Articles Tagged 'Technology'

When Time Becomes the Attack Surface

The Long Arc in Quantum Computing

Lily AI Opens First International Office in London to Support Retailers in UK and Europe

Hermeus Unveils Jet-Powered Quarterhorse Mk1 Drone

A look at Juno East Austin, the City's First Mass Timber Apartment Building

Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies: Tomorrow.io is the Source When Tomorrow’s Weather Forecast Calls for Accuracy

Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies: How Dusty Robotics Maps a Path to More Efficient Construction

Canaan Enterprise: 2023 in Review

TechCrunch: Savvy, a platform to secure SaaS apps, launches out of stealth with $30M

Tackling the “human” attack surface head on with SAVVY

A Big Day for Axis Security

TechCrunch: Lily AI lands new capital to help retailers match customers with products

Laura Chau: Building the compliance platform for the remote work world with Mosey

TechCrunch: Appsmith, a low-code platform for building business apps, lands $41M

Axios: RenoFi raises $14M for home improvement financing

Rich Boyle: The birth of small business commercial

TechCrunch: Astra will launch a rocket from Cape Canaveral in Florida for the first time in January

Washington Post: How technology can help seniors beat loneliness and isolation

Bloomberg: SoftBank Vision Fund 2 backs steel, aluminum marketplace Reibus

Joydeep Bhattacharyya: Building the future of search with Jina AI

CNBC: Rocket builder Astra reaches orbit for the first time

TechCrunch: Jina AI raises $30M for its neutral source platform

Byron Ling: Papa –The future of home health in the making

Forbes: Digital health’s newest unicorn provides lonely people with a "family on demand"

Bloomberg: Cybersecurity firm Dragos nears $2B value after funding

TechCrunch: Industrial cybersecurity startup Dragos raises $200M, valuation soars to $1.7B

Hootan Rashidifard: Am I too late?

Joydeep Bhattacharyya: Making community a strategic differentiator with Countable

TechCrunch: Countable brings in $12M for virtual brand communities

CNN Travel: Why a Mach 5 passenger plane is a crazy idea that might just work

Byron Ling: Italic – leading the revolution in consumer-to-manufacturer (C2M) internet commerce

Hootan Rashidifard: The Crypto Bridge

TechCrunch: Appsmith raises $8M to take on the internal corporate app market with open source code

Joydeep Bhattacharyya: Simplifying internal app development and our investment in Appsmith

TechCrunch: Ladder raises $100M on a $900M valuation for a platform selling flexible life insurance

Business Insider: Here's the 12-page deck that Ladder, a startup disrupting the 'crown jewel' of the insurance market, used to nab $100M

Bloomberg: Ladder nabs $900M valuation

Joydeep Bhattacharyya: Creating a cross-border B2B marketplace with Bzaar

TechCrunch: Bzaar bags $4M to enable US retailers to source home and lifestyle products from India

Forbes: Tia raised $100M to turbocharge women’s health

TechCrunch: Snyk snags another $530M as valuation rises to $8.5B

Reuters: Cyber security software startup Snyk raises $300M, valued at $8.5B

VentureBeat: Open source security scanning platform Snyk raises $300M

TechCrunch: TrueFort snares $30M Series B to expand zero trust application security solution

WSJ: This is the space race you are looking for

Forbes: Your B2B retail data can be even smarter

CNBC: 4D LiDAR technology providing a competitive edge – Aeva CEO

TechCrunch: Astra given regulatory green light for its first commercial orbit launch

Hootan Rashidifard: Painless software management for tech-driven businesses

TechCrunch: Tropic picks up $25M to streamline software procurement experiences

Brendan Dickinson: Building the next generation of fintechs with Canopy

TechCrunch: Canopy raises $15M Series A after posting 4.5x customer growth in H1 2021

Forbes: Why Ro is turning to Walmart for its next phase of growth

TechCrunch: Commercial real estate lending startup Lev brings in $30M on a $130M valuation

New York Times: Startups aim beyond Earth

Bloomberg: 'Tattoo for a year' startup inks a $20M funding round

Forbes: Serious warning issued for millions of apple iPhone users

Fortune: Astra aims to reach new heights in Nasdaq debut

CNBC: Space company Astra begins trading on the Nasdaq, with goal to launch rockets daily

