Venture capital is undergoing massive changes. Award-winning journalist Kate Clark tells you what's coming next for startup founders and investors.

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried was not only a tireless fundraiser from venture capital firms including Paradigm and Sequoia Capital, but also quietly made investments in those same funds, according to...

The WeWork founder's new startup raised $70 million in funding, partially through selling its "Goddess Nature Token" cryptocurrency

Digital Currency Group, the parent company of crypto broker Genesis and the publication CoinDesk, has shut down its wealth management subsidiary HQ Digital, according to a memo shared with one of its...

Zapier isn’t a household name outside Silicon Valley, but the world’s top venture capitalists have long been trying to own a piece of the booming enterprise software firm. The problem for investors...

The meme-ification of ownership and the wild acceleration of private startup valuations have led us to this moment where a former VC firm associate has

After months of NFT mania and Facebook's recent name change to Meta, it's fair to say that "metaverse" chatter has reached a fever pitch. And while crypto

Before Emmett Shear accepted the Interim CEO role at OpenAI, the board offered it to Nat Friedman, the former CEO of Microsoft-owned GitHub and a prolific investor in artificial intelligence startu...

The panic over the status of Silicon Valley Bank intensified on Friday, as the stock of SVB’s parent fell another 66% in pre-trading hours. Meanwhile, anxieties spread to China overnight, prompting...

Sam Altman, the recently ousted CEO of OpenAI, has been telling investors that he is planning to launch a new artificial intelligence venture, according to a person familiar with the matter. Former...

Kate Clark is now deputy bureau chief responsible for venture capital coverage at The Information. Clark joined The Information in January 2020 to cover venture capital. She’s the author of “Dealma...

The rush of enthusiasm for blockchain-based collectives is driving an extraordinary surge of investor interest in Dapper Labs, the developer of collectibles like NBA Top Shot. Just a few weeks after...

Microsoft, OpenAI’s biggest backer, is considering taking a role on the board if ousted CEO Sam Altman’s returns to the ChatGPT developer, according to two people familiar with the talks. Microsoft...

As Coupang debuts as the largest IPO of an Asian business in the U.S. since Alibaba

Google is investing in Runway, a New York–based startup that lets customers generate video from text descriptions using artificial intelligence it pioneered, at a valuation of around $1.5 billion...

Startup founders should expect a tidal wave of venture capital interest next year as a record level of dry powder pressures VC funds to step up their investment pace, according to a new analysis of...

Altman is “ambivalent” and wants governance changes.

Update: On Sunday, Clubhouse confirmed it raised aSeries B round led by Andreessen Horowitz. Read more details in our brief. The race to invest in social audio app Clubhouse is on again. Venture...

Two days before Christmas, Founders Fund general partner Keith Rabois boarded a flight to Park City, Utah, to have dinner with Vinod Khosla, the founder of venture capital firm Khosla Ventures and an...

Venture capital is undergoing massive changes. Award-winning journalist Kate Clark tells you what's coming next for startup founders and investors.

Social media star David Dobrik has stepped down from the board of Dispo, the photo-sharing app and social network he co-founded in 2019, the company said in a statement provided to The Information on...

In early 2018, Tiger Global Management hired retired U.S. Army colonel Greg Gadson to speak at the hedge fund’s offsite conference at Miraval, a luxury resort and spa in Arizona’s Sonoran Desert....

As potential buyers circle the remnants of Silicon Valley Bank and its affiliates, one asset could be particularly appealing: the company’s venture capital arm. The unit manages $9.5 billion with...

Chime co-founders Chris Britt and Ryan King pitched more than 200 investors in Silicon Valley during the banking startup’s first four years. Nearly every firm passed on it. “It was a little bit of a...

Adobe’s planned $20 billion purchase of design tool developer Figma is the third-biggest acquisition of a subscription software firm in history, and the largest deal for a private tech company at the...

Investment firm Thrive Capital is leading a deal to buy OpenAI shares from employees through a tender offer that would give the company a paper valuation of at least $80 billion, according to a...

