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June 22, 2023

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How AI Is Changing The Future Of Work

Harness CEO Jyoti Bansal: The enterprise needs guardrails to ship code quickly

The Seed 100: The best early-stage investors of 2023

Meet the Disrupt Audience Choice roundtable winners

Qdrant, an open source vector database startup, wants to help AI developers leverage unstructured data

Junior VCs reflect on their careers in a downturn

The Wall Street Journal

December 23, 2022

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VCs try to parse through the 'noise' of generative AI

Web3’s complexity a challenge for security as adoption of ‘the new internet’ grows

Will remote work help Boston’s startup scene?

Unusual Ventures just closed a $485M fund by promising hands-on (full-time) help

API security startup Traceable AI raises $60M on $450M valuation

AppDynamics founder’s Midas touch strikes again as Harness valuation hits $3.7B

Stigg launches to help SaaS companies dabble with different pricing and feature packaging

Lucky is bringing brands, retailers together with its take on product merchandising

Endgame grabs another cash infusion as product-led growth momentum builds

Success of web3 hinges on remedying its security challenges

Unusual Ventures adds Lars Albright as GP

Venture Capital Journal

December 24, 2021

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Purple Dot, a waitlist and preorder platform for the fashion industry, raises $4M

Meet the 55 rising-star VCs who shook up the industry in 2021, according to other VCs

Why Zero Trust Must Be Extended To APIs

Relyance AI scores $25M Series A to ensure privacy compliance at the code level

Privacy and data governance startup Relyance launches from stealth with $30M in funding

Robinhood surges more than 24%, blows past $38 IPO price

Orum raises $25M to automate outbound sales workflows

Designing PLG for Enterprise with Sandhya from Unusual Ventures

Unusual Ventures Partner Sandhya Hegde On Entrepreneurship And Breaking Into Venture Capital

Contra wants to be the community that independent workers are missing

API security startup Traceable partners with Silicon Valley CISO Investments

Presale Platform Vivun Lands $35M

Unusual Ventures hires Sandhya Hegde as partner

Founders don't need to be full-time to start raising venture capital

How Unusual Ventures uses a unique web design to stand out

Vivun announces $18M Series A to keep growing pre-sales platform

HBCUs are missing an investment opportunity reserved for predominately White universities

147 Sarah Leary: Nextdoor’s Co-founder Becomes a VC

John Vrionis on a New Approach to Venture Capital and Building Businesses

Conversations with Bacon

June 2, 2020

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Cofounder Of Neighborhood App Nextdoor Turns VC, Joins Unusual Ventures As Partner

How 6 top VCs are adapting to the new uncertainty

New Unusual Ventures VC sees increased competition for best seed startups

Silicon Valley Business Journal

March 1, 2020

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How to Build a Recruiting Brand

The Funded: Founders Fund raises $3B and 11 startups score over $260M

January 31, 2020

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The Funded: 6 Bay Area startups get over $160M at week's end

December 20, 2019

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The State of Startups: An extensive survey of startups and their employees reveals what founders need to think about in 2020 when it comes to fundraising

Term Sheet Readers Predict a Bigger Focus on Profitability, Inclusivity, and Ethics in 2020

Ordr Raises $27.5M in Series B Funding

December 9, 2019

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20VC: Unusual Ventures' John Vrionis on Why We Need to Raise the Bar in Venture, Why Taking Multi-Stage Money at Seed Is Not in the Best Interest of Founders

The Funded: Zume Pizza co-founder's new job and $110M in startup deals

November 26, 2019

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Vivun snags $3M seed round to bring order to pre-sales

November 24, 2019

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Banyan Security Closes $17 Million In Funding

November 22, 2019

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The Funded: YC shutters China outpost, Bay Area startups haul in more than $580M in funding

November 19, 2019

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Unusual Ventures raises $400 mln second fund

Venture Capital Journal

November 19, 2019

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Unusual Ventures races to $400m final close for Fund II

Seed firm Unusual Ventures steps up to big-league fund size

Unusual Ventures Closes Second Fund, at $400M

SoftBank's Saudi ties put a spotlight on where VC firms get their money. Unusual Ventures is betting $400 million that socially conscious founders are wising up

