The Wing’s newest co-working space is equipped with a lactation room, a library, a cafe and a conference room named for Dr. Christine Blasey Ford.
View More The Wing, a co-working space for women, opens its doors in San FranciscoCategory: Kleiner Perkins
Car-sharing network Turo expands service in UK
Turo — the peer-to-peer car-sharing marketplace sometimes referred to as the ‘Airbnb of cars’ — is expanding to the UK. And this time, everyday car owners can actually use it. The San Francisco-based company expanded to the UK once before in 2016. But at the time, the Turo platform was only offered to small rental […]
View More Car-sharing network Turo expands service in UKMobile social network Path, once a challenger to Facebook, is closing down
It’s that time again, folks, time to say goodbye to a social media service from days past. Following the shuttering of Klout earlier this year, now Path, the one-time rival to Facebook, is closing its doors, according to an announcement made today. (Yes, you may be surprised to learn that Path was still alive.) The […]
View More Mobile social network Path, once a challenger to Facebook, is closing downThis is how much VCs are paid
Venture capital is known for being an opaque industry, so it’s no surprise most of us have no idea what the average VC earns in a year.
View More This is how much VCs are paidMary Meeker, author of the Internet Trends Report, is leaving Kleiner Perkins
Mary Meeker is leaving Kleiner Perkins to build a new fund and she’s taking the firm’s growth team with her, as first reported by Recode. Meeker, widely known for her annual Internet Trends Report, joined the firm in 2010 after two decades as a managing director at Morgan Stanley. She was well-established as a tech analyst on Wall Street. In Silicon Valley, she quickly built a reputation as one of the best.
View More Mary Meeker, author of the Internet Trends Report, is leaving Kleiner PerkinsPlaying the global game, Sequoia can cut checks for up to $1 billion
As the shadow of SoftBank (and its $100 billion fund) looms large over the investment landscape, Sequoia Capital is pushing the upper limits of the checks it’s willing to write to global growth-stage companies up to $1 billion. With a B. That’s the word from Sequoia’s global managing partner Doug Leone speaking onstage at Disrupt […]
View More Playing the global game, Sequoia can cut checks for up to $1 billionWomen-only co-working space The Wing is launching an app to help its members stay connected
The Wing is bringing the physical world it’s created for professional women through its co-working spaces to the digital world, with the launch of a social networking app, slated to become available later this month.
The co-working company created the app to connect its members and keep them up to date on The Wing’s programming. For now, the app will only be available to paying Wing members.
View More Women-only co-working space The Wing is launching an app to help its members stay connectedMunich Re buys IoT middleware startup, relayr, in deal worth $300M
Berlin based Internet of Things (IoT) startup relayr, whose middleware platform is geared towards helping industrial companies unlock data insights from their existing machinery and production line kit by linking Internet connected sensors and edge devices to platform controls, has been acquired by insurance group Munich Re in a deal which values the company at […]
View More Munich Re buys IoT middleware startup, relayr, in deal worth $300MSino-US investment firms are targeting over $4 billion for new funds launched this year
As limited partners increasingly demand greater exposure to emerging market opportunities, venture capital firms with a focus on Asia are bulking up their funds and chasing deals in an increasingly competitive race to own stakes in the next generation of local startups with global aspirations. Over the last year, firms, including DCM Ventures, GGV Capital, Matrix […]
View More Sino-US investment firms are targeting over $4 billion for new funds launched this yearGusto raises $140 million to go after small business payroll and benefits with more gusto
Gusto, which sells payroll, benefits and human resources management and monitoring services to small businesses, has raised $140 million in its latest round of funding. The company said it will use the money to add new services to increase payment flexibility for employees. The company launched a new service called Flexible Pay, which gives employees […]
View More Gusto raises $140 million to go after small business payroll and benefits with more gustoEllen Pao memoir adaptation among 7 new Shonda Rhimes projects for Netflix
When Shonda Rhimes left ABC last August for Netflix, both she and the studio kept a tight lid on their plans. We could only imagine where the twists and turns that her future stories would take us. Well, now we know. This week, Rhimes’s production company Shondaland and Netflix announced seven projects that she will make […]
View More Ellen Pao memoir adaptation among 7 new Shonda Rhimes projects for NetflixWhile tech waffles on going public, biotech IPOs boom
With our fixation on all things tech, we’re missing out on the big picture — there are actually more biotech and healthcare startup IPOs than tech offerings.
View More While tech waffles on going public, biotech IPOs boom