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VIRTUAL CURRENCY MEETS FINANCE IN GLITZY SWISS RESORT
Venture capitalists said so much money was now flowing into ICOs that many entrepreneurs in the space were now bypassing early VC funding... READ MORE›
ASTON MARTIN OWNERS REV UP FOR 2018 EXIT WITH LAZARD HIRE
Exclusive Aston Martin owners rev up for 2018 exit with Lazard hire... READ MORE›
ITALIAN FUND DENIES SEEKING TO RAISE STAKE IN ASTON MARTIN
Because of the recent good performance of the Aston Martin business, none of the shareholders want to sell, the spokesman said... READ MORE›
CARLYLE SEEKS TO RAISE $1 BILLION FOR NEW ENERGY FUND
Exclusive Carlyle seeks to raise 1 billion for new energy fund - sources... READ MORE›
BACKING BIG BROTHER CHINESE FACIAL RECOGNITION FIRMS APPEAL TO FUNDS
Its photography enhancement technology is also used by almost all of China's major smartphone manufacturers including Huawei Technologies, Oppo, Vivo and Xiaomi... READ MORE›
INVESTMENTS BY SOFTBANK'S HUGE VISION FUND COULD SHAKE UP TECH WORLD
SoftBank Group Corp. is sending tremors through the tech world with a massive new venture capital fund for investing in startups that is expected to domina... READ MORE›
INVESTORS BINGE ON CHINA'S APPETITE FOR HEALTHIER SNACK FOODS
By Farah Master and Donny Kwok HONG KONG Reuters - Chinese venture capital and private equity funds are pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into... READ MORE›
CHINA'S RAGING FINTECH BOOM ON VERGE OF MINTING TWO BILLIONAIRES
China's booming fintech industry is on the verge of adding two new billionaires to the world's most powerful wealth engine... READ MORE›
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BILL GATES AND RICHARD BRANSON BACK STARTUP THAT GROWS 'CLEAN MEAT'
'Clean Meat' To date, Memphis Meats has raised 22 million, signaling a commitment to the clean-meat movement, the company said... READ MORE›
OH SNAP! SILICON VALLEY SCHOOL MAKES $24M OFF OF INVESTMENT
St. Francis High School launched the fund in 1990 at the urging of two of the many venture capitalists with children attending the school... READ MORE›
BITCOIN STARTUP COUNTS ON VISA TO TAKE IT INTO REAL WORLD
The card now supports eight digital currencies, including the lesser-known dash and augur, and aims to offer about 11 of them by the end of the year... READ MORE›
GOLDMAN TOPS BANKS BETTING ON A NEW TYPE OF HEDGING
Goldman Sachs has invested in about 15 so-called fintech firms focusing on capital markets businesses this year, while JPMorgan has bet on nine, the report shows... READ MORE›
THESE DIGITAL TOKENS ARE MAKING BITCOIN'S HUGE RALLY LOOK TAME
Tech startups are increasingly selling coins that can be used on their projects instead of resorting to traditional financing methods such as venture capital... READ MORE›
AS TWITTER INTRODUCES PERISCOPE TECH TITANS BET ON LIVE STREAMING VIDEO
On Thursday, during a fire at an apartment building in the East Village, numerous Twitter users live-streamed the event with Periscope and Meerkat... READ MORE›
AFTER TRUMP: TECHIES 'BOOMERANG' TO MIDWEST TO SPREAD WEALTH
Also boomeranging back are Midwesterners who moved to Silicon Valley for that big tech job... READ MORE›
PETER THIEL'S POLITICS BECOME A DEAL-KILLER IN SILICON VALLEY
The divisions over Peter Thiel and his support for Donald Trump are deepening in Silicon Valley... READ MORE›
THE TECH BUBBLE DIDN'T BURST THIS YEAR. JUST WAIT
That pitch was enough to get going, says Roelof Botha, a partner with VC firm Sequoia Capital... READ MORE›
IN ELLEN PAOS SUIT VS KLEINER PERKINS WORLD OF VENTURE CAPITAL IS UNDER MICROSCOPE
Doerr agreed that the percentage of female venture capitalists was pathetic... READ MORE›
SILICON VALLEY VCS ARE GROWING WARY OF ON-DEMAND DELIVERY
