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A16z’s gaming accelerator this week opened applications for its 5th LA cohort, bumping up investment per company to $1 million from $750,000.
Shares in AI cloud provider CoreWeave started trading on Friday after what turned out to be a rocky IPO.
Right now, in the tech industry paddock, there are 372 AI unicorns, according to PitchBook.
The response came with Westminster locked in talks with Washington over potentially securing a post-Brexit trade deal.
For Glean CEO Arvind Jain, transitioning the company from a scrappy startup to an AI unicorn with nearly 800 employees has been a challenge.
MySpace and Crosscut Ventures cofounder Brett Brewer has joined Sequence Equity as managing partner.
Emergence Capital has closed its oversubscribed seventh fund at $1 billion, Fortune can exclusively report.
AI startups are clocking millions in revenue from zero in just a few months. But will those numbers stick?
Google plans to acquire cybersecurity company Wiz for $32 billion in what would be the search giant’s largest-ever acquisition.
Also: Trump will call Putin today, Microsoft almost passed on Nadella.
Klarna, the Swedish fintech unicorn that made its name in buy now pay later, last week filed to go public on the New York Stock Exchange under the...
Daybreak Ventures has revealed its $33 million first fund, Fortune has exclusively learned.
Jeanne DeWitt Grosser, formerly Stripe’s CBO, has joined Vercel as COO, Fortune has exclusively learned.
Maples, an early backer of Twitter and Okta, and Breyer, one of the first big investors in Facebook, shared the stage at SXSW to discuss their secrets...
Jim Adler, founder and general partner at Toyota Ventures, told the SXSW audience that hype cycles attract talent and investment that help develop...
Under pressure from key ally Beijing, Myanmar has cracked down on some of the compounds, freeing around 7,000 workers from more than two dozen...
Earlier this year, Edward Jones launched its new venture arm, Edward Jones Ventures.
Sequoia Capital’s Roelof Botha discusses leadership and the shifting VC landscape.
Vesta's last public round was announced in 2022, a $30 million Series A, and Fortune can now report that the company has raised an additional $55...
Nvidia-backed CoreWeave filed its IPO prospectus, revealing surging revenue, with more than half of it coming from Microsoft.
The Upfront Summit, known for its glamour and LA-long ethos, was held this year at the Intuit Dome.
Metronome has raised a $50 million Series C, led by NEA, Fortune can exclusively report.
Q4 2024 was a rather limited time for foodtech funding, according to new PitchBook data.
Bonfire Ventures has closed its fourth fund at $245 million, the firm’s largest to date, Fortune can exclusively report.
Verkada has raised a $200 million Series E, boosting the company's valuation by $1 billion.
Abridge, a healthcare AI startup, recently raised a $250 million Series D, Fortune has exclusively confirmed.
Stripe’s ascendant Revenue and Finance Automation division, anchored by Stripe Billing, crossed $500 million in annual revenue run rate at the end...
Stripe’s Revenue and Finance Automation division, anchored by Stripe Billing, crossed $500 million in annual revenue run rate at the end of January.
Fal, generative media platform for developers, has raised a $49 million Series B, Fortune can exclusively report.
Dealmakers share their outlooks on global business conditions, the carried interest tax, DEI, and even Elon Musk in Semaphore's annual survey of...
Why Suchir Balaji’s death has fueled conspiracy theories and unresolved questions.
Greylock’s Asheem Chandna has spent 22 years in VC, and he’s never lost money.
Ashley Smith, previously of GitLab and GitHub, has launched Vermillion Cliffs Ventures with a debut $13 million fund, Fortune can exclusively report.
In Los Angeles, the venture community has banded together, launching The LA Tech Community Cares Fund to support fire recovery efforts.
Hurricane DeepSeek ripped through the venture capital world with a furor on Monday.
Eve, an AI legal platform, has raised a $47 million Series A, Fortune can exclusively report.
In April, cybersecurity company Rubrik went public. Since then, shares are up about 75%.
Fortune spoke to L.A.-based investor Mark Suster of Upfront Ventures, for one on-the-ground account of how the wildfires have affected Pacific...
In a tough time for fintech, Atlas is looking to beat the odds by building a business focused on serving high-net-worth individuals. Fortune can...
Mark Cuban is game to chat on social media—just not necessarily on X, formerly Twitter, he told the Fortune Brainstorm audience in Las Vegas.
CES is tech’s great three-ring circus, sprawling and fluorescent.
The AI boom was the biggest story in 2024, and it looks like Term Sheet readers think it’ll be the biggest story in 2025.
VCs and tech executives believe that crypto and fintech are looking up in 2025.
After a long, cold winter for VC exits, investors and founders are getting a warm, tingly feeling about 2025.
With a new presidential administration, rich valuations, and unrelenting AI advances all in effect, here's what VCs and tech executives expect in...
Elon Musk came out on top of the tech heap in 2024.
LiveNation acquired stakes in a number of companies in 2024, and plans more in 2025.
Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman spoke to Fortune about the cloud giant’s startup strategy.
Proposed Hollywood studio merger between Paramount and Skydance Media has received a new challenge this week.
Gamefam, whose backers include Bessemer Venture Partners and Play Ventures, released its annual report, “State of Brands on Roblox and Fortnite.”