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Mary Meeker’s mind-blowing Internet statistics contain at least one...
Sequoia Capital überinvestor Mike Moritz is fond of saying that “Powerpoint is the language of Silicon Valley.” It’s a shame, considering that founders of early-stage startups inflate numbers in their...
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Introducing our first slate of speakers at GamesBeat 2013
MobileBeat 2013 is just getting under way, but we’re busy planning for GamesBeat 2013, taking place October 29-30 at the Sofitel Hotel in Redwood City, Calif. This year, the GamesBeat conference will...
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MyFitnessPal, the popular weight-loss app, gets $18M boost
MyFitnessPal, a company that offers a popular app to help people lose weight, has raised $18 million in a first round of funding. The company was founded in 2005 and has been profitable since then but...
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Silicon Valley's first VCs talk about when board meetings happened in hot tubs
SAN FRANCISCO — “Venture capital” didn’t exist in 1972, until Don Valentine and Tom Perkins forged a new model for financing upstart companies. These “grandfathers” of the venture capital industry...
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GamesBeat speaker spotlight: VCs Tim Chang and Bing Gordon to talk on...
We’re pleased to announce that Tim Chang, managing director at Mayfield Fund, and Bing Gordon, a partner at venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, will speak together in a joint...
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Funding Daily: A healthy dose of cash
Robots are cool, social networks are neat, and apps are great, but in the end, everyone has their health to look out for — and it seems like investors are starting to notice. Health companies were our...
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Where Nest ranks among Google’s most expensive acquisitions
Corrected 12/15 at 9:15am Google has never paid as much for a startup as it’s planning to pay for Nest. When Google said it would be plunking down $3.2 billion for Nest, a maker of computerized and...
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Kleiner Perkins distances itself from controversial Tom Perkins editorial...
Tom Perkins, the 82-year-old cofounder of famous Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, didn’t make any friends yesterday with a letter to the Wall Street Journal...
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Tom Perkins was right: We do hate the rich. And for good reason
When Kleiner Perkins cofounder Tom Perkins wrote on Friday that a “progressive Kristallnacht” is coming, reaction was swift and severe. Rightly so: The 82-year-old billionaire compared himself — and...
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Tom Perkins apologizes for comparing the rich to the Jewish victims of the Nazis
Tom Perkins, cofounder of VC firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, apologized tonight for comparing the threats against the rich to Jewish victims of the Nazis during the horrific “Kristallnacht”...
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Kleiner Perkins tosses $6.5M at Zumper to soothe your apartment-hunting...
Rental search service Zumper has taken a healthy first institutional round of funding from a few well-known Valley firms. Kleiner Perkins led the $6.5 million round with participation from previous...
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Anonymous social app Secret’s new funding emerges from the dark: $8.6M
Secret’s rumored funding is secret no more. Today, the company with the anonymous social app announced via a Medium blog post that it has raised $8.6 million in its first round of institutional...
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Gen. Colin Powell brings his 13 leadership principles to Salesforce’s board
Tech companies like to crow about how elite their corporate board members are. But how many can count a former U.S. Secretary of State at the table? Salesforce can. The world’s largest customer...
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Smart-home veteran iControl buys security device Piper to let you play Big...
While “smart home” companies such as Nest and SmartThings have been making all the headlines lately, industry veteran iControl Networks is scooping up a company to add to its Big Brother-like arsenal...
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Good Technology shows its cards for BoxTone deal: $101M (Update)
Update: The filing is actually to “acknowledge the issuance of securities that [Good Technology] used for the BoxTone acquisition,” the company said at 10:45 a.m. Pacific in an email to VentureBeat,...
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LendUp opens up its API to spread safer payday lending across the country...
LendUp, a for-profit and venture-backed startup from San Francisco, Calif. is in the business of improving payday lending. And it’s now opening its vault to let other organizations offer similar...
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Intel Capital saw more exits than Sequoia, Greylock, or Google Ventures last...
One of last year’s most successful VC firms is actually one small part of a huge corporation: Intel. Intel’s venture capital arm saw more exits than any other tech VC heavyweight: Greylock Partners,...
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Workspot's 'work anywhere' tech gives workers a mobile option
Who wants to sit in an office to get their work done these days? Most of you don’t, so mobile workspace company Workspot has been working to bring your work to your mobile devices. And it seems to be...
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Mobile web apps are slow. Instart Logic now has $26M to try and change that
Content delivery networks are no longer cutting it when it comes to supporting mobile web apps, and Instart Logic is working to replace them. Today, the company announced that it has raised $26 million...
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An astounding $38B in mobile revenue — and 164 other data points from Mary...
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Internet analyst Mary Meeker has just released her latest report on the past year’s Internet trends, and it is juicy. A few highlights of this slideshow: Internet...
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