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Less than a week after laying off a bunch of employees, the CEO of JustPark...
The CEO of a London startup that allows people to rent out their driveways is leaving the business just two days after Business Insider reported it had axed a bunch of employees from its marketing...
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Sir Richard Branson is using his billions to back all of these tech startups
Taking shares in fast-growing companies is a pastime for many of the world's richest people, including the founder of the Virgin Group, Sir Richard Branson.Wealthy individuals are constantly on the...
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Why Square could be a game changer for tech IPOs
Square has set the price for its much anticipated initial public offering at $9 per share, and it could set a precedent for scores of other tech startups like it.The IPO is controversial for a couple...
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These are the 21 richest American entrepreneurs under 40 — and they all made...
Forbes has released its first ever list of the richest American entrepreneurs under 40 years old, and it's completely dominated by the tech industry in California. Of the 40 entrepreneurs they looked...
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How ex-Apple CEO John Sculley helped turn a startup with a fitness tracker...
Getting going in your early days as a tech startup is no mean feat so it helps when you've got a well-known figure among your cofounders.Misfit, a wearable technology company that makes activity...
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We found a 5-year-old startup that's profitable and generating tens of...
When Movable Ink CEO Vivek Sharma first met his cofounder, he could go months without seeing another startup entrepreneur in New York City.“Doing a startup here was unusual,” he says. “Foursquare and...
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This young director is helping one of the world's biggest media agencies to...
A director at one of the world's biggest media agencies has been announced as the leader of a new innovation division that will aim to get companies like Transport for London and Netflix to engage with...
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This 25-year-old founded a new kind of VC that's helped college kids raise...
Startups founded by college students that turned into billion dollar companies is the tech industry's dream. Think Dell, Google, Facebook ... Venture capitalists would like to prowl college campuses to...
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Expensify founder: Please don't call us 'cockroaches'
While more than 140 startups are running around Silicon Valley as a unicorn, one founder just wants people to stop calling his company a cockroach. Unicorn has become the Silicon Valley default for a...
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One big reason to build a startup in New York instead of San Francisco
New York’s startup scene has grown over the past few years, but it’s still a much different experience building a company in NYC than in the San Francisco Bay Area.Movable Ink CEO Vivek Sharma...
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Does it matter that Silicon Valley's unicorns are overvalued?
Are technology’s “unicorn” startups dangerously overvalued or not?Both tech evangelists and critics have strong positions on either side of the argument: on the one hand, it’s now easier than ever to...
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Founders in Telefónica's London startup nursery have raised over £22 million...
Startups at Telefónica's startup nursery in London have raised $34.1 million (£22.4 million) so far this year, Wayra told Business Insider today. That's more than 50% of the total amount raised by all...
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23andMe cofounder has a message for Theranos: 'Show the data'
Linda Avey, cofounder of the personal genomics company 23andMe, recently took the stage at Fusion's Real Future Fair to talk about the future of the biotech industry.After the panel, Tech Insider asked...
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A startup selling $1 razors is worth $630 million — and still raking in cash...
Dollar Shave Club has raised another $15 million, bringing its latest round of fundraising to almost $91 million, according to an SEC filing posted on Friday.The Series D round was reportedly closed in...
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London startup Deliveroo has raised $100 million for its restaurant delivery...
London startup Deliveroo announced today that it has raised $100 million (£66 million) for its restaurant food delivery service, bringing total investment in the company to approximately $200 million...
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Legendary tech investor Michael Moritz says that 'people underestimate China,...
Sir Michael Moritz, chairman of one of the biggest and best-known venture capital companies in the world, believes that the West is underestimating the size and scale of Chinese technology...
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It’s ‘virtually impossible’ to raise funding if you don’t have ‘extraordinary...
For startups, it's getting tougher to raise money in Silicon Valley right now, according to Keith Rabois, a Khosla Ventures partner and former executive at LinkedIn, PayPal, and Square.The investor...
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Apple has acquired Faceshift, a virtual reality startup used in the latest...
Apple has acquired a Swiss real-time motion capture startup called Faceshift for an unknown amount, according to TechCrunch.The company's virtual reality technology can be used to generate animated...
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A famous Silicon Valley investor has launched a new UK venture capital fund
Tim Draper, one of the world's most prominent venture capital investors, has launched a new investment company in London.In 1985, Draper founded the firm that would become Draper Fisher Jurvetson...
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Goldman Sachs is one of the biggest startup backers on Wall Street (gs, sq)
Goldman Sachs has been dialing up its presence in the startup investing space over the last several years.The bank invests directly in deals and also wields a network of high-net-worth clients who are...
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