Cohesity, a California-based startup that provides cloud-based secondary data storage, raised a $250 million Series D yesterday. The round was led by the SoftBank Vision Fund, with participation from Cisco investments, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital, and others.
Many of the most valuable venture-backed companies are venturing outside their high-cost headquarters and setting up secondary hubs in smaller cities.
In awe of the size of this report. Absolute unit.
CEOs of funded startups tend to be a well-educated bunch, at least when it comes to university degrees.
There is no degree required to be CEO of a venture-backed company. But it likely helps to graduate from Harvard, Stanford, or one of about a dozen other prominent universities that churn out a high number of top startup executives.
There is some anecdotal evidence that more family offices are making their first investments directly into startups (as opposed to investing in a VC fund as a limited partner). But we wanted to know which investment groups have the most skin in the startup investing game, so to speak.
As a follow-up to the Q1 2018 Global VC Investment Report, published yesterday on Crunchbase News, we present an analysis of startup liquidity in the first quarter of 2018. If the investment report was all about “money in,” this one is all about “money out.”
Crunchbase News takes a deep dive into VC investment data from Q1 2018.
A look at the historical trends that may be driving the recent crop of billion-dollar “supergiant” VC funds.
Alarmist headlines abound about how AI and robots are stealing jobs from humans. The fears are spreading beyond concern over blue-collar jobs. Now there are greater worries that even white-collar jobs that require additional training and education will be replaced by artificial intelligence and AI-powered robots.