137-ventures

The case for down rounds

Media outfits reported earlier this week that the crypto lending platform BlockFi is looking to raise roughly $100 million in fresh funding in a round that would value the company at about $1 billion.

TrueNorth has raised $50 million from Sam Altman and others to empower independent truckers

Jin Stedge studied aerospace engineering at MIT, but after she found herself at Scotty Labs, an SRI International spin-out focused on autonomous driving, she says she came to appreciate how far away t

137 Ventures, which provides loans to private company shareholders, just raised a new fund

137 Ventures, a 10-year-old, San Francisco-based firm that offers loans to founders, executives, early employees and other large shareholders of private, high-growth tech companies in exchange for the

Wish (and Airbnb, and Palantir) investor Justin Fishner-Wolfson doesn’t care about first-day pops

It’s probably no wonder that when Founders Fund was still a very young venture firm, it brought aboard as its first principal Justin Fishner-Wolfson. Having nabbed two degrees from Stanford and

137 Ventures Co-Founder Kathy Chan Becomes An Operating Partner At Khosla

<a target="_blank" href="http://137ventures.com">137 Ventures</a>, the secondary investment firm that recently raised (naturally) a $137 million second fund, is announcing that co-founder and partner

137 Ventures Raises $137M Second Fund To Offer Early Liquidity To Startup Execs

Secondary investment firm <a target="_blank" href="http://137ventures.com">137 Ventures</a> is announcing that it has raised a $137 million new fund. (That number has to be intentional, right?) Whe

137 Ventures Offers A Liquid Alternative To Selling Stock On Secondary Markets

<img class="shot2" src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/137ventures.jpg" alt="" />Over the last couple years, the hunt for employee liquidity has been a hot topic around companies like