Initialized Capital adds three new partners to the roster

 Initialized Capital, a San Francisco-based early-stage venture firm that was founded by former Y Combinator partners…

Joe Lonsdale moves forward with 8VC’s new fund and more

 Lonsdale declined to comment on 8VC’s fundraising last year. But last week, we spoke with him about…

With billions of dollars at stake, Merck and Palantir partner to discover drugs faster

 Merck, the German multinational chemical and pharmaceutical company, is teaming up with Silicon Valley’s highest-profile data and…

Bitcoin booster Pantera Capital stays the course, targeting a new $25 million fund

 The digital currency bitcoin began 2017 with a bang, soaring to its highest level in more…

Precursor Ventures raises $15.3 million for seed investing, with a twist

 Charles Hudson has lived in the Bay Area for the last 20 years, working as product…

Armed with startup data, Crunchbase looks back on 2016 to predict what’s coming

 No one has a crystal ball. Armed with loads of startup data, the research outfit Crunchbase has…

Strange new lawsuit against longtime investor Michael Goguen gets dropped

 Early last month, we told you about a bizarre new lawsuit involving longtime venture capitalist Michael Goguen,…

Activehours, which makes every day a payday, just raised $22 million in Series A funding

 What if you didn’t have to wait every two weeks to receive a paycheck? What if…