IT総合 Julie Wainwright is back with a new, venture-backed startup
Julie Wainwright, founder and former CEO of the publicly traded, luxury online consignment company The RealReal, is back...
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IT総合 IT総合 Benchmark’s view on the AI race: talking with Miles Grimshaw
At the end of 2020, Miles Grimshaw became — and remains — the most recent addition to the storied venture fi...
IT総合 Greycroft co-founder Ian Sigalow on investing $1B in this market
Greycroft, the now 17-year-old, New York and Los Angeles-based venture firm, has grown up in more ways than one. What be...
IT総合 T. Rowe Price has marked down its stake in Canva by 67.6%
Last summer, Blackbird, one of Australia’s largest venture operations, marked down the value of one of its most pr...
IT総合 As part of AI push, Chinese tech giant Baidu is now rolling out an AI venture fund
Here comes yet more money for AI startups. Today, the Chinese search giant Baidu announced that it plans to establish a ...
IT総合 Explaining Blockchain Capital’s Big Bet on an Eyeball-Scanning Orb
This week, Worldcoin, an outfit that aims to serve as proof of personhood in a world where it’s harder by the day ...
IT総合 This Stanford grad is taking on pawn shops with a new credit card startup
In recent years, there’s been no shortage of startups offering credit lines to the underbanked. Most talk about th...
IT総合 Gary Marcus is happy to help regulate AI for the U.S. government
On Tuesday of this week, neuroscientist, founder and author Gary Marcus sat between OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Christina ...
IT総合 NewLimit, cofounded by Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong, raises $40M to extend life
NewLimit, a 1.5-year-old, San Francisco-based, 17-person company that aims to increase the number of healthy years each ...
IT総合 Renowned investor Elad Gil on how the great AI race will likely shake out
Elad Gil, a successful founder and prolific investor, has already been called Silicon Valley’s biggest solo ventur...
IT総合 Austin Russell became the youngest self-made billionaire in 2021; now he owns Forbes
Austin Russell is on quite a run.
The 28-year-old founder and CEO of Luminar Technologies, which develops vision-based l...
IT総合 Sound Ventures has already plugged half its new $240 million AI fund into three companies
Sound Ventures, the eight-year-old, Beverly Hills, Ca.,-based venture firm led by general partners Ashton Kutcher, Guy O...
IT総合 Elizabeth Holmes, left to her own devices
Critics are flaming The New York Times today for posting what they says is an overly empathetic 5,500-word profile of T...
IT総合 In Europe, Accel banks on a turnaround over the next six to nine months
It’s been almost five years since this editor sat down with longtime VC Harry Nelis and three other investors from...
IT総合 Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes isn’t headed to jail tomorrow after all
Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes will not be heading off to prison tomorrow to begin serving an 11-year prison sentence...
IT総合 “GPT” may be trademarked soon if OpenAI has its way
If the startup OpenAI is feeling protective about its brand lately, it’s understandable. ThreatGPT, MedicalGPT, Da...
IT総合 As AI eliminates jobs, a way to keep people financially afloat — and motivated
In Silicon Valley, some of the brightest minds believe a universal basic income (UBI) that guarantees people unrestricte...
IT総合 Microsoft kicks Twitter in the teeth
Microsoft is dropping Twitter from its advertising platform next week, nearly two months after Twitter announced that it...
IT総合 Talking with Future Ventures about its new fund, AI hype, and Siri sucking (still)
For a firm whose bets are largely unpredictable, the early-stage venture firm Future Ventures has become very formulaic ...
IT総合 Eclipse eclipses previous fundraises with a whopping $1.23 billion across two new funds
The market may be be tightening, but not for Eclipse Ventures, a Palo Alto-based venture firm that just raised $1.2 bill...
IT総合 In a slowing market, venture investor Canaan still closes $850M across two new funds
The market is slowing down, but that’s not stopping Canaan, a 35-year-old early stage venture firm that invests in...
IT総合 That slowdown you’re feeling, by the numbers
It’s more than a feeling. According to new data coming out from the research firm Pitchbook and the National Ventu...
IT総合 Amid a boom in AI accelerators, a UC Berkeley-focused outfit, House Fund, swings open its doors
Companies at the forefront of AI would naturally like to stay at the forefront, so it’s no surprise they want to s...
IT総合 Andreessen Horowitz is now openly courting capital from Saudi Arabia, despite U.S. strains
Andreessen Horowitz is now openly courting capital from Saudi Arabia, despite U.S. strains.
According to Bloomberg, Marc...
IT総合 1,100+ notable signatories just signed an open letter asking “all AI labs to immediately pause for at least 6 months”
As of this writing, more than 1,100 signatories, including Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak, and Tristan Harris of the Center fo...
IT総合 The market has changed, but super-voting shares are here to stay, says Mr. IPO
Yesterday, the ride-sharing company Lyft said its two co-founders, John Zimmer and Logan Green, are stepping down from m...
IT総合 “Graceful way out”: Investors propose some struggling founders close shop and return funding
A growing number of investors have begun suggesting that certain venture-backed startups that have yet to find so-called...
IT総合 A $500 million term sheet in 12 hours: How Rippling struck a deal as SVB was melting down
As a serial entrepreneur who has famously endured some ups and downs, Parker Conrad thought he’d seen it all. Stil...
IT総合 Regulators are taking a harder look at those insider stock sales by SVB execs
The Justice Department and SEC are investigating the stock sales that officers of Silicon Valley Bank made days before t...
IT総合 Investor Mark Suster says a “handful” of bad actors in VC destroyed Silicon Valley Bank
Yesterday at around noon in Los Angeles, investor Mark Suster of the venture firm Upfront Ventures began urging “c...