Alex Wilhelm

Substack is framing its crowdfund as a way for its users to buy into the platform they use. The sticky bit is price.

U.S. prosecutors today filed a superseding indictment against former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried alleging he bribed Chinese officials.

PitchBook data shows how far venture activity has fallen from year-ago totals and just how brutal the venture capital market appears for late-stage startups.

Turo could be the first out of the IPO gate when the public-offering window reopens.

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One of my most joyous technology memories concerns Project Origami. The effort from Microsoft, Intel and others launched ultra-mobile PCs, or UMPCs. The devices, akin to squeezing a full Windows machi

We're seeing lots of tech layoffs, but evidence suggests that they do more harm than good both for employee morale and long-term performance.

Turo, a startup that allows consumers to rent their cars to one another, filed an update to its IPO paperwork Friday, detailing its full 2022 financial performance. The upshot? Turo has continued to g

One way to make your staffing cheaper is to reduce it. Another is to make it more productive. That's where robotic process automation comes in.

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While regulatory action against TikTok feels rather simple, Coinbase's case has far more gray area.

American crypto giant Coinbase received a Wells notice today from the Securities and Exchange Commission. In the wake of Coinbase’s filing regarding the Wells notice, shares of the company are o

Let's consider potential IPOs in the HR technology market: Rippling, Gusto, Deel and Velocity Global are all on our list.

How are API-first startups faring in the face of private-market headwinds and some market pessimism about the health of many startups far from their exit point?

For many tech companies, investors are applying a new valuation method that has caught our eye: AI proficiency.

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I don't want to promise anything, but it could be just a quarter or two until we are back to hammering on S-1 filings like it's 2021 again.

The CFO stack has some investors quite excited, but the data so far describes a trend that may not be in these companies' favor.

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Amid the chaos, there are rays of good news: PagerDuty and UiPath posted impressive earnings reports, and software valuations bounced off recent lows.