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Al Gore and Lila Preston question everything in their firm’s new climate report
Every year for the past seven years, Generation Investment Management, the sustainability-focused public and private equity firm co-founded by former U.S. vice president Al Gore, has published a susta
Sapphire Partners is now managing all of CalSTRS’ emerging manager portfolios
Sapphire Partners, the LP arm of enterprise software-focused VC Sapphire Ventures, announced this morning that moving forward, it will be managing five funds with $1.4 billion in assets that are focus
Exclusive: Cendana Capital closes on $470M more to back seed-stage fund managers
Michael Kim of Cendana Capital is often a first call for emerging seed-stage fund managers. Cendana has invested in many VC teams that have gone on to enjoy great success — like Forerunner Ventures,
This veteran VC doesn’t think Arm’s IPO will have the impact that everyone is hoping it will
The startup industry has been whistling a happy tune since the British chip designer Arm filed paperwork with the SEC late last month for an IPO. The growing expectation is that the hotly anticipated
A change at TechCrunch
Hi all! Connie Loizos here with a brief bulletin: I’m the new General Manager and Editor-in-Chief of TechCrunch. [Puffs on cigar.] I know, you’re busy – I get it – so I want to take ju
This venture-backed startup has quietly bought more than 80 mom-and-pop shops
Teamshares is a low-flying, New York-based startup with big ambitions to capitalize on an opportunity in plain sight: that of small businesses without a succession plan. It’s not a small market.
Chip company Arm files for Nasdaq listing in IPO anticipated to be this year’s biggest
Arm, the U.K.-based chipmaker owned by Japan’s SoftBank since 2016, has filed for a Nasdaq listing five months after announcing it had filed confidential, preliminary IPO paperwork with U.S. regulat
How Index Ventures jumped to the front of the AI GPU line
Earlier this week, The New York Times shone a light on some of the desperation that founders are experiencing as they try and fail to secure compute power for their nascent artificial intelligence sta
Insiders bet more on Fizz, a social network that has now bubbled up at 80+ college campuses
Fizz, a burgeoning social network established by two Stanford dropouts, captured the attention and interest of Stanford University students early on with its approach to anonymity and engagement. Now
Made Renovation promises ‘tech-enabled’ remodels; customers describe ‘absolute nightmare’
Last year, Jonas Heineman was overseeing a team of commercial project managers as they installed hundreds of electric vehicle charging stations. Heineman’s wife was also pregnant with their firs
Dan Gwak of Point72 Ventures on why defense tech is becoming the next big thing for investors
Dan Gwak has had a more varied life than many investors. He grew up in Jakarta, the son of Korean parents who ran a shipping business. After high school, he headed to Cornell in the U.S. and became an
Tuesday Capital, a Silicon Valley firm that moved to Austin during the pandemic, captures $31M for its newest seed-stage fund
Austin seems to agree with Tuesday Capital. When the 12-year-old seed-stage outfit — originally called CrunchFund — was co-founded by longtime VC Patrick Gallagher and TechCrunch found
Reed Jobs, son of Steve Jobs, takes the wraps off a $200 million venture fund that will back new cancer treatments
Reed Jobs, the 31-year-old son of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and philanthropist Laurene Powell Jobs, has spent his career behind the scenes. But he’s “stepping into the spotlight,”
Andy McLoughlin of Uncork Capital on the firm’s new funds, succession, and why next year could be a bloodbath (sorry, startups)
A few weeks ago, Uncork Capital shared the news that it recently closed on $400 million in capital commitments across two new funds: $200 million for a seed-stage vehicle and another $200 million for
Exclusive: Goodwater Capital snags $1B across two new funds, despite cooling interest in consumer tech
Goodwater, one of comparatively few firms to focus exclusively on consumer tech investments, has closed on $1 billion in capital commitments across its fifth early-stage fund and its third opportunity
Michael Moritz moves on, book-ending a long chapter at Sequoia Capital
Michael Moritz, the journalist-turned-VC who has long been one of the most prominent and respected investors at Sequoia Capital, has left the firm after 38 years to “deepen his advisory relation
Forerunner Ventures sees a future full of ‘digitally native franchises’
Forerunner Ventures first made its name in the venture world by betting on once-nascent startups like Jet, Bonobos and Glossier when it was far easier to build a digitally native brand. Yet, as commer
Sandwich, known for its commercials, looks to help younger startups in exchange for equity
Sandwich, an LA-based, 17-person outfit, has produced many commercials on behalf of tech companies over its 14-year history, including Square, Slack and Figma. Sometimes, it has taken equity in exchan
Kindred Ventures foresees a ‘massive explosion of startups’ courtesy of AI
Last week, we talked with Kindred Ventures, a small, nine-year-old, San Francisco-based early-stage venture firm that, despite investing in a lot of nascent startups — more than 100 to date R
Get a clue, says panel about buzzy AI tech: It’s being ‘deployed as surveillance’
Earlier today at a Bloomberg conference in San Francisco, some of the biggest names in AI turned up, including, briefly, Sam Altman of OpenAI, who just ended his two-month world tour, and Stability AI