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A conversation with Bison Trails, the AWS-like service inside of Coinbase
Coinbase shares tumbled today to their lowest point since the company began trading publicly on April 14. The market often moves in mysterious ways, but several drivers could be at play, including Coi
Emergence Capital co-founder Jason Green on transitioning to the next chapter
Succession is a major issue for many venture firms. Institutional investors, founders — even reporters — often get attached to senior members of a team, and when one of those individuals d
Yale’s longtime — and legendary — endowment chief, David Swensen, has passed away at age 67
David Swensen, among the most highly regarded money managers in the world after growing Yale’s endowment from $1 billion when he joined as a 31-year-old former grad student of the school, to the sec
Chime has agreed to stop using the word ‘bank’ after a California regulator pushed back
Chime might call itself the “fastest-growing fintech in the U.S.,” but it has agreed to stop referring to itself as a “bank,” per a new report out of American Banker. Evidently
Emergence, known for its enterprise bets, just rounded up nearly $1 billion across two new funds
Emergence, the 18-year-old, San Mateo, California-based venture firm focused on enterprise tech startups, has rounded up nearly a billion dollars in capital commitments across two funds. It closed its
Eclipse Ventures has $500 million more to digitize old-line industries and bring them up to speed
Two years ago, we talked with Lior Susan, the founder of now six-year-old Eclipse Ventures in Palo Alto, California. At the time, the outfit believed that the next big thing wasn’t another socia
An Oracle exec’s brass-knuckled approach with a reporter leads to a Twitter suspension
Companies and the reporters who cover them routinely find themselves at odds, particularly when the stories being chased are unflattering or bring unwanted attention to a business’s dealings, or
Founders Circle Capital has raised a new $355 million fund to buy primary and secondary shares
Founders Circle Capital, a nine-year-old, San Francisco-based investment firm that strikes agreements with private, venture-backed companies to buy some of the vested stock options of their founders a
Cloudflare rallies the troops to fight off another so-called patent troll
Nearly four years ago, we wrote about a battle between Cloudflare, the San Francisco-based internet security and performance company, and Blackbird Technologies, a firm that quickly amassed dozens o
Bobby Goodlatte has designs on how to succeed in venture (and so far, so good)
Bobby Goodlatte has only been an investor for about a decade, but he appears to have already made tens of millions of dollars, contrary to the expectations of some traditional VCs who have privately,
Oath Care just raised $2 million to develop a social, health-focused app that groups expectant and new parents
Being an expectant mom can be frightening, as can mothering an infant or toddler. The answers don’t come automatically, and while there’s no shortage of books and websites (and advice from
Early Coinbase backer Garry Tan is keeping the ‘vast majority’ of his shares because of this deal
A week after the cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase staged a direct listing, much of the focus remains on the wealth that the listing generated for executives at the company, its board members and its p
Katie Haun on saying yes to Coinbase and where a16z’s crypto fund is placing its bets now
Coinbase, the newly public cryptocurrency exchange, has had it share of ups and downs. Still, the nearly nine-year-old, San Francisco-based outfit got a lot right ahead of its highly successful direct
Detroit’s native son, billionaire Dan Gilbert, makes the case for his town
Dan Gilbert loves his hometown of Detroit. He loves it so much that the billionaire founder of what would eventually become the mortgage lender Quicken Loans has poured at least $2.5 billion into reha
Atrium, which help sales managers more easily see who is (or isn’t) crushing it, just raised $13.5 million
There’s no shortage of data-driven sales management tools in the market. Naturally, Atrium, a five-year-old, San Francisco-based company co-founded by serial entrepreneur Pete Kazanjy, says it d
How to pivot your startup, save cash and maintain trust with investors and customers
"We would go all in on a product and we'd build it and put blood, sweat and tears into it, and then I would kill it, and we'd move on to the next thing."
A quick peek inside Fontinalis, one of Detroit’s best-known young venture firms
Fontinalis, the 12-year-old, Detroit-based early stage venture firm, is known for being among the very first investing outfits to focus squarely on mobility as an overarching theme. It wasn’t a
Want to take a road trip with Kevin Costner? Investors are betting you will
Woody Sears has long been interested in storytelling. Following the debut in 2007 of the first iPhone, he founded a storytelling app called Zuuka that built up a library of narrated and illustrated ki
Tiger Global just closed one of the biggest venture funds ever, with $6.7 billion
If you watch funding announcements as we do, you may have noticed something this year. There are a lot of mega-rounds coming together, and Tiger Global is involved in a notable number of them, often a
Cendana has raised a $30 million ‘fund of funds’ for VCs managing $15 million or less
Cendana Capital, a San Francisco-based fund of funds manager, has amassed stakes in more than 100 venture firms since launching in 2010. For the most part, it did this by focusing on managers who are