Fierce Biotech: Ro scoops up at-home testing startup Kit on the heels of Workpath, Modern Fertility acquisitions

Bloomberg: Jordan, Gretzky and more invest in live-sports streaming service

Brendan Dickinson: Moving money across borders simply and inexpensively with Taptap Send

New York Times: Inside the ‘deadly serious’ world of e-sports in South Korea

Bloomberg: Growing the space economy with Astra

TechCrunch: Spotify acquires Podz, a podcast discovery platform

Forbes: With supply-chain constraints in the spotlight, an Atlanta-based marketplace for industrial metals raises $20M for expansion

Laura Chau: Tempo – Building the AI-powered Home Gym of the Future

Rich Boyle: Laying it all out with Dusty Robotics

TechCrunch: What's up with Embroker?

The Globe and Mail: Toronto nanosatellite internet startup Kepler Communications raises US$60-million as investor interest in space economy grows

CNBC: Startup Kepler raises $60 million to expand in-space data communications network

Laura Chau: Latch – Creating the OS for buildings

WSJ: SoftBank leads $500M investment in Contentsquare

Laura Chau: BetterUp – How BetterUp built a $1B coaching biz

VentureBeat: Contentsquare raises $500M to measure the impact of digital experiences

TechCrunch: Fireflies.ai raises $14M for its meeting transcription and automation service

VentureBeat: Fireflies.ai puts $14M into its AI videoconferencing assistant

VentureBeat: Forte raises $185M at $1B valuation for blockchain game platform

Fortune: Health care startup Ro acquires Modern Fertility in a deal signaling growth in women’s health sector

Rayfe Gaspar-Asaoka: The biggest opportunity in machine learning is tiny – Announcing our Series A investment in Edge Impulse

Laura Chau: How Mirror became Lululemon’s crown jewel

TechCrunch: The fulfilling world of warehouse robotics

CNN: Cybersecurity expert on why ransomware attacks are becoming more common

CBS: Cyberattack shuts down major U.S. fuel pipeline network, featuring Dragos CEO

Axios: Blockchain gaming platform Forte valued at $1B

Laura Chau: Imperfect Foods – Mission with a margin

Laura Chau: goPuff – From college campus to $9B

VentureBeat: Saas provider BoostUp.ai nabs $6M to support revenue operations

Bloomberg: Instacart expands online food-stamp payments, challenging rivals

Laura Chau: Cameo – Taking celebrity to unicorn status

Los Angeles Times: Car rental rates are through the roof: Here’s what you can do to save money

Forbes: Archipelago raises $34M to connect the scattered risk insurance market

Laura Chau: Cuyana – Lessons on building a lasting brand

Business Insider: A 'perfect storm' is causing massive rental car shortages and prices are skyrocketing up to $700 per day in popular destinations

CNN: Rental car shortage is a boon for Turo, the Airbnb of cars

Forbes: Toyota selects Apex.OS to underpin automated vehicle platform

TechCrunch: Toyota taps Apex.AI for its autonomous vehicle operating system

CNBC: 70% of Americans want a side hustle: Here's where to start

TechCrunch: Elder tech company, Papa, raises $60M

Byron Ling: Doubling down on Papa – Why COVID was the shock we needed to improve care for older adults

Laura Chau: Instacart – Growth lessons from Seed to $39B

Finding Genius: Laura Chau, Canaan

TechCrunch: Weather app ClimaCell is now Tomorrow.io and raises $77M

The Globe and Mail: Stepping on the gas: Canadian online car selling platform Clutch secures $60-million to build national platform

Laura Chau: Announcing our investment in Clutch

Forbes: Ephemeral Tattoo, The first-ever made-to-fade tattoo company, rethinks the traditional tattoo parlor

Forbes: Digital health startup Ro raised $500M At $5B Valuation

Fast Company: Would you get a tattoo that fades in a year? Ephemeral is banking on it

