Browsing: private equity
In an era of vibe-coding, words still have some meaning. Or at least, they do when they’re harbingers of doom,…
In 2018, Matthias Wagner was leading a 100-person Burning Man camp called Hotel California. 8VC partner Francisco Gimenez remembers it…
Rowspace raises $50 million round led by Sequoia to help investment firms take on messy data
After meeting in graduate school at MIT, Michael Manapat and Yibo Ling embarked on different career paths. Manapat held chief…
Dwelly, an ‘AI rollup’ buying U.K. real estate agencies, gets $93 million to fuel expansion
A startup founded by former Uber and Gett executives that is aiming to roll-up independent real estate agencies across the…
The market is mammoth, expanding, and—here’s the kicker—we have no clue how big it really is. The secondaries market has…
The 29-year old investor who went from selling fake IDs to backing Poppi raises a $75 million fund
Patrick Finnegan began his career as an entrepreneur while struggling to fit in at a Delaware boarding school. He started…
Defy Ventures teaches entrepreneurship in prisons. It changed how I think about founders
Glazier is the CEO of Defy Ventures, a Los Angeles-based nonprofit running entrepreneurship training programs in prisons across eight states.…
In antiquity, it was leather pouches for coins. In the Renaissance, it was folding pocketbooks that developed alongside the rise…
The Walton family-funded PE firm that owns Rapha Cycling Club pauses all new investments
RZC Investments, the private equity firm of Walmart heirs Tom and Steuart Walton, has paused new investments and is reconsidering…
A scary SaaS selloff changes the calculus for startups and private markets: “code alone was never a real moat”
On this Friday the 13th, I didn’t have to try hard to come up with a scary story for you.…











