July 2, 2019
Ola Electric becomes India’s newest unicorn with new $250 million investment from SoftBank
India’s Ola is further widening its lead over Uber in the nation —...
June 25, 2019
Why eVTOLs could be providing regional air service sooner than you think
At Uber’s Elevate summit in Washington, DC earlier this month,...
June 24, 2019
The next service marketplace wave: Vertical market-networks
Ivan Smolnikov Contributor Ivan Smolnikov is the CEO and founder of Smartcat,...
June 24, 2019
SpaceRyde wants to make access to space more available and more affordable
Life can be tough for a small satellite operator – it may be relatively...
June 24, 2019
Why hasn’t ride-hailing services found success in Taiwan?
In Taiwan, Uber hasn’t been able to make themselves indispensable enough...
June 22, 2019
Equity transcribed: Slack’s IPO, the VCs behind Facebook Libra, founder salaries and trouble in scooter-land
Welcome back to this week’s transcribed edition of Equity. This week,...
June 19, 2019
Still in stealth mode, Duffel raises $21.5M in Series A from Benchmark for its travel platform
Ten months ago London startup Duffel hinted that it would be “a new way to...
June 17, 2019
A diversity and inclusion playbook
You’d be hard-pressed to find a tech company that said it wished it had...
June 17, 2019
India’s Bounce raises $72 million to grow its electric scooters business
Bounce, a Bangalore-based startup that offers thousands of electric scooters for...
June 14, 2019
How to negotiate term sheets with strategic investors
Three years ago, I met with a founder who had raised a massive seed round at a...