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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
Mary Meeker is said to be raising up to $1.25 billion for her new growth fund
Mary Meeker, who revealed in September plans to leave Kleiner Perkins after an eight-year run with the venture firm, is reportedly looking to raise up to $1.25 billion for her debut fund. So says Busi
Material Impact, a new fund focused on materials technology, just closed its debut fund with $110 million
Material Impact, a Boston, Mass.-based firm that says it “transforms materials into companies that make an impact,” has closed its debut fund with $110 million in capital commitments from
The Muse, a popular recruitment site for millennials, has made its second acquisition
The Muse, a New York-based, content-rich recruitment site that matches job seekers and all kinds of information about different career paths, as well as with companies that are hiring, has made it sec
What does SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son plan to say or do about its ties to Saudi Arabia? We’re about to find out
Throughout October, it seemed that among others in tech, SoftBank might be forced to rethink its cozy relationship with Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman, or MBS, who has charmed m
Boring Tunnel is on track for an “opening party” next month
Last night, super entrepreneur and Twitter addict Elon Musk posted some mesmerizing footage of the tunnel that his nearly two-year-old infrastructure company, Boring Company, is creating in Los Angele
The Minte raises $2.25 million in seed funding to bring hotel-style housekeeping to luxury residences
As an MBA student at the University of Chicago’s Booth school, Kathleen Wilson was struck with an idea while looking at businesses that provided daily housekeeping in one of her classes. Given t
Fortnite’s funding royale, China struggles and Coinbase gets a boost to $8 billion
Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week, we missed Alex Wilhelm, who was sunning himself somewher
‘Grit’ author Angela Duckworth on working smart versus working too hard, when it’s okay to pivot, and the impact of tech on grit
Today, in San Francisco, at a gathering of roughly 400 women organized by the young AllRaise — a growing group of female funders and founders who aim to accelerate the success of their peers —
True Ventures has two new funds totaling $635 million to plug into a wide range of startups
True Ventures never seems to be short on exits. Most recently, the 13-year-old venture firm saw early checks to Ring, Blue Bottle Coffee, Duo Security and Evident.io pay off via exits to Amazon, Nestl
Another Kleiner investor has just raised her own fund
She may not have the name recognition of former colleague Beth Seidenberg, but Lynne Chou-O’Keefe, who has spent the last five-plus years investing in healthcare on behalf of the venture firm Kl
These 14 startups, endorsed by the seed-stage investment firm Pear, just hit the fundraising trail
Earlier this week, in a beautiful garden in Woodside, Calif., the team at the five-year-old seed-stage venture firm Pear hosted its fifth annual demo day. It’s an event that’s limited to r
Silicon Valley is waiting for the dust to settle in Saudi Arabia, but other headwinds are picking up
It’s been painful, the silence of Silicon Valley with regards to Saudi Arabia, whose shifting accounts about the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi have nearly veered into slapstick. He freely
Metrc, whose tracing system helps regulators track cannabis from seed to sale, just raised $50 million, including from Tiger Global
A growing number of states has legalized retail marijuana sales, but ensuring that everything works as advertised is no easy task. Among the many things that regulators have to concern themselves with
Looks like Tiger Global Management just closed the second biggest venture fund this year
As we noted six months ago, Tiger Global Management, the 17-year-old investment group, is starting to see a whole lot of its venture-related startup investments pay off. We also guessed that because o
Domio raised $12 million in Series A funding to build ‘apart hotels’ across the US
Hotels can be pricey, and travelers are often forced to leave their rooms for basic things, like food that doesn’t come from the minibar. Yet Airbnb accommodations, which have become the go-to a
Silicon Valley hoped the Khashoggi story would go away; instead, it may end an era
It’s amazing how quickly things can change. Exactly a week ago, we wondered if Saudi Arabia’s money might finally become radioactive in light of the disappearance of Saudi journalist and W