Founders Fund partner Cyan Banister says capitalism saved her life. Founders Fund partner Cyan Banister says capitalism saved her life. Banister, who has made early bets on companies including Uber, SpaceX, and Postmates, was once a homeless high-school dropout who believed that corporations were pure evil. One paycheck, she said, is what fundamentally uprooted her entire world view. [ Fortune ] These are the most successful companies to emerge from Y CombinatorToday, YC has released the latest list of its most successful companies since it began backing startups in 2005. Ranked by valuation and/or market cap, Brex, sure enough, is the youngest company to crack the top 20:
Checkout Y Combinator's Deals, Exits and Fund Raised Data.YC grad Oh My Green gets $20M seed investmentIn its first institutional funding round, Oh My Greenhas raised $20 million from Initialized Capital, Powerplant Ventures, Backed VC, ZhenFund, Talis Capital and the Stanford StartX Fund to bring healthier foods to offices around the U.S. [ Tech Crunch ] How 20 big-name US VC firms invest at Series A & BNEA is one of the most well-known investors around, and the firm also takes the crown as the most active VC investor in Series A and B rounds in the US so far in 2018. Andreessen Horowitz, Accel and plenty of the other usual early-stage suspects are on the list, too. Airtable, a spreadsheet app that's reached cult status among Silicon Valley developers, is raising $100 million at a nearly $1 billion valuationSources say that the six-year-old software company will be valued at about $1 billion. Benchmark, which missed out on Airtable's previous round of funding just six months ago, is
among the investors putting a combined $100 million of capital into the startup. Uber reportedly raises $2 billion in debut junk bond sale ahead of blockbuster IPO
Research over 15K+ Venture Capital Investors on our platform. Keeps parent company Thirty Madison raises $15 million to fight male pattern baldnessThirty Madison, the healthcare startup behind the hair loss brand Keeps, has brought in a $15.25 million Series A co-led by Maveron and Northzone. The company provides a subscription-based online marketplace for men’s hair loss prevention medications Finasteride and Minoxidil. Keeps sells these drugs direct-to-consumer, working with manufacturers to keep the costs low. [ Tech Crunch ] Research over 15K+ Venture Capital Investors on our platform. SaaS Freemium/Free Trial Survey is HereUber and Lyft are set to produce a pair of the most valuable public offerings conducted by US VC-backed companies in the last 10 years. [ Pitchbook ] Oh My Green raises $20 million to bring office workers healthy snacksWhat’s the last snack you had a work? Chances are it wasn’t particularly healthy. The food people eat during the workday tends to contain high amounts of sodium and refined grain, according to a recent survey by the Center for Disease Control. Unsurprisingly, it’s loaded with empty calories — the average worker consumes roughly 1,300 calories each week in snacks alone. [ Venture Beat ] WhiteSource raises $35 million to help companies monitor open source elements of their softwareWhiteSource, a platform for securing and managing the open source components of software, has raised $35 million in a round of funding led by Susquehanna Growth Equity, with participation from Microsoft’s venture capital (VC) arm M12 and 83North. [ Venture Beat ] Chinese Startups Lead US Rivals In 2018 Venture RacePrivate technology companies in China have led their U.S. counterparts in venture capital fundraising throughout the surpassing majority of 2018. Aggregated venture funding data from Crunchbase, current as of this morning, suggests that Chinese startups raised more venture capital than American startups to date in 2018. This is a slightly different, more precise follow-up to prior work by us and others that documents China’s ascendent position in the global venture market. [ Crunch Base ] What is the brutal truth about venture capitalists? I don't know that it's brutal, as that's a matter of perspective, but it is a truth that most entrepreneurs seem to either not know or they disregard. Venture Capitalists get paid to manage others' money. If someone is investing directly in you startup, and they know and love the space, having more supportive than capital based intentions, call them an Angel Investor.Is someone is directly investing in your business and they want to see customers and focus on their return, call them an investor.A Venture Capitalist manages a Fund comprised of Limited Partners' investment in the fund. As such, they have understable expectations that differ from other sources of capital: [ Quora ] |