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Qiming landed two partners on the Forbes Midas List and just raised $1.1 billion for a new investment fund

Starting a VC job can be daunting at first. Suddenly you're given a laptop and a blank calendar to fill. Here are a few ideas on how to build structure in a seemingly ambiguous job.

Envoy CEO Larry Gadea is sure that offices will reopen post-COVID-19. He’s raised $20 million in new funds to build software to help.

Venture Capital Has A Lot To Learn From Fintech: Data-Driven, New Products, And More Access To A Broader Set Of Companies

COVID-19 exacerbates gender, race, ethnicity disparities in venture for founders of color.

This week we're taking a look at the 2020 Midas list, a ranking of the top players in venture capital.

With recent news stories about dairy farmers dumping milk and meat processing facilities shutting down, it is starting to dawn on urbanites and their suburbanite cousins that something pretty important happens to food sometime before it shows up on the shelves of the local grocery store.

Small hotel operators have increasingly turned to cloud-based apps in recent years resulting in a growing software market. Now amid the challenges sharpened by the coronavirus crisis, choosing the right tech tools may help them keep their businesses afloat.

Despite high-profile examples of drones being put to use amid the pandemic, coronavirus promises to be a substantial setback, with key UAV-using industries in crisis and funding drying up.

Groove, a San Francisco-based firm, provides sales teams with tools to monitor their communications with clients.

The charismatic pitchman sold a staid office-leasing business as some Amazon.com-like disruptor, bamboozling billions out of Silicon Valley’s biggest benefactors.

The national crisis, spurred by the spread of coronavirus, has impacted nearly every industry.

To get needed funding, women entrepreneurs must overcome bias as well as come up with great business plans.

By concentrating on keeping teams healthy and motivated, cutting burn and driving revenue, startup founders can do more than just survive COVID-19

The world has changed. From one of capital abundance to scarcity. Founders need to fundamentally rethink their business plans to be as capital efficient as possible. This will maximize the chances of raising first time capital from investors and set companies up for long term success.

As everything these days seems to move online, it may be a good moment also for investors to sit back and re-evaluate the ways they run their businesses.

“There is a shift of everything online” that’s more pronounced than ever since the start of the pandemic, JP Gan says.

Alice Default and her fellow French cofounders Christophe Lamperti and Pierre-Élie Fauché created Double, a startup pairing executives with remote assistants. Double announced in April that it had raised $6 million in seed funding, and it works with over a 100 companies in the U.S. and France.

A surprising number of both founders and VCs are optimistic about the funding markets, but VCs will certainly take a slower pace and strongly favor existing relationships.

The newest wave of aging Americans is entirely different than the seniors that preceded them. Explore how their desire for autonomy, preference for cities, and increasing wealth are going to reshape real estate for all of us.