Kevin Hartz

Construction tech startup Agora raises $33M in Tiger Global-led round amid 760% YoY ARR growth

Agora, a startup that has built a materials management platform for contractors, has raised $33 million in a Series B round of funding led by Tiger Global Management. 8VC, Tishman Speyer, Yahoo co-fou

Accel doubles down on 1Password, which just raised $100M more at a $2B valuation

The previously bootstrapped 1Password raised its first round of external capital in 2019, a $200 million Series A led by Accel that represented the VC firm’s largest single investment in its 35 year

NFT market OpenSea hits $1.5 billion valuation

It’s been a wild 2021 for NFT auction marketplace OpenSea. The startup was exceedingly well positioned in a niche space when NFTs exploded earlier this year, seemingly out of nowhere. Since then

Skiff, an end-to-end encrypted alternative to Google Docs, raises $3.7M seed

Imagine if Google Docs was end-to-end encrypted so that not even Google could access your documents. That’s Skiff, in a nutshell. Skiff is a document editor with a similar look and feel to Googl

Amid a boom in SPACs, few women investors

If you’ve been following the SPAC boom, you may have noticed something about these blank-check vehicles that are springing up left and right in order to take public privately held companies. The

Almost everything you need to know about SPACs

Feeling like you should better understand special purpose acquisition vehicles – or SPACs — than you do? You aren’t alone. It isn’t like you’re totally clueless, right? Y

Placement is the much-needed talent agent for jobseekers

“We’re giving away money to strangers on the internet” is a pretty cavalier pitch for a new startup. But the more I learned about Placement, the smarter it sounded. In exchange for 1

Eventbrite adds two more women to its C-suite

Eventbrite has hired a chief commercial officer and chief data strategy officer.

Eventbrite sets IPO range of $19 to $21, valuing it at $1.8B

Eventbrite has taken its final step toward becoming a publicly traded company. In an updated S-1 filing this morning, the ticketing and events company announced plans to sell 10 million Class A shares

Lightning Labs just raised millions from Jack Dorsey and others to supercharge blockchain transactions

Lightning Labs, a young, Bay Area-based startup, is trying to make it easier for users to send bitcoin and litecoin to each other without the costly and time-consuming process of settling their transa

Eventbrite cofounder Kevin Hartz joins Founders Fund as partner

Serial entrepreneur Kevin Hartz has joined the San Francisco-based early-stage venture fund Founders Fund as a partner, he revealed earlier today in a post on Medium. Hartz was most recently the co-fo

(Founder Stories) Busting Criminals And Managing Marriage At Eventbrite (TCTV)

<img src="https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/eventbrite-hartz.jpg" /> With more than $400 million in projected gross sales for 2011, <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/company/eventbri

(Founder Stories) Eventbrite's Julia Hartz: "Facebook Is The No. 1 Driver Of Traffic To Our Site" (TCTV)

<img src="https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/founder-stories-eventbrite.jpg" /> <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/person/chris-dixon">Chris Dixon</a> resumes his <a href="http://techc

(Founder Stories) Eventbrite's K. Hartz: "I Like Businesses That Go After Large Incumbents"

<img src="https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/founder-stories-eventbrite.jpg" /> <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/company/eventbrite">Eventbrite</a>, the company that lets anyone orga