Venture Capital

Want to pitch a venture capitalist? You’ll need a “warm introduction” first. At least that’s what most in the business will advise. Find a person, typically a man, who made the

Amplifyher Ventures is a new firm looking to invest in female founders. Amplifyher was created by Tricia Black, Facebook’s former vice president of advertising sales. Since her time at Facebook

Oh My Green has raised $20 million from Initialized Capital, Powerplant Ventures and others to bring healthier foods to offices around the U.S.

The EduCreator Incubator will seed 25 to 40 "emerging video creators" with $25,000 to $75,000 in seed funding.

Founders building a brand today are largely relying on new infrastructure to do it, though they’re still heavily reliant on legacy carriers like FedEx and DHL when it comes to international ship

Men's hair loss brand Keeps has raised $15 million in a round co-led by Maveron and Northzone.

Andreessen Horowitz has led the $300 million Series B, with participation from Premji Invest and Uprising.

D1 Capital Partners has led the $600 million round for Instacart.

Y Combinator partnered with Callisto, a sexual misconduct reporting software built for victims, to survey its roster of female founders.

Uber is facing calls for a boycott of its app in the Persian Gulf, a region that has poured billions of dollars of investment into the company’s ride-hailing business in recent years: Directly

The venture capital business model has gone global. VC is still an exclusive club of financiers, but now with worldwide scope and scale.

Spectrum Equity is making a big bet on AllTrails, that app for outdoorsy folk.

Allbirds' wool runners have been a VC favorite since the beginning. Now, the company is worth $1.4 billion.

Alexis Ohanian's Initialized Capital and Ashton Kutcher's Sound Ventures participated in the round for the Y Combinator graduate.

Shasta has hired former Symantec GM Balaji Yelamanchili, former Salesforce CISO Izak Mutlu and longtime enterprise software exec Drew Harman to focus on security.

Shujinko is emerging from stealth today with $2.8 million in seed funding from Unusual Ventures, Defy, Vulcan Capital, PSL Ventures and Vas Ventures.

You thought TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin was all about SaaS, fintech, social, blockchain and all the traditional tech topics? Of course not! I’m excited to announce that Mike Collett from Promus Ventur

SoftBank is reportedly considering an investment of up to $20 billion in WeWork using capital from its Vision Fund.

Once Upon a Farm's business has grown 10x since actress Jennifer Garner signed on as chief brand officer last year.

So many new unicorns valued at $1 billion-plus, countless $100 million venture financings, an explosion of giant funds — it’s no surprise 2018 is shaping up to be a banner year for ventu