Venture Capital

With competition for venture deals heating up, one area of the market appears to have been left behind: once-promising portfolio companies that have lost their venture capital or corporate sponsors.Enter...

Venture capitalist John Doerr found inspiration for his new book in the form of a challenge from his daughter Mary. After watching An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore’s 2006 movie about...

On Tuesday, California autonomous carmaker Nuro, whose driverless delivery cars have been actively deployed for the past three years by grocery giant Kroger, announced that it has raised a $600...

Another $2.7B pumped into NYC startups in October (up 191% from 2020) as the tech ecosystem puts the pandemic in the rear-view mirror! Today, I take a look at the...

The pandemic has exposed value chain frailties and stress-tested all sectors and industries. Innovation has become the new arms race, with rapid digitization and consumer tech adoption accelerating by as...

Black start-up entrepreneurs are gaining venture capital funding at banner levels. In the first half of 2021, Black founders raised nearly $1.8 billion, more than four times the capital raised...

Venture capital investor and philanthropist Grant Verstandig has gifted $50 million to MedStar Georgetown University Hospital through his Verstandig Family Foundation for the hospital’s new medical and surgical pavilion, currently...

Many top venture firms have scout programs where they recruit others to help them find startups. These scouts get to write small checks from designated funds. Some scout programs are...

Blockchain-focused investment firm Sanctor Capital has raised $20 million to fund emerging projects in the cryptocurrency space, offering the latest evidence that venture capital continues to flood the market. The investment...

Many people don’t forget the day they found out their chicken nuggets came from a bird, not unlike one they may have seen in cartoons or in the local petting...