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Venture Capital
In One VC Sector, Women Are Gaining Ground
By
Serena Saitto
· May 14, 2018 7:01 AM PDT ·
3 comments
While women still represent only about 15% of decision makers at Silicon Valley’s major venture capital firms, another subset of the industry, corporate venture capital, has a higher proportion of women calling the shots.At least four of the 20 biggest corporate venture capital funds, including those operated by Comcast, Time Warner, GE...
While women still represent only about 15% of decision makers at Silicon Valley’s major...
Briefing
E-commerce
Amazon
SoftBank May Not Sell Flipkart Stake in Walmart Deal
May 10, 2018 · 4:02 PM PDT ·
1 comment
True Value
Travel
Markets
Why Uber and Airbnb Should Copy Spotify with a Direct Listing
By
Serena Saitto
· May 4, 2018 7:01 AM PDT ·
1 comment
A month after debuting on the New York Stock Exchange by going public without selling new shares—an unprecedented direct listing—it is clear that Spotify’s experiment was a success. The Swedish music streaming company is trading 21% higher than where its stock traded in the private market immediately before its public listing....
A month after debuting on the New York Stock Exchange by going public without selling new...
Briefing
Startups
Quantopian Strikes Deal With FactSet
April 25, 2018 · 1:47 PM PDT
Briefing
Startups
Peloton Hires CFO as It Gears Up for IPO
April 25, 2018 · 12:43 PM PDT
Briefing
Startups
Venture Capital
Marissa Mayer Starts Consumer-Focused Lumi Labs in Google’s Old Office
April 18, 2018 · 11:57 AM PDT
Briefing
Markets
Startups
VC Deal Volume Reaches $28 Billion in Q1 2018
April 10, 2018 · 1:47 PM PDT
Lessons From Silicon Valley’s Latest Female VC Partners
By
Serena Saitto
· April 10, 2018 10:01 AM PDT ·
3 comments
Venture Capital
Lessons From Silicon Valley’s Latest Female VC Partners
By
Serena Saitto
· April 10, 2018 10:01 AM PDT ·
3 comments
Eight of the biggest venture capital firms, including Benchmark Capital, Union Square Ventures and General Catalyst, named their first female partners in the past 16 months. Those hires helped slightly increase women’s representation in the upper ranks of venture capital, as The Information reported Monday.Today, we are profiling the new...
Eight of the biggest venture capital firms, including Benchmark Capital, Union Square Ventures...
Venture Capital
Silicon Valley’s Most and Least Diverse Investors
By
Serena Saitto
· April 9, 2018 7:00 AM PDT ·
8 comments
The proportion of women in decision-making positions at the most prominent venture capital firms inched up to nearly 15% last year from roughly 11% in 2016. Black representation rose marginally. That’s according to the results of a survey conducted by The Information and VC firm Social Capital, our third since 2015. The VC...
The proportion of women in decision-making positions at the most prominent venture capital firms...
Briefing
Venture Capital
Steve Jurvetson Is Back in Business
April 6, 2018 · 3:43 PM PDT ·
1 comment
Briefing
Markets
Enterprise
Salt Lake City-Based Software Maker Domo Is Preparing for an IPO
April 5, 2018 · 3:58 PM PDT ·
1 comment
How John Chambers Looks at Deals
By
Serena Saitto
· April 5, 2018 7:01 AM PDT ·
6 comments
Q&A
Startups
How John Chambers Looks at Deals
By
Serena Saitto
· April 5, 2018 7:01 AM PDT ·
6 comments
When John Chambers ran Cisco Systems, acquisitions were one of his favorite ways to grow the company. By his own estimate, Cisco did 180 deals in his time there. But as he said in an interview with The Information this week, Cisco executives expected that one third would not succeed. It was a surprising admission for a former CEO, given how...
When John Chambers ran Cisco Systems, acquisitions were one of his favorite ways to grow the...
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Venture Capital
SoftBank Held Talks With China for Vision Fund Investment
March 30, 2018 · 1:25 PM PDT
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Venture Capital
Credit Karma Sold $500 Million Stake to Silver Lake From Existing Shareholders
March 28, 2018 · 2:36 PM PDT
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Startups
Can Warby Parker Sustain Investors’ High Expectations?
By
Alfred Lee
and
Serena Saitto
· March 26, 2018 7:01 AM PDT
Warby Parker has become a major e-commerce success story since launching eight years ago. Investors seem to be banking on big growth from the trendy eyewear retailer, judging by a recent fundraising. But revenue figures suggest the company has its work cut out for it if it is going to continue to meet investors’ lofty expectations.The...
Warby Parker has become a major e-commerce success story since launching eight years ago....
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Asia
Naspers Plans to Sell $10 Billion Stake in Tencent to Reinvest in Growth
March 22, 2018 · 11:54 AM PDT
Briefing
Venture Capital
Tech Founders Unite to Pressure VCs to Embrace Diversity
March 20, 2018 · 11:38 AM PDT
Q&A
Venture Capital
For a Key Uber Investor, Lessons in Corporate Governance
By
Serena Saitto
· March 19, 2018 7:01 AM PDT ·
9 comments
Shawn Carolan, who co-led Menlo Ventures’ investment in Uber, says his firm made $1 billion selling almost half of its stake in Uber to SoftBank. That eye-popping return, which Menlo hadn’t previously confirmed, on an original investment of $26 million in 2011, marks the firm’s largest redistribution of capital to its limited...
Shawn Carolan, who co-led Menlo Ventures’ investment in Uber, says his firm made $1 billion...
Briefing
Zuora Files For IPO
March 16, 2018 · 4:07 PM PDT
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Crypto
Peter Thiel Praises Trump, Bitcoin
March 15, 2018 · 1:07 PM PDT
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