A new report may have mutual fund investors beaming right now — and traditional venture investors sniggering. According to new research from the data company Pitchbook, Fidelity Investments has
Who needs the sun? Many Silicon Valley startups pride themselves on long, grueling work hours, toiling from the crack of dawn until late into the night. But that work pride has a toll — they l
Andreessen Horowitz’s team continues to grow and change. Today, the Sand Hill Road firm is announcing the appointment of its newest and ninth general partner: Martin Casado, the cofounder and CTO of
This morning, former IronPort Systems cofounder and CEO Scott Weiss announced that he’s no longer going to be investing in new companies on behalf of Andreessen Horowitz, the Sand Hill Road vent
Andreessen Horowitz is making a big move into biotech, and it’s using a $200 million new fund called the AH Bio Fund – and new general partner, Vijay Pande — to plant its stake in the ground
Food delivery startup Gobble is announcing that it has raised $10.75 million in Series A funding. Gobble does the measuring, chopping, mixing and (to a certain extent) cooking for its customers. So wh
Enterprise security and system management firm Tanium has announced another big tranche of funding, taking in $120 million, led by TPG and Institutional Venture Partners, with existing investor Andree
What do you for an encore after you founded and sold OKCupid? Well you tackle public-key encryption, of course. Keybase was the result, and the company announced a $10.8 million Series A investment
Data analysis often involves looking at a large set of pretty uniform, well-structured data. But as companies continue to gather more electronic documents in all kinds of forms (and formats), those tr
Tanium is an enterprise security and system management startup which lets IT control an entire network using natural language in a search engine-like interface. It raised a significant $90 million f
Reddit, the so-called front page of the internet, has raised $50 million in Series B on a $500 million valuation with intentions to give back 10 percent of the round’s equity to the community. T
IFTTT (If This Then That) has just announced it has closed $30 million in Series B funding led by Norwest Venture Partners with participation from existing investor A16Z. As part of the deal, IFTTT is
The Gillmor Gang — Dan Farber, Kevin Marks, Semil Shah, Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor — Heartbleed security hole, changing landscape of Twitter notifications, Brendan Eich's exit f
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Any seasoned investor knows that past performance is not indicative of future returns. That is as true with pu
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Microsoft may have <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2011/05/09/microsoft-skype/">overpaid</a> for Skype with its <a href="https://
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<a href="http://www.factual.com/">Factual</a>, the open database company, closed a $25 million series A financing, led by
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Stealth startup <a href="http://www.proferi.com/">Proferi</a> closed a $6.3 million Series A funding today. Investors include