IT総合 The FTC’s ban on noncompete clauses could be good for startups. But it also might be struck down.
The Federal Trade Commission voted 3-2 to ban the use of most noncompete agreements on Tuesday. This ruling means compan...
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IT総合 IT総合 Rubrik’s shares climb 20% in its public debut
This share price gives Rubrik a fully diluted valuation of $6.6 billion, up 88% from its last primary valuation of $3.5 ...
IT総合 Deal Dive: Not all climate startups are focused on carbon
Windfall Bio sells methane-eating microbes to companies to help them reduce their carbon footprint in the short-term.
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IT総合 Airtree Ventures already returned its first fund thanks to Canva while maintaining the majority of its stake
Airtree Ventures uses the secondary market to slim down its stakes while waiting for its portfolio companies to exit.
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IT総合 Cambium is building a recycled wood supply chain
The global demand for wood could grow by 54% between 2010 and 2050, according to a study by the World Resources Institut...
IT総合 Deal Dive: EarliTec Diagnostics raises $21.5M to help diagnose autism earlier
EarliTec's FDA-authorized device helps clinicians diagnose children showing signs of autism as young as 16 months old.
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IT総合 From YC to IPO: Winter 2024 Demo Day, Rubrik and Ibotta
What a week, everyone. Two full days of Y Combinator demo day activity kept us busy, but the latest accelerator cohort&#...
IT総合 DCVC wanted to raise $500M for its first climate fund, but the market had other plans
DCVC’s target for its first climate-focused fund, DCVC Climate Select, has been all over the place and highlights the ro...
IT総合 Rubrik’s IPO filing hints at thawing public markets for tech companies
Rubrik initially presents as a moderately growing software business with net losses that stretched to $354 million in it...
IT総合 Seso is building software to fix farm workforces and solve agriculture’s HR woes
Migrant workers are a critical labor force for U.S. farms, but getting them here on proper H-2A visas can be complicated...
IT総合 Deal Dive: Iron Sheepdog is fixing short-haul trucking from the bottom up
Iron Sheepdog credits its ability to gain traction with truck brokers because it got the truckers themselves to sign on ...
IT総合 Ibotta’s expansion into enterprise should set it up for a successful IPO
Ibotta's recent partnerships with brands Exxon, Shell and Walmart helped the company reach profitability.
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IT総合 Vibrant Planet uses AI for land mapping and improving climate resiliency
As the planet warms due to human-caused climate change, damage from wildfires has increased with it. The amount of fores...
IT総合 Former Nextdoor exec raises $25 million for PipeDreams, a startup rolling up HVAC companies
Dan Laufer swore off ever founding a startup again after he sold apartment rental platform RentLingo in 2021, but Laufer...
IT総合 Deal Dive: Building the Airbnb for guided hunting and fishing
Mallard Bay is building a marketplace and a vertical SaaS platform for guided fishing and hunting industries.
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IT総合 Mallard Bay is the Airbnb for guided hunting and fishing
Mallard Bay is building a marketplace and a vertical SaaS platform for guided fishing and hunting industries.
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IT総合 Liquid Death is just one of many VC-backed beverage startups ready to disrupt Coke and Pepsi
Some of the new venture-backed beverage startups are hoping to upend the industry by creating new drink categories.
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IT総合 A $700M SAFE, IPOs are back, and how one venture fund is transcending borders
Hello, and welcome to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind th...
IT総合 Reddit’s IPO has begun with shares soaring 60% within minutes
Shares of social forum giant Reddit opened Thursday at $47 per share, then quickly soared to around $55, up about 60% in...
IT総合 Astera Labs’ IPO pops 54%, showing that investor demand for tech with an AI twist is high
Astera Labs started its life as a public company trading at $52.56 per share, up 46% when the bell rang. The company pri...
IT総合 Ramp CEO says the fintech startup is just scratching the surface
Fintech exploded over the last five years. Startups in the category raised more than $350 million in VC funding from 201...
IT総合 LACERA decreases venture capital allocation range, but experts say it doesn’t signal a trend
The Los Angeles County Employees Retirement Association (LACERA) voted to decrease its allocation range to venture capit...
IT総合 Late-stage VCs may be preventing their startups from going public in 2024
While some investors are loudly bemoaning that the IPO window can’t stay shut forever, other VCs themselves are ac...
IT総合 VCs will get liquidity in 2024 from the secondary market, not IPOs
If you asked a bunch of VCs at the end of 2023 if the IPO market would finally open again in 2024, most of them would ha...
IT総合 NFT fantasy sports startup Sorare lays off 13% of staff, as web3 gaming continues to sputter
Web3-enabled fantasy sports platform Sorare laid off 22 employees based in its New York office in February. The move com...
IT総合 AI could be the solution for bureaucracy, with Emilie Poteat from Advocate
Founders have spent a lot of time over the past few years trying to build practical consumer use cases for AI and machin...
IT総合 Reddit should go public at $5 billion, according to secondary data
If secondary buyers aren't buying shares at more than a $5 billion valuation, it wouldn't be wise for Reddit to price it...
IT総合 Black Tech Nation Ventures’ diversity thesis undeterred by growing DEI backlash
Black Tech Nation Ventures launched in 2021 to address the funding gap for Black founders amid a wave of venture diversi...
IT総合 Europe remains hard to crack for North American GPs
While North American VCs can see the potential value in backing European startups, it hasn't been easy for firms to laun...
IT総合 Zola wants to bring the wedding industry into the 21st century
Welcome back to Found, where we get the stories behind the startups. This week Becca and Dom are joined by Shan-Lyn Ma, ...