Global Unicorn Exits Hit Multi-Year High In 2018

Unicorn exits are taking flight. With the IPO window wide open, an apparent record number of venture-backed companies privately valued over $1 billion have l...

YC China + Qi Lu

I am delighted to announce that Qi Lu is joining YC to launch and run YC China. We are excited for Qi to come onboard as the Founding CEO of YC China and to ...

98 Percent of VC Funding Goes to Men. Can Women Entrepreneurs Change a Sexist System?

It was January 2017. A 26-year-old Nadia Genevieve Masri made her way up to the second floor office of a venture capital fund in San Francisco. She was there...

PeerIQ CEO Ram Ahluwalia on OCC Fintech Charter: Consumers Win if it is Implemented Correctly | Crowdfund Insider

At the end of July, the US Department of Treasury published a wide-sweeping document on Fintech innovation in the US and what must be done to boost innovatio...

VCs Are On Track To Make 2018 A Record Year For Unicorns

Unicorns are not zoo animals. If they were, someone might have put up a "No Feeding" sign. Instead, investors keep throwing bigger portions at these mythical...

VC 100: The Top Investors in Early-Stage Startups (2014 data)

The ranking is based on data from PitchBook, a Seattle-based data and tech provider for the global private equity and venture capital markets. The firms are ...

BioBeats raises $3 million to combat stress with meditation and breathing exercises

Stress is a silent killer. Three out of four doctor's visits are for stress-related ailments, reports the American Institute of Stress, and stress increases ...

Unpacking Slack's Possible $400M Round And $7B Valuation

Slack is raising $400 million at a $7 billion valuation. How does that measure compared to what we know about Slack's financial performance? TechCrunch's Ing...

From $150,000 in Debt to $4 Million in Profits: How One Man Built a Wildly Successful Globe-Making Business

11 min read In this series, The Gambit, Entrepreneur associate editor Hayden Field explores extraordinary risk, speaking with successful people about how the...

Volvo Launches Its Own VC Fund to Invest Its Way Into the Future

Startups looking to cash checks had better start learning Swedish and get ready for meetings at the IKEA cafeteria. Today, Volvo announced it has launched it...

Soundcloud on the blockchain? Audius raises $5.5M to decentralize music

Audius wants to cut the middlemen out music streaming so artists get paid their fair share. Coming out of stealth today led by serial entrepreneur and DJ Ran...

IBM and Maersk launch blockchain to reduce shipping time and costs

Cargo shipping giant Maersk and IBM announced TradeLens, a technology that applies blockchain technology to world's global supply chain. TradeLens takes adva...

Don’t Follow Your Passion

Startup Investing Trends (2013)

Y Combinator has now funded 564 startups including the current batch, which has 53. The total valuation of the 287 that have valuations (either by raising an...

Podcast: Mentors and Mentees with Ken Coleman, Ben Horowitz, and Michel Feaster

Everyone talks about the importance of mentorship in our professional development, whether it's networking to broaden career opportunities or learning from s...

Investment Pace

I believe that early stage venture capital done right is a service business in which the entrepreneur and the company they started is our customer.

The Babe Ruth Effect in Venture Capital

The harder you grip the bat, the more you can swing it through the ball, and the farther the ball will go. I swing big, with everything I’ve got. I hit big o...

DarcMatter offers trusted alternative investments via the blockchain

Alternative investments have become a standard within the portfolios of many investors. The market hit record numbers in 2016 and shows no signs of slowing d...

Why Elon Musk wants to take Tesla private

Elon Musk issued a string of tweets on Tuesday about possibly taking Tesla private at $420 a share.Tesla shares surged more than 10 percent after being halte...

Andreessen Horowitz Lends Credence to Crypto With New Fund

Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz is bringing in a former federal prosecutor, Katie Haun, as its first female general partner to help manage a new $30...