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This Korean startup wants to take on Carta in cap table management
A South Korean startup called QuotaLab is on a quest to follow in the footsteps of Carta, the cap table management company that’s used by a host of […]
Ema, a ‘Universal AI employee’, emerges from stealth with $25M
Generative AI well and truly has a grip on public technology discourse these days. A new startup called Ema out of San Francisco thinks it’s a lot more […]
Ex-Brex exec Sam Blond is already leaving Founders Fund just 18 months after he joined
Sam Blond is leaving Founders Fund, as well as the profession of venture capitalist, just 18 months after he joined the storied Silicon Valley firm. In a tweet […]
When your cap table makes your startup uninvestable
The CEO of a Norwegian hardware startup shared a pitch deck with me that had an unusual slide: It included the company’s capitalization table — the breakdown of […]
VC Trae Stephens says he has a bunker (and much more) in talk about Founders Fund and Anduril
Last night, for an evening hosted by StrictlyVC, this editor sat down with Trae Stephens, a former government intelligence analyst turned early Palantir employee turned investor at Founders […]
COTU Ventures launches $54M fund for pre-seed and seed startups in MENA
Dubai-based early-stage venture capital firm COTU Ventures is announcing that it has raised $54 million for its inaugural fund to support startups in the Middle East from pre-seed […]
AddGlow takes on Reddit, Facebook with community-building software for brands
Ina Herlihy believes e-commerce brands are losing out on organic traffic and potential revenue by relying on third-party community sites, like Reddit and Facebook Groups. As new user […]
Clumio raises $75M to automate cloud data backup and recovery
Clumio, a data backup and recovery provider for companies using the public cloud, has raised $75 million in a Series D round of funding. The raise comes as […]
A peek at how things work today inside Alphabet’s $7 billion growth-stage investing arm, CapitalG
Almost a year ago, Alphabet’s growth stage venture arm, CapitalG, named partner Laela Sturdy as its new head, just as the unit’s founder, David Lawee, stepped down. Few […]