IT総合 Venture firm CRV returns $275 million citing overvaluation of mature startups
CRV, a more than 50-year-old venture firm, is returning to investors $275 million from its $500 million Select fund, whi...
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IT総合 IT総合 11x.ai, a developer of AI sales reps, has raised $50M Series B led by A16Z, sources say
11x.ai, a startup that develops AI-powered sales development bots, has secured roughly $50 million in Series B funding, ...
IT総合 VCs expect a surge in startups offering lower rate mortgages, other loans now that the Feds cut rates
When the U.S. Feds cut interest rates by half a percentage point last week, it was a dash of good news for venture capit...
IT総合 9 startups that stood out on YC Demo Day 2
Here are the startups from YC Demo Day 2 that we thought stood out from the flock.
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IT総合 Pear wants to empower up-and-coming VCs with its new emerging managers in residence program
When seed-focused Pear VC raised a $432 million fund last year, the firm co-founder Pejman Nozad said that it meant his ...
IT総合 Moxie, which helps nurses launch medspas, raises a preemptive Series B from Lachy Groom
Moxie helps nurses open medspas by providing them with most of the tools they need to run their businesses, from billing...
IT総合 Adam Neumann’s startup Flow opens co-living community in Saudi Arabia
Flow, Adam Neumann’s co-living startup, opened a compound with 238 apartments in Saudi Arabia’s capital, Riy...
IT総合 Virtuous, a fundraising CRM for nonprofits, raises $100M from Susquehanna Growth Equity
I recently adopted a kitten from a local animal shelter. The modern, well-staffed three-story facility relies almost ent...
IT総合 Era Ventures raises $88M first fund for transforming the “built” environment
The real estate market and many real estate-focused startups were hit hard when mortgage rates skyrocketed in 2022, but ...
IT総合 Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs comes out of stealth with $230M in funding
Fei-Fei Li, the Stanford professor many deem the “Godmother of AI,” has raised $230 million for her new startup, World L...
IT総合 XP Health grabs $32M to bring employees more affordable vision care
Antonio Moraes, the grandson of a late prominent Brazilian billionaire, was never interested in joining the family-owned...
IT総合 Alpha Partners raises $153M third fund for pro-rata investments
Steve Brotman started Alpha Partners in 2014 with a novel idea at the time: investing alongside early-stage VCs to help ...
IT総合 Zamp targets growing demand for sales tax solutions
Until six years ago, many e-commerce and SaaS businesses could have avoided paying sales tax to states where they had cu...
IT総合 Mayfield allocates $100M to AI incubator modeled after its entrepreneur-in-residence program
Mayfield is launching AI Garage, a $100 million initiative for ideation-stage founders interested in building "AI teamma...
IT総合 Cancer survivor launches Oncology Ventures to improve care
Ben Freeberg was an associate at a venture firm Alpha Partners when he suddenly passed out in the middle of the day. He ...
IT総合 AI sales rep startups are booming. So why are VCs wary?
When you really probe venture capitalists about investing in AI startups, they’ll tell you that businesses are exp...
IT総合 Selling a startup in an ‘acqui-hire’ is more lucrative than it seems, founders and VCs say
Selling under such circumstances is often not as poor of an outcome for founders and key staff as it initially seems.
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IT総合 Jeff Bezos’ brother’s firm has launched a debut $100M VC fund called HIPstr
HighPost Capital, a private equity firm run by Mark Bezos, Jeff Bezos' younger brother, and PE veteran David Moross, has...
IT総合 NEA led a $100M round into Fei-Fei Li’s new AI startup, now valued at over $1B
World Labs, a stealthy startup founded by renowned Stanford University AI professor Fei-Fei Li, has raised two rounds of...
IT総合 PayZen secures $23M Series B, $200M debt facility to grow its “care now, pay later” product
PayZen aims to make healthcare more affordable by enabling patients to pay their bills in interest and fee-free instalme...
IT総合 Anysphere, a GitHub Copilot rival, has raised $60M Series A at $400M valuation from a16z, Thrive, sources say
Anysphere, a two-year-old startup that’s developed an AI-powered coding assistant called Cursor, has raised over $60 mil...
IT総合 AI founders play musical chairs
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IT総合 Acquiring AI talent wholesale
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IT総合 Moxxie Ventures, led by ex-Twitter media head, raises $95M third fund
The fundraising environment is challenging for emerging managers, defined as VC firms raising their first through third ...
IT総合 Legal tech, VC brawls and saying no to big offers
Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. To get Star...
IT総合 ZoomInfo alum raises $15M for startup that builds AI sales engineers
Until a year ago, Arjun Pillai had the comfortable yet important role of chief data officer at ZoomInfo, a B2B database ...
IT総合 Pearl raises $58M to help dentists make better diagnoses using AI
Dental care is a necessity, yet many patients lack confidence in their dentists’ ability to provide accurate diagn...
IT総合 Wiz walks away from Google’s $23B acquisition offer: Read the CEO’s note to employees
Cybersecurity startup Wiz has turned down a $23 billion acquisition offer from Alphabet, Google’s parent company, accord...
IT総合 M&A activity heats up with Wiz, Graphcore, etc.
This week, Google is in discussions to pay $23 billion for cloud security startup Wiz, SoftBank acquires Graphcore, and ...
IT総合 PE firm PartnerOne paid $28M for HeadSpin, a fraction of its $1.1B valuation set by ICONIQ and Dell Technologies Capital
Canadian private equity firm PartnerOne paid $28.2 million for HeadSpin, a mobile app testing startup whose founder has ...