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$200 million finance startup Curve faces complaints from customers who say...
$200 million finance startup Curve is facing complaints from customers who were handed business cards rather than standard personal cards.Curve issues a smart card that groups all your debit and credit...
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The CFO of credit card startup Brex said that its 'made sense' to take on...
On Wednesday, credit card startup Brex announced it had secured $200 million in debt financing from Credit Suisse.This is the second round of debt financing for the $2.6 billion startup following a...
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Investors say these are the 18 hottest enterprise startups from Seattle's...
While best known as the headquarters of Amazon and Microsoft, experts believe the Seattle area is on the precipice of a major startup boom because of a confluence of factors including a critical mass...
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Tech legend John Chambers says startups need to stop hiding from IPOs and go...
Tech legend John Chambers, the former CEO of Cisco, who is now an investor and mentor to startup founders, recently helped inaugurate the Silicon Valley headquarters of Uniphore, an Indian AI startup...
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This VC built an email marketing company in Indianapolis that he sold to...
Scott Dorsey is hoping to help build Indianapolis into a tech hub.Dorsey was the cofounder of Indianapolis-based ExactTarget, which Salesforce bought in 2013 for $2.5 billion.He now runs a venture firm...
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The CEO of a Silicon Valley startup was quietly fired after allegedly...
Eric Gilmore, the CEO of Silicon Valley startup Turvo, was fired back in May after it was discovered he spent more than $75,000 at strip clubs and expensed it to a company credit card, Bloomberg...
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I didn't have the cash to exercise my startup stock options. This Silicon...
The Employee Stock Option, or ESO, Fund, which is based in Silicon Valley, offers a way for startup workers to exercise their stock options in exchange for a cut of the shares when the startup goes...
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The biggest thing early stage startups should avoid when pitching to...
Jeff Canin is an expert on early-stage startups, having evaluated hundreds of business proposals as an investor and business advisor. If there's one thing that turns him off when hearing a pitch, it's...
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The 'WeWork of China,' which was last valued at $2.6 billion, is preparing to...
Ucommune, China's biggest coworking real estate startup, is preparing to go public on the New York Stock Exchange.The company is the first major office-sharing company to attempt to go public since...
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SoftBank's Masayoshi Son has a 'type' and the founders he bets on look a lot...
SoftBank's $100 billion Vision Fund has made huge investments in startups like WeWork,, Zume, and Fair.For all the differences in industry and business models, several of these Silicon Valley startups...
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Sapphire Ventures, the former venture arm of SAP, just closed its first $1...
On Wednesday, Sapphire Ventures announced its fourth fund with $1.4 billion in commitments. The fund spun out of enterprise software giant SAP in 2011 as SAP Ventures but changed its name in 2014 to...
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23 hot startups that want to go public in 2020, and the 2 Silicon Valley...
According to a new report from CB Insights out Wednesday, 23 tech startups are hoping to go public in 2020 via a traditional IPO or direct listing.Popular tech companies like Airbnb, Credit Karma, and...
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This slanted toilet was designed to increase productivity and decrease...
The British startup StandardToilet designed a toilet with a slanted seat intended to make it less comfortable for workers to hang out in the bathroom for extended periods of time.The toilet has a...
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Only 4% of startups valued at $1 billion or more in 2019 were founded by...
In its annual startups report, Crunchbase found that just 5 startups valued at $1 billion or more in 2019 were founded by women, and only 16 had a female cofounder. The other 108 startups were founded...
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A seasoned founder explains how to get into fintech, and what it takes for...
Truvalue Labs provides banks and asset managers on Wall Street with data and analytics around ESG factors to help them assess investments.Hendrik Bartel, chief executive and co-founder of Truvalue, is...
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34 cool online startups you might not have noticed are now at Nordstrom
Popular online startups like Casper and Dagne Dover are making their products more accessible by partnering with Nordstrom.Their presence on Nordstrom means you can put them all in the same cart along...
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New York is experiencing an investment capital blizzard, and the result is...
The rise of "mega-rounds" has created more startups unicorns in New York City in 2019 than any previous year, according to a report from VC firm White Star Capital.These outsized transactions are...
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Cryptocurrency and virtual reality are among the most 'overhyped' startup...
Startup founders and employees are fed up with the hype over cryptocurrency, machine learning, and virtual reality, according to a new survey.Venture capital firm First Round polled over 900 founders...
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CULTIVATED: 2019 was the year the cannabis bubble burst, where top VCs are...
Welcome to Cultivated, our weekly newsletter where we're bringing you an inside look at the deals, trends, and personalities driving the multibillion-dollar global cannabis boom. Sign up here to get it...
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DoorDash, the $12.7 billion food-delivery startup, could make or break tech...
DoorDash is one of the most valuable private startups and has recently emerged as the leader in the food-delivery industry.It's also reportedly gearing up for a public offering as soon as next...
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