Airbnb agrees to acquire last-minute hotel-booking app HotelTonight

Airbnb to purchase HotelTonight, a hotel-booking app last valued at $463...


SoftBank launches the Innovation Fund, committing $2B to invest in Latin America

While SoftBank continues to make big bets on startups out of its $100-billion...


Pioneer Square Labs is invigorating Seattle’s startup ecosystem

How the startup studio's "validation engine" has made it one of the best company...


The Silicon Valley exodus continues

Y Combinator, a longtime resident of Silicon Valley, is planning to move its HQ...


Blueground raises $20 million for flexible apartment rentals

Blueground, the startup providing turnkey flexible rental apartments, has raised...


Eargo raises $52M for virtually invisible, rechargeable hearing aids

The latest round of capital comes from new investor Future Fund and existing...


Failed meal-kit service Munchery owes $6M to gift card holders, vendors

Several weeks after a sudden shutdown that left vendors and customers in the...


Startups Weekly: Lyft’s S-1, cash for fertility startups and litigious VCs

In this week's newsletter: Justin Caldbeck battles Jonathan Teo, venture capital...


WeWork confirms it has laid off 300 employees

The well-funded co-working giant says the cuts were perfunctory. The company...


It’s a new era for fertility tech

We explored venture capitalists' latest bets on fertility and contraception...