Kaitlyn Landgraf Bartley

Venture dollars disproportionately flow to founding teams that are exclusively male, while women-led companies see fewer deals and smaller check sizes. Now a female former startup founder is aiming to eliminate some of the bias that contributes to those disparities by developing an objective score that venture investors and founders can refer to when deciding […]

Washington-based venture fund Pithia is aiming to invest in companies that build on RChain, a blockchain technology platform whose tokens helped fund the venture firm. On May 2, the firm announced one of its first investments, participating in a $3 million seed round in Trusted Key Solutions, a secure-digital-identity company for consumers and enterprise needs. […]

Ohio-based companies are laying claim to more venture dollars, with the amount of equity invested in Buckeye State companies in 2018 on track to nearly quadruple the amount raised three years ago. Columbus is leading the state’s tech renaissance, overtaking Cincinnati and Cleveland in terms of venture dollars raised in the first quarter of 2018, […]

A Sequoia Capital Chinese fund is facing off with the founder of one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges in a Hong Kong court over a deal agreement. A judge in the High Court of Hong Kong determined that an injunction Sequoia obtained, preventing the founder of Binance from entering discussions with any other firms, had been […]

Domo, the Utah enterprise-software company, is rumored to be preparing for a public offering. And it will not be the last VC-backed tech company from the Beehive State to go IPO. Domo, valued at $2.3 billion, is a bellwether for the venture industry near Salt Lake City, where businesses founded in the Silicon Slopes have drawn […]

Basis, an algorithmic central bank that is neither a bank nor centralized, announced this week that it has raised $133 million in a private token sale from investors, including Bain Capital Ventures, GV, Stanley Druckenmiller, Kevin Warsh, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Foundation Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Wing Venture Capital, NFX, Valor Capital, Zhenfund, INBlockchain, Ceyuan Ventures and Sky9 […]

VCJ has obtained two memos regarding the legal status of certain token sales, which were reportedly sent to the SEC by a group of venture firms and law firms at the end of March, including Andreessen Horowitz, Union Square Ventures, Perkins Coie and Cooley, according to a source familiar with the matter. Both memos are […]

Los Angeles-based PeerStreet aims to give investors access to the U.S. real estate debt market by purchasing high-quality mortgages from local lenders. World Innovation Lab, which led the company’s Series B round announced in April, sees the company not just as a financial investment, but also as a platform that could meet the needs of […]