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Facebook cofounder Dustin Moskovitz just scored his second billion...
Summary List PlacementAsana is officially a public company. The productivity company created by former Facebook cofounder Dustin Moskovitz and early Facebook and Google engineer Justin Rosenstein went...
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Why VCs are watching a startup called MSCHF, whose mission is so visionary...
Summary List PlacementPush Party is a red button valued at $200 million. You could call it an invite-only social network, but even that definition feels too, well, fancy.The Push Party app does one...
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Some of Trump's biggest Silicon Valley supporters are abandoning him after...
Summary List PlacementThey donated millions of dollars, hosted fundraisers in their mansions, and advised President Donald Trump's transition team.But after rioters stormed the Capitol on January 6,...
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Peter Thiel and his Silicon Valley allies advised Trump to pardon Anthony...
Summary List PlacementUpon the advice of venture capitalist Peter Thiel and those close to him, Donald Trump pardoned Anthony Levandowski, the former Google executive who was sentenced to 18 months in...
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We got an exclusive look at the presentation that had investors working over...
Summary List PlacementOn Christmas Day, Virgilio Bento had a lot to celebrate.His company, SWORD Health, had officially closed its latest funding round on the holiday to the tune of $25 million. It was...
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Startups trying to change the way healthcare is paid for pulled in a record...
Summary List PlacementA new kind of healthcare is gaining traction among venture capitalists. Called "value-based care," it's an approach where providers are paid based on the quality of patients'...
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This biotech’s goal is to make $1 in profit. Peter Thiel and 8VC think it’s...
Summary List PlacementFor decades, having one good scientific idea has been enough for a young biotech firm to raise money from venture capitalists. But a new wave of startups are coming out of the...
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A startup is developing an electric flying ferry that's part plane, part boat...
Summary List PlacementGone are the days of slow ferries and seasickness, if REGENT — an acronym for "regional electric ground effect naval transport"— has its way.The Boston-based startup is building...
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Black entrepreneurs are excluded from venture capital, new research shows....
Summary List Placement"The problem is bias," Filip Diarra said of the shortage of Black and minority founders in the tech industry."We all have bias and pieces of bias that are at the core of who we...
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Inside the new Miami life of Founders Fund VC and self-appointed city...
Summary List PlacementInvestor Keith Rabois wants Silicon Valley to permanently join him in Miami. But will they come and will they stay?Since moving to Miami in December, the Founders Fund general...
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See the presentation a serial entrepreneur used to raise $20 million from...
Summary List PlacementA serial entrepreneur thinks he can unseat CVS, Walgreens, and Rite Aid by helping treat chronic pain online. Avi Dorfman, cofounder of real estate brokerage company Compass who...
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How a tweet sparked a feud in Miami, pitting Silicon Valley tech transplants...
Summary List PlacementOn April 25, Delian Asparouhov, a principal at Peter Thiel's venture-capital firm Founders Fund, sent a tweet announcing the "unofficial start of the inaugural Miami Tech...
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Miami's tech scene is having a moment as Silicon Valley power players descend...
Summary List PlacementOn December 4, 2020, during the darkest days of the pandemic, Silicon Valley discovered Miami.That's when Silicon Valley VC Delian Asparouhov tweeted, only partially in jest, "ok...
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Miami and Space — the new battlegrounds for tech's top egos
Summary List PlacementHello, and welcome to this week's edition of the Insider Tech newsletter, where we break down the biggest news in tech, including:Miami techies bristle at Silicon Valley...
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The incredible life and career of Sean Parker, who got his start as a teenage...
Summary List PlacementSean Parker found massive success at an incredibly young age.At 19, he cofounded Napster, a file-sharing service that would change how the world consumes music. By 24, he was the...
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Here's an exclusive look at the pitch deck 'Stripe for insurance' startup...
Summary List PlacementMiami-based insurance infrastructure startup Lula recently announced it raised $18 million in a Series A round co-led by Founders Fund and Khosla Ventures. SoftBank, hedge-fund...
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How Founders Fund and Khosla Ventures beat out 40 other VCs to colead a deal...
Summary List PlacementLula is one of the biggest startup success stories of the Miami tech scene at the moment, mostly because its founders are Miami natives who just raised funding from some of...
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Meet the 5 top VC firms that placed the most bets on upstarts providing...
Summary List PlacementThe telehealth bust isn't going to materialize, if the surge of private-investor interest is any indication.Telehealth startups raised a record-shattering $5 billion in private...
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These are the 10 most respected people that built Silicon Valley's foundation
Summary List PlacementVinod KhoslaVinod Khosla is the founder of Khosla Ventures, the famous VC firm that has backed Silicon Valley darlings like Square, Instacart and DoorDash.Prior to Khosla...
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Why startup founders are willing to turn away millions of dollars in search...
Summary List PlacementIn fall 2019, Shadiah Sigala, the founder of the childcare marketplace Kinside, was staring at a term sheet. It was the best investment offer she'd received, one that valued her...
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