Influence Archive

Part of Jet’s most recent $140 million round came from the Chinese e-commerce giant.

The site aimed at millennial women is now worth nearly $300 million.

The deal is likely to bolster the Chinese phone maker’s presence in the world’s third-largest smartphone market.

And a defense contractor bought your local high school’s porn-blocker.

“Companies are growing faster today than companies have ever grown in history.”

Swirl is looking to add its location-based ad technology to more widely used apps.

Ever heard of BRCA1 and BRCA2? You should.

Slack, Vessel and a bunch of cloud software companies announced big rounds this week.

$58 million led by IVP. Benchmark, Greylock and Jeff Bezos are back, too.

At $13.4 billion, the first fiscal quarter of 2015 clocked in the most first-quarter funding since 2000.

Also say hello to Up2 and Up3.