tl;dr: In-Q-Tel has made a lot of new investments in recent years, and the company has expanded its network of syndicate partners, which is pretty much business as usual at… Read Full Article
tl;dr: Unless something crazy happens with funding announcements in December, U.S. venture capital activity is on pace to end the year down from 2015 highs. As the year comes to… Read Full Article
tl;dr: We cut the data again, and it paints a picture of venture capitalists being even more boring than we thought. Finance abounds with stereotypes of a leisurely existence. There are… Read Full Article
Editor’s Morning Note: Hardware startups, your public market analogs got whacked this week. Here’s what you need to know. GoPro CEO Nick Woodman, left, human that I adore, right. Continuing… Read Full Article
tl;dr: If you need to raise capital, go do it. There isn’t enough seasonality to venture investment to make waiting worth your time. In business, it feels like there’s a season… Read Full Article
tl;dr: Google has acquired Eyefluence, which has developed a suite of eyeball-sensing technologies for AR and VR, for an undisclosed sum. Today, Eyefluence quietly announced on its website that it… Read Full Article
tl;dr: We find out where your startup is most likely to survive from round to round. In breaking news, it turns out there is more than one city in the United… Read Full Article
Editor’s MornIng Note: The micro VC bull cycle isn’t nearly over. Only the finest stock-ish image for Monday, naturally. It’s a good time to be a venture capitalist. In fact,… Read Full Article
tl;dr: “Artificial intelligence” and “machine learning” aren’t just airy industry buzzwords. The technology (and market impact) is very real. 2013’s Big Data is 2016’s Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence… Read Full Article
tl;dr: You’ve heard of corporate venture capital before, but did you know some funds are going small and close to the metal by targeting developers to build on their platforms?… Read Full Article
Editor’s Morning Note: What correction? Evidence that it won’t happen today. Things are good right now. Very good. And, it appears that things aren’t set to get much worse for… Read Full Article
Editor’s Morning Note: Mattermark Editorial is at Disrupt this morning, so we’re keeping this short. The story you had hoped would come out about Rothenberg Ventures is out. Backchannel recently published… Read Full Article
tl;dr: Last week, we looked at M&A activity at a global scale. Now we’re focusing on the US. Mergers and acquisitions are a hot topic. Getting acquired is the most… Read Full Article
Editor’s Morning Note: Uber loses more money than we thought. Tragically, Uber’s UberLEGO push failed to final market traction. Earlier this year, reports surfaced that Uber, the popular on-demand car… Read Full Article
Editor’s Morning Note: Life is a highway. Unicorns are a highway without exits? A unicorn in alpha, not an alpha unicorn. Yesterday, Mattermark dug up the percentage of private investment into… Read Full Article
From the Investors Julie Ruvolo of AngelList interviews Gil Penchina and Shawn Merani of Flight.vc to uncover how they manage working with dozens of syndicates and thousands of backers in… Read Full Article
Editor’s Morning Note: SaaS startup formation is down as costs rise and the easy stuff has already been done well. A few months back, Redpoint’s Tomasz Tunguz wrote a short piece… Read Full Article
tl;dr: Here’s a primer on the language of venture capital. Previously in Mattermark, we published a Beginner’s Guide to VC. What we neglected to include was a dictionary of jargon that insiders… Read Full Article
Editor’s Morning Note: It’s still a damn fine time to raise money. From a long bull market to a period of temporary fear earlier this year, it’s been fun to… Read Full Article
Editor’s Morning Note: Fire up your Tardis, we’re going to 2009. Before you depart into this lovely August weekend, you and I have work to do. Today, we’re looking at a… Read Full Article
TL;DR We investigated whether raising a lot of Seed and Angel money affects a startup’s likelihood of raising a Series A round. Here are the main takeaways: For founders: Each… Read Full Article
From the Investors Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures and Brad Feld of Foundry Group join Jerry Colonna on the Reboot podcast to talk about the critical steps they’ve taken… Read Full Article
Today, 500 Startups hosts their Demo Day for Batch 17 in Mountain View. The companies will be pitching their products to an audience of VCs, Angel Investors, and decision makers at… Read Full Article
Editor’s Morning Early Afternoon Note: Here’s the general case for an Uber IPO after it offloads its Chinese losses for equity and a cash infusion. It’s Monday, and the take machine has worked overtime since… Read Full Article