Aeva to trade on NYSE as "AEVA" beginning on March 15

CNBC: Aeva CEO Soroush Salehian on taking the company public via SPAC

Bloomberg: Cybersecurity firm Snyk reaches $4.7B valuation in round

Protocol: Jack Dorsey is so money – What Tidal and banking do for Square

WSJ: Warehouse robotics provider Berkshire Grey to go public through SPAC deal

VentureBeat: PerimeterX raises $57M to fight bots and web app attacks

WSJ: Midwest labor markets shake off Covid-19 downturn

Nandu Anilal: Investing in data [2021]

Forbes: Meet the founder who is safeguarding the industrial enterprise from hackers

What’s the road from $12M to $3B look like? Here is our investment memo from 1999 for ON24

CNBC: Aeva CEO says 4D lidar technologies will be in production by 2024

Crunchbase News: ON24 starts trading as one of the oldest VC-backed IPOs of the year

CNBC: Astra CEO Chris Kemp on the company going public through a SPAC deal

Bloomberg: Rocket maker Astra to go public through merger with a SPAC

The Wall Street Journal: Rocket startup Astra Space poised to go public at $2.1B valuation

TechCrunch: Rocket startup Astra is going public via SPAC

TechCrunch: Sounding Board raises cash as startups wake up to executive coaching

Maha Ibrahim: Announcing our investment in Sounding Board

Joydeep Bhattacharyya: How enterprise software became the unlikely hero in 2020 -- and what to expect in 2021

Reuters: Aeva to work with Denso on 'mass market' lidar sensors

Forbes: This fintech startup wants to cover your overdraft fees, and it just announced $35M in Series A funding

CNBC: Instacart taps Goldman Sachs banker as CFO ahead of expected 2021 IPO

TechCrunch: Lidar startup Aeva raises another $200M ahead of its debut as a public company

Forbes: In Forbes Cybersecurity Awards, Dragos named "Outstanding Firm"

TechCrunch: Launch startup Astra's rocket reaches space for the first time

CNBC: Rocket startup Astra reaches space for the first time with attempt from Alaska

The Verge: Startup Astra reaches space for the first time

Forbes: How Bravo Sierra’s founders built a military testing ground for consumer products

Joydeep Bhattacharyya: Our continued investment in Dragos and ICS/OT Security

WSJ Pro VC: Cybersecurity firm Dragos raises $110M as industrial facilities face new threats

Washington Post: Securing the electric grid should be priority for Biden's first 100 days, expert says

TechCrunch: Dragos raises $110M Series C as demand to secure industrial systems soars

Business Insider: Will Nevius named a top tech industry PR pro

Business Insider: Investors are betting $1.4B that gig workers can transform an essential but invisible part of healthcare.

Forbes: ManiMe cofounders named to Forbes #30Under30

Kustomer to join Facebook, helping brands thrive in the digital economy with modern customer service

TechCrunch: Facebook buys Kustomer for $1B to expand its customer service tools

Business Insider: Investors are betting big that Papa can succeed by applying Uber's gig-work strategy to home care

Vogue: 60 special holiday gifts from Vogue’s favorite small businesses

TIME: The best inventions of 2020 - A made-to-order manicure

TechCrunch: Sales readiness platform MindTickle raises $100M led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2

Forbes: Laser sensor startup Aeva may see $2B valuation from NYSE Listing

TechCrunch: Lidar startup Aeva to go public via $2.1B SPAC merger

TechCrunch: Supersonic aircraft startup Hermeus raises $16M Series A

TechCrunch: MachEye raises $4.6M for its business intelligence platform

Joydeep Bhattacharyya: Adding a play button for BI with MachEye

Vogue: Governor Cuomo and his daughter launch New York’s “Mask Up” campaign with The RealReal

Forbes: The rise of telemedicine - The new brand offering customized prescription skincare formulas online

Washington Post: U.S. sanctions Russian lab that built what experts say is potentially the world’s deadliest hacking tool

Laura Chau: Zoomtopia - What Zoom gets right and what it is still missing

Bloomberg: Instacart valuation jumps to $17.7B in grocery investment

TechCrunch: Instacart raises $200M more at $17.7B valuation

TechCrunch: Axis Security raises $32M to help companies stay secure while working from home

Joydeep Bhattacharyya: Announcing our Series B investment in Axis Security

TechCrunch: Papa raises $18M it expand its business connecting older adults with virtual and in-person companions

Rayfe Gaspar-Asaoka: The enterprise “edge”

