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How Airbnb exec Laura Chambers landed her first CEO job at femtech startup...
Just as the pandemic hit, Laura Chambers, GM for Airbnb hosts, got a call that would change her career.The cofounder of Willow, who was also an NEA investor, wanted to discuss her becoming the...
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This early-stage VC says startups can still negotiate funding term sheets,...
According to Pillar VC partner Russ Wilcox, early-stage investors are still making deals during the coronavirus-led economic slowdown even as later-stage investors start to pull back.But interested...
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A top VC at Maverick Ventures shares the one question he uses to figure out...
Coronavirus and the loosened regulations that followed gave new life to digital health startups, particularly in telemedicine. There are a lot of startups that claim to deliver healthcare virtually,...
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We got an exclusive look at the pitch deck the 'Uber for private planes'...
Wingly – better known as "the Uber of the skies"– just raised $3 million in a fundraising round backed by French VC firm Innovacom. The firm, founded in 2015, connects private pilots with passengers,...
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Read the pitch deck that Los Angeles-based cybersecurity startup Open Raven...
Los Angeles-based data-management startup Open Raven picked up a $15 million Series A venture round led by Kleiner Perkins this week.The startup uses simple visualization and user controls to help...
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Venture capital has a diversity problem, but one firm has declared an 'online...
Foundation Capital is spearheading #JuneteenthVC, an online day of action on the traditional day commemorating the end of slavery in the United States calling on venture firms and portfolio companies...
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6 hot apps that Silicon Valley insiders are buzzing about
To be part of the in-crowd in Silicon Valley, you have to know about and use the latest hot new apps.Years ago, that was Gmail; this week it's Hey, a new email service.Below is a list of six of the...
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A venture capital fund set up by 2 ex-Googlers has raised $60 million to...
Berlin-based VC fund Fly Ventures has raised €53 million ($60 million) to invest in early-stage deep tech and automation startups in Europe. Established in 2017 by two ex-Googlers, Fly Ventures has...
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Here's an exclusive look at the pitch deck that helped health startup Kaia...
New York-based health startup Kaia Health has raised a $26 million Series B round from investors including Optum Ventures, Idinvest and Capital300. Symphony Ventures, an investment partnership...
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A new spaceship-on-a-balloon startup wants to float you high enough to see...
Space Perspective hopes to balloon wealthy passengers to an altitude of about 100,000 feet, where the darkness of space and the curvature of Earth are visible.The startup, which emerged from hiding on...
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C3.ai CEO Tom Siebel says that his hot AI startup did $160 million in revenue...
Tom Siebel disclosed his startup C3.ai brought in $160 million last year in an interview Thursday with Business Insider. Siebel also said C3.ai, a leader in the uncertain AI startup industry, does not...
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Meet 13 former Microsoft employees who went on to build billion-dollar...
Many entrepreneurs have passed through Microsoft in the company's 45-year history, including a handful who have managed to startup businesses that are worth $1 billion or more. We rounded up 13 former...
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Routine anti-bias training didn't boost diversity in Silicon Valley, so this...
Morgan Mercer founded Vantage Point, a virtual reality-based diversity, bias, and harassment training program, to address the shortcomings of traditional bias and inclusion training.Many tech companies...
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Legendary venture capitalist Marc Andreessen schedules every part of his day,...
On June 13, legendary venture capitalist Marc Andreessen told angel investor Sriram Krishnan about his schedule and daily productivity habits for Krishnan's newsletter, The Observer.Andreessen said he...
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'The clinical person is going to just slaughter the emotional person.' This...
On June 13, legendary venture capitalist Marc Andreessen told angel investor Sriram Krishnan about his approach to building a firm and evaluating potential investments, for Krishnan's newsletter, The...
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We got an exclusive look at the presentation that Cedar used to convince...
Cedar, a company that helps make paying your medical bills easier, just raised $102 million as it attempt to reinvent how Americans pay for their doctors visits.We got an exclusive look at the...
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Here's an exclusive look at the pitch deck risk-modelling startup Elucidate...
Berlin-based regulatory tech startup Elucidate has raised 2.5 million euros ($3 million) in a seed funding round led by San Francisco's 11.2 Capital.The risk rating agency works with large institutions...
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We got an exclusive look at the pitch deck BrightInsight used to raise $40...
BrightInsight just raised $40 million for its tech-savvy tools that help drugmakers get their treatments and devices over the finish line.It collects information from patients during clinical trials...
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$6.2 billion AI startup Databricks, which is rolling out a new strategy this...
Ali Ghodsi, the CEO of artificial intelligence firm Databricks, was so paranoid about an economic downturn that the company raised two rounds of funding in under six months from the likes of Andreessen...
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The right mix of cold calls and warm introductions will help diversify your...
Diversity has long been treated as a second-order consideration in business, but numerous studies show that teams with a mix of ethnicities and genders perform better than more homogenous teams.It's...
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