Almost five years ago a group of business leaders, including Bill Gates, GE CEO Jeff Immelt and venture capitalist John Doerr, called for a massive increase in U.S. government funding for… Read more »
Slack, the wildly popular work chat application, has raised additional funding of $120 million from all existing investors and some new ones, like David Sacks (founder and former CEO of Yammer), Kleiner… Read more »
Stealth start-up Betterworks surfaced recently, and announced a series A venture round of $15.5 million from Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers. The company advocates what it is calling Goal Science, basically a structured… Read more »
The Snapchat funding story continues to evolve, with Kleiner Perkins now reportedly taking part in the round that values the messaging app at $10 billion. Read more »
Mark Zuckerberg has launched a new political group, FWD.us and has been joined by Silicon Valley luminaries. They want reform in immigration but their focus on technology and innovation centric changes… Read more »