TechCrunch: 3 VCs discuss the state of SaaS investing in 2020

TODAY: Allure's best of beauty 2020, featuring ManiMe

Axios: ManiMe raises $6 million as at-home manicures boom in the pandemic

TechCrunch: Snyk bags another $200M at a $2.6B valuation 9 months after its latest raise

Business Insider: BoostUp raises $6.3M to help businesses use AI to predict revenue and customer behavior

Joydeep Bhattacharyya: BoostUp - autonomous navigation for revenue

Entrepreneur: These founders built a perfect remote-work product ... without realizing it

Worth: New technologies are ushering in the biggest revolution in senior care in over a century

Fortune: Zachariah Reitano, Co-founder and CEO of Ro named to 40 under 40 list

Forbes: Malicious Chinese SDK In 1,200 iOS apps with billions of installs causing ‘major privacy concerns to hundreds of millions of consumers’

Forbes: Walmart Takes A Smart Step By Teaming Up With Instacart On Delivery

NY Magazine: The best canned cocktails, according to bartenders and drinks experts

CNN: Instacart partners with Walmart to compete with Amazon

Insurance Insider: Shah’s Archipelago Analytics structuring $500B of property data for mega-insureds

Rich Boyle: Introducing Archipelago

Forbes: Zibo raises $10.5M, unveils banking and rent payment platform for small landlords

Essence: These Black women athletes are investing in tech to close the gender pay gap. Here’s Why

Forbes: Telehealth Startup Ro Is Now Valued At $1.5 Billion After Closing $200 Million Funding Round

TechCrunch: Instrumental raises $20M to scale its AI-powered manufacturing tech

TechCrunch: ClimaCell raises $23M Series C for its weather intelligence platform

CNBC: Ro, a 3-year-old online health provider, just raised a new round that values it at $1.5 billion

Fortune: The fight against fast fashion means buying fewer clothes—and this retailer encourages that

Fortune: Goldman-backed startup Bond raises $32M to let any company offer banking

The Information: Instacart blows past Walmart in online grocery business

Laura Chau: The next great consumer companies won’t be exclusive clubs. They will be inclusive cults.

CNBC: Telehealth start-up Ro has hit record sales every month since expanding pharmacy business pre-pandemic

Bloomberg: Wells Fargo backs former NFL kicker’s single-family rental firm

Brendan Dickinson: Announcing our investment in RenoFi

CNN: Instacart now valued at nearly $14 billion after 'unprecedented surge' in demand during pandemic

TechCrunch: 9 top space tech VCs on the market's opportunities and challenges

Business Insider: Meet the 26 healthcare startups that top VCs say are poised to take off amid the coronavirus pandemic

Joydeep Bhattacharyya: B2B SaaS marketing in the post-COVID era

Business Insider: The CEO of hot startup Kustomer explains why he's acquiring a 17-person startup in a recession – and how this is 'one of the best times to make a deal'

TechCrunch: Kustomer acquires Reply.ai to enhance chatbots on its CRM platform

Laura Chau: Content consumption habits in the age of COVID (beyond just Netflix while you work)

Laura Chau: 6 consumer tech trends to watch in a post-COVID world

New York Times: Be a friend to the elderly, get paid

FierceBiotech: Humana, NQF argue COVID-19 spotlights need for population health evolution

TechCrunch: 8 top fintech VCs discuss COVID-19 trends, signals and opportunities

BuzzFeed News: It was meant to be an app to help immigrants lead a normal life in the US. now it’s helping them survive the coronavirus.

TechCrunch: Investors, including Dan Ciporin, forecast the upcoming trends in social

From the SaaSQ Archives: A conversation with Eric Yuan, Founder and CEO of Zoom

Travel and Leisure: This app will bring senior citizens the companionship they need right now

STAT News: Telemedicine can blunt the cost of unnecessary emergency visits for Covid-19

WWD: Corona crisis could spur digital strategies in fashion industry

Forbes: Consumerization of healthcare expands beyond lifestyle products to tackle Covid-19

TechCrunch: Alkymi launches with $5M seed to automate email data extraction

Joydeep Bhattacharyya: Announcing our Seed Investment in Alkymi

WSJ Pro VC: Ladder raises capital from former New York Life president’s new fund

CNBC: LendingClub buys Radius Bank for $185M in first fintech takeover of a regulated US bank

