Hello friends, and welcome back to Week in Review! Last week, we talked about some sunglasses from a company that many people do not like very much. This week, we’re talking about Apple and the company 1,600 times smaller than it that’s facing similar product problems. Thanks for joining in — follow my tweets @lucasmtny […]
SoftBank’s Marcelo Claure is coming to Disrupt next week
SoftBank has been on a tear in Latin America. The Japanese investment conglomerate just announced it has launched its second Latin America-focused fund with a $3 billion capital commitment from the company that may grow as the fund explores “options to raise additional capital,” according to SoftBank. The vehicle follows hot on the heels of […]
1 change that can fix the VC funding crisis for women founders
We need to increase the number of women investing partners who can write large seed checks.
「破壊」から「構築」へ：シリコンヴァレーは新しいナラティヴを描くのか
アンドリーセン・ホロウィッツがすべてを変えた。10年前、このVC企業の創業者マーク・アンドリーセンは「ソフトウェアが世界を飲み込む」と予言した。そして彼らがメディアに売り込む破壊的でイノヴェイティヴな民主化の神話は、やがて搾取やプライヴァシー侵害、セキュリティ違反、二極化、差別などの記事に場所を奪われていった。いまや次々と自らのメディアを立ち上げるテック業界は、「構築」という新たなナラティヴを描こうとしている。
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What we can learn from edtech startups’ expansion efforts in Europe
Unlike their neighbors in fintech, it’s assumed that edtech companies need to expand to a number of big markets in order to reach a scale that makes them attractive to VCs.
Longtime VC, and happy Miami resident, David Blumberg has a new $225 million fund
Blumberg Capital, founded in 1991 by investor David Blumberg, has just closed its fifth early-stage venture fund with $225 million, a vehicle that Blumberg says was oversubscribed — he planned to raise $200 million — and that has already been used to invest in 16 startups around the world (the firm has small offices in […]
Former Instacart CFO Sagar Sanghvi joins Accel as its newest partner
Instacart‘s chief financial officer Sagar Sanghvi has departed from the on-demand grocery delivery company after nearly six years and is returning to his investing roots. Specifically, Sanghvi has joined Accel as a partner focused on global growth-stage consumer and enterprise investments. Prior to becoming CFO of Instacart, Sanghvi served as the company’s vice president of […]
Extra Crunch roundup: Adtech investing, Intuit buys Mailchimp, ideal customer profiles
In school, it’s highly unethical to copy someone else’s work and pass it off as your own. In business, however, it is expected.
The value of software revenue may have finally stopped rising
Startups are raising record sums around the world, thanks to several contributing factors. But the free ride could be ending.
What could stop the startup boom?
Similar to how certain macroeconomic conditions have provided a long-term boost, a reversal of those conditions could do the opposite.