Cloud-Native Authorization Company Styra Closes $14 Million In Funding

November 13, 2019

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The Funded: Two hefty rounds lead $800M in Bay Area startup funding at midweek

November 12, 2019

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Styra Raises $14M in Series A Funding

November 4, 2019

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It's convenient to look the other way': Here's why startups are starting to ask tough questions about where VC money comes from

October 30, 2019

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The DNA of Startup Success

VCs to Start Taking a Tougher Stance on Ethics, Unusual Ventures' Vrionis Says

October 26, 2019

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Only 40% of venture firms say investing in underrepresented founders is a priority. A rising star at Unusual Ventures wants to change that.

The Funded: 10 Bay Area companies score more than $900M in VC funding at midweek

October 17, 2019

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Job hopping: This is how long employees typically stay at Tesla, Apple, Facebook, Cisco, Nvidia, Oracle and more

Silicon Valley Business Journal

October 12, 2019

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Silicon Valley's founder-led startups have lost their shine with IPO investors. But the obsession with direct listings won't fix the bigger problem.

September 25, 2019

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What Every Serious Entrepreneur Needs to Know About Raising Venture Capital Funding

September 17, 2019

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Read This List of Books to Succeed in Business and Life

August 23, 2019

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The myth of 'stage agnostic' investing

July 29, 2019

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Business Insider: 25 rising stars in venture capital who control millions of dollars in Silicon Valley and decide which startups will blow up

July 29, 2019

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How to drum up the courage to make an audacious request

July 15, 2019

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Investors from Comcast Ventures, Lightspeed, and others name 11 hot media companies they think will blow up this year

July 9, 2019

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John Vrionis of Unusual Ventures

June 20, 2019

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Slack: Why Did The App Catch Fire?

April 24, 2019

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The Funded: 14 Bay Area funding deals score over $350M at midweek

April 23, 2019

Unusual

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Harness raises $60 million to automate continuous app delivery with machine learning

April 23, 2019

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Harness Raises $60M To Accelerate The Pace That Engineers Push Code

April 23, 2019

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Harness hauls in $60M Series B investment on $500M valuation

March 13, 2019

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Diversity in Tech: How One VC Firm Is Partnering With Historically Black Colleges To Address The Pipeline Issue

March 6, 2019

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Pioneer Square Labs is invigorating Seattle's startup ecosystem

February 26, 2019

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Ordr raises $16.5 million for network-level cybersecurity

February 22, 2019

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VC Interview: John Vrionis of Unusual Ventures

February 8, 2019

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John Vrionis on his unusual approach to venture capital

Venture Capital Journal

January 23, 2019

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11 Books to Become a Smarter, Stronger Version of Yourself

January 10, 2019

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Venture Funds Raised Most in 2018 Since Dot-Com Boom

January 7, 2019

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23 Tech Predictions for 2020

Pitching a VC: How to Size The Market Opportunity

November 1, 2018

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Start-Ups Ask, ' Are We Making Money for Saudi Arabia?'

August 15, 2018

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AppDynamics founder Jyoti Bansal and longtime VC John Vrionis are now taking applications for their new accelerator program

May 15, 2018

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These investors say venture capital is broken—and they've started an 'Unusual' new fund to fix it

May 15, 2018

Unusual

Portfolio

AppDynamics founder launches Unusual Ventures, a new $160M seed-stage fund

Unusual

Portfolio

Seed 75: The best seed VC firms for founders looking to raise money in 2023

How AI Is Changing The Future Of Work

Harness CEO Jyoti Bansal: The enterprise needs guardrails to ship code quickly

The Seed 100: The best early-stage investors of 2023

Meet the Disrupt Audience Choice roundtable winners

Junior VCs reflect on their careers in a downturn

The Wall Street Journal

August 3, 2022

Unusual

Portfolio

Web3’s complexity a challenge for security as adoption of ‘the new internet’ grows

Will remote work help Boston’s startup scene?