VentureBeat: Uber taps ClimaCell to improve ETA estimates with hyper-local weather data

The Wall Street Journal: How the failure of Pets.com spurred Julie Wainwright’s RealReal success

WoVen Podcast: The woman who gets inside the heads of execs at Facebook, Google and more - A conversation with Glo Harris

Bloomberg Businessweek: Astra, a small rocket maker, is running a different kind of space race

Fortune: Telehealth startup Ro partners with Pfizer to give its ED business a boost

WSJ: Snyk’s skyrocketing valuation reflects growing interest in late-stage enterprise businesses

VentureBeat: Berkshire Grey raises $263 million for industrial robots

TechCrunch: As retail robotics heats up, Berkshire Grey raises $263M

Bloomberg: Learning to love pre-owned clothing even when there’s been sweat

Announcing three team promotions

TechCrunch: Lily AI raises a $12.5M Series A ket by Canaan to accelerate its e-commerce recommendation tech

The San Francisco Chronicle: The RealReal to open flagship store in San Francisco

Bloomberg: Apple veterans’ lidar startup adds $200M to SPAC deal

Laura Chau: Brud, identity and storytelling

Laura Chau: WhatsApp and the suppression of status

Wired: Giant surveillance balloons are lurking at the edge of space

TechCrunch: Aeva snags VW investment with smaller, longer-range lidar

Laura Chau: Slack as a social app

The Financial Times: Volkswagen invests in Aeva self-driving vision start-up

Joydeep Bhattacharyya: The nontechnical components necessary to building a tech startup

Byron Ling: Announcing our Series A investment in Uniform Teeth, the orthodontist in your pocket

Laura Chau: The status tipping point and the social <> status cycle

TechCrunch: Volvo invests in autonomous vehicle operating system startup Apex.AI through its VC arm

TechCrunch: Uniform Teeth raises $10M for its teeth-straightening operations

The Information: Silicon Valley braces for belt tightening

Forbes: Rayfe Gaspar-Asaoka named to 30 Under 30

Washington Post: Private weather company ClimaCell to spin off nonprofit to tackle weather forecasting, early warnings in Africa

The Wall Street Journal Video: Turo, the "Airbnb for cars" is taking on traditional car rental companies

Laura Chau: Social media - A game of status

Wired: Microsoft is taking quantum computers to the cloud

Forbes: What is really driving The RealReal’s new partnership with Burberry

Fortune: This party kit startup’s new hotline could save the day this holiday season

Inc: Could this startup give Party City a run for their money?

CNBC: Papa named to Upstart 100

WoVen Podcast: Keeping it real in business & fashion - A conversation with Julie Wainwright of The RealReal

WoVen Podcast: Beauty, burnout and bitcoin with the original Influencer, Michelle Phan

VentureBeat: Fireflies raises $5 million for its AI assistant for meetings

Maha Ibrahim: Nails that fit you and your lifestyle, with laser precision :) - Our Investment in ManiMe

TechCrunch: Using 3D imaging, ManiMe sells custom-fit stick-on nails

Rayfe Gaspar-Asaoka: Fireflies makes collaborating after a meeting suck less, like Dropbox did for files and Slack did for messaging

Town & Country: Draper James just launched perfectly preppy party decor with Coterie

Byron Ling: What would you pay to cure loneliness? Our Series A investment in Papa

CNN: Burberry partners with The RealReal to test reselling high fashion

Bloomberg: No Whole Foods, no problem - Instacart shakes off loss of grocer

FierceHealthcare: Tech startup, Papa, tackles loneliness among aging seniors

Vogue Business: Burberry’s partnership with The RealReal signifies a real shift

Harvard Business Review: How VC can help more women get ahead

Space: World View's 'Stratollite' balloon stays aloft for record 32 days

Vox: The RealReal isn’t buying a department store anytime soon, CEO Julie Wainwright says at Code Commerce

Watch: The RealReal CEO Julie Wainwright sits down with Kara Swisher at Code Commerce

Brendan Dickinson: A new framework for fintech

Forbes: CircleUp raises $200M to woo consumer retail startups with a VC alternative - loans

Forbes: ClimaCell named to AI 50 - America’s most promising artificial intelligence companies

MIT Technology Review: The key to bigger quantum computers could be to build them like Legos

Wired: New clues show how Russia’s grid hackers aimed for physical destruction

TechCrunch: Top VCs say the landscape for enterprise startups is changing

The Wall Street Journal Video: A $5K secondhand outfit? Inside luxury consignor The RealReal

WSJ VC: SmileDirectClub’s IPO draws cheers from teledentistry rivals

Michael Gilroy: All big brands will become fintechs. Announcing Bond.

