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Piazza, Backed By Sequoia and Others, Looks to Next Round

You might not be familiar with the 25-person, Palo Alto, Ca.-based startup Piazza, but plenty of engineering and other STEM students are aware of it. The online platform where students and instructors come together to learn and teach was first conceived by founder and CEO Pooja Sankar, who as a first-year student at the Stanford Graduate […]

Filed Under: Entrepreneurs, Fundraising Tagged With: Bessemer Venture Partners, Kapor Capital, Khosla Ventures, Piazza, Pooja Sankar, Sequoia Capital, SV ANgel

Talking 1099 Workers (and More) with Redpoint’s Ryan Sarver

Last week, the California Labor Commission found that a San Francisco-based Uber driver should have been legally classified as an employee, and not a contract worker, by the company. The ruling could be a very big deal for Uber and many other on-demand companies that argue they’re an appealing alternative to people who want to work […]

Filed Under: Morning Summary Tagged With: Beepi, Better, Button, California Labor Commission, Doctor on Demand, HomeJoy, Keith Rabois, Khosla Ventures, Luxe, OpenDoor, Redpoint, Ryan Sarver, Uber

Another Hardware Fund Emerges: Meet Root Ventures

You may have noticed: Hardware investing is in vogue. Andy Rubin, creator the mobile operating system Android, recently launched Playground Global to advise device makers in exchange for equity. Formation 8 is raising a $100 million hardware-focused venture fund. That’s saying nothing of the seed-stage fund Bolt, which raised $25 million a few months ago, and the […]

Filed Under: Firm Dynamics, Investment Opportunities Tagged With: Avidan Ross, Cendana Capital, Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, Mashgin, Momentum Machines, Prynt, Root Ventures, Skycatch, Wallaby Financial, Y Combinator

Amid Unicorn Talk, High-Potential, Low-Glamour PayNearMe Slogs Along

PayNearMe doesn’t get a lot of attention from the press. Partly, that’s because the five-year-old, Sunnyvale, Ca., company doesn’t seek it out. But PayNearMe is also in a business that’s not nearly so relatable to many in Silicon Valley as enterprise messaging or high-end black-car services. It’s focused on the roughly 25 percent of people in […]

Filed Under: Entrepreneurs, Investment Opportunities Tagged With: August Capital, cash payment, Danny Shader, GSV Capital, Khosla Ventures, Maveron, payment processing, PayNearMe, True Ventures, unbanked, underbanked

Opendoor Raises $20M for Its Audacious Home-Buying Business

Opendoor, a year-old, San Francisco-based company, is on a mission to make residential real estate liquid by making it simple to buy and sell it online. Investors are buying what it’s selling. This morning, the company is announcing $20 million in fresh funding led by GGV Capital, a round that brings the company’s total outside […]

Filed Under: Entrepreneurs Tagged With: Eric Wu, GGV Capital, Glenn Solomon, Keith Rabois, Khosla Ventures, Movity, Trulia

Keith Rabois on the Tricky Business of Multi-Stage Investing

Last week, at a StrictlyVC event in San Francisco, investor-writer Semil Shah interviewed Keith Rabois of the Sand Hill Road firm Khosla Ventures. There, he asked Rabois how Khosla manages its multi-stage approach, and whether Rabois anticipates that more firms will raise different-stage funds to capitalize on today’s go-go market. Rabois — who speaks at […]

Filed Under: Entrepreneurs, Firm Dynamics Tagged With: Keith Rabois, Khosla Ventures

Keith Rabois to Startups: Go Public Already

Last week, at a StrictlyVC event San Francisco, investor-writer Semil Shah interviewed Keith Rabois of Khosla Ventures in a wide-ranging chat. Among the issues raised was why companies are staying private longer, and whether founders, investors and the institutions that finance venture capitalists should be concerned. Rabois – a former lawyer who’d earlier served as […]

Filed Under: Entrepreneurs Tagged With: Keith Rabois, Khosla Ventures, PayPal Mafia

A Custom Apparel Company with Big Ambitions Raises $35 Million

Into ironic T-shirts? You aren’t alone. In fact, the market is so robust that Teespring, a two-year-old company that helps anyone turn their idea for a T-shirt (or hoodie) into a real product, has just raised $35 million in Series B financing from Khosla Ventures. Andreessen Horowitz, which had plugged $20 million into the company earlier this […]

Filed Under: Entrepreneurs Tagged With: Andreessen Horowitz, Khosla Ventures, Teespring, Walker Williams

Hardware Incubator Highway1 Readies for New Applicants

Creating a hardware device is hard; making it in large quantities is exponentially harder. A reminder of this hard truth appeared on Friday on the Indiegogo page of Scanadu, a medical device startup that began shipping its long-awaited Scout product to its backers last week, then stopped, saying the device isn’t working as expected. It’s exactly […]

Filed Under: Entrepreneurs Tagged With: Brady Forrest, Highway1, Khosla Ventures, LittleBits, OATV

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