May 23, 2019
DoorDash, now valued at $12.6B, shoots for the moon
DoorDash has raised another $600 million in venture capital funding.
May 3, 2019
Unshackled Ventures has $20M to invest exclusively in immigrant founders
With a new $20M fund, the Unshackled team will invest in immigrants and help...
May 2, 2019
Flume Health is an insurance administrator cutting costs by pre-approving prices and paying on-demand
Cedric Kovacs-Johnson launched Flume Health after watching his own family...
April 22, 2019
Beyond Meat prices its public offering
Beyond Meat, the meat replacement company whose packages of Beyond Burgers line...
April 16, 2019
Tackling the $190 billion physical therapy market, Sword Health raises $8 million from Khosla Ventures
The U.S. healthcare system spends roughly $190 billion every year on physical...
February 21, 2019
Clutter confirms SoftBank-led $200M investment for its on-demand storage service
There’s plenty of speculation right now around apparently disgruntled...
February 9, 2019
FDA chief summons Altria and JUUL to Washington to discuss teen vaping
The head of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is calling Altria and Juul to...
November 18, 2018
Cities that didn’t win HQ2 shouldn’t be counted out
Now that the hysteria is over and cities have stopped asking “how can we...
September 13, 2018
Economist Tyler Cowen launches a fellowship and grant program for moon shot ideas
Tyler Cowen, who I interviewed here, is a fascinating economist. Part pragmatist...
August 14, 2018
The FDA OK’d an app as a form of birth control
Don’t want to get pregnant? There’s a Food and Drug Administration...