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Basis, backed with $133 million from top VCs to build a price-stable cryptocurrency, says it’s shutting down and returning the money
Earlier this year, we told you about a now 18-month-old, Hoboken, N.J.-based cryptocurrency startup working on a “stable coin” whose elastic supply would ostensibly expand and contract to keep its
Zymergen lands $400 million more, led by SoftBank Vision Fund, for its genetically altered microbes
Zymergen, a five-year-old company that manufacturers molecules for a wide array of uses and industries, has closed on $400 million in Series C funding led by one of its earlier investors, the SoftBank
Bowery, an indoor farming startup, raises $90 million more, including to counter a SoftBank-funded rival
When in July of last year, SoftBank’s Vision Fund led a whopping $200 million round in the Silicon Valley startup Plenty, investors behind a competing indoor farming startup across the country,
L.A. gets more moolah, thanks to Calibrate Ventures and its new $80 million fund
Two years ago, a couple of VCs from Shea Ventures, a 50-year-old, L.A.-based investment firm, banded together to create a Pasadena, Calif.-based early-stage venture firm called Calibrate Ventures. Inv
Online liquor store Drizly just landed $34.5 million in fresh funding
Apparently, a lot of people realize at the last minute that they don’t have either beer, wine or liquor in their home when they need it. It’s certainly the most obvious explanation for a s
Report: Slack is prepping an IPO for next year, with Goldman Sachs as its lead underwriter
Slack, the workplace messaging company, has hired investment bank Goldman Sachs to lead its IPO next year, according to a Reuters report. Reuters’ sources say the company is hoping to nab a valu
And Uber is going with Bird (looks like)
Update: Bird tells us it is not in discussions with Uber. The company declined to comment on reports that there have been recent talks between the two companies. Our piece from earlier today reflects
Apple is starting to sell its first iPhone XR case, and it’s clear so you can show off your bright new phone
Apple’s new iPhone XR comes in a half dozen colors, including blue, yellow, red and coral. In fact, the colors are sufficiently fresh that it’d be kind of silly to buy a traditional phone
Consumer electronics giant Samsung just became the world’s spendiest advertiser, bypassing Procter & Gamble
Who rules the roost in the business world is very much in flux. We see it on a daily basis, with the mantle of “most valuable company” being passed between Apple, Amazon and Microsoft, dep
Atomico’s fourth ‘State of the European Tech’ report highlights lots of rosy numbers, but also a discrimination problem
For the fourth year in a year, the global venture firm Atomico has produced a “State of European Tech Report,” and again this year, there’s plenty for the firm — and Europe bro
There’s definitely reason to worry about Brexit, says Accel’s London team
Longtime Accel partners Philippe Botteri, Sonali De Rycker, Luciana Lixandru and Harry Nelis took the stage at Disrupt Berlin earlier today, and unlike many London-based investors, who have downplayed
Jina Choi, the head of the SEC’s San Francisco office, is leaving the agency
Silicon Valley companies that operate in the gray might be heaving a small sigh of relief today. Yesterday afternoon, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced that Jina Choi, the head of its S
Amazon opens its internal machine learning courses to all for free
It’s Cyber Monday and Amazon has one deal for its customers that’s a little unexpected. The company just announced that it has made available, for free, the same machine learning courses t
Corvus Insurance lands a fresh $10 million to turn sensor data into actionable info for its food and pharma customers
Corvus Insurance, a two-year-old, Boston-based insurance company that uses data across more than 50 criteria to predict and prevent losses for its corporate customers in the food and pharmaceutical in
As the FDA moves to ban most flavored e-cigs sold in stores, Juul pushes back harder on copycats
Love Juul or hate it, you can probably appreciate why the e-cigarette company is frustrated. It has grown like gangbusters since the first Juul vaporizer was introduced in 2015, leaving competitors &#
Move over Le Creuset? A new cookware startup founded by and for millennials is getting down to business
Sometimes, it’s hard to imagine a product or industry that a new e-commerce startup hasn’t tried to remake already, from slippers to mattresses, from luggage to lipstick. Yet two chi
Feeling left out of a hot market? This new outfit has a fund with shares of 30 top ‘unicorns’ to sell you
When Equidate, a venture-backed secondaries marketplace based in San Francisco, closed its most recent round of funding with $50 million four months ago, it was hardly a surprising bet on the part of
Wonder Ventures aims to dazzle L.A. startups with its new seed-stage fund
Dustin Rosen thinks L.A. has a problem, aside from its famously car-choked highways. There aren’t enough investors willing to write small checks. Why not? The way he sees it, most of the so-call
Meet Jennifer Tejada, the secret weapon of one of Silicon Valley’s fastest-growing enterprise software startups
PagerDuty, an eight-year-old, San Francisco-based company that sends companies information about their technology, doesn’t receive a fraction of the press that other fast-growing enterprise software
Biotech holding company Roivant Sciences raised $200M in funding at a whopping $7B valuation
Roivant Sciences has had a bumpy couple of years, but that isn’t stopping investors from pouring more money into the four-year-old company, which aims to one day be a giant parent company for do