Original Source: http://www.fastcompany.com/3057670/wework-valuation-soars-to-16-billion The office-rental company is now the sixth most valuable private company, tied with Snapchat. [Photo: courtesy of WeWork] SARAH KESSLER 03.09.16 5:15 PM Just nine months after investors placed a $10 billion valuation on WeWork, the office-rental company has raised another round of funding at a $16 billion valuation, according to documents filedRead more
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Original Source: http://bit.ly/1LEUvSg JILLIAN D’ONFRO, BUSINESS INSIDER MARCH 3, 2016 6:24 PM TAGS: FIDELITY, FUNDING DAILY, SNAPCHAT Image Credit: Reuters/Lucas Jackson Snapchat has raised $175 million from Fidelity Investments at a $16 billion valuation, according to Wall Street Journal. The interesting thing is, Snapchat’s last round of funding in May 2015 reportedly valued the company at $16Read more
By Daniel Laury | Artificial Intelligence, Health Care, Venture Capital | Comments are Closed | 26 February, 2016 | 0
Original Source: https://www.pehub.com/2016/02/hydra-leads-1-2-mln-seed-round-for-genomenext/ February 25, 2016 – By Stephanie Rogan GenomeNext LLC, an automated genomic analysis platform, raised $1.2 million in a seed financing round led by Hydra Capital and private investors. Columbus, Ohio-based GenomeNext is a spinoff from Nationwide Children’s Hospital, also based in Columbus. PRESS RELEASE COLUMBUS, Ohio–(BUSINESS WIRE)–GenomeNext, LLC, a leader in genomic dataRead more
Original Source: http://bit.ly/20J0jvv Author: Heidi Roizen, Operating Partner at DFJ There are storm clouds gathering over Silicon Valley – and it’s more than just El Nino. As a venture capitalist, I see a lot of data points within the private company marketplace. Every Monday, I sit in a room with my partners and we discuss dozensRead more
Original Source: http://tcrn.ch/20IY2jY Nathan Eagle was a Fulbright scholar from MIT, teaching at the University of Nairobi, when he had his “aha moment.” Specifically, Eagle was teaching a mobile phone programming curriculum at the school when he and his students built an SMS system that enabled rural nurses to text information about low blood supply levels to centralized blood banks.Read more
Original Source: http://www.forbes.com/sites/aarontilley/2016/02/17/mindmaze-raises-100-million-at-a-1-billion-valuation-for-neural-virtual-reality/#1dac368b7557 Swiss virtual reality startup MindMaze announced it has raised ridiculous early round of $100 million at a $1 billion valuation. The lead investor is multinational conglomerate Hinduja Group, which holds interests in energy, automobiles, energy and healthcare. (No other investors are being publicly disclosed at this time.) The round is still open and the company is seeking additionalRead more
By Daniel Laury | Big Data, Portfolio Companies, portfolio company news, Venture Capital | Comments are Closed | 18 February, 2016 | 0
Original Source: http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2016/01/07/under-new-ceo-sisense-raises-50m/ By DEBORAH GAGE Sisense CEO Amir Orad U-Shin Kim 9179074663 Less than a year after replacing its CEO, Sisense Inc. has raised $50 million for technology that speeds and simplifies the analysis of large, complex data sets so that businesses can make faster decisions, adding hundreds of customers last year, the company said. TheRead more
Original Source: http://bit.ly/1Q7R5t3 DFJ team members announce new fund to continue backing extraordinary entrepreneurs who are changing the world Backing the Future with DFJ Venture XII by Steve Jurvetson, DFJ Partner With this new fund, we will be looking to make seed and early-stage investments in trailblazing, purpose-driven entrepreneurs with ideas that have the potential toRead more
Original Source: http://onforb.es/1Q7PTG6 The DFJ investment team, with Steve Jurvetson and Josh Stein at center. As DFJ looks to invest its new $350 million fund, Elon Musk’s phone might ring. The venture firm has done well backing Musk three times already in SolarCity, SpaceX and Tesla. “We’ve been incredibly fortunate in that,” says partner Josh Stein. “The conRead more
Original Source: http://bit.ly/1SbuT1i If you do the math, becoming an entrepreneur is insane. The odds of success are tiny; failure is almost guaranteed. To make the leap, you have to be fearless. Or so I thought. I spent the past three years working on a book, Originals, about the people who champion new ideas to driveRead more