Tag: San Francisco

Coinbase Announces Offer Of Secondary Market As Firm Plans To Go Public

BlockchainJanuary 23, 2021

As the crypto market is hotly anticipating the largest US cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase to go public, the company will also launch a secondary market along. [...]

Podcast 282: Catherine Berman of CNote

CrowdfundingJanuary 22, 2021

Impact investing is having a moment. While it has been around in some form for several decades, today, many large and small investors...

End-to-end operators are the next generation of consumer business

AutomotiveJanuary 22, 2021

Roger Lee Contributor Roger Lee is a general partner at Battery Ventures, based in Menlo Park, CA,...

Extra Crunch roundup: Digital health VC survey, edtech M&A, deep tech marketing, more

StartupsJanuary 22, 2021

I had my first telehealth consultation last year, and there’s a high probability that you did, too. Since the pandemic began, consumer adoption...

Tech Moves: Microsoft’s Brad Anderson jumps to Qualtrics in wave of pre-IPO hires; Elena Donio joins Databricks board; Hiya, Esper add startup vets

StartupsJanuary 22, 2021

— Brad Anderson, a longtime Microsoft corporate vice president, has joined Qualtrics as president of products and services. A 17-year veteran of the Redmond company,...

Catching cancer in the act

BiotechnologyJanuary 22, 2021

When cancer is confined to one spot in the body, doctors can often treat it with surgery or other therapies. Much...

Sounding Board raises cash as startups wake up to executive coaching

StartupsJanuary 22, 2021

In an unprecedented work environment defined by distributed teams and virtual-only communication, two co-founders think their 2018 bet reigns truer than ever: mentors...

Seattle entrepreneur Todd Hooper raises cash for mysterious new startup Aardvark Labs

StartupsJanuary 22, 2021

Veteran Seattle tech entrepreneur Todd Hooper has raised investment for a stealthy new startup. A new SEC filing reveals that a Seattle-area company called...

Top Crypto Lawyers Predict Outcome of SEC’s Case Against Ripple and XRP

BlockchainJanuary 21, 2021

Two prominent lawyers in the crypto space are offering their take on the likely outcome of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s lawsuit against Ripple. Stephen Palley, a blockchain and digital currency lawyer at Anderson Kill, and Gabriel Shapiro, a decentralized technology attorney at BSV Law, spoke about the lawsuit on the Unchained Podcast. The […]