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Pitching tech to optimize building design for sustainability, Atlanta-based Cove.tool raises $5.7 million

Patrick Chopson and Sandeep Ahuja started cove.tool, an Atlanta-based company developing software to optimize building design for sustainability and cost, because of problems they’d faced in the

Omar Hamoui leaves Sequoia for LA-based Mucker Capital as it looks to lead more Series A deals

Mucker Capital, the now eight-year-old, Santa Monica, Calif.-based pre-seed startup accelerator and venture outfit, has brought aboard Omar Hamoui, a partner at Sequoia Capital for the last six-plus y

Sequoia-backed NEXT gets $97M as investment in logistics heats up

NEXT plans to use the investment to fill 150 positions in 2019, as well as complete the launch Relay, a new service targeting the "systemic congestion" at shipping ports.

Clutter, The On-Demand Storage Service, Raises $9M Series A From Sequoia

Clutter, the storage service that uses professional movers to load and unload your stuff, has today announced the close of a $9 million in Series A funding, led by Sequoia. As a part of the deal, Sequ

How Investors Are Trying To Change The Culture Of Silicon Valley

Over the last year, the tech press has been filled with stories of high-flying startups struggling with issues of gender discrimination and harassment, sometimes with those issues coming from the foun

LinkedIn Has Definitely Acqui-Hired Maybe, Omar Hamoui’s Polling Startup, Minus Hamoui Himself

Fresh from <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2013/04/11/linkedin-acquires-pulse-for-90m-in-stock-and-cash/">closing its purchase of newsreading app Pulse</a>, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.linkedi

Mobile First Speaker LineUp: Joe Hewitt, Omar Hamoui, Kevin Systrom, And More

<img src="https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/mobilefirstcrunchup1.png" alt="" /> At the end of this month, we are putting on a <a href="https://techcrunch.com/the-mobile-first-crunch

Gnonstop Gnomes Appear On iPhone And Android. Don't Try To Stop Them.

<img src="https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/gnome.jpg"> The <a href="http://gnonstop.com/">Gnonstop Gnomes</a> are here and they cannot be stopped. Gnonstop Gnomes is the first mobil

Introducing Omar Hamoui's First Project From Churn Labs: Gnonstop Gnomes

<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/gnonstop-gnomes.jpg"/> When <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/person/omar-hamoui">Omar Hamoui </a> left Google a <a href="https://techcrunch