Kleiner Perkins
Kleiner Perkins announces $2 billion in fresh capital, showing that established firms can still raise large sums
Many VC firms are struggling to attract new capital from their own backers amid a tepid IPO environment. But established, brand-name firms are still able to raise large funds. On…
Kleiner Perkins leads $14.4M seed round into Fizz, a credit-building debit card aimed at Gen Z college students
Carlo Kobe and Scott Smith believed so strongly in the need for a debit card product designed specifically for Gen Zers that they dropped out of Harvard and Cornell at…
Matter Venture Partners raises $300M first fund to invest in ‘hard tech’
Matter Venture Partners will invest in between 15 and 20 companies with the new fund in the area of “hard tech.”
GenAI has its issues. But if there’s one thing it excels at, it’s surfacing answers from vast pools of data. Enter Glean, whose software connects to enterprise first- and third-party…
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This YC alum just raised $31M to build the ‘TurboTax for construction permitting’
Anyone who has ever tried to build or renovate a house knows the pain of obtaining construction permits. Challenges in receiving permits not only add frustration, but also time and expense to any project. It’s no surprise then that the startup world has seen a flurry of startups focused on…
Ambience Healthcare raises $70M for its AI assistant led by OpenAI and Kleiner Perkins
Artificial intelligence has an increasing role in the world of healthcare, and startups that bring the two worlds closer are seeing significant traction with customers and investors. In the latest…
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Mamoon Hamid and Ilya Fushman of Kleiner Perkins: ‘More than 80%’ of pitches now involve AI
Last week, at a StrictlyVC event in San Francisco, we sat down with Mamoon Hamid and Ilya Fushman, two longtime VCs whose paths first crossed as children in Frankfurt, Germany, and who were brought in to reboot the storied venture firm Kleiner Perkins roughly six years ago. They’ve seemingly accomplished…
Streaming media company Plex raises $40M as it nears profitability
Media streamer Plex has raised new capital. The company, which began as a media organization startup, has morphed over the years to become a one-stop shop for all your media,…
Video editing startup Captions launches a dubbing app, Lipdub, with support for 28 languages
Captions, an AI-powered video editing startup, has launched a new app called Lipdub for translating clips into 28 languages. Lipdub is available in the App Store for free and supports…
NewLimit, co-founded by Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong, raises $40M to extend life
NewLimit, a 1.5-year-old, San Francisco-based, 17-person company that aims to increase the number of healthy years each person lives by epigenetically reprogramming cells, is today announcing that it has raised…
About two-dozen venture capital firms say they are teaming up to “build a robust movement” in the VC business to combat the climate crisis. The group calls itself the Venture…
TechCrunch Live Podcast: How to battle burnout and profit off human thriving, according to Thrive Global’s Ariana Huffington
On this week’s TechCrunch Live podcast, TechCrunch+ Editor In Chief Alex Wilhelm led the interview portion of our show. Alex spoke to Kleiner Perkins partner Mamoon Hamid and founder &…
Practice your pitch with Kleiner Perkins and Sequoia Capital on TechCrunch Live
TechCrunch Live records live today and tomorrow at 12:00 PDT, and you’re invited to pitch your startup. Called Pitch Practice, it should be self-explanatory. Participants have a chance to practice…
Hear from Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins this week on TechCrunch Live
You’re not going to want to miss this week’s TechCrunch Live events. The startup industry is experiencing unprecedented headwinds, and we want to talk about it. There are two events…
Hear why Kleiner Perkins went all in on Arianna Huffington’s Thrive Global on TechCrunch Live
The best part of TechCrunch Live is that we grab folks who we chat with privately and bring those conversations to you as they happen. It’s a great way to…
Sequoia, Marc Andreessen back early-stage fund Kearny Jackson
Sequoia Capital and Bain Ventures are among the high-profile investors that have backed the venture firm Kearny Jackson’s second fund, the early-stage focused firm said Wednesday as it gears up…
Kleiner Perkins-backed Vylo thinks the future of news is video commentary
TikTok has revolutionized the way people consume and share information. Now a startup called Vylo wants to take the short video format a step further and let users share their…
Kleiner Perkins leads $30M raise for Zumper to meet flexible, short-term rental demand
One consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic is more people had flexibility to work remotely, and that meant they also had more flexibility to live where they wanted. As a result,…
Disney-backed Inworld raises new cash for its AI-powered virtual characters
If software is eating the world, AI isn’t far behind. AI-powered text-, art- and audio-generating systems will soon make — and already are making — their way into the tools…
Superblocks secures $37M to help companies build and maintain internal apps
The economic downturn prompted a hiring slowdown across the tech industry, forcing CTOs — and the teams that they manage — to do more with less. It’s particularly put the…
Say hello to the kick-ass final agenda for the TechCrunch+ stage at Disrupt 2022
TechCrunch is bringing our flagship event, Disrupt, back to the real world this year, which means we’re hard at work on our big October 18-20 shindig. Founders, investors, tech denizens,…
Welcome back to Chain Reaction. Last week, we looked at a crossover episode for meme investing. This week, we’re talking about Musk dumping tokens while holding onto others. You can…
Check out the founder-focused sessions happening at TechCrunch Disrupt
Here’s a look at just some of the ways early-stage founders can learn to build, grow and fund their startups at TechCrunch Disrupt on October 18–20 in San Francisco. Word…
5 investors explain why Latin America is poised to weather the crypto winter
From high poverty rates to low financial inclusion, there are common threads throughout LatAm that explain why trends such as play-to-earn crypto gaming have seen widespread adoption.
Machine learning can provide companies with a competitive advantage by using the data they’re collecting — for example, purchasing patterns — to generate predictions that power revenue-generating products (e.g. e-commerce…
How to Raise First Dollars in a Difficult Market: The Venture Perspective
Raising venture capital is rarely an easy lift for startups, but 2022 is turning out to be a more challenging year than we’ve seen for some time. As venture capital…
Fourth of July flash sale: Two-for-one passes to TechCrunch Disrupt
Summer is whipping right along, with Memorial Day and the Summer Solstice already in the rear-view mirror. We’re rounding the corner into the next long holiday weekend here in the…
Women are leaving VC firms and creating a new class of emerging investors
Over the past year, numerous notable women investors have left their roles at established firms to launch funds of their own.
Sarah Guo joins the wave of women leaving venture jobs to launch their own funds
Sarah Guo is the latest woman to depart their position at a venture capital firm with plans to launch one of their own. On Tuesday, Guo announced on Twitter and…
Leanplum acquired by CleverTap as retention marketing platforms consolidate
CleverTap, a retention marketing platform which has raised $76.6 million to date, is to fully acquire Bulgarian-originated but San Francisco-based Leanplum, a customer engagement platform which has raised $131.2 million,…
