Uber Freight co-founders Charlie Bergevin and Brian Cristol have left for Turvo, a venture-funded collaborative logistics platform.
View More Uber Freight co-founders and top dealmakers join logistics startup TurvoCategory: Felicis Ventures
HyperScience, the machine learning startup tackling data entry, raises $30 million Series B
HyperScience, the machine learning company that turns human readable data into machine readable data, has today announced the close of a $30 million Series B funding round led by Stripes Group, with participation from existing investors FirstMark Capital and Felicis Ventures as well as new investors Battery Ventures, Global Founders Fund, TD Ameritrade, and QBE. […]
View More HyperScience, the machine learning startup tackling data entry, raises $30 million Series BFormer eBay product chief RJ Pittman takes the reins at 3D capture company Matterport
Matterport, a provider of 3D image capture technology, has named former eBay chief product officer RJ Pittman as its new chief executive. Pittman will take the reins from former chief executive Bill Brown, who will continue to advise Matterport as the company looks to capitalize on its library of three dimensional scans. The company currently […]
View More Former eBay product chief RJ Pittman takes the reins at 3D capture company MatterportInsurance startup Bright Health raises $200M at ~$950M valuation
Bright Health, another startup seeking to disrupt an antiquated industry, has raised $440 million since 2016.
View More Insurance startup Bright Health raises $200M at ~$950M valuationHome insurance provider Hippo brings in $70M amid a record year in funding for insurtech startups
Insurtech startups have raised a total of $1.8 billion in venture capital this year.
View More Home insurance provider Hippo brings in $70M amid a record year in funding for insurtech startupsInvestors are waking up to the emotional struggle of startup founders
Mahendra Ramsinghani Contributor Mahendra Ramsinghani is the founder of Secure Octane, a Silicon Valley-based cybersecurity seed fund. More posts by this contributor Lessons from cybersecurity exits Is Symantec getting ready to buy Splunk? As the Gartner Hype Curve goes, from the peak of inflated expectations to the trough of disillusionment, so goes the founder’s emotional […]
View More Investors are waking up to the emotional struggle of startup foundersFelicis Ventures has a new, $270 million fund, and a new managing director: Victoria Treyger
Felicis Ventures, the early-stage, San Francisco-based venture firmed founded a dozen or so years ago by former Googler Aydin Senkut, has closed its sixth fund with $270 million. It’s Felicis’s biggest vehicle to date (the firm closed its last fund with $200 million in 2016). Yet even bigger news for the team may be its […]
View More Felicis Ventures has a new, $270 million fund, and a new managing director: Victoria TreygerOkera raises $12M to simplify data governance within companies
As companies start to gather more and more data on their users and customers, including a firehose of information from a nigh-endless flow of tests, managing and maintaining that data isn’t the only place companies are hitting a wall — and figuring out who can actually access it is becoming just as big of a […]
View More Okera raises $12M to simplify data governance within companiesOne of the youngest fund managers in the U.S. just launched her own accelerator, too
Last August, we told you about Laura Deming, a New Zealand native who was home schooled before moving halfway around the world as a 12-year-old to work alongside Cynthia Kenyon, a renowned molecular biologist who specializes in the genetics of aging. She didn’t stay long. At age 14, Deming began her college career at MIT. When she […]
View More One of the youngest fund managers in the U.S. just launched her own accelerator, too