IT総合 A new generation of companies is moving up in San Francisco — into nicer, more central office space
Ten years ago, Pear VC, then a tiny new venture firm, operated out of a nondescript office in Palo Alto that was enliven...
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IT総合 IT総合 Catching up with Keith Rabois on the state of VC, his newest bet, and who he’s backing for president
Chances are that however busy you are, Keith Rabois is busier. He’s an active investor as a general partner at Fou...
IT総合 Carta’s CEO reaches out to customers about bad press, alerting them to bad press
In an attempt at damage control, the CEO of the equity management startup Carta, Henry Ward, today emailed customers, te...
IT総合 Paddy Cosgrave has stepped down as CEO of Web Summit
As first reported in Bloomberg, Paddy Cosgrave has stepped down as CEO of Web Summit, the now 14-year-old conference bus...
IT総合 Made Renovation, which intrigued, then infuriated, its customers, is shutting down
In August, we reported that a four-year-old, venture-backed remodeling startup called Made Renovation was failing its cu...
IT総合 Exclusive: KKR just closed its third tech growth fund with roughly $3 billion, $400 million of which came from KKR
KKR, a global investment powerhouse, tells TechCrunch exclusively that it just held a final close of its third and lates...
IT総合 Exclusive: Y Combinator beefs up with a string of new lieutenants
Y Combinator continues to change shape under CEO Garry Tan, a founder-turned-investor and online influencer. While Tan a...
IT総合 Al Gore and Lila Preston question everything in their firm’s new climate report
Every year for the past seven years, Generation Investment Management, the sustainability-focused public and private equ...
IT総合 Sapphire Ventures is now managing all of CalSTR’s emerging manager portfolio
Sapphire Partners, the LP arm of enterprise software-focused VC Sapphire Ventures, announced this morning that moving fo...
IT総合 Exclusive: Cendana Capital closes on $470M more to back seed-stage fund managers
Michael Kim of Cendana Capital is often a first call for emerging seed-stage fund managers. Cendana has invested in many...
IT総合 This veteran VC doesn’t think ARM’s IPO will have the impact that everyone is hoping it will
The startup industry has been whistling a happy tune ever since the British chip designer ARM filed paperwork with the S...
IT総合 A change at TechCrunch
Hi all! Connie Loizos here with a brief bulletin: I’m the new General Manager and Editor-in-Chief of TechCrunch. I know...
IT総合 This venture-backed startup has quietly bought more than 80 mom-and-pop shops
Teamshares is a low-flying, Brooklyn-based startup with big ambitions to capitalize on an opportunity in plain sight: th...
IT総合 Chip company Arm files for Nasdaq listing in IPO anticipated to be this year’s biggest
Arm, the U.K.-based chipmaker owned by Japan’s SoftBank since 2016, has filed for a Nasdaq listing under the ticker symb...
IT総合 How Index Ventures jumped to the front of the AI GPU line
Earlier this week, the New York Times shone a light on some of the desperation that founders are experiencing as they tr...
IT総合 Insiders bet more on Fizz, a social network that has now bubbled up at 80+ college campuses
Stanford students love Fizz. The two-year-old Palo Alto, Ca., based social network was founded by two Stanford drop-outs...
IT総合 Made Renovation promised “tech-enabled” remodels; customers describe “absolute nightmare”
Last year, Jonas Heineman was overseeing a team of commercial project managers as they installed hundreds of electric v...
IT総合 Dan Gwak of Point72 Ventures says there has never been a better time for defense tech startups as U.S.strives to maintain “superpower balance”
Dan Gwak has had a more varied life than many investors. He grew up in Jakarta, the son of Korean parents who ran a ship...
IT総合 Tuesday Capital, a Silicon Valley firm that moved to Austin during the pandemic, captures $31M for its newest seed-stage fund
Austin seems to agree with Tuesday Capital.
When the 12-year-old seed stage outfit — originally called CrunchFund ...
IT総合 Reed Jobs, son of Steve Jobs, takes the wraps off a $200 million venture fund that will back new cancer treatments
Reed Jobs, the 31-year-old son of Steve Jobs and philanthropist Laurene Powell Jobs, has spent his career behind the sce...
IT総合 Andy McLoughlin of Uncork Capital on the firm’s new funds, succession, and why next year could be a bloodbath for many startups (sorry, startups)
A few weeks ago, Uncork Capital shared the news that it recently closed on $400 million in capital commitments across tw...
IT総合 Exclusive: Goodwater Capital snags $1B across two new funds, despite cooling interest in consumer tech
Goodwater, one of comparatively few firms to focus exclusively on consumer tech investments, has closed on $1 billion in...
IT総合 Michael Moritz moves on, book-ending a long chapter at Sequoia Capital
Michael Moritz, the journalist-turned-VC who has long been one of the most prominent and respected investors at Sequoia ...
IT総合 Forerunner Ventures sees a future full of ‘digitally native franchises’
Forerunner Ventures made its name in the venture world by betting on once-nascent startups like Jet, Bonobos and Glossie...
IT総合 Sandwich, known for its commercials, looks to help younger startups in exchange for equity
Sandwich, an L.A.-based, 17-person outfit, has produced many commercials on behalf of tech companies over its 14-year hi...
IT総合 Kindred Ventures foresees a ‘massive explosion of startups’ courtesy of AI
Last week, we talked with Kindred Ventures, a small, nine-year-old, San Francisco-based early-stage venture firm that, d...
IT総合 Get a clue, says panel about generative AI: it’s being “deployed as surveillance”
Earlier today at a Bloomberg conference in San Francisco, some of the biggest names in AI turned up, including, briefly,...
IT総合 Kaitlyn Glancy, long Flexport’s VP of North America, just joined the world of VC
Today, Kaitlyn Glancy, who has spent more than eight years with the logistics company Flexport — the last four of ...
IT総合 How Amazon beat Walmart — and who might beat Amazon: talking with reporter Jason Del Rey
Jason Del Rey has spent the last 15 years reporting on e-commerce businesses, including Walmart and Amazon. Now, in a ne...
IT総合 Peakview, a U.S. LP once backed by a Chinese firm, diversifies its own investor base
In the aftermath of Sequoia Capital’s big reveal earlier this week that its China- and India-based affiliates are ...