Venture Capital
Ad tech, robotic pills and more funding news.
Senator Warren isn’t worried about the robot economy.
Funding news from this week in Silicon Valley.
Another day, another messaging app that wants to explore e-commerce.
Bill Ford has admitted that individual vehicle ownership may not be the future.
In Silicon Valley, the rich keeping get richer.
While a lot of money is still going into the mobile sector, the rate of stock offerings and acquisitions is on a downward trend.
The fund will be run by some Twilio investors including Bessemer Venture Partners, DFJ and Redpoint Ventures.
The new round brings MuleSoft’s total capital raised to $259 million.
Also, a new women-led VC firm launched this week.
“If we were two guys, it wouldn’t be that noteworthy.”
Brookside Capital leads the round joined by Generation Investment Management and ClearBridge Investments.
A fancy new exec for the stylish maker of activity trackers and other wireless devices.
Uber, Pinterest and other tech industry darlings all raised big money.
Zenefits, Pinterest and Altschool all raised more money.
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It appears this would be the first venture fund focused on drones.
Investors are looking to Berkeley for the next generation of tech startups.
DJI intends to develop more sophisticated drones for industrial customers.
It’s now Andreessen Horowitz’s largest single investment.
Bitcoin and content startups also got some new cash.
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.
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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.
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