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Sequoia Capital founder Don Valentine has died at age 87
Don Valentine, founder of Silicon Valley venture firm Sequoia Capital died on Friday, the firm said.Valentine spent nearly 40 years working in Silicon Valley, and Sequoia Capital is widely credited...
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Cannabis site Leafly is freezing hiring and canceling non-critical travel to...
Cannabis website Leafly is taking steps to limit spending, according to an internal memo obtained by Business Insider.Leafly is pausing most hiring, cutting all non-essential travel for employees, and...
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A VC who's invested in Lime and Jet.com explains why 'backing sociopaths' can...
Investors look at the potential of a startup founder in addition to the company they're trying to build.Matt Harris, a partner at Bain Capital Ventures, previously stated that "backing sociopaths can...
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Direct listings won't save tech's flopping IPOs, a former DFJ investor said....
Capital, an alternative financing company for startups, announced on Wednesday it committed $100 million to its first fund.The startup also announced The Capital Machine, software that underwrites...
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Cannabis-edibles brand 1906 raised $18 million in funding amid an industry...
The cannabis-edibles brand 1906 closed an $18 million funding round led by Navy Capital.The funding round brings the company's valuation to between $40 million and $50 million.In an interview with...
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As lawmakers home in on tech giants' data policies, Crunchbase said it has...
Crunchbase, a former Verizon/AOL company that collects, tracks, and shares data on private companies, announced on Thursday it raised $30 million in Series C funding.As the conversation around data...
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The man who helped create Google's life sciences venture is launching a...
Vikram Bajaj, a VC and the cofounder of Google Life Sciences, now called Verily, is launching an incubator for healthcare and life science startups called Foresite Labs.Cofounding the new venture is...
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Here's the pitch deck that Silicon Valley startup Crunchbase used to convince...
On Thursday, the Silicon Valley startup Crunchbase announced it raised $30 million in Series C funding, led by OMERS Ventures.The startup acquires data about private companies, which it then assembles...
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This VC has a deep technical background, and helped make VMware the giant it...
Steve Herrod thinks he has an advantage over other venture capitalists — he's got a deep background in technology.Herrod has a PhD in computer science and was the chief technology officer of VMware...
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The most successful acquisitions happen when the startup CEO becomes an exec...
When founding CEOs sell their company, some are thrilled, from a financial and emotional perspective. Others are not.There are a few different outcomes for CEOs after an acquisition: they might leave...
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A tiny nation of 8 million people is one of the leading startup hubs in the...
Israel is among the world's 50 smallest countries with a population of just eight million people, but has produced some outsized tech hits such as mapping firm Waze, freelance platform Fiverr, and...
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A VC who just raised $30 million shares how he's placing his bets on biology...
Zal Bilimoria worked as a product manager at Google, LinkedIn, and Netflix before becoming a venture capitalist at Andreessen Horowitz.In 2015, he branched out on his own, launching an early-stage...
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Insight Partners, a prominent tech VC firm, is going all in on Israeli...
Papaya, an Israeli-based global payroll processing startup, announced $45 million in Series A funding on Tuesday. Insight Partners led the round out of its new Israel office.Although the prominent VC...
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See the pitch deck that landed this Y Combinator startup more than $3 million...
Glide, a startup that automatically turns spreadsheets into functional mobile apps, announced $3.6 million in seed funding on Tuesday. First Round Capital led the round, which was secured before the...
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Google is launching an accelerator for climate change startups (GOOG, GOOGL)
Google is looking for 'social impact' startups for a new accelerator program.The first cohort will be selected from Europe, the Middle East, and Africa for a six-month program beginning in early 2020...
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Companies like Google and Microsoft are making big investments in startups...
Big tech giants like Google's parent company Alphabet, Microsoft, and Samsung have made investments in digital health companies looking to disrupt the healthcare industry. In October, CB Insights...
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2 ex-Sequoia investors who ditched Silicon Valley for Ohio raised a $350...
Drive Capital, a venture-capital firm based in Columbus, Ohio, has raised a $350 million fund to invest in Midwestern startups.The firm's founders came from the venture-capital powerhouse Sequoia...
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Airbnb's 'party house' problem could spoil its public listing. Here's why its...
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky announced new trust and safety procedures for the home-rental startup on Wednesday, including host and guest verification and better guest support.The policy updates come days...
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Investors are betting $3.3 billion that your gut is the next frontier for the...
Several high-profile startups that promised to draw insights from the bacteria living in and on us, known as the microbiome, have failed in recent months.One of them, a company called uBiome, which was...
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'It seems insane now': WeWork employees bought into cofounder Adam Neumann's...
WeWork's employees were swept up by its cofounder and CEO Adam Neumann's wild ambitions and enthralled by his startup's cool culture and lavish perks, The New Yorker reported this week."In retrospect,...
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