Illumen Capital doubles down on supporting underrepresented funds
Illumen Capital is doubling down on its support for fund managers and founders from underrepresented communities. The firm is an impact fund of funds that has previously supported ways to…
Silicon Valley is so dominant again, its startups devoured over half of all US VC funding in 2024
For all the chatter about the decline of San Francisco, data repeatedly shows that the Bay Area, including the city itself, is still the best place for venture-backed startups. Startups…
Nvidia CPUs might be coming to laptops sooner than we thought
Mark Coppock / Digital Trends Semiconductor manufacturer Nvidia is gearing up to be one of the major chip suppliers for AI PCs in 2025, with an upcoming system on a…
Sequoia nears first Asia-Pacific deal since regional split
Sequoia is closing in on making its first deal in India and the broader Asia Pacific region since its split with former partners, according to four sources familiar with the…
Arlan Hamilton announces changes at Backstage Capital, will step into advisory role
Arlan Hamilton, founder of Backstage Capital, announced Friday that her role at the firm she started in 2015 will evolve. “After 12 years of being deeply involved in the day-to-day…
GoPro Hero 13 Black Hands On: The Most Versatile Action Cam Yet, But It Comes at a Cost
Magnets. Of course, it would be magnets. GoPro has a new action cam, the Hero 13 Black, and on its face, it looks a hell of a lot like last…
Consumer tech is bouncing back, and consumer founders like Brynn Putnam are bouncing back with it
When Brynn Putnam sold her last company, Mirror, to Lululemon for $500 million at the start of the pandemic, it looked to this editor like she’d sold the smart fitness…
From AI agents to enterprise budgets, 20 VCs share their predictions on enterprise tech in 2025
While AI is lauded by some as the biggest technological breakthrough since the industrial revolution, enterprises — arguably the tech’s biggest potential customer base — have been slow to adopt…
Advertisers Might Not Like Meta’s ‘Free Speech’ Overhaul, but Does It Matter?
There has been a lot said about Mark Zuckerberg’s sudden, intense courtship of the incoming Trump administration—dropping fact-checking in favor of X-style crowdsourcing (nobody paid attention to fact-checks, but community…
Someone Likely Used a Sophisticated Phone-Spying Device at the 2024 DNC
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has come to the conclusion that someone likely deployed a mobile phone surveillance system during the Democratic National Convention last summer, according to a new report…