Substack, the five-year-old newsletter platform that has aggressively positioned itself as a disruptive force in media, has abandoned efforts to raise a Series C round, the...
Founders have gotten the memo that the ground is shifting under their feet right now. What to do about it is the question. Already, teams are...
In a tight labor market, so-called vertical labor marketplaces that zoom in on one industry, like nursing or hospitality, are drawing funding. Trusted Health, a healthcare...
Liquid Death, a water brand that began life in 2018 with a funny video to first test the concept, has grown deadly serious about its growth...
Religion-based apps, tools, and communities aren’t brand new, including to investors. Pray.com, for example, an L.A.-based app for daily prayer and bedtime bible stories that was...
Nader Al-Naji, a crypto entrepreneur who today lives in L.A., has been on a roller coaster in recent years — and he doesn’t pretend otherwise. In...
Earlier this week, Thirteen Lune, a direct-to-consumer beauty platform that was launched last year in LA with $1 million in seed funding from Diddy, Gwyneth Paltrow...
There’s a new venture studio in the world that looks rather different from earlier venture studios from a structural standpoint. Unlike renowned outfits like Atomic or...
There are many in the world of AI who worry about its implications. One of those people is Navrina Singh, a former product manager for Qualcomm,...
We can’t check out every investing outfit’s demo day. But one event that we try to catch every year is that of Pear, which is held...