuff we think you'll like. Business Insider has affiliate partnerships, so we get a share of the revenue from your purchase.FoundersCard is an exclusive membership...

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The cruel truth about how much money two founders will likely get after...

Paddy Power Betfair is acquiring fantasy sports company FanDuel.FanDuel was valued at $1 billion just three years ago. Now, the company is being sold for less than half that amount.According to...

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I slept on a memory foam mattress from popular online startup Leesa — and it...

The Insider Picks team writes about stuff we think you'll like. Business Insider has affiliate partnerships, so we get a share of the revenue from your purchase.There are plenty of beds in boxes to...

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A flood of hate mail might seem like the first sign of a startup's demise —...

SparkNotes, the book-summary site, is one example of a startup that was so popular in its early days that it couldn't keep up with customer demand.Other examples include GOAT, the world's largest...

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Venture investment topped $57 billion in the first half of this year — and...

The amount of money flowing into venture-backed companies jumped to $57.5 billion in the first half of this year — up 50% from the same period a year earlier, according to a new report from PitchBook...

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How to build a business that makes money early on, according to the partner...

This week, Silicon Valley venture firm Scale Venture Partners closed its sixth fund at $400 million.The firm is focused on what Scale VP partner Ariel Tseitlin describes as 'early in revenue...

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Meet the 30 healthcare leaders under 40 who are using technology to shape the...

The healthcare industry has no shortage of big ideas.Whether by eliminating the hassle of visiting a brick-and-mortar pharmacy or by changing the way we store and access personal data, young leaders...

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Allbirds, the startup behind 'the world's most comfortable shoes,' recently...

The Insider Picks team writes about stuff we think you'll like. Business Insider has affiliate partnerships so we get a share of the revenue from your purchase.Sneaker startup Allbirds became famous...

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This office security startup wants to kill the keycard

Openpath, a startup that lets employees enter offices with their phone, raised $20 million in a series B funding round led by Emergence Capital, the company told Business Insider.The Los Angeles-based...

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A former Facebook executive explains why she's all done investing piles of...

Venture capitalist SC Moatti is all done giving startups piles of cash.Her firm Mighty Capital raised a modest $13 million for its debut fund.Moatti says she has something more valuable than money to...

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How a pair of 20-something brothers from Lithuania are shaking up the luxury...

The Insider Picks team writes about stuff we think you'll like. Business Insider has affiliate partnerships, so we get a share of the revenue from your purchase.Filippo Loreti is Kickstarter's most...

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This 28-year-old Silicon Valley investor builds businesses by helping...

Masha Drokova, founder of San Francisco-based venture firm Day One Ventures, believes that investing in companies is a holistic, personal endeavor.She's played the part of matchmaker to several of her...

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Light, the startup that made a $2,000 camera with 16 lenses, is planning a...

Camera startup Light plans to introduce its first smartphone later this year, according to the Washington Post. The Post reports that the phone will have between five and nine rear camera lenses, not...

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China created 46 startups worth at least $1 billion in the five years since...

Silicon Valley is still the global leader in startup creation, but Chinese cities Beijing and Shanghai are leading the pack over in Asia, hot on the heels of their Western counterparts. Most of the...

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16 'Shark Tank' home products that are actually useful

The Insider Picks team writes about stuff we think you'll like. Business Insider has affiliate partnerships, so we get a share of the revenue from your purchase.Nine seasons in and hundreds of products...

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Why this top LinkedIn employee quit to start his own data analytics company

Adam Weinstein, a former senior employee at LinkedIn, quit last year to start his own data analytics company, Cursor.Cursor lets users inside a company search for data across different departments,...

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Amazon and Walmart are readying for war over a growing chunk of the US...

Over the past few months, the long-standing rivalry between Walmart and Amazon has gotten intense, and one demographic in particular appears to be the battleground: the over-65 crowd. In June, Amazon...

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