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...
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IT総合 IT総合 Silicon Valley Bank shoots self in foot
It may go down in the history books about Silicon Valley: the time that its most prominent bank, a bank founded nearly 4...
IT総合 Worldcoin, cofounded by Sam Altman, is betting the next big thing in AI is proving you are human
Fake virtual identities are nothing new. The ability to so easily create them has been both a boon for social media plat...
IT総合 Chamath Palihapitiya: it could take three years for the market to “accurately” reprice late-stage cos
Former Facebook exec turned VC Chamath Palihapitiya has long been a controversial figure in the investing world. Both br...
IT総合 Chris Rock gears up to talk about “The Slap” in a live performance on Netflix this Saturday
Chris Rock is a widely beloved comic; he’s also a savvy entrepreneur. Though Rock might have talked with media out...
IT総合 Volition’s Larry Cheng on trying to raise a fund right now: “All of the LPs felt more constrained”
Last month, Volition Capital, a 13-year-old, 30-person Boston-based growth equity firm, announced it has closed its fift...
IT総合 SignalFire’s founder says his VC firm lost staffers who “thought we were too cheap” in prior years
For most founders, being seen by employees as cheap isn’t exactly a badge of honor, but venture investor Chris Far...
IT総合 Can ‘we the people’ keep AI in check?
Technologist and researcher Aviv Ovadya isn’t sure that generative AI can be governed, but he thinks the most plau...
IT総合 If Sequoia, Paradigm and Thoma Bravo settle a new lawsuit, it could upend VC; here’s why
It was only a matter of time before frustrated customers of the fallen crypto exchange FTX went after its deep-pocketed ...
IT総合 Bain Capital has closed its second Tech Opportunities fund with $2.4 billion
It’s always nice to have a lot of capital to invest, but managing a large new fund can be even more advantageous r...
IT総合 Rihanna’s Savage X Fenty and a newer startup, FIT:MATCH, team up to sell better-fitting lingerie
Shoppers at Rihanna’s lingerie brand Savage X Fenty may soon find it easier than ever to find products that fit th...
IT総合 In a trademark battle between an NFT artist and a big brand, Hermès, the artist just lost
Artist Mason Rothschild thought he was sitting on a “goldmine” when he began creating digital versions of th...
IT総合 Sequoia reveals in filing how much is sitting in its Sequoia Capital Fund (and yes, it’s a lot)
Almost a year ago to the day, the 50-year-old investing powerhouse Sequoia Capital announced that it had reorganized its...
IT総合 When the government is the customer (some things to keep in mind)
Five years ago, Google backed away from a Pentagon government contract because thousands of employees protested that its...
IT総合 ValueBase, backed by Sam Altman’s Hydrazine, raises $1.6 million seed round
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman believes AI can help usher in “unbelievable abundance,” but he says he wants to ensure...
IT総合 Is venture funding already back?
Despite continuing talk about a possible recession, slumping tech stocks and a slowdown in the world of startup investin...
IT総合 Fifth Wall, focused on real estate tech and managing $3.2B, looks to eat up even more of its market
Brendan Wallace’s ambition is beginning to seem almost limitless. The L.A.-based venture firm that Wallace and cof...
IT総合 “Most active investor” FJ Labs closes on $260M across two new funds
Fabrice Grinda says he never intended to run a venture firm. He just really (really) enjoyed angel investing. In fact, b...
IT総合 Opportunistic investors are giving up on aging pre-IPO companies, shows a new report
It’s a tough time to be a richly priced company that didn’t go public when the getting was good. Not only ar...
IT総合 Cowboy Ventures goes bigger, with $260M across two new funds, including an opportunity fund
Cowboy Ventures, the now-10-year-old, Bay Area-based seed-stage focused fund founded by renowned investor Aileen Lee, ha...
IT総合 A $32 million seed round for Chris DeWolfe’s next gaming biz defies 2023 trends
A $32 million seed round may seem like a throwback to frothier times like . . .2021. But that’s how much PLAI Labs...
IT総合 A lot of fintechs “have to fix their business models,” say VCs who invest in fintechs
In recent years, working for, or banking with, a traditional financial institution was decidedly uncool. Far cooler was ...
IT総合 That Microsoft deal isn’t exclusive, video is coming, and more from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman
OpenAI co-founder and CEO Sam Altman sat down for a wide-ranging interview with this editor late last week, answering qu...
IT総合 A peek into the future as Sam Altman sees it
Late last week, in a rare sit-down, this editor spent an hour in front of a small audience with Sam Altman, the former p...
IT総合 Sequoia Capital’s Alfred Lin in his first public interview since the implosion of FTX (video)
Last night, at an industry event hosted in San Francisco by this editor, venture capitalist Alfred Lin of Sequoia Capita...
IT総合 Carta, previously sued for gender discrimination, is now suing its former CTO
Carta, the 10-year-old, San Francisco-based outfit whose core business is selling software to investors to track their p...
IT総合 VCs are pushing startups — will their investors tighten the thumbscrews, too?
Over the last decade or so, many venture capitalists have built vast personal fortunes. Some of the money has been made ...
IT総合 What to look for in a term sheet as a first-time founder
Securing funding is a stressful endeavor, but it doesn’t have to be. We recently sat down with three VCs to figure...
IT総合 How to spin up an investing network from scratch as a first-time founder
Building an investor network from scratch sounds daunting. This is true particularly if, like many founders, you donR...
IT総合 Persistent Jack Sweeney brings back @ElonJet (but delayed) to Twitter
More than a week after being banned from Twitter, Jack Sweeney, the University of Central Florida sophomore who has been...