Unusual Ventures just closed a $485M fund by promising hands-on (full-time) help

Success of web3 hinges on remedying its security challenges

Unusual Ventures adds Lars Albright as GP

Venture Capital Journal

December 10, 2021

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Portfolio

Meet the 55 rising-star VCs who shook up the industry in 2021, according to other VCs

Why Zero Trust Must Be Extended To APIs

Designing PLG for Enterprise with Sandhya from Unusual Ventures

Unusual Ventures Partner Sandhya Hegde On Entrepreneurship And Breaking Into Venture Capital

Unusual Ventures hires Sandhya Hegde as partner

Founders don't need to be full-time to start raising venture capital

How Unusual Ventures uses a unique web design to stand out

HBCUs are missing an investment opportunity reserved for predominately White universities

147 Sarah Leary: Nextdoor’s Co-founder Becomes a VC

John Vrionis on a New Approach to Venture Capital and Building Businesses

Conversations with Bacon

June 2, 2020

Unusual

Portfolio

Cofounder Of Neighborhood App Nextdoor Turns VC, Joins Unusual Ventures As Partner

How 6 top VCs are adapting to the new uncertainty

New Unusual Ventures VC sees increased competition for best seed startups

Silicon Valley Business Journal

March 1, 2020

Unusual

Portfolio

How to Build a Recruiting Brand

The State of Startups: An extensive survey of startups and their employees reveals what founders need to think about in 2020 when it comes to fundraising

Term Sheet Readers Predict a Bigger Focus on Profitability, Inclusivity, and Ethics in 2020

Unusual Ventures raises $400 mln second fund

Venture Capital Journal

November 19, 2019

Unusual

Portfolio

Unusual Ventures races to $400m final close for Fund II

Unusual Ventures Closes Second Fund, at $400M

SoftBank's Saudi ties put a spotlight on where VC firms get their money. Unusual Ventures is betting $400 million that socially conscious founders are wising up

It's convenient to look the other way': Here's why startups are starting to ask tough questions about where VC money comes from

October 30, 2019

Unusual

Portfolio

The DNA of Startup Success

VCs to Start Taking a Tougher Stance on Ethics, Unusual Ventures' Vrionis Says

October 26, 2019

Unusual

Portfolio

Only 40% of venture firms say investing in underrepresented founders is a priority. A rising star at Unusual Ventures wants to change that.

Job hopping: This is how long employees typically stay at Tesla, Apple, Facebook, Cisco, Nvidia, Oracle and more

Silicon Valley Business Journal

October 12, 2019

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Silicon Valley's founder-led startups have lost their shine with IPO investors. But the obsession with direct listings won't fix the bigger problem.

September 25, 2019

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What Every Serious Entrepreneur Needs to Know About Raising Venture Capital Funding

September 17, 2019

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Read This List of Books to Succeed in Business and Life

August 23, 2019

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The myth of 'stage agnostic' investing

July 29, 2019

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Business Insider: 25 rising stars in venture capital who control millions of dollars in Silicon Valley and decide which startups will blow up

July 29, 2019

Unusual

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How to drum up the courage to make an audacious request

July 15, 2019

Unusual

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Investors from Comcast Ventures, Lightspeed, and others name 11 hot media companies they think will blow up this year

July 9, 2019

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John Vrionis of Unusual Ventures

June 20, 2019

Unusual

Portfolio

Slack: Why Did The App Catch Fire?

March 13, 2019

Unusual

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Diversity in Tech: How One VC Firm Is Partnering With Historically Black Colleges To Address The Pipeline Issue

February 22, 2019

Unusual

Portfolio

VC Interview: John Vrionis of Unusual Ventures

February 8, 2019

Unusual

Portfolio

John Vrionis on his unusual approach to venture capital

Venture Capital Journal

January 23, 2019

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11 Books to Become a Smarter, Stronger Version of Yourself

January 10, 2019

Unusual

Portfolio

Venture Funds Raised Most in 2018 Since Dot-Com Boom

January 7, 2019

Unusual

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23 Tech Predictions for 2020

Pitching a VC: How to Size The Market Opportunity

November 1, 2018

Unusual

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Start-Ups Ask, ' Are We Making Money for Saudi Arabia?'

