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30 women in venture capital to watch in 2018
In 2017, the presence of women in venture capital made feeble progress at the country's top firms. Union Square Ventures and First Round Capital were among two firms last year to take on their first...
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I'm a founder who has raised $77 million over the last 10 years — here's my...
Founder and former CEO Suhail Doshi shares his experience raising money for his startup, Mixpanel, in 2009 and 2010. He says in the last ten years, valuations are larger and venture capital firms are...
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Monsanto had a deal-making VC arm that put it on the front lines of food tech...
Monsanto had an under-the-radar venture-capital arm that fueled much of its innovation in the food tech space. But after Monsanto's $66 billion deal with the chemical giant Bayer, that group has...
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Jay-Z has quietly filed paperwork to launch an investment firm that may be...
Jay-Z has filed paperwork for a new venture firm called Marcy Venture Partners along with Walden Venture Capital's managing director, Lawrence Marcus, and Roc Nation's president, Jay Brown. Last year...
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Silicon Valley’s top biotech investors reveal what the crash and burn of...
Theranos, a blood-testing startup that claimed it would revolutionize healthcare by doing away with "big bad needles," crashed and burned after it was revealed that it lacked concrete science. But...
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40 AND UNDER: The Silicon Valley biotech stars who are backing startups...
Putting millions of dollars into bold new technologies can be a delicate business when lives hang in the balance. But every day some of the sharpest minds in Silicon Valley make big bets on tools and...
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Silicon Valley VCs are betting lab-grown meat could be just as big a deal as...
Since Dutch scientist Mark Post made the first "lab-grown" hamburger in 2013, a handful of startups have emerged with the goal of making meat without slaughtering animals. But Post's burger cost...
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A Silicon Valley VC in the hottest area of healthcare explains what it looks...
The Silicon Valley-based digital health venture firm Rock Health recently made its first forays into the addiction-treatment space, an estimated $35 billion industry. Bill Evans, Rock Health's...
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VCs say these 19 startups for open-source software developers will blow up in...
We asked several venture-capital investors to tell us which commercial open-source startups will boom in 2019. These startups make some of their software available as open source, meaning anyone can...
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A company looking to convince startups to ditch VC funding in favor of taking...
Clearbanc has now raised a total of $1 billion in capital to fund startups. The company offers startups an alernative to raising funds through a venture capital firm, giving loans (that don't require...
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A top VC firm just got another $800 million to back healthcare and fintech...
Venture capital firm Oak HC/FT just raised an $800 million fund, bringing its total assets under management to $1.9 billion. It's the third fund for the firm, which was founded in 2014 and invests in...
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Billionaire tech VC Tej Kohli says startups must have a vision as grand as...
Tej Kohli is a London-based billionaire tech entrepreneur and philanthropist who made the majority of his fortune through the e-commerce and real estate industries. Kohli now serves as executive...
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Records tie Silicon Valley venture capitalist who backed PayPal to one of...
The Silicon Valley venture capitalist William Elkus once was a trustee for one of Jeffrey Epstein's foundations in the 1990s, according to documents reviewed by Business Insider. Elkus and Epstein...
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Streaming video is shaking up the media industry. Here's where 3 top...
The explosion of streaming-video services is giving rise to new areas of media investments for venture capitalists and other early-stage investors. Business Insider looked at three different kinds of...
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The story of two women who've raised more than $6 million to start their own...
Tammi Jantzen is the cofounder of Astarte Medical, a precision medicine company that utilizes software and predictive analytics to improve health outcomes during the first 1,000 days of life. Jantzen...
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A founder who runs a $20 million VC firm that specializes in PR shares the...
Masha Drokova is the founder and general partner of Day One Ventures.Since its inception, Drokova's early-stage venture capital firm has invested in companies in 18 countries, including 17...
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Investors from the DTX Company, Forerunner, Greycroft, and others name the 16...
While many direct-to-consumer upstarts matured in 2019, other new ones are emerging.Investors such as Greycroft's Ian Sigalow, Science's Peter Pham, and former Google and Oath exec Tim Armstrong are...
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5 top DTC VCs told us why health and wellness and beverages are the hottest...
DTC investors see huge opportunity in companies with a health and wellness bent, like 8Greens, Daily Harvest, Kin Euphorics, and Talea Beer.People are increasingly health-conscious and seeking...
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The 9 most unforgettable and effective startup pitches, according to...
Explaining what a startup is all about in a face-to-face meeting with a venture capitalist is one of the toughest challenges for any startup founder or CEO.Having an impressive pitch deck is great, but...
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Greycroft cofounder Ian Sigalow predicts Uber will make another acquisition...
Uber could use the coronavirus as another opportunity to expand into grocery delivery, Greycroft cofounder and partner Ian Sigalow said.An acquisition in the grocery or pharmacy category cannot be...
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