A new on-demand battle is speeding toward the U.S. — and VCs are seeing dollar signs

 The battle isn’t over car sharing. It’s not over bus sharing, either, though that, too, is…

Pandora becomes the latest tech company to turn to private equity

 If you haven’t being paying attention, private equity firms love them some technology companies. According to…

A look at who was spending, on what, in the first quarter

 This morning, the research firm CB Insights, in partnership with the services firm PwC, released a…

Teamable raises $5 million Series A led by True Ventures

 Teamable wants to know your social network. Well, its software does. The reason: it might find someone…

Stripe’s Patrick Collison says no to an IPO any time soon

 You can imagine that Stripe CEO Patrick Collison is asked a lot about whether his San…

Lending Club founder Renaud Laplanche is back with a new startup and $60 million in funding

 Renaud Laplanche had a terrible no good very bad 2016. But the founder and longtime CEO…

Cendana Capital — which funds 15 top seed-stage groups — just raised a ton of capital

 Michael Kim is pretty much killing it. Seven years ago, when he first approached investors with the…

Tusk Ventures quietly held a first close on $25 million for its debut fund

 Bradley Tusk is a former political operative who currently runs a consultancy that helps Fortune 500 companies…