Tag: Venture Capital
A startup that provides Viagra on-demand just raised $88 million and is now trying to get you to stop smoking
Healthcare startup Ro wants to help you quit smoking. The startup also said on Tuesday it had raised $88 million from investors including Alexis Ohanian.
Trumid, a bond trading startup backed by George Soros and Peter Thiel, just landed $53 million in fresh funding
Trumid's new strategic partnership with SGX will grant the firm access to the Asian market. It's viewed as a complement to its existing relationship with Deutsche Boerse, the German stock exchange operator.
A VC who’s lived in Silicon Valley her whole life says the things that used to set it apart from Los Angeles and New York are changing fast
Silicon Valley has undergone many changes since it first became the hub of the tech world decades ago. Venture capitalist Minal Hasan, a Silicon Valley native, says the biggest change she's seen is that residents today show off their wealth more than they used to.
A venture capitalist and former Obama official are giving startups $30 million to fix a ‘crisis’ in our food system — and you can ap...
FoodShot Global is a new fund for researchers and startups solving problems in food and agriculture that stem from soil degradation. Venture capitalist Victor Friedberg, former Obama-administration official Sara Eckhouse, and former Rabobank North America CEO Rajiv Singh will lead the fund.
One of the largest health insurers in the US is launching a $250 million venture fund
Cigna on Wednesday launched a $250 million venture fund, called Cigna Ventures. Cigna Ventures will be tasked with finding startups and growth stage companies in healthcare, specifically with focuses on analytics, digital health, retail, and managing and delivering care.
The 35-year-old creator of Twitch has already launched and sold one startup for $1 billion. And he just raised $65 million from top VC firms, like And...
Justin Kan's new legal startup, Atrium, has raised $65 million in a new round of funding led by Andreessen Horowitz. Kan is perhaps best known as the creator of modern live-streaming with the launch of Twitch, which sold to Amazon for nearly $1 billion.
GOLDMAN SACHS: Chinese tech giants are dominating North America in VC funding for the first time, and it could be the start of an unprecedented boom
Chinese companies outpaced their American rivals in funding startups for the first time even as the country’s economy shows signs of slowing down.
One of the most important startups in video games just lost its CFO — right after raising $145 million in new funds
Unity, which has raised $601.5 million and whose tools were used to make "Pokémon Go," is searching for a replacement for former CFO Mike Foley.
Learn why billionaire AOL cofounder Steve Case is investing in companies outside the major coastal startup hubs at IGNITION 2018
Steve Case will take the stage at IGNITION 2018 to discuss entrepreneurship, highlights from his "Rise of the Rest" bus tour, and the long-term vision for his DC-based venture-capital firm Revolution.
Here’s why Ashton Kutcher thinks it’s ‘absurd’ if you have a problem with the scooters that were littering San Francisco’...
"This just aversion to change," said Ashton Kutcher, the actor and investor, of the regulatory issues now facing electric scooter company Bird.