Arjun Arora departs 500 Startups as the firm may soon add GPs
Arjun Arora, tapped by 500 Startups a year ago to handle investor relations and head [...]
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Blockchain Capital adds bitcoin developer Jimmy Song as venture partner
Blockchain Capital has added bitcoin software developer Jimmy Song as a venture partner. In his [...]
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Emergence’s Jason Green on artificial intelligence and Coaching Networks
Emergence Capital late last year unveiled a major new investment theme it dubbed “Coaching Networks” [...]
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Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin leaves Fenbushi Capital
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has left Fenbushi Capital, a Shanghai-based venture firm focused exclusively on [...]
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On the Bleeding Edge: Can we overshadow the Valley’s dark side?
The year got off to a salacious start with Vanity Fair publishing “Oh My God, [...]
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Jeff Clavier on the bifurcation in seed investing and today’s price competition for deals
With seed and angel deal activity down steadily for more than two years, Uncork Capital [...]
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Year in Review: Sexual-harassment charges, ICOs dominated 2017
The top recurring headlines that dominated much of 2017 were those regarding the sexual-harassment accusations [...]
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On the Bleeding Edge: 2017 wrap up, Saling exits Menlo, Arena update and other venture musings
You may have noticed the multiple articles on VCJ lately marked “Year in Review.” This includes [...]
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Year in Review: Firms aim to correct gender imbalance
In early December, FirstMark Capital announced that it hired Beth Ferreira as managing director. And just like that, women [...]
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Office Hours for female VCs, founders expands to New York City
An initiative to increase venture funding to companies founded by women is expanding to the [...]
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VC Video Interview with Mark Suster: ICOs … it’s not going to end well
By Jeff Harbach, Kauffman Fellows In hindsight, the collapse of the late ‘90s dot-com bubble [...]
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Year in Review: Sexual harassment allegations shake venture industry
Allegations of sexual harassment rocked the venture community in 2017, prompting resignations by some of [...]
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Bullpen’s Eric Wiesen on avoiding the investment herd and common VC mistakes
Bullpen Capital is a seven-year-old post-seed firm more interested in operating metrics, unit economics and [...]
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Suster, Senkut, Lynn look ahead to 2018
First came the age of unicorns, a period beginning four years ago when venture investors [...]
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Impact’s Jack Crawford on Dixon Doll’s role and its corporate VC strategy
Impact Venture Capital has a first fund target of $100 million and a big-name general [...]
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On the Bleeding Edge: Shasta promotes Mullins, Deeter’s IPO prowess and Sapphire’s SportsTech Fund
Jacob Mullins, who joined Shasta Ventures late last year, was quietly promoted to partner from [...]
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Jurvetson steps down from DFJ
Steve Jurvetson announced Monday that he would leave the firm he co-founded, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, [...]
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Sherpa’s Pishevar sues opposition research firm claiming defamation
Sherpa Capital Managing Director Shervin Pishevar has filed suit against a Republican opposition research firm, [...]
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