There are few traditional businesses that investor Chamath Palihapitiya isn’t interested in disrupting. At a StrictlyVC event in September, he talked about raising a multibillion real estate fund to co-manage along the $600 million that his already unconventional venture firm, Social + Capital Partnership, closed on earlier this year. Today, at the Open Mobile Summit in San Francisco…
Another day, another new VC fund closes in Europe. This time it’s the turn of Helsinki-headquartered Open Ocean, backer of startups such as Truecaller and EyeEm.
Today, the NY Attorney General dropped a bomb on daily fantasy sports sites like FanDuel and DraftKings. Sites like them have been categorized as “illegal gambling sites” and have ordered them to cease operations in the state of New York. BREAKING: NY Attorney General determines that FanDuel & DraftKings are illegal gambling sites, orders them to cease operations in NY. &mdash…
Kapor Capital, in partnership with Google for Entrepreneurs and Village Capital, hosted a pitch competition earlier today in Oakland, Calif. for startups working on revamping the old-school human resources industry and working on technology to mitigate bias in the hiring process. The judges, Kapor Capital Partner Freada Kapor Klein, Shauntel Poulson of Reach Capital and Laurence “Lo&8221…
Tacos. Emojis. Tacos + Emojis. That’s what Taco Bell rolled out to Twitter yesterday. They called it the “#TacoEmojiEngine.” 🌮🌮 What's #TacoEmojiEngine? Tweet us a 🌮 + any other emoji to find out. 🌮🌮 http://pic.twitter.com/tioahCA0WC — Taco Bell (@tacobell) November 9, 2015 What the hell is it and what is the point? I set to find out, tweeting along the way.
iHeartMedia, maker of the iHeartRadio streaming music app, is launching a new app called iHeartRadio Family. The app includes music and radio stations selected specifically for kids, and it was created in partnership with children’s retailer Build-A-Bear Workshop — there will be a Build-A-Bear Workshop Radio station, along with stations like tied to popular artists like Selena Gomez…
This week’s Cribs episode takes us to Minted, an online marketplace of independent artists and designer. Minted hangs its headquarters shingle in San Francisco’s historic Jackson Square neighborhood. Stunning is the word for Minted’s interior. The two-story, 32,000-square-foot office space was originally built in 1909 and boasts large windows with lots of natural light, high…