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The Information’s 2025 Gift Guide

By The Information Staff · Nov 28, 2025 8:30am PST · 5 comments
Here at The Information, we approach the holidays with the same mindset that guides our reporting on the world’s most powerful people and largest companies throughout the rest of the year. This is all to say: We focus on dispensing nothing but the no-holds-barred truth. So each year, our annual gift guide features only items we know and... Here at The Information, we approach the holidays with the same mindset that guides our reporting...
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OpenAI Forecasts Nearly as Many ChatGPT Subscribers as Spotify by 2030

By Sri Muppidi · Nov 25, 2025 4:55pm PST · 2 comments
To boost ChatGPT revenue, OpenAI is following a playbook enterprise apps Zoom and Slack have used to increase paid users. It’s hooking up most of its  users—which now number more than 800 million—with the free version of the chatbot and then trying to convince their employers to sign enterprisewide subscriptions, said a... To boost ChatGPT revenue, OpenAI is following a playbook enterprise apps Zoom and Slack have used...
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2026 Watch List: The Candidates, the Wildcard, and the IPO Market’s Tunnel Vision

By The Information Staff · Nov 12, 2025 11:42am PST · 1 comment
The 2025 initial public offering market was defined by a stark divergence: a welcome comeback year for new listings that instantly created clear winners and losers. While investors rewarded companies with an artificial intelligence or cryptocurrency narrative, stocks of consumer facing companies and software firms that couldn’t articulate an... The 2025 initial public offering market was defined by a stark divergence: a welcome comeback...
Crypto M&A Surges as Startups Become Targets—and Buyers
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Crypto M&A Surges as Startups Become Targets—and Buyers

By Aidan Ryan · May 3, 2022 5:45pm PDT
Last month, San Francisco-based checkout software startup Bolt announced that it was acquiring crypto and blockchain software startup Wyre for $1.5 billion. The deal got us thinking about the rise of mergers and acquisitions involving crypto startups since 2020. (Bolt, meanwhile, is facing challenges including declining revenue growth, my... Last month, San Francisco-based checkout software startup Bolt announced that it was acquiring...
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Venture Firms Count Police Funds Among Their Investing Partners

By Kate Clark · Jul 27, 2020 7:00am PDT
For decades, venture capital and private equity firms have tapped public employee unions as a major source of funding for their investments in startups. Among those investors are the pension funds affiliated with police unions.Dozens of venture firms, including NEA, Spark Capital and IVP, count police pension funds as limited partners, according... For decades, venture capital and private equity firms have tapped public employee unions as a...
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Silicon Valley’s Most and Least Diverse Investors

By Serena Saitto · Apr 9, 2018 7:00am 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...