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  • Charted: How Long Does it Take Unicorns to Exit?

    aWhat amount of time Does it Require For Unicorns to Exit?For most unicorns — new companies with a $1 billion valuation or more — it can require a very long time to see a liquidity occasion.Take Twitter, which opened up to the world seven years after its 2006 establishing. Or More

    Charted: How Long Does it Take Unicorns to Exit?
  • Lightspeed VC Michael Mignano on Why Apple’s Threats Influenced His

    Investing in someone is primarily a merchantry relationship. It doesn’t midpoint you don’t develop a personal unification – it’s weightier when you do! – but creating an rememberable bond transcends the question of founder:VC dynamics and is often not plane directly correlated with economic outcome. Our participation in Anchor (later More

    Lightspeed VC Michael Mignano on Why Apples Threats Influenced His Decision to Sell Anchor to Spotify, Why No FOMO in Venture is Good (AI Aside), & What NYC Founders Need to Realize
  • Startup Investments & Exits: How Investing in Startups Works

    An investment refers to capital provided to a company by a party whose goal is to benefit from the future success of the company. Investments can take the form of equity shares, which provide capital in exchange for the company's equity, or debt investments in the form of a loan More

    Startup Investments & Exits: How Investing in Startups Works
  • Indonesian crypto exchange Pintu gets $6M Series A led by

    Along with the stock market, cryptocurrency is also seeing an uptick among retail investors in Indonesia. Pintu, a platform focused on first-time cryptocurrency buyers, announced today it has raised a $6 million Series A, led by Pantera Capital, Intudo Ventures and Coinbase Ventures.Other participants in the round included Blockchain.com Ventures, More

    Indonesian crypto exchange Pintu gets $6M Series A led by Pantera, Intudo and Coinbase Ventures
  • Silicon Valley is built on immigrant innovation

    Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines.We wound up having more to talk about than we had time for but we packed as much as we could into 34 minutes. So, climb aboard with Danny, Natasha, and myself for another More

    Silicon Valley is built on immigrant innovation