August 15, 2018

Unusual

Portfolio

AppDynamics founder Jyoti Bansal and longtime VC John Vrionis are now taking applications for their new accelerator program

May 15, 2018

Unusual

Portfolio

These investors say venture capital is broken—and they've started an 'Unusual' new fund to fix it

May 15, 2018

Unusual

Portfolio

AppDynamics founder launches Unusual Ventures, a new $160M seed-stage fund

Unusual

Portfolio

Seed 75: The best seed VC firms for founders looking to raise money in 2023

Qdrant, an open source vector database startup, wants to help AI developers leverage unstructured data

API security startup Traceable AI raises $60M on $450M valuation

AppDynamics founder’s Midas touch strikes again as Harness valuation hits $3.7B

Stigg launches to help SaaS companies dabble with different pricing and feature packaging

Lucky is bringing brands, retailers together with its take on product merchandising

Endgame grabs another cash infusion as product-led growth momentum builds

Purple Dot, a waitlist and preorder platform for the fashion industry, raises $4M

Relyance AI scores $25M Series A to ensure privacy compliance at the code level

Privacy and data governance startup Relyance launches from stealth with $30M in funding

Robinhood surges more than 24%, blows past $38 IPO price

Orum raises $25M to automate outbound sales workflows

Contra wants to be the community that independent workers are missing

API security startup Traceable partners with Silicon Valley CISO Investments

Presale Platform Vivun Lands $35M

Vivun announces $18M Series A to keep growing pre-sales platform

The Funded: Founders Fund raises $3B and 11 startups score over $260M

January 31, 2020

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The Funded: 6 Bay Area startups get over $160M at week's end

December 11, 2019

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Ordr Raises $27.5M in Series B Funding

November 26, 2019

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Portfolio

Vivun snags $3M seed round to bring order to pre-sales

November 24, 2019

Unusual

Portfolio

Banyan Security Closes $17 Million In Funding

November 22, 2019

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The Funded: YC shutters China outpost, Bay Area startups haul in more than $580M in funding

November 13, 2019

Unusual

Portfolio

Cloud-Native Authorization Company Styra Closes $14 Million In Funding

November 13, 2019

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Portfolio

The Funded: Two hefty rounds lead $800M in Bay Area startup funding at midweek

November 12, 2019

Unusual

Portfolio

Styra Raises $14M in Series A Funding

October 23, 2019

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The Funded: 10 Bay Area companies score more than $900M in VC funding at midweek

April 24, 2019

Unusual

Portfolio

The Funded: 14 Bay Area funding deals score over $350M at midweek

April 23, 2019

Unusual

Portfolio

Harness raises $60 million to automate continuous app delivery with machine learning

April 23, 2019

Unusual

Portfolio

Harness Raises $60M To Accelerate The Pace That Engineers Push Code

April 23, 2019

Unusual

Portfolio

Harness hauls in $60M Series B investment on $500M valuation

March 6, 2019

Unusual

Portfolio

Pioneer Square Labs is invigorating Seattle's startup ecosystem

February 26, 2019

Unusual

Portfolio

Ordr raises $16.5 million for network-level cybersecurity

January 23, 2019

Unusual

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11 Books to Become a Smarter, Stronger Version of Yourself

November 1, 2018

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Start-Ups Ask, ' Are We Making Money for Saudi Arabia?'

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Qdrant, an open source vector database startup, wants to help AI developers leverage unstructured data

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VCs try to parse through the 'noise' of generative AI

Web3’s complexity a challenge for security as adoption of ‘the new internet’ grows

Will remote work help Boston’s startup scene?

Unusual Ventures just closed a $485M fund by promising hands-on (full-time) help

API security startup Traceable AI raises $60M on $450M valuation

AppDynamics founder’s Midas touch strikes again as Harness valuation hits $3.7B

Stigg launches to help SaaS companies dabble with different pricing and feature packaging

Lucky is bringing brands, retailers together with its take on product merchandising

Endgame grabs another cash infusion as product-led growth momentum builds

Success of web3 hinges on remedying its security challenges

Unusual Ventures adds Lars Albright as GP

Purple Dot, a waitlist and preorder platform for the fashion industry, raises $4M

Meet the 55 rising-star VCs who shook up the industry in 2021, according to other VCs

