Morning Summary

Hello! Happy Thursday.:) Top News Cisco says it’s paying $2.35 billion in cash and equity awards for eight-year-old, Ann Arbor, Mi-based Duo Security, a company that sells cloud-based tools to prevent security breaches on devices. Duo, which employs 700 people, had raised $121 million from investors, including GV, True Ventures, and Redpoint. TechCrunch has more on what happens next here.  It happened. Apple jus won the race […]

August! Holy smokes. Quick mention/reminder: we’re on a workation at the moment (a truly terrible idea — do not do this). Meanwhile, next week, we’re taking an actual vacation, meaning we’re shutting down SVC for five days. We’ll miss you, but it has to happen. We’ll resume our normal publishing schedule on Monday, August 16th.:) […]

Hello, and happy Tuesday.:) We have to keep things short and sweet today as we’re juggling a little bit. More tomorrow . . . Top News Facebook says it has identified a coordinated political influence campaign, with dozens of inauthentic accounts and pages that are believed to be engaging in political activity ahead of November’s midterm […]

Hi, happy Monday, all. Hope your week is off to a good start.:) Top News Tech shares are losing momentum right now. The Nasdaq Composite Index sank 1.4 percent today, posting its biggest three-day loss since March. The FANG cohort (Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, Google) tumbled almost 3 percent, leaving the group down more than 9 percent since […]

Friday! [Rides bicycle into sunset.] Hope you have a terrific weekend, everyone. We’ll see you Monday.:) If you’re looking for a distraction in the next couple of days, this week’s “Equity” podcast, with our charming co-hosts Alex Wilhelm of Crunchbase News and Matthew Lynley of TechCrunch, along with the very funny Alexis Ohanian of both […]

Thursday! Woot. We’re a little car sick as we write this en route to San Francisco from Marin, where we just finished up a discussion on public finance that was super interesting. More on that to come.   In the meantime, we’re headed to TC headquarters to help record this week’s “Equity” podcast with the ever […]

Hi, happy Wednesday, all.:) Top News The CEO of Nextdoor, the social network for local neighborhoods, plans to step down from his role after almost eight years, reports Recode. Nirav Tolia, one of Nextdoor’s founders, emailed employees today that he is beginning a search for his own replacement and will move into an “active” chairman role on […]

Look, we love you, but it’s the last week of July and it’s busier than ever on the deal front. Can you please go on vacation? They’re fun! Speaking of vacations, next week we will be working while watching our children and visiting our parents, so do not expect “a lot.”  Also, of actual importance: the […]

Monday! Hello!   Quick mention before we dive into things: We finally have an event site for our upcoming INSIDER series on Tuesday night, September 25th, in San Francisco, and we are getting excited, people.  If you missed last week’s news, Juul founders Adam Bowen and James Monsees, are now coming to discuss the explosive growth of their sleekly designed nicotine vaporizers and […]

Friday! [Prepares chilled martini pitcher.] Hope you have a great weekend in store. If you’re looking for a podcast at any point over the next couple of days, we were over at TechCrunch yesterday, recording its “Equity” show with the charming Matthew Lynley of TC, Alex Wilhelm of Crunchbase News, and Lux Capital Partner Renata […]