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Crypto firm Pantera Capital is looking to raise up to $175 million for a new venture fund
Pantera Capital, which has made its mark in recent years by investing early and often in a wide variety of digital assets, is looking to raise up to $175 million for its third venture fund — an
Catching up with startup advisor and Wealthfront CEO Andy Rachcleff
Andy Rachleff, who co-founded the venture firm Benchmark back in 1995 and has more recently been leading the wealth management firm Wealthfront and teaching at Stanford, is widely sought for his star
AppDynamics founder Jyoti Bansal and longtime VC John Vrionis are now taking applications for their new accelerator program
With so much money being stuffed into Silicon Valley companies these days, it’s hard to stand out as an investor, but John Vrionis and Jyoti Bansal have what they think is a winning approach 
Cowboy Ventures just rounded up $95 million for its third fund
Cowboy Ventures, the early-stage venture firm launched in 2012 by longtime VC Aileen Lee, has lassoed $95 million in capital commitments for its third fund, up from the $55 million that it raised for
Foundry Group quietly announces a big fat $750 million fund
Foundry Group, the Boulder, Colo.-based venture firm co-founded 11 years ago by startup whisperer Brad Feld, has raised a $750 million seventh fund to target early-stage and growth-stage companies,
Exclusive: HR startup Namely, once a high flier, gets a new CEO and $60 million in new funding to soar again
Namely, a 400-person, six-and-a-half-year-old company, has mostly had the kind of trajectory that other startups envy. Mostly. The startup’s mobile-first platform — which sells payroll, ta
There are very real differences in how women and men (and VCs) view entrepreneurship, underscores a new survey
In the increasingly crowded world of venture capital, many more firms are producing research as a way to differentiate themselves from the pack. Earlier this year, for example, Wing, a venture firm
Felicis Ventures has a new, $270 million fund, and a new managing director: Victoria Treyger
Felicis Ventures, the early-stage, San Francisco-based venture firmed founded a dozen or so years ago by former Googler Aydin Senkut, has closed its sixth fund with $270 million. It’s Felicis
Scalar Capital, a hedge fund for crypto assets, plants its flag in an increasingly crowded landscape
Scalar Capital is a San Francisco-based hedge fund company specializing in crypto assets. In fact, it is one of roughly 300 crypto-focused funds that have sprung up in the last year or so. That kind o
Optoro raises $75 million more to make it easier for brands to manage and resell returned and excess inventory
As the economy has chugged along, so have retail sales, which last year capped their strongest year since 2014. Online sales have been especially brisk, growing 16 percent between 2016 and 2017 alon
Check out this first of its kind, direct-to-consumer urine-testing app with FDA clearance
Urinary tract infections are highly uncomfortable and distracting, and they are very common for women because of the female anatomy. In fact, according to the Mayo Clinic, many women experience more t
Root Ventures, a young SF firm focused on ‘hard tech,’ just closed a much bigger second fund with $76.7 million
Root Ventures, a San Francisco-based venture firm that closed its debut fund with $30 million in 2015, has raised a second fund, closing it with $76.7269 million dollars in capital commitments. Why? B
In hot market for secondary shares, one player, Equidate, just locked down $50 million in new funding
Equidate, a 4.5-year-old, San Francisco-based marketplace that makes privately held shares available to accredited investors wanting to buy them, is announcing a whopper of a round this morning: $50 m
BlockFi just gathered up $50 million to lend to bitcoin and ethereum holders who don’t want to cash out (yet)
Because cryptocurrency prices are almost comically volatile owing to challenges involved in valuing them, it’s hard to know when or why to sell. Enter crypto-asset backed loans, around which a s
The writer whose book became ‘The Social Network’ just sold another book about the Winklevoss twins
The title could just as easily be “Sweet Justice.” The U.K.-based publishing house Little, Brown has agreed to publish a new book about Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, who famously settled a
Eventbrite is reportedly going public in the second half of this year
Eventbrite, the 12-year-old, San Francisco-based event-planning company, has filed confidentially for an IPO and plans to go public later this year, according to a new report in the WSJ. The company&#
Public shareholders got high today on Tilray, the first marijuana company to IPO on Nasdaq
Tilray, a five-year-old, British Columbia-based medical cannabis company that sells its products to patients, researchers, pharmacies and even governments, saw its shares get high (sorry) on the Nasda
Worried about a slowdown? It already happened in 2016, says one new venture study
In today’s market, it’s hard to make sense of what’s what. Deals have grown incestuous for the first time, with outfits like GV investing alongside Uber last week — just months
Top VCs Megan Quinn, Sarah Tavel and Aileen Lee are coming to Disrupt SF
In many ways, it’s the best of times and the worst of times to be a venture capitalist. While money continues to flood into Silicon Valley, the math keeps getting harder to square. At what point
Kindly Care scores $5.4 million to vet and place caregivers, then help families pay them correctly
There are roughly 45 million unpaid eldercare providers in the United States, according to the 2016 U.S. Census Bureau. It’s tough on these family caregivers, many of whom are working women who