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Venture Capital’s 25 Favorite Cafes
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Annie Goldsmith
· March 24, 2023 9:00 AM PDT ·
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Coupa Cafe in Palo Alto. Buck’s of Woodside. The Creamery in SoMa (RIP). Silicon Valley’s coffee shops have undoubtedly seen more dealmaking than any one fancy office building or members’ club. Now a new guard of cafes, spread throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, New York and Los Angeles, is growing in popularity among...
Coupa Cafe in Palo Alto. Buck’s of Woodside. The Creamery in SoMa (RIP). Silicon...
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The TikTok Investors With the Most to Lose From a U.S. Ban
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· March 20, 2023 2:29 PM PDT
For venture investors that have collectively invested more than $8 billion in TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, the fate of the video app in the U.S., where officials are seeking changes to its ownership, could mean the difference between a huge portfolio win and a soul-crushing loss. Early backers of ByteDance such as Susquehanna...
For venture investors that have collectively invested more than $8 billion in TikTok’s...
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Venture Capitalists Made a Big Mess of SVB
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Kate Clark
· March 16, 2023 3:30 PM PDT ·
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Venture capitalists just gave a master class in how not to handle a crisis. My sympathy goes out to the founders. They’ve been bombarded with conflicting advice for days, from all-caps emails written by panicked “seasoned” venture investors urging them to pull their funds out of Silicon Valley Bank, to emergency Zoom calls asking them to...
Venture capitalists just gave a master class in how not to handle a crisis. My sympathy goes...
SVB’s $9.5 Billion Venture Unit Included Large Investments in Andreessen, Sequoia, Documents Show
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· March 15, 2023 5:29 PM PDT ·
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SVB’s $9.5 Billion Venture Unit Included Large Investments in Andreessen, Sequoia, Documents Show
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Kate Clark
· March 15, 2023 5:29 PM PDT ·
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As potential buyers circle the remnants of Silicon Valley Bank and its affiliates, one asset could be particularly appealing: the company’s venture capital arm. The unit manages $9.5 billion with stakes in many of Silicon Valley's top-tier venture firms, including Sequoia Capital, giving it indirect access to some of the tech...
As potential buyers circle the remnants of Silicon Valley Bank and its affiliates, one asset...
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U.S. to Backstop All SVB Deposits; Regional Banks Look Likely to Prevail in Sale
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Lauren Tara LaCapra
· March 12, 2023 11:23 AM PDT ·
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The U.S. Treasury, Federal Reserve and Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. said Sunday they would fully backstop the deposits of Silicon Valley Bank. Meanwhile, people familiar with the matter said regional banks are the likeliest bidders to prevail in the sale process for SVB, as the FDIC sorts through the wreckage of the failed bank. Treasury...
The U.S. Treasury, Federal Reserve and Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. said Sunday they would...
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Startups and VCs Scramble to Pay Employees After SVB’s Collapse
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· March 10, 2023 12:21 PM PST ·
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The sudden collapse of Silicon Valley Bank sowed panic at hundreds of startups and venture capital firms that banked there and now must seek new ways to pay employees and access funds from their investors and customers. Founders and VC firms, which also kept billions of dollars worth of assets with SVB, on Friday rushed to figure out whether...
The sudden collapse of Silicon Valley Bank sowed panic at hundreds of startups and venture...
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The End of Venture Capital as We Know It
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Sam Lessin
· Aug. 4, 2021 6:01 AM PDT ·
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All signs seem to indicate that by 2022, for the first time, nontraditional tech investors—including hedge funds, mutual funds and the like—will invest more in private tech companies than traditional Silicon Valley–style venture capitalists will. Many people are quick to write this off as a momentary blip where extremely cheap...
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Andreessen Horowitz Returns Slip, According to Internal Data
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Zoë Bernard
· Sept. 16, 2019 7:02 AM PDT ·
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One of Silicon Valley's best-known venture firms, Andreessen Horowitz, saw its performance slip significantly after the blockbuster results of its initial fund, internal data show, illustrating just how cutthroat venture capital has become as even big names struggle to deliver outsized returns. The funds the firm raised in 2010 and...
One of Silicon Valley's best-known venture firms, Andreessen Horowitz, saw its performance...
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Benchmark’s VC Model Strained by Newcomers, Supersize Rivals
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Berber Jin
· June 28, 2021 6:01 AM PDT
In April of last year, Michael Grinich got a call most startup founders only dream about. Eric Vishria, a partner at Benchmark, one of the most prestigious VC firms, said he was interested in investing in Grinich’s then-two-year-old software startup, WorkOS, which helps other software startups sell their products to large companies....
In April of last year, Michael Grinich got a call most startup founders only dream about. Eric...
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