Amazon has opened its new UK corporate office in Manchester, not the capital city London. Located inside the city’s historic Hanover Building, the new office is expected to create 600 jobs. London still dominates the UK tech scene at large, with tech startups based in the UK capital gobbling up […]

Justin Kan’s new legal startup, Atrium, has snatched up $US65 million in a new round of funding led by Andreessen Horowitz. Kan is perhaps best known as the creator of modern live-streaming with the launch of Twitch, which sold to Amazon for nearly $US1 billion. He aims to repeat his […]

Venture capital firm Social Capital seems to be unravelling following a tumultuous first half of 2018. Seven partners, including one of the firm’s cofounders, left the firm founded by early Facebook executive Chamath Palihapitiya. The latest defectors are VC partner Mike Ghaffary and vice president of marketing Ashley Mayer. Social […]

Tech billionaire Vinod Khosla is fighting to make a beach near his $US37 million estate off-limits to the public. In an interview with The New York Times, Khosla said he wished he had “never bought the property,” but he will continue to fight for his privacy based on “principle.” Khosla […]

Tribe Capital, the new venture firm founded by partners who quit Social Capital en masse, is co-leading a $US22.7 million investment into a hot cryptocurrency startup. The firm is leading the investment alongside Social Capital, which was founded by former Facebook executive Chamath Palihapitiya. It suggests no hard feelings between […]

The vest is the most quintessentially-VC item in a tech investor’s wardrobe. San Francisco International Airport is showing it’s on trend with a Uniqlo vending machine that dispenses down vests, possibly for “visiting VCs.” We rounded up the best tweets about the vest vending machine at SFO. San Francisco has […]

Clara Brenner is an up-and-comer in Silicon Valley tech investing. Her firm, Urban Innovation Fund, just raised $US22 million ($AU30 million) to invest in startups. Brenner says something that “grinds her gears” is when founders and CEO say, “Hey, girls,” in emails to her and her female cofounder. While calling […]

One of the most accurate stock pickers on Wall Street recently shared his list of tips on how to spot winners and losers. While many investors are focused on young companies before they boom, he offered some surprising advice on a better time to buy. Wall Street analyst Mark Mahaney, […]

Scooter startup Lime is raising $US335 million. The startup is also partnering with Uber, who also invested, which will allow Uber to introduce scooter rentals in its app. We talked to one of Lime’s investors about what the hype was about, and he explained why he thinks Lime could be […]

Andreessen Horowitz is launching a $US300 million fund to invest in cryptocurrency companies and protocols, called “a16z crypto.” The top VC firm hired Katie Haun, a former prosecutor with the US Department of Justice, to lead the fund alongside partner Chris Dixon. The new crypto fund plans to invest consistently […]

Social Capital is bleeding top investment partners. The venture firm, run by legendary investor Chamath Palihapitiya, has lost three partners – Tony Bates, Marc Mezvinsky, and Arjun Sethi – in two weeks. Palihapitiya says the firm will shift focus away from new growth opportunities and instead be “doubling down on […]

Tech investors are throwing money at Front, a five-year-old startup that aims to change the way teams get work done. The startup makes a shared inbox app that lets teams handle messages from email, texts, Slack, and social media, all in one place. This year, the 28-year-old cofounder and CEO […]

Sarah Guo of Greylock Partners predicts that someday surveillance cameras will watch your every move and that it will change people’s behaviour. “There’s a saying, ‘You are who you are when no one’s watching,'” Guo said at a recent tech event, adding that she thinks “we’re going to be watched” […]

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It's a bird! It's a plane!

Chris Dixon’s career is the one you want. First he founded a startup called Site Advisor. He sold it to McAfee for millions of dollars. Then he cofounded Hunch, which he sold to eBay for millions and millions of dollars. All the while, he invested in startups on the side. […]

Chris Dixon, a partner at top venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, came by the Business Insider offices the other day and totally freaked us out. Dixon says he’s been speaking with “people in business and, you know, other organisations,” and he’s learned that the global hacking war we keep reading […]