Tag: Venture Capital

Over 100 VCs pledge support for Kamala Harris

More than 100 VCs, including Reid Hoffman, Vinod Khosla and Mark Cuban have pledged to vote for Vice President Kamala Harris in the...

Hey, there ARE growth funds in Europe — Kennet raises $287M for its largest fund to date

Europe is routinely castigated by tech industry observers for having too few “growth capital” funds, and, compared to the U.S., that’s true. That...

GovWell is bringing automation and efficiency to local governments

Government websites aren’t known for cutting-edge tech. GovWell co-founder and CTO Ben Cohen discovered this while trying to help his dad, a contractor,...

Stay up-to-date on the amount of venture dollars going to underrepresented founders

Venture capital funding has never been robust for women or Black and brown founders. Alongside Crunchbase, we’ve been tracking funding levels to pinpoint...

17-year-old Eric Zhu’s startup was built in a high school bathroom — now it’s raised $2.3M and is emerging from stealth

Eric Zhu started building Aviato, an analytical platform for private market data, in a very typical place for an entrepreneur: the bathroom in his...

These startups are trying to prevent another CrowdStrike-like outage, according to VCs

Windows users around the globe woke up on Friday morning to “blue screens of death” thanks to a faulty software update from CrowdStrike....