Axios Pro Rata Podcast: Facebook for immigrants

People: Reese Witherspoon’s Draper James teams up with Coterie to design adorable tailgate accessories

American Banker: A way for smaller banks to access tech sandboxes big banks play in

The Financial Times: SoftBank strikes deal with Berkshire Grey warehouse robotics

The Washington Post: Meet the ClimaCell weather app. Alerting you when it’s about to rain, down to the minute, all around the world.

Forbes: ScaleFactor raised $100M in a year as VCs chase small business focused fintechs

TechCrunch: The Inside adds sofas to its custom furniture lineup

WoVen Podcast: Building a brand (and a dream) with fewer, better things - A conversation with Karla Gallardo

Joydeep Bhattacharyya: The next phase of growth for MindTickle

VentureBeat: MindTickle raises $40M after banner year in sales enablement

The Wall Street Journal: IAC to invest $250M in car-sharing app Turo

Forbes: Why the founder Of Kin Euphorics wants us to replace booze with bliss

WoVen Podcast: Blazing a trail (and building a family) as a pioneering VC - A conversation with Ginger More

Forbes: Startup nTopology raises $20M to expand its next-gen design software

WoVen Podcast: Feeding the world (and saving the planet) - A conversation with Julia Collins

Variety: Superplastic raises $10M to turn Janky and Guggimon into animated Instagram stars

The New York Times: The RealReal IPO - Secondhand fashion goes mainstream

Byron Ling: Learning to rise wisely with Kin

Michael Gilroy: The death of the SaaS LTV/CAC

ABC News: How some moms supplement income working for grocery shopping apps like Instacart

Brendan Dickinson: On the Journey

The New York Times: The new sobriety

NPR: Why suburban moms are delivering your groceries

WoVen Podcast: Whipping up magic, from cupcake mogul to serial entrepreneur - A conversation with Candace Nelson

CNN: People are sick of drinking. Investors are betting on the 'sober curious'

TechCrunch: Why ICS security startup Dragos' CEO puts a premium on people not profits

The New York Times: Cool nonalcoholic drinks for your sober summer

TechCrunch: Kustomer raises $40M more for its omnichannel approach to CRM

Reuters: Veteran German auto boss joins board of U.S. self-driving software startup

Fortune: Big businesses racing to use quantum computing to solve big problems

Nina Kjellson: Introducing the WoVen Podcast, a series that celebrates remarkable women in healthcare, tech & business

Fortune: How ClimaCell could revolutionize weather forecasting

Michael Gilroy: All big brands are becoming fintechs

Popular Science: Meditation apps want to calm you down on the same device that stresses you out

Yahoo Finance Video: Coterie founders want to elevate the party experience

TechCrunch: Journey launches its real-time group "Peloton for meditation"

Bloomberg: Ikea startup boot camp tests life beyond flat-pack furniture

Variety: Tubular Labs brings in Viacom & BuzzFeed on project to establish social-video metrics

Washington Post: As millions of dollars pour in, esports teams offer varying visions of the future

Forbes: Is Silicon Valley coming for rosé?

Reuters: Aeva signs sensor deal with Audi's self-driving unit

CNBC: This esports team just raised $46 million, and its investors include Will Smith

VentureBeat: Embroker raises $28M to help businesses find the right insurance policies

The New York Times: Can the Birkin bag survive the resale market?

