Startups and venture capital

Why Silicon Valley can be toxic for healthcare startups (March 2021)

Comcast Ventures became an unlikely benefits-startup kingmaker with a prescient bet on Accolade. Now, the fund's healthcare future is uncertain after investing-team members exited. (February 2021)

EXCLUSIVE: DNA testing startup 23andMe is quietly raising $85 million in equity funding led by Sequoia and NewView Capital (December 2020)

Investors are betting $1.4 billion that gig workers can transform an essential but invisible part of healthcare. Here's an inside look at one startup leading the charge. (December 2020)

Austin Ventures' $900 million VC fund was supposed to make the city the next startup hub. But it wasn't until the fund folded that Austin's tech scene flourished. (July 2020)

Startups need to beware of these 'toxic' deal terms when negotiating with VCs for fundraising (July 2020)

More than 4,800 startups that applied for federal PPP loans in the coronavirus-led shutdown had raised venture funding in the last 2 years (July 2020)

Leaked memo: Troubled SoftBank-backed robotics startup Zume just conducted a 2nd round of sweeping layoffs after funding fell through (April 2020)

How a video-game wunderkind raised $446 million for a robot revolution that mesmerized SoftBank but went off the rails: The inside story of Zume Pizza (February 2020)

Inside a chaotic week at Zume: Surprise layoffs, mishandled all-hands meetings, and an eerily quiet CEO (January 2020)

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