Venture

Motorway’s Harry Jones on why he co-founded five startups with the same team

When Harry Jones, Tom Leathes, and Alex Buttle set out to found Motorway, a startup that connects car owners with dealers looking to buy and resell their vehicles, in 2017, it wasn’t the founding teams’ first startup rodeo. Nor was it their second. Motorway was actually the founding team’s fifth startup, Jones, Motorway’s CPO, said

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Ashton Kutcher, Effie Epstein, and Guy Oseary are coming to Disrupt 2024

Last year, Sound Ventures, the 9-year-old, Beverly Hills, California-based venture firm led by general partners Ashton Kutcher, Guy Oseary, and Effie Epstein, announced a new $265 million AI fund that was betting big on large language model companies, including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Hugging Face. In fact, the plan was to invest in just six companies

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The VC buying up prized real estate in SF says not to “listen to agitators”

VC Neil Mehta, the Greenoaks Capital co-founder tied to a growing number of building purchases across several blocks of San Francisco’s once-glittering Fillmore Street commercial district, defended himself on Monday via an op-ed in The San Francisco Standard, saying the moves are solely about revitalizing a “city that has given me more than I could

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As war rages in Ukraine, investment in European defense and dual-use tech skyrockets

A billion dollars of venture capital will be invested into European defense technology in 2024, a first for the continent, and a five-fold increase since 2018. The investment comes as a result of both increasing geopolitical unrest and the brutal invasion of Ukraine by Russia.  The data, contained in a new Dealroom report, shows that

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Peak XV has reaped $1.2B in the year since it split from Sequoia

Peak XV Partners, the largest India-focused venture fund, has realized about $1.2 billion in exits since its separation with Sequoia last year, two sources familiar with the matter told TechCrunch.  The investor has sold stakes in nearly a dozen portfolio companies that went public in the past year, including food delivery group Zomato, cosmetics retailer

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