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Peter Thiel's VC firm is reportedly planning to lead a $15 million investment...
Gameshow app HQ Trivia is reportedly in funding talks with one of the top San Francisco venture capital firms, Peter Thiel's Founders Fund.Recode reports that the firm intends to lead a $15 million...
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Here are the most popular Google auto-complete results for Silicon Valley’s...
Google's auto-complete features gives you a drop-down menu of suggestions based on the most popular queries related to whatever you're searching.If you start searching for a story about a tech CEO, for...
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Silicon Valley's newest investor is a guy who raised $3 million to start...
Niv Dror, AngelList's former head of marketing, has launched a $3 million venture-capital fund called Shrug Capital, stylized as ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Capital.The fund has received investments from influential...
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A new kind of probiotic could change the $38 billion market by using real...
Seed, a new company with some big names behind it, is about to break into the $38-billion probiotics industry. They aim to rely on real science to create their product, a probiotic designed to support...
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16 of the biggest leaders in Silicon Valley reveal the one thing they would...
The people we've come to associate with the most successful technology companies were once relatively unknown names with big dreams. So if they could do it all over again, would they do it any...
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Here are the top 3 qualities you need to succeed, according to a high school...
Cyan Banister is a self-taught engineer, entrepreneur, and angel investor.Banister made early bets on companies like Uber, SpaceX, and Postmates.Now, she manages multi-millionaire dollar deals at Peter...
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How to send the perfect cold email to get an investor interested in your company
Getting the attention of investors isn't easy. Venture capitalists turn down thousands of offers from prospective entrepreneurs each year and receive multiple funding requests every day.While having...
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DNA editing on-the-cheap is the promise of Synthego, which just raised $110...
Synthego, a Silicon Valley genome-engineering startup founded by former SpaceX engineers, sells ready-to-use kits that let people experiment with the cutting-edge gene-editing tool Crispr.On Tuesday,...
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Airbnb May Be Getting A Peter Thiel Investment, And A $2.5 Billion Valuation
Confirming earlier reports that Airbnb was raising a round, the Wall Street Journal now says that famed startup investor Peter Thiel, Facebook's first backer, is negotiating an investment in the...
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Peter Thiel’s investment firm is reportedly delivering huge returns to investors
Peter Thiel's VC firm is delivering huge returns for investors, according to The Wall Street Journal.Founders Fund is returning $4.60 on every dollar invested as part of its fourth fund in 2011. The...
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Founders Fund made its first alcohol investment. Here’s how the 28-year old...
Founders Fund led $7 million seed round Tuesday for Bev, a female-led direct-to-consumer rosé brand. This is Founders Fund's first investment in an alcohol startup.Alix Peabody, Bev's 28-year-old...
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A Silicon Valley stock exchange backed by Peter Thiel and Andreessen Horowitz...
A new stock exchange backed by Silicon Valley venture capitalists just gained approval from the Securities and Exchange Commission. The Long-Term Stock Exchange is a new stock exchange designed to...
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I tried Barry’s Bootcamp, the intense fitness class that's become a hub of VC...
Lee Edwards, a partner at early-stage venture firm Root Ventures, tweeted Thursday "The 3 B's of venture deals: Barry's, The Battery, and Burning Man."The first B is Barry's Bootcamp, an intense...
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This Stanford dropout just landed $4.6 million from Peter Thiel's Founders...
Josh Browder came up with the idea for DoNotPay, an automated legal assistant for small legal claims, after he had received and tried to fight more than 30 parking tickets.Browder found an opportunity...
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On-demand food delivery app Postmates is set to unveil its IPO filing in...
On-demand food delivery app Postmates plans to publicly reveal its IPO filing in September, TechCrunch reported Monday.One Postmates investor confirmed to Business Insider that the company is in a...
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This 22-year-old dropped out of MIT to launch an AI startup that just got...
On August 7, the machine-learning startup Scale AI announced it raised $100 million in series C funding from some of Silicon Valley's top investors. The round valued the 3-year-old startup at $1...
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We still don't know if Jeffrey Epstein's money is floating around Silicon...
Following reports that Jeffrey Epstein helped fund an investment firm led by MIT Media Lab director Joichi Ito, attention turned to other high-profile investors in Silicon Valley.More than 20 of...
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Andreessen Horowitz is reportedly backing Oculus founder Palmer Luckey’s new...
Oculus founder Palmer Luckey has received funding for his new startup, Anduril, that values the company at $1 billion, according to a CNBC report Wednesday.The company, which makes technology for a...
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Peter Thiel's Founders Fund is making its first cybersecurity investment in a...
On Tuesday Arceo.ai, a risk-analytics startup, announced a $37 million led by Peter Thiel's Founders Fund and Lightspeed Venture Partners.Though Peter Thiel founded the data-mining company Palantir,...
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Peter Thiel's venture fund just announced Hereticon, a conference for...
On Tuesday, Founders Fundannounced Hereticon, a conference in New Orleans for "dissenting thinkers." The conference will run for three days in May 2020, according to a blog post announcing the news.The...
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