Venture

Storied venture capital firm Sequoia Capital announced today that leader Doug Leone would be stepping aside from his role as “Senior Steward” to be replaced by Roelof Botha, managing partner of Sequoia's U.S. and Europe operations. Leone, the global managing partner of Sequoia Capital, wrot

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When I first met Garrett Camp in March 2007 on a reporting assignment, it was at the San Francisco-based offices of StumbleUpon, a web-discovery tool that had registered more than 2 million users and drawn attention to Camp, the startup’s twenty-something-year-old founder. Seed funded with $1

Investment in climate tech is heating up almost as fast as climate change itself. In 2021, climate tech startups received $40+ billion across more than 600 deals. That's more than double the capital investment made in 2020.  As S&P Global recently reported, corporate sustainability efforts

The exclusive club of family offices just got one comma shorter. For the paltry sum of $350,000, or just over five times the median U.S. household income, individuals can invest with Equi in complex strategies focused on alternative assets, which the company says is commonplace amongst billionaires

Mobility mavens, do you have your sights set on attending TC Sessions: Mobility 2022 but buying your pass keeps slipping down your to-do list? Well, listen up. This is the last week that you can save a very tidy $300 on the price of admission. Early-bird pricing disappears promptly at 11:59 p.m. (P

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With data centers alone consuming around 1% of global electricity demand, IT departments have substantial influence on their organization’s sustainability goals. Significantly reducing the amount of energy used to run workloads and business processes, however, requires intelligent automation,

If you aren’t drowning in email these days, you either don’t have an email account or you are a very young person who marketers haven’t discovered quite yet (they will!). To push back against the assault, a 10-month-old, Bay Area-based startup called Gated has emerged with an appr

In 2021, $330 billion in venture capital was deployed, and only 2% of that number went to companies founded only by women and 15.6% to teams with both women and men on their founding teams, according to PitchBook data. In my view, the correct statistic is about 18%, not 2% — as we should take int

Hold your horses, er, unicorns, folks. Time is running out on a serious savings opportunity. We refer, of course, to early-bird pricing on passes to TC Sessions: Mobility 2022, which takes place in-person on May 18-19 in San Mateo, California, with an online component on May 20. Why wouldn't yo

Open source code is integral to tech stacks at many large companies, but its authors rarely get recognized — let alone compensated — for their work.  Max Howell claims the package manager software he created, Homebrew, is the most contributed-to open source software program in the worl

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Over the past decade, some of the biggest names in the tech, VC, automotive and aerospace industries have poured millions of dollars into developing electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft. And that investment trend shows no sign of slowing any time soon. Just some of these investor