venture capital
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VCs are so eager for AI startups, they're buying into each others’ SPVs at high prices | TechCrunch
VCs are increasingly buying shares of late-stage startups on the secondary market as they try to get pieces of the…
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VC Neil Mehta, who's quietly nabbing prized SF property, plans a “Y Combinator for restaurants” | TechCrunch
Neil Mehta, the VC behind the acquisition of a string of properties on San Francisco’s tony Fillmore Street, made waves…
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Bolt’s Breslow faces uphill battle with proposed cramdown | TechCrunch
Update: We spoke with Ashesh Shah, the founder and CEO of the fund leading Bolt’s proposed $450 million raise for…
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Rippling’s Parker Conrad says founders should ‘go all the way to the ground’ to run their companies | TechCrunch
HR startup Rippling has grown into a company valued at $13.5 billion with more than 3,200 employees. Despite that size,…
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Ben Horowitz Declares War on Michael Moritz | TechCrunch
A social media spat between billionaire tech investors is raising questions about the journalistic independence of three-year-old news outfit SF…
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Maybe Friend wasn't crazy for spending $1.8M on a domain after all | TechCrunch
When AI companion startup Friend revealed it had spent $1.8 million on buying the www.friend.com domain name last week, it…
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Scoop: Sequoia-backed Knowde raises Series C at a valuation cut
Knowde, an online marketplace for chemicals and polymers, just closed on a Series C round, TechCrunch has exclusively learned. The…
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Hey, there ARE growth funds in Europe — Kennet raises $287M for its largest fund to date | TechCrunch
Europe is routinely castigated by tech industry observers for having too little “growth capital” funds, and, compared to the U.S.,…
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Stay up-to-date on the amount of venture dollars going to underrepresented founders | TechCrunch
Venture capital funding has never been robust for women or Black and brown founders. Alongside Crunchbase, we’ve been tracking funding…
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17-year-old Eric Zhu's startup was built in a high school bathroom — now it's raised $2.3M and is emerging from stealth | TechCrunch
Eric Zhu started building Aviato, an analytical platform for private market data, in a very atypical place for an entrepreneur: the…
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