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Fast Company
John Paul Titlow |
Lyft Just Raised $530 Million To Challenge Uber For Ride-Sharing Supremacy Lyft is creeping into new markets, reaching profitability in many of them -- and, most importantly, raking in a ton of cash.   |
Fast Company
Tina Amirtha |
Tech's Actual Gender Numbers Are Vague And Grim. A Small Tweak Could Change That The NY-based venture capital firm Female Founders Fund (F Cubed) plumbed data on its own and found an uptick in funding for women-led startups in 2014, especially in New York, when compared to a year earlier. |
Fast Company
Nikita Richardson |
How A New Investment Group Led By Female Twitter Execs Could Help Solve Silicon Valley's Diversity Problem It's a well-documented fact that it's much easier to break into the hyper-competitive tech world if you're a man, and there is a dearth of female-led VC funds, with only a handful making an impact. |
Fast Company
Neal Ungerleider |
Private Spaceflight Gets A New Boost From Silicon Valley Bessemer Venture Partners, which manages more than $4 billion in capital and primarily invests in cybersecurity and enterprise technology firms, announced a new aerospace investment practice this week. |
Fast Company
Samantha Cole |
One Of Silicon Valley's Highest Profile Gender Discrimination Suits Goes To Trial This Week Venture capitalist Ellen Pao brings her gender discrimination case against prominent VC firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers to court this week. She seeks as much as $16 million in damages. |
Fast Company
Max Chafkin |
"Guys, Let's Grow The Hell Out Of This Company": How Y Combinator Startups Go Big Liz Wessel has a number in mind: a jaw-dropping digit that she believes will be significant enough to convince even the most skeptical audience that she's onto something big. |
Fast Company
Neal Ungerleider |
How Eric Schmidt, Cisco, And An Israeli Spymaster Launched A New Cybersecurity Incubator Team8's foundation is also a striking example of how the cybersecurity field has begun to meld and merge with the global military-industrial complex. |
Fast Company
March 2015
Jeff Chu |
Susan Lyne: "I Just Always Believed There Was A Bigger World Out There" As the current head of the Built By Girls fund, she is taking her passion to investing. Here is a conversation with her about women, entrepreneurialism and female role models. |
Fast Company
Vivian Giang |
Why The Few Women Venture Capitalists Often Give Up Only 2.7% of all venture-backed companies have a woman CEO. That's 183 out of 6,517 companies or $1.5 billion out of the $50.8 billion invested between 2011 and 2013. |
Fast Company
Max Chafkin |
Getting The Band Back Together: Why The Justin.TV Mafia Returned To Y Combinator The Justin.TV story may be the ur-example of YC helping founders turn dumb ideas into brilliant businesses. |
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