Dave Mullen is an investor at SVB Capital, where he focuses largely on fintech, proptech and insurtech. Dave was previously an investor with Wells Fargo’s principal investment arm and is currently the proptech vertical lead for the EVCA. More posts by this contributor Fintech founders can learn a lesson about frugality from these industry leaders…
Dave Mullen is an investor at SVB Capital, where he focuses largely on fintech, proptech and insurtech. Dave was previously an investor with Wells Fargo’s principal investment arm and is currently the proptech vertical lead for the EVCA. More posts by this contributor Fintech founders can learn a lesson about frugality from these industry leaders…
Evan J. Zimmerman Contributor Evan J. Zimmerman is the founder and CEO of Drift, a genomics software company, and chairman of Jovono, a venture capital firm. More posts by this contributor Twitter’s acquisition strategy: Eat the public conversation In recent weeks, Glossier has laid off about 80 employees (or a third of its corporate workforce),…
Unicorn births are down, exits are down, and nine-figure rounds are taking on water The first quarter of 2022 brought a historically huge sum of investment for global startups, with the three-month period outclassing any quarter in 2018, 2019, and 2020, according to CB Insights data. But despite the fact that Q1 2022 posted historically…
Tesla CEO Elon Musk said Thursday night the company plans to roll out this year its ‘full self-driving’ beta software to all customers in North America who have plunked down as much as $12,000 for the controversial version of its driver assistance system. The chief executive made the announcement while donning a black cowboy hat…
Sure you can run machines to decarbonize the air, but where’s the fun in that when you can invite mother nature to do the work for you? Brilliant Planet does just that: By using seawater and replicating the perfect growth conditions for algae blooms, the company has created what it believes is the perfect conditions…
Companies producing software are becoming ever more reliant on open source databases to build their programs, but it’s complex working with all these different products. Instaclustr, a California startup, wanted to change that by offering popular open source databases delivered as a service. Today, NetApp bought the company for an undisclosed amount. Instaclustr gives NetApp…
The company behind Axie Infinity, a popular crypto play-to-earn game, raised $150 million in funding this week to help reimburse users who lost funds worth about $625 million in a hack last week. Axie Infinity’s creator, Vietnamese gaming studio Sky Mavis, had garnered wide acclaim for building the most-played NFT game of all time, with…
Take a shipping container, add a helping of AI and a boat-load of black soldier flies, fold in a small mountain of food waste, sprinkle in $16 million of investment led by Balderton Capital, and call in the Michelin reviewers, because om nom, you’ve got yourself a delicious dish called Better Origin. The company is…
After recalling 14,000 Bolts due to a fire risk, GM wants U.S. customers to know that Chevrolet is back in business. Chevy is announcing the return of the all-electric Bolt sedan and utility vehicle with a pair of national ad campaigns set to debut on Thursday to coincide with Major League Baseball’s Opening Day. General…
