IT総合 For startup competition, SVB’s nightmare is a win and a dare
Sometimes, leaving stealth isn’t your own choice: It’s a force function of two of your largest competitors evaporating f...
Natasha Mascarenhas
IT総合 IT総合 Silicon Valley Bank is being shut down today by regulators
Silicon Valley Bank has been closed by regulators, which are now in charge of the bank’s deposits, according to a releas...
IT総合 Flat is the new up, down is the new flat, dead is the new down
Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behi...
IT総合 Some SVB customers are struggling to wire funds out of the bank
Some of Silicon Valley Bank’s customers are struggling to transfer funds out of their bank accounts, numerous sources te...
IT総合 Venture firms are advising portfolio companies to move money out of SVB
Some venture capital firms, including some of the biggest names in the game, are advising their portfolio companies to r...
IT総合 Silicon Valley Bank’s shares are tanking, as a mess unfolds
Shares of Silicon Valley Bank are down sharply Thursday in the wake of the company’s announcement that it is raising add...
IT総合 Dear startups, your developers and engineers are on island
Hello, and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance beh...
IT総合 Upload Ventures, a SoftBank LatAm spin-out, seeks to raise a $250 million fund
Less than one year after Upload Ventures spun out of SoftBank’s investment arm, the Latin American-focused investment ar...
IT総合 Vinod Khosla’s advice for top VCs? Don’t sit on your founders’ boards
Serial entrepreneur and seasoned investor Vinod Khosla has some strong, contrarian advice for the venture capital indust...
IT総合 The oh-so-biased branding risk in venture capital
Welcome to Startups Weekly, a nuanced take on this week’s startup news and trends by Senior Reporter and Equity co-host ...
IT総合 At Upfront Summit 2023, AI is the omnipresent celebrity
A marching band, a red carpet and a DJ who codes her beats are all things you can get before coffee (and a business card...
IT総合 For female VCs bias is a branding issue
Leslie Feinzaig, a venture capitalist, likes that her venture firm, Graham & Walker, sounds like an old, stodgy law ...
IT総合 Amazon is letting employees use their stock to finance home purchases and even second homes
Amazon has struck a deal with embattled online mortgage lender Better.com to offer up a new benefit to employees.
Better...
IT総合 For Bain Capital Ventures, ‘it is 2021 all over again’ (well, almost)
Bain Capital Ventures is doubling down on what works, literally. The venture firm, one of Bain’s 11 financial divisions,...
IT総合 Who markets marketing? This duo started a VC firm to scale what ‘founders are starving for’
Emily Kramer is well known in the marketing world, both for her professional expertise and her voice. The entrepreneur w...
IT総合 AI’s hype isn’t going to be simply star-studded
Welcome to Startups Weekly, a nuanced take on this week’s startup news and trends by Senior Reporter and Equity co-host ...
IT総合 Will AI receive the same celebrity-fueled hype as crypto once did? It’s complicated
When the crypto world was at its latest peak, celebrities quickly joined the gold rush. Tom Brady started a buzzy NFT bu...
IT総合 Scooters and social media companies are surprising IPO candidates
Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behi...
IT総合 Female check-writers alone aren’t enough to close the female fundraising gap, data shows
Hello, and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance beh...
IT総合 Tech’s next great mafia? Laid-off talent
Welcome to Startups Weekly, a nuanced take on this week’s startup news and trends by Senior Reporter and Equity co-host ...
IT総合 Tech layoffs are creating a new era of scrappy (and humbled) founders
The onramps into Silicon Valley often include access: to a smart mentor, a well-connected venture capitalist, or even a ...
IT総合 Outsized seed rounds, neobanks and spicy M&A? Well hello, 2023
Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behi...
IT総合 A comprehensive list of 2023 tech layoffs
Last year’s tech-wide reckoning continues. In 2023, layoffs have yet again cost tens of thousands of tech workers their ...
IT総合 Wefunder’s equity crowdfunding platform has officially expanded to the EU
After two years of seeking regulatory approval, Wefunder has officially received the green light to operate its investme...
IT総合 Phenomenal Ventures, built by Meena Harris and Helen Min, debuts
Meena Harris knows how to build. The lawyer and author grew her side hustle of making activist T-shirts into a behemoth ...
IT総合 Cities, cycles and San Francisco’s ‘return’
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IT総合 Wait a secondary
Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behi...
IT総合 The individual mistake that tech startups are collectively making
Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behi...
IT総合 Pipe has a new CEO from Block, months after founding team announces departure
Pipe, an alternative financing platform that was last privately valued by investors at $2 billion, has announced its new...
IT総合 Edtech reacquaints itself with fintech
Amy Jenkins left her post at Outschool, a marketplace for live online classes for kids, when the company decided to focu...