Vogue: How sustainable is consigning clothing? The RealReal is glad you asked

Bloomberg: SoftBank backs ClimaCell, startup pioneering hyper-accurate weather reports

Axios: Drake invests in esports startup Players' Lounge

Joydeep Bhattacharyya promoted to General Partner

SaaS portfolio momentum

Crunchbase: Spark Networks swipes right for SF dating company Zoosk

TechCrunch: ClimaCell bets on IoT for better weather forecasts

VentureBeat: Forte and Ripple form $100M fund for mainstream blockchain games

Bloomberg: A new Honda for almost nothing? Car sharing becomes a sales tool

#CanaanFounders: On what's keeping them up at night

Vogue: Meet Tia, the new women’s clinic making gynecologist visits less stressful

#CanaanFounders: How far would you go to get your dream hire?

TechCrunch: Tia launches a clinic that places the menstrual cycle at the center of care

#CanaanFounders: On raising funding for the first time...and the worst "pass" excuse they've gotten from a VC

Michael Gilroy: Announcing the Beam Team and their Series A

#CanaanFounders: Lessons learned from navigating the VC process

Introducing #CanaanFounders: A rapid-fire Q&A with company builders, in 280 characters or less

TechCrunch: Coterie promises to deliver charming party kits to your doorstep

CNN: This startup makes your parties Insta-worthy

Brendan Dickinson: Fixing directors and officers insurance

Laura Chau: A new way to party – with Coterie

WSJ: The Inside founder's guide to scoring décor deals online

VentureBeat: Joor raises $16M to expand its online fashion marketplace for wholesalers

American Banker: Why venture capitalists love fintechs

Fast Company: Your Wes Anderson fantasy room is just a few clicks away with The Inside

TechCrunch: PerimeterX secures $43M to protect web apps from bot attacks

Bloomberg: Facebook acquires GrokStyle, visual shopping startup, to bolster AI work

Bloomberg Video: Cuyana buyers love "fewer but better" products, CEO says

Release: Agile Stacks completes Series A funding round

The Business of Fashion: With $30M round, Cuyana eyes US expansion

Forbes: Dragos named a top IoT startup to watch in 2019

TechCrunch: ContentSquare, digital experience insights platform, raises $60M Series C

Bloomberg Video: Maha Ibrahim & All Raise founders on Bloomberg Studio 1.0

TechCrunch: Kustomer nabs $35M to take on Salesforce with its Slack-like approach to CRM

CNN: Instacart CEO reaffirms IPO is 'definitely' on the horizon

The New York Times: Tycoon of the pre-owned

Laura Chau: A prescription for how the healthcare industry can spark joy

Fortune: ScaleFactor raises $30M to expand robot bookkeeper service, eyes loan market

Rayfe Gaspar-Asaoka: The shift to an 80/20 robot-first world

CBS This Morning: Dragos CEO Rob Lee on the danger of leaning too much on AI for cybersecurity

SF Chronicle: Politics wasn't on his mind. Now Turo's CEO is fighting for other immigrants

Forbes: Bellhops raises $31.4M to make moving less miserable

Michael Gilroy promoted to Partner

Inc: Bumblebee Spaces named a world-changing startup to watch

Fortune: Maha Ibrahim on why startups keep raising mega-rounds of $100M (or more)

Rich Boyle: Berkshire Grey - a rarity in robotics

Businessweek: These robots help Amazon’s competitors narrow the delivery gap

Fast Company: For Cuyana, the leather tote bag wars are personal

Forbes: Adina Tecklu named to 30 under 30

Forbes: Hootie Rashidifard named to 30 under 30

TechCrunch: Turo’s new dongle will let customers instantly find and unlock cars

Slate: Cuyana & closing the gap between luxury goods and affordable fashion

Laura Chau: The beauty industry is ready for a makeover

Reuters: Ex-Bosch engineers aim to strengthen self-driving car software

TechCrunch: Apex.AI raises $15.5 million for autonomous vehicle software

Rayfe Gaspar-Asaoka: The safest car you will never drive

Fortune: Exclusive - Dragos raises $37M to secure industrial systems

Joydeep Bhattacharyya: Our investment in Dragos

Forbes: Three Canaan investors named to Forbes' 30 under 30

Michael Gilroy: A fireside chat with Jackie Reses of Square Capital

SF Business Times: Peer-to-peer car sharing companies like Turo rapidly hiring as market hits gas

