venture capital

Why Index Ventures is bulking up its investment team in NYC

While online discourse would make it seem that venture has retreated to the Bay Area, with San Francisco being the…

2 months ago

Y Combinator expanding to four cohorts a year in 2025

Silicon Valley startup accelerator Y Combinator will expand the number of cohorts it runs each year from two to four…

2 months ago

Startups are getting fined, or sometimes banned, by individual states

In 2022, Carta’s business license was revoked in Illinois for failing to pay franchise tax, a tax on national corporations…

2 months ago

VC Neil Mehta, who’s quietly nabbing prized SF property, plans a “Y Combinator for restaurants”

Neil Mehta, the VC behind the acquisition of a string of properties on San Francisco’s tony Fillmore Street, made waves…

3 months ago

Life sciences investor BEVC raising $25M climate fund

Life sciences investor BEVC is raising a $25 million fund aimed at climate-related startups, according to an SEC filing. BEVC…

3 months ago

Tesla TSLA earnings Q2 2024

2024-07-24 15:40:02 Elon Musk, Chief Executive Officer of SpaceX and Tesla and owner of X speaks during the Milken Conference…

4 months ago

Why it made sense for an online community college to raise venture capital

When Tade Oyerinde first set out to fundraise for his startup, Campus, a fully accredited online community college, it was…

4 months ago

Forestay, Europe’s newest $220M growth-stage VC fund, will focus on AI

Forestay, an emerging VC based out of Geneva, Switzerland, has been busy. This week it closed its second fund, Forestay…

5 months ago

Kevin Hartz’s A* raises its second oversubscribed fund in three years

Venture firms raised $9.3 billion in Q1 according to PitchBook data, which means this year likely won’t match or surpass…

5 months ago

Materia looks to make accountants more efficient with AI

The U.S. is facing an accountant shortage. Fewer first-time candidates took the CPA exam in 2022 than in 2006, according…

5 months ago

Loop Golf looks to take the stress out of booking a tee time

Golf has exploded in popularity in recent years thanks to the pandemic and the popularity of Netflix’s Full Swing documentary…

5 months ago

What StepStone’s $3.3B venture secondaries fund tells us about LPs’ current appetite for venture

StepStone raised the largest fund dedicated to investing in venture secondaries ever, the firm announced last week. This fundraise doesn’t…

5 months ago

Large-caps & Reits: India’s largest investment adviser’s shifts

Soumya Rajan, the founder and chief executive officer (CEO) of Waterfield Advisors, has a very balanced portfolio. She has allocations…

5 months ago

PE-VC funding falls by $700mn in May

CHENNAI: Private equity and venture capital firms continued their declining streak in investments. May recorded investments of $3.2 billion, down…

6 months ago