Morning Summary

Hello and happy Thursday.:)  Top News Bird, the L.A.-based highly hyped e-scooter startup, has officially closed on $300 million in fresh funding led by Sequoia Capital. The company announced the long-anticipated round this morning, with Sequoia’s Roelof Botha joining the company’s board of directors. TechCrunch has more here. Sponsored By . . . StackUp. Do you know if your financial […]

Wednesday!  Top News Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy announced a bit ago that he is retiring this summer. The move is likely to have huge consequences, including when it comes to privacy.  Lyft has raised an additional $600 million in a Series I financing round led by Fidelity Management & Research Company in a deal that pushes its post-money valuation to $15.1 […]

Hi, happy Tuesday, all! Top News Uber can operate in London again for now.  Goldman Sachs is reiterating its sell rating on Tesla, saying it expects the electric car maker’s widely watched Model 3 delivery number to fall short of Wall Street expectations.  California has 48 hours to pass this privacy bill or else.  Sponsored By . . . StackUp. Did you […]

Hi, and happy Monday.:)   Before we dive into things, we’re very happy to announce that we’ve finally started programming our second and last StrictlyVC event of this year on September 25th, a Tuesday night. (As some of you know, we ran out of time to do an INSIDER event this past spring.) The first speaker you can look […]

Friday! [Throws chair out window.] Hope you have a terrific weekend, everyone.:)  Pics from our Wednesday night mixer here. And here’s this week’s “Equity” podcast if you’re looking for something to listen to while tooling around over the next couple of days. Top News The United States Supreme court issued a decision this morning that […]

Hi! We’re a little late here today (podcast recording, calls), but so fun to see some of you last night at Trou Normand in SF! We love our INSIDER events, but SVC is a ridiculously small operation as many of you know, so it’s hard for us to actually relax at these things. Last night was different and we’d […]

Wednesday! We’re excited to see some of you a little later this afternoon in San Francisco for drinks with investor Semil Shah and our generous partner in the endeavor, Lightspeed Venture Partners. Wish we could do this more often (and in more cities). We *are* hosting a separate event in September; more on that one soon.:) Top News Not tech news, but big […]

Tuesday! Top News Industrial giant GE is getting booted from the Dow, to be replaced by Walgreens.  Global markets convulsed today after Donald Trump called for further tariffs against China. Sponsored By . . . EquityZen. We operate a secondary market for company-approved transactions in pre-IPO stock. Founded in 2013, EquityZen has already closed over 4,400 investments in 100+ companies. […]

Aaaand, we’re back after a relaxing week off! (Lots of running around today, thus the latest send ever!) Back on track tomorrow. Hope you had a wonderful Monday.:) Top News In a rebuke of the Trump administration, the Senate voted today to reinstate tough penalties on ZTE, the Chinese telecom company accused in April of […]

Friday! [Throws champagne glass at fireplace.]  Please don’t let it be a sweep, please don’t let it be a sweep.  Remember, no SVC next week but we’ll be back soon. Hope you have a wonderful weekend and week (much as we wish we could rewind this past one and start over). Top News You can’t be surprised at this point, but: […]