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Mike Volpi on the art of board membership
Board members should view board membership as a subtle yet massively impactful role they play in the creation of great businesses.
Remember when “mobility” meant laptops and cell phones? Those were quaint times. Now the category encompasses the future of transportation — everything from flying cars and autonomous vehicles to delivery…
TLcom Capital closes $71M Africa fund with plans to back 12 startups
VC firm TLcom Capital has closed its Tide Africa Fund at $71 million with plans to make up to 12 startup investments over the next 18 months. The group — …
Three years after raising $450M, Andreessen is back with a new $750M life sciences fund
Life sciences is big business in venture capital land and firms are raising big dollars to find the companies that will lead the next healthcare revolution. Chief among them is…
Last chance: Only a few tickets left to the Winter Party at Galvanize this Friday
This is it, startup fans. It’s your very last chance to scoop up the few remaining tickets to our 3rd Annual Winter Party at Galvanize — the best Silicon Valley startup…
Utah tech magnates create new Silicon Slopes Venture Fund to boost startups in the state
Those looking outside of Silicon Valley as a potential hub for their startup might want to take a gander at Utah, at least that’s the kind of trend the new…
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Being a child actress prepared me for a career in venture capital
The grit and perseverance I first honed on studio soundstages serves me well and these are also the qualities I look for in the founders I back.
All eyes are on the next liquidity event when it comes to space startups
At the FAA’s 23rd Annual Commercial Space Transportation Conference in Washington, DC on Wednesday, a panel dedicated to the topic of trends in VC around space startups touched on public…
Are January layoffs just a few post-WeWork jitters? TechCrunch has found itself writing about layoffs at a few notable tech companies this week — and not just SoftBank-backed ones. The…
Lame LPs, founder referenceability and the future of VC signaling
I’m still going through some of the comments I received on last week’s articles about the heightened competition among VCs for the best (typically SaaS) venture deals. Some more notes…
Catalyst Fund gets $15M from JP Morgan, UK Aid to back 30 EM fintech startups
The Catalyst Fund has gained $15 million in new support from JP Morgan and UK Aid and will back 30 fintech startups in Africa, Asia, and Latin America over the…
Trucks VC general partner Reilly Brennan is coming to TC Sessions: Mobility
The future of the transportation industry is bursting at the seams with startups aiming to bring everything from flying cars and autonomous vehicles to delivery bots and even more efficient…
I was in SF last week and met with more than a dozen VCs over the course of two days. This was post the holidays, post their visits to the…
What we know (and don’t) about Goldman Sachs’ Africa VC investing
Goldman Sachs is investing in African tech companies. The venerable American investment bank and financial services firm has backed startups from Kenya to Nigeria and taken a significant stake in…
Bolt raises €50M in venture debt from the EU to expand its ride-hailing business
Bolt, the billion-dollar startup out of Estonia that’s building a ride-hailing, scooter and food delivery business across Europe and Africa, has picked up a tranche of funding in its bid…
Felix Capital closes $300M fund to double down on DTC, break into fintech and make late-stage deals
To kick off 2020, one of Europe’s newer — and more successful — investment firms has closed a fresh, oversubscribed fund, one sign that VC in the region will continue…
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Delta Air Lines’ startup partnerships are fueling innovation
For the first time, this year Delta Air Lines had a large presence at CES. The carrier used much of its space to highlight the “parallel reality” screens developed by Misapplied Sciences and Sarcos Robotics, which brought its latest Guardian exoskeleton. At the show, I sat down with COO Gil West, an industry veteran with…
Tradeshift raises $240M and appears to put its expected IPO on hold — for now
Tradeshift — the startup which set out to disrupt the traditional arena of supply chain payments and marketplaces when it first appeared in 2008 — has today announced a new…
Transforming #MeToo into the industry’s first investor clause
The New Majority of entrepreneurs is here to stay, and our morality clause is just the beginning of a new path to small business success.
You don’t need to raise money to build a high-growth startup.
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How to tell if your startup deserves press coverage
Tech reporters’ inboxes are filled with garbage pitches from misguided founders who assume that the smallest milestone warrants a write-up. Founders dream of seeing their company’s name in headlines without knowing how that might help or hurt them. But with the proper intentions, strategy and timing, they can score press that makes their imagined future…
Mobility mavericks, get ready to strut your stuff at TC Sessions: Mobility 2020 on May 14. Don’t miss our second annual day-long conference devoted to technologies that move people and…
How income share agreements will spark the rise of career accelerators
The income share agreement (ISA), a financing model where students pay for an education program with a certain percent of their income for several years after graduating, has been one…
The five biggest rounds in tech in 2019 and what they mean
Funding for tech startups has been on an inevitable upswing for years, a result of a virtuous circle where wildly successful tech companies on the public markets whet the appetites…
In the shadow of Amazon and Microsoft, Seattle startups are having a moment
Companies in Seattle raised a record $3.5B in VC funding this year.
VCs from Accel and SoftBank talk Europe’s startup scene, what they expect in 2020, and the future of SoftBank
If you haven’t noticed, Europe’s startup scene is in full bloom, with more than $30 billion deployed in startups across the continent over the last 12 months and more than…
Should you pay $50K for your pitch deck? Yes, why the hell not?
Every once in a while on VC Twitter, a comment or statement seems so outlandish, so completely outrageous, that it must be — certainly has to be — false. Such…
#ANGELS founding partner raises $25M for debut fund Moxxie Ventures
Katie Jacobs Stanton plans to invest in “underrepresented and underestimated” founders.
Away with them
Every so often a story comes along which is unremarkable on its face but erupts into wider attention because it seems to represent some larger social fracture zone. And then…
In this week’s newsletter: Vroom nabs $254M, the Away scandal and “inevitable takedown of a female CEO” and American investment overseas.
