Turvo, a two-year-old, Sunnyvale, Ca.-based company, is emerging today with an idea so ambitious that investors…
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The SEC and DOJ just dropped their inquiries into Hampton Creek
The SEC and the Department of Justice, which had launched preliminary inquiries into the vegan food company Hampton…
Years after crashing on Travis Kalanick’s couch, this founder has raised $18M for his startup, Mashape
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Athens gets a new venture fund
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The “Terminator” of startups says he’s seeing two to four wind-downs a week
For the last 25 years, Marty Pichinson and the firm he cofounded, Sherwood Partners, has specialized…
Permira’s Brian Ruder on private equity’s attraction to tech — and where he’s shopping now
For the last couple of years, private equity firms have been buying up public software companies…
WeWork’s Adam Neumann is coming to Disrupt
Eight years ago ago, WeWork didn’t exist. But since 2010, Adam Neumann and his cofounder, Miguel McKelvey,…
Serial founder and former Slack PM Simon Vallee is starting a personal productivity company
Simon Vallee is exactly the kind of person who venture capitalists like to keep on their…