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5 charts that help explain Airbnb's rise from spare-room startup to $31...
Airbnb has fundamentally changed the way many people travel by bringing home sharing into the mainstream.The company, last valued at $31 billion in 2017, has grown to rival the hotel industry, but...
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Airbnb's cofounder made an incredibly compelling pitch for startups to join Y...
Airbnb's cofounder Nathan Blecharczyk was asked at an event if there was a time when they almost shut down the business.In 2008, the startup couldn't raise a dollar of venture capital. It had two...
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Harry's had plans to sell for $1.4 billion before the government moved to...
The acquisition of razor startup Harry's fell apart this week after a government agency sued to block the $1.4 billion sale to conglomerate Edgewell.The Federal Trade Commission argued that the buyout...
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The 19 billion-dollar startups to watch that are revolutionizing healthcare...
2019 was a critical year for biotech and healthcare startups, with an unprecedented number of them making the leap from private to public and more considering making the jump in 2020. There are 19...
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Inside the rise of 'super angels,' a special breed of investor that's carving...
A new generation of tech investors are raising their own venture-capital funds as solo general partners.The number of microfunds is actually on the decline, but the solo general partner's ranks are...
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The 19 'super angel' investors writing lots of checks that every founder...
We identified 19 solo general partners who are shaking up venture capital.For this list, we defined a solo general partner as a fund manager who takes outside capital and is the only general partner at...
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CULTIVATED: Why investors love Flowhub, cannabis industry layoffs, and more
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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A new VC firm doesn't give startups any funding because capital is...
Dan Portillo founded Sweat Equity Ventures, a VC firm that works with founders in exchange for company equity instead of writing funding checks, with $30 million in backing from LinkedIn founder Reid...
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Klarna and Graphcore backer Atomico just raised one of Europe's biggest ever...
Graphcore and Klarna backer Atomico has raised one of Europe's biggest ever VC funds with a fresh $820 million to back local tech startups. Founded in 2006, the new fund sees a number of Atomico...
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The rise and fall of RompHim, the men's romper startup that's shutting down...
Men's romper startup RompHim announced on February 12 to customers that it's shutting down.The company launched in 2017 and immediately went viral, raising more than $350,000 on Kickstarter within a...
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There's a hot new cannabis compound that claims it'll help you sleep better....
Meet cannabinol (CBN), the latest trendy wellness compound that comes from the cannabis plant.Some companies are now gearing up to launch products with CBN, claiming they help people sleep better.CBN...
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Security startup OneTrust is cashing in on the mad dash for data privacy tech...
Data security startup OneTrust announced its $210 million Series B on Thursday. Insight Partners and Coatue Management led the round, which valued the nearly 4-year-old startup at $2.7 billion.It comes...
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2 Y Combinator-backed startups are feuding over an ad campaign, and it's yet...
Onboarding startup Rippling bought targeted ads in San Francisco taking a shot at its competitor, Gusto, and whether it's capable of growing with companies as they scale. The ad reads: "Outgrowing...
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A pair of 28-year-old former investment bankers are taking on venture...
Henri Pierre-Jacques and Jarrid Tingle started Harlem Capital Partners out of Tingle's living room in New York City in December 2015.The fund was initially operating more like a private-equity firm,...
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Private equity firms, once dismissed as startup 'bottom feeders', are now...
Among startups that don't fail, most are acquired instead of going public.Although most startups that are acquired are still purchased by other independent companies, a growing number and proportion...
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A San Francisco startup designs voice-activated furniture that's stored in...
A San Francisco startup designs modules that store your bed, closet, desk, and nightstand in the ceiling that can be lowered on your command.The systems are also outfitted with AI that "can learn from...
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CULTIVATED: The next trendy cannabinoid, inside the world of cannabis...
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Europe's buzziest challenger bank Revolut is now worth $5.5 billion after...
European challenger bank Revolut has raised $500 million in Series D funding from Silicon Valley growth fund TCV. The long-anticipated fundraising takes the startup's post-money valuation to $5.5...
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This pitch deck convinced skeptical investors that Molekule could...
Molekule, a startup that makes air purifiers, announced its $58 million Series C led by RPS Ventures on Tuesday.Cofounder and co-CEO Jaya Rao told Business Insider that it was initially difficult to...
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Check out the pitch deck Second Nature used to raise $10 million in order to...
London-based health startup Second Nature has raised $10 million from Beringea.The company provides a 12-week programme to help those who are obese."Obestity is an epidemic and the figures have gone up...
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