Max Levchin, who in his past life started PayPal and Slide is back at it again. He has started a new hybrid R& D Lab/Incubator (HVF) and his focusing on opportunities… Read more »
Canadian entrepreneur Louis Michaud, who has spent years trying to commercialize his “out there” technology to harness tornadoes for power, has received a small grant from PayPal co-founder and early Facebook… Read more »
British arch-satirist Armando Iannucci – best known for his documentary-style dissections of the political classes — is getting ready to take on his next project: a black comedy based on Silicon… Read more »
Meet America’s young entrepreneurs: not through The Social Network or an overly dramatic reality TV series, but in a new documentary following the next class of Thiel Fellows, individuals emboldened (and… Read more »
Felicis Ventures, a Palo Alto, Calif.-based venture fund started by early Google employee Aydin Senkut has raised a new $70 million fund. The investment group is well known for its investments… Read more »
Quora, a Q&A service has raised a whopping $50 million in funding from co-founder Adam D’Angelo along with Facebook funder Peter Thiel, Northbridge Ventures and Matrix Ventures. One of the most… Read more »
According to Edward Aten, founder of Swift.fm, Facebook is recreating and competing with nearly every significant Internet product of the last few years. It’s an unprecedented pivot that threatens Facebook’s core… Read more »
Peter Thiel, the tech industry magnate known for co-founding PayPal and being an early investor in Facebook, is launching a new program called Breakout Labs aimed at funding cutting edge technology… Read more »
Despite a lot of talk about a Facebook initial public offering, early investor and director Peter Thiel says don’t count on it until 2012. Thiel, who was extremely critical of the… Read more »
PayPal co-founder (and early Facebook investor) Peter Thiel is backing a new social network, which restricts membership to students with ver… Read more »