May 17, 2018
Pluralsight prices its IPO at $15 per share, raising over $300M
Pluralsight priced the shares in its IPO at $15 this afternoon, above its previously set target range of between $12 and $14, and will raise as much as…
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May 16, 2018
Coinbase’s first investment, Compound, earns you interest on crypto
Compound wants to let you borrow cryptocurrency, or lend it and earn an interest rate. Most cryptocurrency is shoved in a wallet or metaphorically hidden under a mattress, failing…
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Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong to talk the future of cryptocurrency at Disrupt SF
Coinbase has come a long way since its launch in 2012. The company has raised more than $225 million and paved the way for cryptocurrencies to enter the…
Read articleMay 11, 2018
Cleveland offered $120 million in freebies lure Amazon to the city
A Cleveland.com article detailed the lengths the small midwestern city would go to lure Amazon’s in 50,000-person HQ2. In a document obtained by reporter Mark Naymik, we learn…
Read articleMay 10, 2018
Google Pay’s app adds boarding passes, tickets, p2p payments and more
Google Pay got a big upgrade at Google I/O this week. At a breakout session, Google announced a series of changes to its payments platform, recently rebranded from…
Read articleMay 10, 2018
Dropbox beats expectations for its first quarterly check-in with Wall Street
Dropbox made its debut as a public company earlier this year and today passed through its first milestone of reporting its results to public investors, and it more…
Read articleMay 5, 2018
The formula behind San Francisco’s startup success
Why has San Francisco’s startup scene generated so many hugely valuable companies over the past decade? That’s the question we asked over the past few weeks while analyzing…
Read articleMay 1, 2018
Goldman Sachs CFO Martin Chavez and Roblox CEO David Baszucki to hit up Disrupt SF
We’ve already got a star-studded lineup prepped to speak at Disrupt SF, running September 5 to September 7. So far, we’ve announced appearances by Sophia Amoruso, Carbon’s Dr.…
Read articleApril 30, 2018
SoFi founder Mike Cagney is back with a new startup and $50 million in funding
Mike Cagney, who was ousted last summer from the lending company he founded, is back with a new startup and a whole lot of funding from at least…
Read articleApril 27, 2018
DocuSign CEO: ‘we’re becoming a verb,’ company up 37% following public debut
DocuSign CEO Dan Springer was all smiles at the Nasdaq on Friday, following the company’s public debut. And he had a lot to be happy about. After pricing…
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