Several prominent Silicon Valley venture capitalists said in interviews that they now believe many delivery startups could fail, leaving investors with big losses... READ MORE›
SEXUAL HARASSMENT SCANDAL SHAKES INSULAR, INFLUENTIAL VENTURE CAPITAL WORLD
Venture capital firms have been called on to make sweepingA changes in the demographics of their investing partners and of the company founders they back... READ MORE›
SEXUAL HARASSMENT SCANDAL SHAKES INSULAR, INFLUENTIAL VENTURE CAPITAL WORLD
Venture capital firms have been called on to make sweepingA changes in the demographics of their investing partners and of the company founders they back... READ MORE›
BIG INVESTORS ARE FINDING RIPE START-UP TARGETS IN EUROPE
Now the German venture capitalist is doubling-down on Europe's tech sector... READ MORE›
RICH ASIAN CLANS ARE POURING MONEY INTO TECH STARTUPS
Started in Thailand as a textile trading operation in 1905, the business is now a conglomerate spanning retailing, real estate, logistics and hospitality... READ MORE›
BINARY IS SHUTTING DOWN ITS LATEST FUND AFTER CO-FOUNDER MISCONDUCT
Binary had raised about 175 million, but very little of that money had been invested, this person said... READ MORE›
SNAP'S TWO CO-FOUNDERS ARE NOW WORTH $5.3 BILLION EACH AFTER IPO
Other winners from the offering included venture capital firms Benchmark Capital and Lightspeed Venture Partners, whose stakes rose 904 million and 613 million respectively... READ MORE›
'THIRD WAVE' OF INTERNET WILL HELP MIDDLE AMERICA BUSINESS
Q Venture capital funding in the Midwest remains the same in the low single digits... READ MORE›
SILICON VALLEY FINDS TRUMPS DISRUPTION UNWELCOME
Worst of all, Mr. Trump is revealing Silicon Valley's vulnerability... READ MORE›
DELIVERY HERO PRICES $1.1 BILLION IPO AT TOP END OF RANGE
Delivery Hero is active in 42 markets and partners with about 150,000 restaurants... READ MORE›
INSTACART TRIES TO HANG ON TO WHOLE FOODS AS AMAZON SWOOPS IN
Silicon Valley has made a huge bet on Instacart, despite the dramatic implosion of another grocery-delivery business called Webvan after the dot-com bubble... READ MORE›
U.S. CONSUMERS BUCK INVESTORS' RUSH TO SELF-DRIVING CARS
Consumers, meanwhile, remain concerned about aspects of self-driving technology and overwhelmingly still want the ability to manually control a self-driving vehicle, the study said... READ MORE›
AT TOP VC FIRMS, MORE WOMEN PARTNERS DOESN'T MEAN MORE WOMEN FUNDED
Some, especially younger women venture capitalists, say they believe strongly that their gender could help them find more valuable companies... READ MORE›
MICROSOFT, AIRBUS CLIMB ABOARD DRONES SOFTWARE FIRM AIRMAP
Its software works on both piloted and autonomous drones used in both commercial and recreational applications... READ MORE›
PAYPAL TO BUY ISRAELI CYBER SECURITY FIRM CYACTIVE
PayPal to buy Israeli cyber security firm CyActive media... READ MORE›
GOOGLE IN TALKS TO BUY INDIAN STARTUP INMOBI
Google in talks to buy Indian startup InMobi source... READ MORE›
AUSTRALIAS TELSTRA FAILING TO PLUG EARNINGS HOLE WITH MYRIAD OF INVESTMENTS
In two tranches, Telstra spent 330 million buying 98 percent of Ooyala between 2012 and 2014... READ MORE›
CYBER IPO PIPELINE GROWS AS DATA BREACHES BOOST SECURITY SPENDING
2 percent in 2015 to 77 billion, according to market research firm Gartner, the shares of publicly traded cybersecurity firms have done well... READ MORE›
MICROSOFT TO BUY ISRAELI CYBER SECURITY FIRM ADALLOM
TEL AVIV Microsoft Corp plans to acquire Israeli cyber security company Adallom for 320 million the Calcalist financial newspaper reported on Monday... READ MORE›
ALPHABET TALKS WITH LYFT ABOUT POSSIBLE INVESTMENT
Alphabet talks with Lyft about possible investment source... READ MORE›