Talia Goldberg didn’t know what venture capital was, growing up around professionals in the medical field…
Author: Connie Loizos
Famed investor Roger McNamee once advised Facebook. Now he’s certain it’s destroying our democracy
A year ago, renowned investor Roger McNamee had much of Silicon Valley baffled. McNamee had made…
Backed by Benchmark, Blue Hexagon just raised $31 million for its deep learning cybersecurity software
Nayeem Islam spent nearly 11 years with chipmaker Qualcomm, where he founded its Silicon Valley-based R&D…
The next big bet for former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick may be cloud kitchens — in China
Former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick may have been nudged out of one of the world’s most…
Kleiner Perkins officially reboots with a $600 million early-stage fund
The venture firm Kleiner Perkins has enjoyed many iterations over its 47-year-old history. Today, in some…
Pinterest puts an IPO on its pinboard, hiring Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan to lead an offering this year
Pinterest, the 11-year-old, San Francisco-based site known for the photos its users post about everything from…
Sam Altman’s Science Camp
You’d think that through Y Combinator‘s many initiatives — in person and online — the popular…
Jobs platform Vangst just raised $10 million to plug more people into the fast-growing cannabis industry
People are increasingly interested in finding a way to participate in the cannabis industry, and for…
A brand called Liquid Death wants to sell mountain water to the cool kids
Inventive packaging is more crucial than ever when it come to launching a new brand into…
A former Bessemer Venture Partners principal just closed his own $30 million fund, and here’s how
Sunil Nagaraj, who’d studied computer science as an undergrad at UNC Chapel Hill, landed two pretty…