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Citing Star Wars, Kleiner Perkins closes a $700M fund for early-stage companies

After going “back to the future” with a $600 million fund last year, VC firm Kleiner Perkins is aiming for some “returns of the Jedi” with its freshest (and refocused) fund. With Star Wars ref

The cult of the founder and Silicon Valley’s lack of moral authority

Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines.

Could Peloton be the next Apple?

Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines.

Handshake nabs another $20M to make the job hunt more fair

Speaking from experience, finding jobs outside the region you went to college in is incredibly challenging. Sure, large Fortune 100 companies have programs in place to make it easy to recruit for o

As globalization slows, new startup Globality raises $27 million to bring SMBs to world markets

Global capitalism is in a bit of pickle right now. Goldman Sachs (either a vampire squid or the second-best investment bank in the world, depending on your point of view) came out with a report ear

Instart Logic Raises $45M Series D Round For Its Application Delivery Platform

Application delivery platform Instart Logic today announced that it has raised a $45 million Series D round. The round was led by a new investor, the late-stage fund Geodesic Capital. Other participan

Megan Quinn Heads To Spark Capital As GP To Focus On Growth Stage Investing

Today, investor Megan Quinn shared that she'd be joining Spark Capital as a general partner for its growth stage fund (its first), which we covered last year. Quinn stepped down from KPCB this year af

Meg Whitman Hooks Part-Time Gig With Kleiner Perkins Post-Campaign

<img src='http://www.crunchbase.com/assets/images/resized/0006/2732/62732v2-max-250x250.jpg' />After working at Disney, Proctor and Gamble, being CEO of eBay, running for Governor of California and lo