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Hebbia raises nearly $100M Series B for AI-powered document search led by Andreessen Horowitz
Hebbia, a startup using generative AI to search large documents and return answers, has raised a nearly $100 million Series B led by Andreessen Horowitz, according to three people with…
ModernFi secures $18.7M to help banks grow their deposit base
The company provides community and regional banks with end-to-end deposit management capabilities, including a deposit network.
Deal Dive: Elder tech is expanding beyond reactive solutions
Bold creates personalized exercise programs for seniors to reduce injury. It’s one of the latest companies expanding the eldertech sector.
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Deal Dive: VC interest in wildfire tech grows as the world burns around us
As wildfires continue to become a larger threat, the group of entrepreneurs looking to create tech solutions grows with it.
a16z will ‘continue to tailor’ its multibillion-dollar crypto funds to market opportunities, GP says
For this week’s episode of Chain Reaction, Jacquelyn interviewed Arianna Simpson, general partner at Andreessen Horowitz (commonly known as a16z).
The pandemic normalized delivery in the U.S. But even before the health crises struck, delivery sales at restaurants alone were increasing at a rate of 7% to 8% per year,…
Lumos, a startup that wants to provide an end-to-end solution for enterprises to manage all of the SaaS apps their employees use, is coming out of stealth today. The company…
How Bounce beat pandemic disruption and bagged a16z to lead its Series A
Bounce, a San Francisco-based startup that’s spent over three years building up a business which layers a number of convenience-focused services, starting with luggage storage and package acceptance, atop a…
Republic’s metaverse real estate arm spins off, rebrands as Everyrealm
Over $500 million worth of real estate was sold on the top four metaverse platforms in 2021, data shows. Traditional real estate companies are amongst the many investors flocking to…
i80 Group has quietly committed $1B in credit to the fintech and proptech worlds
Not every startup wants to raise venture capital. And then there are those that do want to raise VC money but don’t want to use it for specific things. In…
Andreessen Horowitz goes into publishing with Future
Today, venture firm Andreessen Horowitz is officially launching its media property, called Future. I’m on vacation today but couldn’t resist covering this fascinating new project. The publication will initially focus…
Ben Horowitz will explain how to create and sustain culture at TC Early Stage SF
The hardest challenges to tackle are usually the most nebulous. Culture, for example, is hard to define, implement, cultivate and evolve… How do you structure culture within a business or…
Over the past several years, ‘fintech’ has quietly become the unsung darling of venture. A rapidly swelling pool of new startups is taking aim at the large incumbent institutions, complex…
Will unreliable research bury your healthcare startup?
For healthtech founders and funders, scientific claims and conclusions are more than policy — business models depend upon the lucid appraisal of clinical problems, evaluating inadequacies in current standards of…
Chris Dixon is coming to talk crypto — and much more — at Disrupt SF
It’s 2019, and most institutional money managers are still taking a wait-and-see approach to crypto assets, concerned in part about market manipulation schemes and other nefarious actors. Though many top…
David Ulevitch is now a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz — a big get and the firm’s fourth new GP since June
David Ulevitch has had some strange dealings with investors over the years. Now, Ulevitch is himself one of them. The founder of OpenDNS, a company that sold to Cisco in…
As money and talent flows into the crypto and blockchain worlds, a persistent question keeps coming up: what is going to be the “killer app” that drives adoption for these…
It’s been more than four years since “The Hard Thing About Hard Things” was published, and it remains — including to minds of many of us at TechCrunch — one…
Edge computing could push the cloud to the fringe
Peter Levine has an interesting working theory. He believes cloud computing is going to take a back seat to edge computing — and we will soon see the majority of…
Headset-based VR and AR may be a bit slower out of the gates than many had hoped, but investors are still pouring money into startups looking to change how consumers…
VR social productivity app Bigscreen raises $3M in round led by Andreessen Horowitz
While there is much ink spilled over the hunt for VR’s “killer app,” over the past year a number of social apps have emerged out of the VR community that…
Speaking at a Strictly VC event in Palo Alto, noted venture capital investor Marc Andreessen talked about why he abruptly quit Twitter this week. “I feel 50 pounds lighter” without…
Good news for the mutual fund company that holds the most unicorn stakes! Wait . . .
A new report may have mutual fund investors beaming right now — and traditional venture investors sniggering. According to new research from the data company Pitchbook, Fidelity Investments has assembled…
Nootrobox wants to boost your brain power with vitamin D
Who needs the sun? Many Silicon Valley startups pride themselves on long, grueling work hours, toiling from the crack of dawn until late into the night. But that work pride has a…
In Advance of Next Fund, Andreessen Horowitz Brings Aboard Martin Casado As GP
Andreessen Horowitz’s team continues to grow and change. Today, the Sand Hill Road firm is announcing the appointment of its newest and ninth general partner: Martin Casado, the cofounder and…
Andreessen Horowitz GP Scott Weiss Won’t Be Investing Next Fund
This morning, former IronPort Systems cofounder and CEO Scott Weiss announced that he’s no longer going to be investing in new companies on behalf of Andreessen Horowitz, the Sand Hill…
Andreessen Horowitz is making a big move into biotech, and it’s using a $200 million new fund called the AH Bio Fund – and new general partner, Vijay Pande —…
Food delivery startup Gobble is announcing that it has raised $10.75 million in Series A funding. Gobble does the measuring, chopping, mixing and (to a certain extent) cooking for its…
Tanium Gets Another $120M To Unpick The Cybersecurity Patchwork
Enterprise security and system management firm Tanium has announced another big tranche of funding, taking in $120 million, led by TPG and Institutional Venture Partners, with existing investor Andreessen Horowitz…
OKCupid Founders Get $10.8M To Build A Kinder, Gentler Public Key Encryption Tool
What do you for an encore after you founded and sold OKCupid? Well you tackle public-key encryption, of course. Keybase was the result, and the company announced a $10.8 million Series A…