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This autonomous trucking startup out of MIT wants computers to think like...
isee, an autonomous driving startup for trucks, announced $15 million in Series A funding from Founders Fund on Monday.Unlike other autonomous driving and logistics startups, isee uses proprietary deep...
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Darktrace and Depop backer Balderton Capital is raising a new $400 million...
One of Europe's biggest startup investors has a new $400 million fund to focus on early-stage startup investments. London headquartered Balderton Capital's new fund will invest in Series A rounds.The...
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2 months after Israeli startup Stoke was founded, it raised $4.5 million....
Stoke Talent is a new startup that offers a service for helping companies hire and manage freelance workers.Corporate clients can use the system to find on-demand workers, make sure they fill out...
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Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky is preparing to IPO next year. Here are 2 lessons he...
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky recently discussed some takeaways from the failure of WeWork's planned initial public offering.Speaking last week at The New York Times' DealBook Conference, Chesky, who plans...
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Uber and WeWork are 'middle of the road' companies, real-estate executive says
Uber and WeWork are "innovators" but they might not dominate the industries they've transformed, says an executive at one of the West Coast's biggest real-estate firms."Every company in the world is...
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The founder of LearnVest and the former US Secretary of Commerce are...
Alexa von Tobel, founder of LearnVest, and Penny Pritzker, former U.S. Secretary of Commerce, are teaming up to launch Inspired Capital with a $200 million debut fund.The generalist firm will write...
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Eschewing pitch decks and personal connections in favour of data — here's how...
Swedish investment firm EQT Ventures employs a proprietary AI and big data tool to identify hot startups to invest in as it looks to stay ahead of the pack in Europe.The fund's data-driven efforts have...
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Inside Notion's 'secret' San Francisco office, where the startup hides from...
Notion is an enterprise software startup that offers an "all-in-one workplace" to help you keep your work management tools, like Slack and Google Docs, organized.With over a million users, the company...
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The investor who calls herself a 'human social network' keeps her inbox...
Anna Mason, a partner at the Rise of the Rest seed fund at Revolution, told Business Insider that a simple email hack helps her keep organized.Mason swears by categorizing and sorting her email inbox...
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WeWork's 3rd-quarter losses and cash crunch show why SoftBank valued it below...
WeWork revealed mushrooming losses and dwindling cash reserves Wednesday in a third-quarter earnings presentation reviewed by Business Insider.The coworking startup's net loss ballooned by more than...
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Data-driven VC EQT Ventures raised one of Europe's largest funds to bring hot...
Swedish investor EQT Ventures has just raised a €660 million ($725 million) second fund to scale tech startups in Europe and help US tech companies move to the continent. EQT Ventures says it uses an...
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Norwest Venture Partners just raised $2 billion for its biggest fund ever to...
On Thursday, Silicon Valley venture firm Norwest Venture Partners announced its fifteenth fund — its largest to date. The $2 billion fund will be used across the firm's current range of geographies and...
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1Password was profitable and self-funded for 14 years. Now Accel just wrote...
1Password, a fully-remote security startup, announced $200 million in Series A funding on Thursday. Silicon Valley venture firm Accel led the round, its biggest investment in the history of the...
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The cannabis industry is set to employ 400,000 people in the US by 2021 —...
Despite recent turmoil in the industry, cannabis companies are expected to add over 200,000 jobs to the US workforce by 2021.Cannabis recruiting startup Vangst shared its 2019 salary guide exclusively...
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Legendary tech investor Ben Horowitz reveals how he screens for culture in...
Ben Horowitz, the cofounder of the legendary venture-capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, is a corporate-culture guru.In his book "What You Do Is Who You Are," he says culture is more than a list of...
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CULTIVATED: Inside the cannabis industry's meltdown, teen use creeps up in...
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'The last person I felt this with was Jack Ma' — SoftBank's Masayoshi Son...
SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son reportedly told WeWork's cofounder and former boss Adam Neumann that he reminded him of Alibaba's founder, the driving force behind Son's most successful investment ever."The...
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Europe's flurry of venture capital raises continues with Spotify backer...
European investment firm Northzone has raised a $500 fund to invest in European startups. The firm has seen notable exits in the form of Swedish successes like Spotify and iZettle and its current...
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Silicon Valley VC firm Greylock is betting big that startup founders are...
On Tuesday, email security startup Abnormal announced it raised $24 million in Series A funding led by one of Silicon Valley's oldest VC firms, Greylock.Abnormal first started in Greylock's offices as...
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