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6 top VCs give their best 2019 predictions for healthcare, from a biotech correction to a 'shadow cash economy' stepping into the light
Big tech players are encroaching on entrenched healthcare companies, forcing them - as well as star…
Lydia Ramsey
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A woman who's worked in venture capital for 25 years shares her best career advice - and why it was worth being the first and only woman on her team when she started out
"Wende could be running a consumer products company if that's what she wanted to do," Steve James, …
Lydia Ramsey
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An Investor In PrimeSense Threatens The Person That Leaked It Was About To Be Bought By Apple
I was sitting and thinking and I made phone calls and I guess I know pretty certainly who you are. …
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A startup just raised $27 million to make a new kind of painkiller using technology from Harvard scientists, as the race to replace opioids heats up
But Nocion believes its highly-targeted approach could avoid the drug getting to the wrong places a…
Emma Court
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This ex-Googler's startup is powered by 'emissaries' who provide insight into their former employers
"You won't hear me say a negative thing about Google; it was a great place for me," Hammer told Bus…
Avery Hartmans
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This fintech startup has assembled an incredible lineup of big-name Wall Street investors
Anthony Abenante, former CEO of agency brokerage Instinet and senior adviser at trading firm KCG H…
Jonathan Marino
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AOL's former head of video has raised money to build a Facebook-plus-Yelp-plus-Tinder for immigrants
One with multiple business possibilities down the road - though the exact model is very much to-be-…
Mike Shields
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A SpaceX rival backed by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and Salesforce's Marc Benioff plans to go public via SPAC
Astra expects to raise $500 million through the SPAC deal, taking its enterprise value to $2.1 bill…
Shalini Nagarajan
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Mitsui’s gift to Naaptol? Rs 136 crore in funding
"We are already in 24/7 format across languages, and in this fiscal, we hope to be the largest home…
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How Victoria's Secret's core customers have completely changed
"Raymond imagined a Victorian boudoir, replete with dark wood, oriental rugs, and silk drapery. He …
Mallory Schlossberg
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The CEO of Cargomatic, an 'Uber for truckers' that's raised $10 million, steps down
"I think everyone had a sense that something was amiss when management implemented a sudden hiring …
Biz Carson
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The CEO of AI startup Node raised new funding during the coronavirus crisis. Her advice for other venture-backed companies: This is the time to make your investors work hard.
Node guides non-experts through building predictive models even if they have limited or disorganize…
Jillian D'Onfro
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A Silicon Valley startup is renting the car from "Silicon Valley"
The Aviato car shows the promise of a service like Turo, which counts VCs like Kleiner Perkins, Can…
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A top VC at a $2 billion biotech fund reveals the 3 ways he finds new companies to invest in
Each of those factors represents a separate risk, in Powell's view. Before he invests in a company,…
Lydia Ramsey
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By Raising $44 Million, Instacart Proves This Is The Age Of The 'People Marketplace'
We're making a bet that Instacart's partnerships with brick-and-mortar grocery stores will be the w…
Dave Smith
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Sick Of Horrible Software, This Wine Store Owner Decided To Build His Own Sales System, And Now He's Fighting Square And Groupon
He built ShopKeep to solve all the problems he faced with his old system. The company now offers sm…