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A startup that's raised $25 million from Keith Rabois and Coatue is going up...
Corporate-card startup Ramp on Wednesday announced its official launch and $25 million in funding from veteran tech investor Keith Rabois, as well as others including Coatue and BoxGroup. The New...
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Tony Xu, the founder and CEO of $13 billion DoorDash, said the hardest...
The hardest funding round DoorDash CEO Tony Xu ever had to raise for his company was its seed round, he told Business Insider in a recent interview.After DoorDash graduated from a startup accelerator...
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A top early-stage VC thinks the coming economic crisis could...
In a Talkshow broadcast on April 22, Founders Fund general partner Keith Rabois discussed his predictions for the startup ecosystem with Haystack VC founder and general partner Semil Shah.Both are...
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One top-tier VC who left his job in the dot-com crash thinks it is "highly...
In a Talkshow broadcast with Haystack VC founder Semil Shah, Founders Fund general partner Keith Rabois shared his predictions for the ongoing economic crunch resulting from coronavirus-induced...
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Lower valuations and a long wait for funding: Two top early-stage VCs dish on...
Haystack VC founder Semil Shah and Founders Fund general partner Keith Rabois both specialize in early-stage investing, although Shah typically writes checks earlier than Rabois.In a Talkshow...
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Silicon Valley VCs have a new obsession that perfectly captures the grave...
As the coronavirus-led economic shutdown drags on, many investors have started counseling startups to have more than a years' worth of "runway" to avoid having to raise funding on poor terms.But VCs...
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Silicon Valley VCs opened the floodgates to a gusher of billion-dollar...
Since March, Business Insider has interviewed dozens of venture investors about the long-term impacts of an economic crisis on the startup and venture ecosystem.While many were split on the finer...
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Run The World just raised another $10.8 million from a host of high-profile...
Run The World, an online-events platform that seeks to replicate the experience of meeting in person at conferences and gatherings, announced it raised $10.8 million in a Series A round coled by...
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More than 4,800 startups that applied for federal PPP loans in the...
According to new data from CB Insights, 2,267 investor-backed startups that applied for federal assistance through the Paycheck Protection Program had raised outside funding in 2019. That was the...
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Dropbox CEO Drew Houston is moving to Austin, the latest in a string of...
Summary List PlacementDrew Houston is planning to move to Austin full-time, the latest high-profile departure from Silicon Valley. Houston, who's the founder and CEO of cloud storage company Dropbox,...
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KEITH RABOIS INTERVIEW: The early investor in Airbnb, Palantir, DoorDash and...
Summary List PlacementKeith Rabois says he decided to invest in Airbnb within three minutes of his first meeting with cofounder Brian Chesky in 2010. "He went into this monologue explaining Airbnb. I...
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Is Silicon Valley finally dead?
Summary List PlacementSan Francisco brought Keith Rabois enormous riches. His resumé reflects a litany of Silicon Valley's success stories: executive roles with LinkedIn, Square, and Khosla Ventures;...
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Unicorn investor Keith Rabois says tech talent is fleeing Silicon Valley and...
Summary List PlacementKeith Rabois has wanted to leave San Francisco for a long time. He pays taxes he believes are egregiously high with, he feels, only a failing public-school system, rampant crime,...
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KEITH RABOIS INTERVIEW: Being a conservative helps him find young startups...
Summary List PlacementKeith Rabois is one of Silicon Valley's most successful investors, having backed more than a dozen unicorn startups, those valued at over $1 billion, including Affirm, Airbnb,...
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The inside story of Youniversity Ventures, Keith Rabois's investing group...
Summary List PlacementToday, Airbnb's IPO, which values the company at a whopping $100 billion, is helping Silicon Valley's biggest venture firms add to their 2020 fortunes, including Greylock,...
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Silicon Valley elites are fleeing the region for states like Texas and...
Summary List PlacementThe Silicon Valley exodus is real. Since the onset of the pandemic, billionaires, venture capitalists, and even major tech firms like HP and Oracle have started to flee the Bay...
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Investor Cory Levy is giving people $10,000 to turn their side projects into...
Summary List PlacementCory Levy's investing strategy is to find promising, first-time technical founders before anyone else.His pre-seed fund First Text encourages founders to text Levy's public cell...
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Some VCs are saying San Francisco is over. Now they have the numbers to back...
Summary List PlacementSome VCs have been declaring that San Francisco is over, and now they have the numbers to prove it.Despite record-breaking investment in the venture capital industry, the Bay Area...
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Another tech titan heads to Miami. Peter Thiel buys $18 million island estate...
Summary List PlacementTech billionaire Peter Thiel bought an $18 million house in Miami which was once featured as the main set in MTV's "The Real World," Business Insider has learned.Thiel purchased...
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Home prices near Miami have risen over 25% in the last year as Silicon Valley...
Summary List PlacementSilicon Valley elites and hedge fund millionaires are flocking to Miami, and it's already resulting in a major spike in home prices. A new report from The New York Times' Nellie...
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