Tag: venture capital
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Regenerative agriculture is the next great ally in fight against climate change
Nancy Pfund Contributor Share on Twitter Nancy Pfund is founder and managing partner of DBL Partners, a venture capital company whose aim is to combine top-tier financial returns with meaningful societal, environmental and financial returns in both regions and sectors in which it invests. It appears that each and every week a new agribusiness, consumer…
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Venture capitalist Balaji Srinivasan reportedly suggested doxxing a journalist who reported on narratives he didn’t like
Balaji Srinivasan speaks onstage during TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2017. Photo by Steve Jennings/Getty Images for TechCrunch Tech investor Balaji Srinivasan reportedly suggested siccing ‘the Dark Enlightenment audience’ on a journalist, the New York Times said. Srinivasan made the comment in a 2013 email to a far-right blogger, the Times reported. Some distrust of the mainstream…
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Steve Jurvetson and Maryanna Saenko on their new fund, SPACs and the great tech exodus
Future Ventures — cofounded by Silicon Valley venture capitalist Steve Jurvetson and Maryanna Saenko, a colleague of Jurvetson at his last firm, DFJ, as well as an investor previously with Airbus Ventures and Khosla Ventures — has closed its second fund with $200 million in capital commitments, say the pair. In a wide-ranging conversation yesterday…
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‘Shark Tank’ star Kevin O’Leary discussed the value of investing, shorting Yahoo, and post-pandemic retail in a recent interview. Here are the 16 best quotes.
Mike Blake/Reuters The”Shark Tank” celebrity Kevin O’Leary highlighted the worth of investment, talked regarding shorting Yahoo, and predicted the pandemic would change retail eternally to the”Industry Focus” podcast.O’Leary also discussed the risks of venture investing, the dearth of financial literacy in the US, and how Warren Buffett’s business partner Charlie Munger had shaped his investing…
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The Station: Winners and losers in Paris, Rivian sets a delivery date, Waymo and FCA deepen ties
The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click The Station — to receive it every Saturday in your inbox. Hello and welcome back to The Station, a newsletter dedicated to all the present and future ways people and packages move from Point A to Point B. It’s…
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Equity Shot: 1% is the new “growth”
Happy Saturday and welcome back into an Equity Shot, a short-form episode of Equity where people drill into one specific topic. There has been that type of thing —, so much news this week in our regions of attention — startup financing rounds venture capital we needed to exclude earnings from the show! (But actually,…
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Deep tech VCs on what they view as some of the most impactful young startups right now
During this week’s Democratic debate, there was a lot of talk, unsurprisingly, about ensuring the future of this country’s children and grandchildren. Climate change was of particular interest to billionaire Tom Steyer, who said repeatedly that addressing it would be his top priority were he elected U.S. president. As it happens, earlier the same day,…
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Joy Capital closes $700M for early-stage investments in China
Joy Capital, the venture financing firm that’s backed Luckin, NIO, Mobike and other investor darlings at China, simply raised $700 million for a new fund focusing on early-to-growth stage startups. Launched in 2015 with a group of former investors in Legend Capital, the investment arm of PC manufacturer Lenovo’s parent company, Joy Capital made the…
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VC Lior Susan has a big idea that seems to be working: building next-generation industrial companies
Investors from Silicon Valley are awaiting the platform that is major. That’s nice with Lior Susan, an former Flex exec who in 2015 cofounded Eclipse Ventures with the epic venture capitalist Pierre Lamond, extended of Sequoia Capital. The duo, along with a team which has now grown to 13 people — have been believe the…