The cool new thing on Facebook is for Mark Zuckerberg to drop product news in live audio rooms. So today, Zuckerberg took to his brand’s Clubhouse competitor to announce its next new thing: Bulletin, a newsletter platform. Bulletin is built on a separate platform from Facebook — on its website, the FAQ states that this is […]
Monthly Archives: June 2021
How VCs can get the most out of co-investing alongside LPs
William Kilmer Contributor William Kilmer is managing partner with C5 Capital, a venture capital fund investing in the secure data ecosystem. He was formerly an operating partner at Mercato Growth Partners and served as CEO and chairman of PublicEngines (acquired by Motorola), and Avinti (merged with M86 Security) and served as chief marketing officer/chief strategy […]
The engineering daring that led to the first Chinese personal computer
China is one of the world’s wealthiest digital economies today, with a hardware supply chain that is unrivaled and a panoply of prominent and massively profitable companies like Alibaba, Tencent and ByteDance taking a leading role in the world. Yet, all of this cutting-edge innovation rests on a forty-year-old solution to one of the great […]
Zomato’s $100 million investment to turn Grofers into a unicorn
Indian food delivery giant Zomato, which is working to explore the public markets later this year, has reached an agreement to invest $100 million in online grocer Grofers for about 10% stake in the seven-year-old startup, according to a source and multiple others familiar with the matter. The proposed investment values Grofers, which counts SoftBank […]
Family app Life360 announces $2.1M investment round from celebs and influencers
Family communication and tracking app Life360 has announced a new investment round that will see the company bringing on board a number of “celeb” investors and influencers who, combined, will form a new “Family Advisory Council” to help shape Life360’s future product direction and marketing. The round, which is approximately $2.1 million in size, was led […]
Shopify drops its App Store commissions to 0% on developers’ first million in revenue
Following similar moves by Apple, Google, and more recently Amazon, among others, e-commerce platform Shopify announced today it’s also lowering its cut of developer revenue across its app marketplace, the Shopify App Store, as well as the new Shopify Theme Store. The news was announced today alongside a host of other developer-related news and updates […]
Nansen raises $12M from a16z to help investors make sense of crypto markets
While the ambitions of crypto investors have swelled even faster than the market has in recent months, institutional players have had a mountain of blockchain data to try to make sense of without particularly mature analytics products at their disposal. Blockchain analytics startup Nansen is building a product for crypto traders and hedge funds to […]
5 policies Washington should enact to end the climate crisis and joblessness
Bobby Franklin Contributor More posts by this contributor Taking stock of the VC industry’s progress on diversity, equity and inclusion A new foreign investment bill will impact venture capital and the US startup ecosystem Michael Brown Contributor The importance of the U.S. startup ecosystem was made crystal clear during the pandemic: Many of us came […]
Duolingo’s S-1 depicts heady growth, monetization, new focus on English certification
Duolingo filed to go public yesterday, giving the world a deep look inside its business results and how the pandemic impacted the edtech unicorn’s performance. TechCrunch’s initial read of the company’s filing was generally positive, noting that its growth was impressive and its losses modest; Duolingo recently began making money on an adjusted basis. While […]
Sources: SentinelOne expects to raise over $1B in NYSE IPO tomorrow, listing with a $10B market cap
After launching its IPO last week with an expected listing price range of $26 to $29 per share, cybersecurity company SentinelOne is going tomorrow with some momentum behind it. Sources close to the tell us that the company, which will be trading under the ticker “S” on the New York Stock Exchange, is expecting to […]