Here's why Ashton Kutcher thinks it's 'absurd' if you have a problem with the...
Electric scooter companies like Lime, Bird, and Spin faced regulatory issues after introducing their pay-as-you-go scooter services to the streets of San Francisco earlier this year. Ashton Kutcher,...
View ArticleAshton Kutcher explains the secret to getting him to write an investment...
Ashton Kutcher is a prodigious tech investor: He has a stake in companies like Uber and Airbnb, and has funded many more through his firm Sound Ventures. At TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco, Kutcher...
View ArticleSilicon Valley's ultra wealthy are reportedly buying up $8 million doomsday...
Super rich Silicon Valley moguls are buying up millions of dollars' worth of doomsday bunkers and installing them in New Zealand, Bloomberg reports.The most expensive cost $8 million and is and buried...
View Article40 AND UNDER: The Silicon Valley biotech stars who are backing startups...
Putting millions of dollars into bold new technologies can be a delicate business when lives hang in the balance. But every day some of the sharpest minds in Silicon Valley make big bets on tools and...
View ArticleSilicon Valley’s top biotech investors reveal what the crash and burn of...
Theranos, a blood-testing startup that claimed it would revolutionize healthcare by doing away with "big bad needles," crashed and burned after it was revealed that it lacked concrete science.But...
View ArticleGoldman Sachs was an early backer of Uber, Dropbox and Spotify — here's what...
Goldman Sachs is the most active tech startup investor that's not a tech company itself —with venture capital investments in around 640 different tech startups. The investment bank saw big returns on...
View ArticleAfter a huge user revolt, nobody wanted to work at Reddit. 3 years later, the...
Reddit, known as the "front page of the internet," has weathered a lot of storms. Over the years, the site has been dogged by user revolts, controversial content, and public ousters of its leaders.The...
View ArticleSan Francisco's new $2.2 billion transit center, the 'Grand Central Station...
San Francisco's new four-block-long Salesforce Transit Center — and the stunning rooftop park located on top of it — is officially open to the public.A project almost two decades in the making, the...
View ArticleChinese entrepreneurs have a completely different definition of winning than...
Former Google China president and legendary tech investor Kai-Fu Lee says China is outpacing the US in the development of its mobile applications and AI.He predicts that the country's tech will usurp...
View ArticleStartups aiming to grow meat from animal cells are abandoning the term 'clean...
Some startups aiming to create real meat from animal cells are abandoning the term "clean meat."In a meeting following a conference on alternatives to traditional meat, CEOs and representatives from...
View ArticleThe 35-year-old creator of Twitch has already launched and sold one startup...
Justin Kan's new legal startup, Atrium, has snatched up $65 million in a new round of funding led by Andreessen Horowitz.Kan is perhaps best known as the creator of modern live-streaming with the...
View ArticleA venture capitalist and former Obama official are giving startups $30...
FoodShot Global is a new fund for researchers and startups who are solving problems in food and agriculture that stem from soil degradation.Venture capitalist Victor Friedberg, former...
View ArticleA VC who's lived in Silicon Valley her whole life says the things that used...
Silicon Valley has undergone many changes since it first became the hub of the tech world decades ago.Minal Hasan, the co-founder of a Silicon Valley venture capital firm, has lived in the region her...
View Article‘Harold and Kumar’ actor Kal Penn shares why he backed the startup behind...
Kal Penn, the actor who played Kumar in the 2004 cult comedy "Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle," now has a reason to return to the burger chain in real life.This week, the chain is adding Silicon...
View ArticleSilicon Valley's top biotech VCs share the biggest mistakes startups make...
Biotech is one of the hottest sectors for venture-capital funds right now, but pitching a science-heavy startup to investors isn't always easy.We asked the top investors in the space to tell us what...
View ArticleWe tasted the first lab-grown sausage made without slaughtering any animals —...
Silicon Valley startup New Age Meats made history on Monday by letting journalists taste the first cultured pork sausage made in a lab.Making meat without slaughter has been the primary objective of...
View ArticleA 13-year-old startup you've never heard of just raised $225 million from...
UiPath, a company that makes software to automate repetitive business processes, has raised $225 million in funding.The company, founded by a former Microsoft staffer from Romania, is now worth $3...
View ArticleWe tried the first lab-grown sausage made without killing animals. It was...
Silicon Valley clean meat startup New Age Meats made history on Monday by letting journalists taste the first cultured pork sausage made in a lab.New Age Meats' sausage is the first cell-based meat to...
View ArticleAn investor who built 13 billion dollar companies explains why it's important...
Former Google China president Kai-Fu Lee has invested in 13 companies that have attained billion dollar valuations.Among his portfolio companies' most successful entrepreneurs, Lee identifies one key...
View Article'Shame on the LPs': Insiders say the unravelling of Silicon Valley's hottest...
Social Capital's rupture has largely been blamed on the firm's charismatic co-founder, early Facebook executive Chamath Palihapitiya.However, some insiders speculate that the firm's troubles could have...
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