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Want to crush competitors? Forget SoftBank, Blackstone suggests; it can write $500 million checks, too
Back in January, Blackstone — the investment firm whose assets under management surpassed a jaw-dropping half a trillion dollars earlier this year — quietly began piecing together a new, g
An explosive breach of contract lawsuit against former Sequoia Capital partner Michael Goguen has been dismissed
Three-and-a-half years ago, a lawsuit hit the San Mateo, Calif. county courthouse that briefly attracted the attention of the worldwide venture capital community, given its salacious nature. The defen
Netflix co-founder Marc Randolph on the company’s earliest days, the streaming wars, and moving on
Netflix is today a company whose valuation hovers around $130 billion, but it was, of course, once a little startup, and in his new book “That Will Never Work,” Netflix’s co-founder
This young litigation finance startup just secured $100 million to chase cases it thinks will win
If you haven’t heard much about litigation finance, that may change soon. The practice dates back decades, though it’s been picking up momentum since 2006, when Credit Suisse Securities fo
Colorcon, which develops colorants, coatings and films for pharmaceutical giants, has a new $50 million fund
Colorcon, a 58-year-old company that develops, supplies and supports specialty products for the pharmaceutical industry — think food colorants, nutritional coatings, the film on time-release med
Fieldwire just raised $33.5 million more to give PlanGrid and its new owner Autodesk a run for their money
Fieldwire, which makes task management software for construction teams on commercial projects so things don’t fall through the figurative (or literal) cracks, has raised $33.5 million in Series
Aspect Ventures, founded by Theresia Gouw and Jennifer Fonstad, is splitting up
Aspect Ventures, an early-stage, San Francisco-based venture firm founded five years ago very notably by two veteran VCs who happen to be women, is splitting up. Co-founders Jennifer Fonstad, formerly
Cloudflare co-founder Michelle Zatlyn on the company’s IPO today, its unique dual class structure, and what’s next
Shares of Cloudflare rose 20% today in its first day of trading on the public market, opening trading at $18 after it priced its IPO at $15 a share yesterday and holding steady through the day. Put a
The youngest new partner at the venture firm Felicis Ventures, Niki Pezeshki, on how he wins deals
Felicis Ventures has, in its roughly 13 years of existence, established a reputation in venture circles as a smart early-stage investment firm that’s willing to make bets almost anywhere in the
WeWork loses its chief communications officer ahead of planned IPO
It could just be a better job offer, but WeWork’s top communications executive, Jennifer Skyler, has announced to her contacts that she is leaving the co-working giant to become the chief corpor
Mark Hurd, the co-CEO of Oracle, is taking a leave of absence, citing health reasons
Mark Hurd, one of two CEOs leading the database software giant Oracle, is taking a leave of absence owing to health reasons, he told employees in a letter today. Oracle has not specified what HurdR
Theresia Gouw and Ann Miura-Ko are coming to Disrupt
For a very long time, the venture industry was stubbornly resistant to change. The same people sat back in their chairs on Sand Hill Road while nervous founders made the rounds, hoping one of these fi
These brothers just raised $15 million for their startup, Dutchie, a kind of Shopify for cannabis dispensaries
Ross Lipson comes from an entrepreneurial family, so perhaps it’s no wonder that as a college student, he dropped out of school to jump into the online food space, including co-founding, then se
Foundation Capital, now 24 years old, just closed its ninth fund with $350 million in capital commitments
Not all venture firms are long for this world. Though they tend to shut down exceedingly quietly, it sometimes happens when the returns just aren’t compelling or a firm grows too fast or there&#
The CEO of Naspers — one of the world’s most powerful and lowest-flying investment firms — is coming to Disrupt
In 2001, Naspers, a media company that launched in 1915 and later evolved into a media holding company with pay TV interests, agreed to invest $32 million for a 46.5% stake in Tencent. The China-based
HackerOne just closed a new round of funding that brings its total funding to $110 million
HackerOne, the seven-year-old, San Francisco-based company that mediates between hackers and companies interested in testing their online vulnerabilities, has raised $36.4 million in Series D funding
Kite Hill, co-founded by the creator of Impossible Foods, looks to be gaining traction, too
Before he founded the plant-based burger company Impossible Foods, Patrick Brown, who spent 25 years as a biochemistry professor at Stanford, also co-founded a Hayward, Ca.-based food company called K
Top VCs say the landscape for enterprise startups is changing
Yesterday at TechCrunch’s Enterprise event in San Francisco, we sat down with three venture capitalists who spend a lot of their time thinking about enterprise startups. We wanted to ask what trends
Bear Robotics is raising big bucks for robots that deliver food to restaurant patrons
Some days, it feels like there’s almost no end to the number of jobs that might be replaced altogether or in some part by smart machines, from radiologists to truck drivers to, gulp, journalists
Google lets David Drummond do the talking
Anyone wondering if Alphabet might reprimand its chief legal officer, David Drummond, for a long-ago extramarital, inter-office affair that continues to be a distraction to the company, the answer see