Kaitlyn Landgraf Bartley
Payal Kadakia is part of a small but growing cadre of entrepreneurs: women CEOs or founders whose companies’ valuations are in the hundreds of millions or approaching $1 billion. The 34-year-old co-founder and former chief executive of exercise-membership company ClassPass has raised nearly $140 million in venture funding from such firms as Temasek Holdings, GV, […]
Greycroft Partners announced it is leading an oversubscribed Series A follow-up round for BitPesa, the largest blockchain payments platform in Africa. BitPesa is also Greycroft’s first foray into investing in blockchain-based companies. The new funding is a minimum of $3 million but could reach $4 million, and brings the company’s total funding to $10 million. […]
Early-stage venture firm ff Venture Capital has hired Kathryn Hume as a venture partner to advise portfolio companies and teams, drawing on her business background in artificial intelligence and machine learning.
Early-stage venture firm ff Venture Capital has hired Kathryn Hume as a venture partner to advise portfolio companies and teams, drawing on her business background in artificial intelligence and machine learning. Hume joins ffVC from integrate.ai, a Toronto-based SaaS artificial intelligence platform company, and she will continue in her role as vice president of product […]
Toronto-based cannabis news and entertainment startup HERB has raised $4.1 million in seed funding in a round led by Lerer Hippeau Ventures to build its tech platform and video production studio, as well as hire new staff and launch offices in Los Angeles and New York. Other investors include Slow Ventures, media entrepreneur Michael Lazerow, […]
Magma Ventures has raised $24 million for its first growth equity fund, Magma Growth Equity I, according to a regulatory filing. The Tel Aviv-based firm invests in Israeli information, communication and technology companies, and was co-founded by Yahal Zilka and Modi Rosen, according to its website. The fund, which lists nine investors, does not include a target.
Investments in virtual reality appear to be slowing their slower pace, with just four deals in the sector so far in the third quarter, according to preliminary data from Thomson Reuters. Equity invested has ticked up slightly since the previous quarter, with the sector receiving $52 million so far, up from $38.10 million in Q2. […]
Two years after the legal battle between Ellen Pao and her former employer Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers played out publicly over allegations of gender discrimination and workplace retaliation, Pao is retelling her side. On Monday, Pao published an excerpt from her upcoming book, “Reset,” online in the New York Magazine’s The Cut. “Sometimes the […]
After closing the beach-access gate near his coastal California property, Vinod Khosla must open it to the public, a state appeals court has ruled. The First District Court of Appeals in San Francisco on Aug, 9 ruled 3-0 that closing the gate at his property near Martin’s Beach south of Half Moon Bay, which the previous […]
The number of venture investment deals closed in July dropped in the healthcare, information technology, security, and cleantech sectors compared to July 2016, according to VCJ’s analysis of preliminary data from Thomson Reuters. Deal value dropped in the healthcare and cleantech sectors, but rose slightly in the security sector and substantially in the information technology […]