Peter Pham On The Pendulum Swing Back In VCs’ Favor
Early last week, during a panel about the state of early-stage investing, a handful of VCs I interviewed largely agreed…
The Real Obstacle To Becoming A VC Is Financial, Not Gender, Inequality
Start your own venture firm. That’s the advice that one of the industry’s first female VCs, Kathryn Gould, gave to…
Sequoia Capital’s Alfred Lin On Why Uber’s Valuation Is Twice That Of Airbnb’s
Today, at the Post-Seed conference in San Francisco, Alfred Lin, the former COO and CFO of Zappos and now a Sequoia…
AppDynamics Raises $158M; Now Valued At $1.9 Billion
Last month, based on an SEC filing, we told you that seven-year-old, San Francisco-based AppDynamics had raised a fresh $83.4 million in funding…
R.I.P. Kathyrn Gould: VC Pioneer, Straight Shooter, Lover of Curse Words
Earlier this year, I had the great pleasure of interviewing Kathyrn Gould, one of the very first women venture capitalists,…
TrialPay Co-Founder Back With Point, A Novel, Fractional Home Ownership Startup
Point, a Palo Alto-based home equity marketplace that plans to take people’s homes and and make them completely liquid, divisible…
Iguaz.io Lands $15 Million Series A
Herzliya Israel-based Iguaz.io isn’t yet saying exactly what it’s up to, but investors must like what they’re seeing. The stealth-mode…
In Delivery Race, Deliv Scores Win with Walgreen’s Deal
With competition between same-day delivery startups as fierce as it’s ever been, every win counts. And today, Deliv, a three-year-old,…
The Early-Stage Slowdown Explained: Nasdaq and FOMO
Earlier today, The Information published a piece that suggests the “smart money is betting less on early-stage tech startups.” Its evidence? Data provided…