Why Zero Trust Must Be Extended To APIs

Relyance AI scores $25M Series A to ensure privacy compliance at the code level

Privacy and data governance startup Relyance launches from stealth with $30M in funding

Robinhood surges more than 24%, blows past $38 IPO price

Orum raises $25M to automate outbound sales workflows

Designing PLG for Enterprise with Sandhya from Unusual Ventures

Unusual Ventures Partner Sandhya Hegde On Entrepreneurship And Breaking Into Venture Capital

Contra wants to be the community that independent workers are missing

API security startup Traceable partners with Silicon Valley CISO Investments

Presale Platform Vivun Lands $35M

Unusual Ventures hires Sandhya Hegde as partner

Founders don't need to be full-time to start raising venture capital

How Unusual Ventures uses a unique web design to stand out

Vivun announces $18M Series A to keep growing pre-sales platform

HBCUs are missing an investment opportunity reserved for predominately White universities

147 Sarah Leary: Nextdoor’s Co-founder Becomes a VC

John Vrionis on a New Approach to Venture Capital and Building Businesses

Cofounder Of Neighborhood App Nextdoor Turns VC, Joins Unusual Ventures As Partner

How 6 top VCs are adapting to the new uncertainty

New Unusual Ventures VC sees increased competition for best seed startups

How to Build a Recruiting Brand

The Funded: Founders Fund raises $3B and 11 startups score over $260M

The Funded: 6 Bay Area startups get over $160M at week's end

The State of Startups: An extensive survey of startups and their employees reveals what founders need to think about in 2020 when it comes to fundraising

Term Sheet Readers Predict a Bigger Focus on Profitability, Inclusivity, and Ethics in 2020

Ordr Raises $27.5M in Series B Funding

20VC: Unusual Ventures' John Vrionis on Why We Need to Raise the Bar in Venture, Why Taking Multi-Stage Money at Seed Is Not in the Best Interest of Founders

The Funded: Zume Pizza co-founder's new job and $110M in startup deals

Vivun snags $3M seed round to bring order to pre-sales

Banyan Security Closes $17 Million In Funding

The Funded: YC shutters China outpost, Bay Area startups haul in more than $580M in funding

Unusual Ventures raises $400 mln second fund

Unusual Ventures races to $400m final close for Fund II

Seed firm Unusual Ventures steps up to big-league fund size

Unusual Ventures Closes Second Fund, at $400M

SoftBank's Saudi ties put a spotlight on where VC firms get their money. Unusual Ventures is betting $400 million that socially conscious founders are wising up

Cloud-Native Authorization Company Styra Closes $14 Million In Funding

The Funded: Two hefty rounds lead $800M in Bay Area startup funding at midweek

Styra Raises $14M in Series A Funding

It's convenient to look the other way': Here's why startups are starting to ask tough questions about where VC money comes from

The DNA of Startup Success

VCs to Start Taking a Tougher Stance on Ethics, Unusual Ventures' Vrionis Says

Only 40% of venture firms say investing in underrepresented founders is a priority. A rising star at Unusual Ventures wants to change that.

The Funded: 10 Bay Area companies score more than $900M in VC funding at midweek

Job hopping: This is how long employees typically stay at Tesla, Apple, Facebook, Cisco, Nvidia, Oracle and more

Silicon Valley's founder-led startups have lost their shine with IPO investors. But the obsession with direct listings won't fix the bigger problem.

What Every Serious Entrepreneur Needs to Know About Raising Venture Capital Funding

Read This List of Books to Succeed in Business and Life

The myth of 'stage agnostic' investing

Business Insider: 25 rising stars in venture capital who control millions of dollars in Silicon Valley and decide which startups will blow up

How to drum up the courage to make an audacious request

Investors from Comcast Ventures, Lightspeed, and others name 11 hot media companies they think will blow up this year

John Vrionis of Unusual Ventures

Slack: Why Did The App Catch Fire?

The Funded: 14 Bay Area funding deals score over $350M at midweek

Harness raises $60 million to automate continuous app delivery with machine learning

Harness Raises $60M To Accelerate The Pace That Engineers Push Code

Harness hauls in $60M Series B investment on $500M valuation