May 8, 2019
SoFi launches gig-focused ETF
SoFi is one of the leading fintech startups to emerge from San Francisco and breach the financial markets. Originally started as a way to better finance student debt,…
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May 6, 2019
Carta was just valued at $1.7 billion by Andreessen Horowitz, in a deal some see as rich
Carta, a seven-year-old, San Francisco-based startup, is the newest unicorn in tech. The company, which largely helps private company investors, founders, and employees manage their equity and ownership,…
Read articleMay 4, 2019
Startups Weekly: Will the Seattle tech scene ever reach its full potential?
Greetings from Seattle, the land of Amazon, Microsoft, two of the world’s richest men and some startups. I’m always surprised the Seattle startup ecosystem hasn’t grown to compete…
Read articleMay 3, 2019
How tech entrepreneurs think of Universal Basic Income
As tech has grown, policy debates have become an important pastime. Today’s tech industry aspires to replace human drivers with self-driving cars, secretaries with AI assistants, permanent jobs…
Read articleMay 3, 2019
WorldCover raises $6M round for emerging markets’ climate insurance
WorldCover, a New York and Africa-based climate insurance provider to smallholder farmers, has raised a $6 million Series A round led by MS&AD Ventures. Y Combinator, Western Technology…
Read articleApril 29, 2019
Alphabet cites ‘headwinds’ in smartphone sales, teases I/O hardware announcement
Alphabet’s Q1 earnings were a disappointment for Wall Street, courtesy primarily of ad revenue shortcomings. The hardware team met with some difficulties, as well, owing in part to…
Read articleApril 27, 2019
Startups Weekly: All these startups are raising big rounds
TechCrunch’s Connie Loizos published some interesting stats on seed and Series A financings this week, courtesy of data collected by Wing Venture Capital. In short, seed is the…
Read articleApril 20, 2019
Acquisitions, more than IPOs, will create Africa’s early startup successes
Africa has made its global IPO debut. Pan-African e-commerce company Jumia—a $1 billion-valued company—began trading live on the NYSE last week. The stock offering made Jumia the first…
Read articleApril 20, 2019
Startups Weekly: Zoom CEO says its stock price is ‘too high’
When Zoom hit the public markets Thursday, its IPO pop, a whopping 81 percent, floored everyone, including its own chief executive officer, Eric Yuan. Yuan became a billionaire…
Read articleApril 18, 2019
Index Ventures, Stripe back bookkeeping service Pilot with $40M
Five years after Dropbox acquired their startup Zulip, Waseem Daher, Jeff Arnold and Jessica McKellar have gained traction for their third business together: Pilot. Pilot helps startups and…
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