VCs

VCs aren't giving up on generative AI, which they believe will be the next big thing in tech. The investment numbers are staggering.

FTX’s downfall will heighten the need for regulation but also pique the interest of VCs looking to invest in DeFi, according to Framework Ventures' Michael Anderson.

Draymond Green, the two-time Olympic gold medalist and professional basketball player for the Golden State Warriors, says he’s working with well-known investors involved in the tech space. That

VC is ultimately about people, not ideas, but in the current landscape, investors aren't sufficiently getting to know founders or their experience.

University endowments should invest in educational opportunities to give more people pathways to careers in venture.

The four-year vesting schedule that the typical startup uses today is a problem waiting to happen. Here's how you can fix it forever.

It has only been nine days since I wrote an overview of the state of VC investing during the rise of the novel coronavirus pandemic. And what a week it has been: The markets have triggered circuit bre

Luxembourg-based Mangrove Capital Partners, one of Europe’s leading early-stage venture capital firms, has raised $170 million for its latest fund. Mangrove V will be used to invest across Europe an

Venture capitalists will tell you that a lackluster IPO market and struggling tech stocks mean that they are being more cautious, but the data suggests otherwise. Apart from last year, which saw $13.7

We read a lot about the seemingly 50-plus eight-figure venture rounds happening every day. All those great stories; this Razor-a-Day company raising at $600 million, that Valets-for-Pets company raisi

Hold tight. Wait till the party’s over Hold tight. We’re in for nasty weather ~Talking Heads, Burning Down The House One law of economic physics always holds true: what goes up must come d

One of the hard things about being a VC today: You must give entrepreneurs more than just capital. In my experience as a founder and sometime investor, here are five hard things I’ve seen great VCs

One of our favourite things about Twitter is that if you follow the right people, its conversational nature can feel like you're hanging out at Starbucks eavesdropping on other people's conversations.

So you think you want to be a VC. It sounds like a pretty cool job, after all. You have good pay and benefits, get to meet with lots of interesting entrepreneurs and play with cool technology, can han

Investors tend not to be cool, sexy or "famous" in the traditional sense. After all, anyone can invest in one great company, but reproducing those victories habitually over decades is nearly impossibl

<strong>Editor’s note:</strong> <em>Scott Weiss is a partner at <a target="_blank" href="http://www.a16z.com/">Andreessen Horowitz</a> and the former co-founder and CEO of IronPort Systems, which wa

As a partner at <a target="_blank" href="http://www.crunchbase.com/financial-organization/kleiner-perkins-caufield-byers">Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers</a>, Aileen Lee has been a part of one of

A lot of things have changed in Silicon Valley in recent years -- apps have access to a plug-and-play social infrastructure provided by the likes of Facebook and Twitter, the mobile boom has truly mad

At this morning's TechCrunch Disrupt, <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/person/michael-arrington">Michael Arrington</a> sat down with nearly half a dozen VC's, including <a href="http://www.crunch