VentureBeat: Drivetime raises $4M for voice-based trivia game for drivers

Bloomberg Video: Bumped takes stock in new phase of customer rewards

CNBC: Bumblebee Spaces is making robotic systems for your home so you can store stuff on the ceiling

Forbes: At $7.6B valuation, Instacart says IPO 'on the horizon'

CNBC: PerimeterX named a promising startup on annual Upstart 100 List

Startup Grind: VC corner Q&A with Maha Ibrahim

Forbes: How technology and automation humanize the property management experience

Inc: Julie Wainwright of The RealReal named top female founder

VentureBeat: Skale Labs raises $9.65M for better blockchain infrastructure

Axios: ClimaCell raises $45 million for short-term weather forecasting data

Benzinga: Venture capitalist Dan Ciporin talks fintech

Forbes: Ex-Apple engineers raise $45MM For ‘generational leap’ vision tech for robot cars

NYT: Get in bed with Skynet and Bumblebee Spaces

Maha Ibrahim & Dan Ciporin: Next generation investors for next generation entrepreneurs

Byron Ling: What’s next -- joining Canaan

Laura Chau: West to east

Fortune: The summer of venture capital promotions isn’t over yet

WIRED: ContentSquare named one of the hottest startups in Europe

Forbes: Luxury brands can't ignore fashion reseller The RealReal anymore

WSJ: Cargomatic gets new funding as rebuilding effort gains traction

TechCrunch: Even Financial lands $18.8M in venture funding

The Los Angeles Times: The RealReal's first SoCal store boasts a dedicated men's space, a handbag vault and a 'sneakerdome'

CNBC: Online start-up The RealReal to open its second luxury consignment store, as e-commerce brands keep growing

Blockhous Investor Spotlight: Hootan Rashidifard talks crypto & the growth of blockchain tech

TechCrunch: Taking the pain out of accounting and payroll for small businesses, ScaleFactor raises $10 million

Announcing ScaleFactor: Automated financial operations platform built for Main Street

Fintech Central: Peering into the crystal ball on the future of crypto exchanges

CBS News: Bellhops mover walks 12+ miles to first day of work, CEO gifts him a car as thanks

Fast Company: SoFi teams up with Ladder to offer revamped life insurance

Reuters: Old fashion - Vintage boom buoys RealReal and jolts luxury labels

Rayfe Gaspar-Asaoka: The era of AI-first companies

Dan Ciporin: Ownership -- a big idea to transform the current brand-loyalty model

TechCrunch: Instead of points, Bumped gives equity in the companies you shop at

Rich Boyle: Enjoying an AI summer

Forbes: This VC firm just gave two twenty-something investors $20 million to find the next Snapchat

Adina Tecklu & Hootie Rashidifard: Canaan Beta for alpha

Takeaways on European Fintech & Money2020

Tnooz: What happened when a travel startup axed its performance business model

TechCrunch Network: The upcoming shakeout in travel tech

TechCrunch: Snyk aims to help developers secure use of open source code

Fashionista: Investors continue to pour millions into online resale startups

USA TODAY: Peer-to-peer car rental start-up Turo heads to Germany

Baltimore Sun: Car owners tap into sharing economy to offset costs

The New Yorker: The RealReal's radical vision of secondhand luxury

Business Insider: Adina Tecklu named under 30 rising star in Silicon Valley tech scene

Fintech Central: Three big takeaways on how data is changing investing as we know it

Fox Business: Dan Ciporin on Mornings with Maria discussing cryptocurrency

The Consumerization of Enterprise & the Dropbox IPO

TechCrunch: Rocketrip raises $15 million to reward cost-saving employees

Bloomberg: Don’t call it retro. ‘Archival’ is the hottest thing in fashion

Bloomberg Video: Julie Wainwright on VC funding for female founded companies

The Marketing Power of UX Optimization

Michael Gilroy: Running a successful SaaS fundraising process

Crowdfund Insider: At the intersection of fintech: Canaan Partners

SaaSQ: Building a $4B company in Silicon Valley as an outsider

Dan Ciporin: What home is

The next generation of computation

Growth Marketing: A conversation with Will Young

CNBC Video: How luxury bags could make you money

The Financial Times: The RealReal deal - how to make millions from your fashion cast-offs