Covering YC Demo Day yesterday was good fun, but I missed a few items while watching several hundred startup pitches. A few years ago, these stories might have been the biggest news of the week.But wi
Two years after launching its $56 million debut fund, Kindred Ventures, a San Francisco-based pre-seed and seed-stage venture fund founded by Steve Jang and Kanyi Maqubela, has closed its second fund
Zymergen, one of the companies that’s developing biomanufacturing technologies which could reshape any number of industries, said it has raised $300 million in financing yesterday.It’s pa
There’s a growing wave of commercial activity from companies that are creating products using new biological engineering technologies.Perhaps the most public (and tastiest) example of the promis
So, an eight-year product veteran from Facebook and an internationally renowned barista walk into a coffee bar…It’s not a joke. It’s the origin story for Taika, a new startup that
Eight years ago, Two Sigma Investments began an experiment in early stage investing.The hedge fund, focused on data-driven quantitative investing, was well on its way to amassing the $60 billion in as