SV Angel acknowledged two weeks ago that it raised a $30 million fund called SV Angel III-Growth P. It turns out the new fund is a special purpose vehicle for investing in secondary shares of Pinterest,

SV Angel is in the market for a fresh $40 million, according to a new SEC filing.

BetterWorks said it raised an $8 million Series A round from Redpoint Ventures. The Los Angeles company that helps employers manage employee perks programs has now raised a total of $10 million. Angel investors include Jeff Clavier, John Frankel and David Lee. PRESS RELEASE BetterWorks Raises $8 Million from Redpoint Ventures to Make Work Rewarding [...]

Tonight, TechCrunch was leaked what may be the most shocking email that I’ve ever read, and I’m guessing many Valley watchers will feel the same. Over the now famous Bin 38 dinner, Ron Conway — Silicon Valley’s best-known seed-stage investor and a mentor and inspiration to many of the angel and seed-stage investors to emerge [...]

In 2001, the New York Times characterized Ron Conway as “just another dot-com also-ran,” owing to the then-poor performance of two Internet index funds that Conway ran for rich contacts who wanted a piece of his early-stage action. The uber angel was restored to his place at the center of the digital revolution when Google — [...]