On Friday, Nitin Pachisia, co-founder of VC firm Unshackled Ventures, received a handful of digital invite codes to access photo-sharing app Dispo. There was one condition: Employees at Dispo “were...

Ramp, a two-year-old startup that offers corporate cards and software tools for managing employee expenses, is close to finalizing two rounds of funding that will value the company at $1.6 billion,...

As recently as two years ago, the performance of Andreessen Horowitz’s investments in tech startups were average, despite the firm’s outsize public profile. But its partners had placed bigger bets on...

Venture capitalists do a lot of things to show entrepreneurs they aren’t just a bunch of squares, from wearing hoodies to bragging about their NFT purchases. Now Redpoint Ventures—the San Francisco...

Anthropic, one of the main rivals of OpenAI, is in talks with investors to raise at least $2 billion in new funding, following a commitment from Amazon last week to invest $1.25 billion in the...

Before Emmett Shear accepted the Interim CEO role at OpenAI, the board offered it to Nat Friedman, the former CEO of Microsoft-owned GitHub and a prolific investor in artificial intelligence startu...

Greylock Partners has raised $500 million to focus exclusively on seed deals, a pool of funds that will give the 56-year-old venture capital firm the ability to write large checks at “lean-in...

OpenAI’s ousted CEO Sam Altman was discussing a return to the startup he co-founded Saturday, after a flood of employee support and as major investors pressured the board to reverse the decision.His...

The new entrants hope their arrival is a sign that the VC establishment is open to new perspectives on which ideas deserve funding.

Sky Mavis, the developer of the popular crypto-based online game Axie Infinity, is raising approximately $150 million in Series B funding at a valuation near $3 billion in a new round led by Andree...

Stripe Inc., the digital payments company last valued at nearly $100 billion, is in early discussions with investment banks about going public as soon as next year, according to people with knowledge...

As a co-founder of Coinbase, Fred Ehrsam tried to raise money for the cryptocurrency-exchange startup from Sequoia Capital, Silicon Valley’s premier venture capital firm. The firm turned him down...

For Mila Kunis, the actress known for her starring roles in “That ’70s Show,” “Bad Moms” and “Black Swan,” the journey down the crypto rabbit hole involved a lot of lost sleep and some new gray...

A mysterious company started by former Apple designer Jony Ive and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman to launch an artificial intelligence-powered personal device has started funding talks with some of the...

Greycroft, a New York venture capital firm that has backed Bumble, Venmo and Axios, is laying off five investors, the firm confirmed, after it failed to reach fundraising targets earlier this year....

Andreessen Horowitz recently won a competitive deal to lead the Series A financing of Stir Money, a startup whose software helps video and audio producers, writersand performers manage the income...

Startups headquartered in the U.S. raised a record $140 billion in venture funding in the first half of the year, according to new data from Ernst & Young. That’s 91% of the $153 billion raised in...

Elon Musk may be relying on outside investors to help finance his $44 billion purchase of Twitter. But that doesn’t mean he’s giving those investors a say in how the company is run. A shareholders’...

Parag Agrawal, who was CEO of Twitter for a year before Elon Musk took over the social media app in late 2022, recently raised about $30 million in funding for an artificial intelligence startup,...

For years, the most avid investors in crypto startups have been firms that specialize in the category—with the notable exception of Andreessen Horowitz, the Silicon Valley venture capital firm that...

Garry Tan was in his happy place. Surrounded by food trucks and techies basking in San Francisco’s September sun, the CEO of Y Combinator snapped selfies with entrepreneurs as he meandered through a...

Venture capital firm Accel, an early investor in the data labeling startup Scale AI, is in talks to lead a new round of funding that would raise the startup’s valuation nearly 80% to about $13...

Three new creator economy unicorns. Two startups running meme accounts. Several that incorporate crypto. And $1 billion in first-quarter investments. These are some of the highlights from The...