Venture capitalist Ben Horowitz shares tales from his career as a founder, CEO, and investor.
Social product development platform Quirky has raised $68 million from major VC firms.
Magnet Systems didn't just win over the financial backing of Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC, it actually scored more than $47 million in new funding with help from existing investor Andreessen Horowitz. That's one money magnet.
It wasn't the sweetest deal ever had, but Silicon Valley investment firm Andreessen Horowitz made nearly $14 million in profit by disposing of its stake in Groupon in June.
A controversial open letter directed at Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg left another Marc (Andreessen) in quite the pickle yesterday.
Meteor Development Group has pulled in $11.2 million in funding to make building client-side web apps super easy and super fast. This is the group’s first institutional funding round, and it’s a rather large one at that.
Meteor is open-sourced …
All the news that lay dormant surrounding the July 4th holiday exploded all at once today in the funding world. Sometime amidst the barbecuing and pool parties, major deals were struck involving massive amounts of money. The biggest story, juicier …
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After half a decade of preaching about the virtues of bootstrapping, the GitHub founders are finally getting in bed with a major VC firm to the tune of $100 million — that’s $1 million per employee at the still-small startup.…
Still in stealth mode, enterprise security startup Bluebox is keeping all the most juicy details of its business close to its chest. But we do know that the startup is compelling enough that it’s attracted a $9.5 million first funding …
Sports-centered e-commerce site Fanatics, owned by Kynetic, grabbed the attention of Silicon Valley venture capital firms Andreessen Horowitz and Insight Venture Partners to raise a $150 million round of funding at a $1.5 billion.
Fanatics also acquired sports e-commerce company …
People often say Silicon Valley is not like the rest of the world. We’re more tolerant of failure, embrace risk-taking more eagerly, get more enthusiastic about technical solutions, and have a huge, deep pool of engineering and marketing talent to …
What started as a quirky loyalty program at one Chicago comic hideaway has spread to 1,400 locations in nine months, and can now count on the loyalty of one of Silicon Valley’s hottest venture capital firms.
Belly, a digital loyalty …
As check-in champion Foursquare prepares to make a run at making money, the startup’s vice president of business development, Tristan Walker, has checked out.
Walker, who holds an MBA from Stanford and was once an intern at Twitter, announced his …
Following the example set by philanthropists like Warren Buffett and Bill Gates, the venture capitalists at Andreessen Horowitz have made a joint pledge to donate at least half of their substantial incomes to charity.
The firm’s six general partners all …
Critics made a lot of hay over Andreessen Horowitz’s decision not to re-invest in Instagram. As our own Dylan Tweney pointed out, this made a $78 million win seem like a big mistake.
Andreessen Horowitz defended itself, saying that it …
As I reported early last week, Andreessen Horowitz declined the chance to invest in Instagram’s first institutional round after placing a seed-round bet on the company. After we covered that story, the New York Times and many other outlets picked …
Andreessen Horowitz realized a terrific return on its investment in Instagram, turning $500,000 into an estimated $100 million in about two years.
I’ve never made $100 million, let alone had $500,000 to invest, so I decided to turn that into …
Venture capital funds raised $4.9 billion in the first quarter of 2012, down 35 percent from a year ago, according to Thomson Reuters and the National Venture Capital Association.
The trade group said 42 firms raised the money, down 9 …
Pinterest has finally confirmed co-founder Paul Sciarra (pictured, left) has left the company.
He’ll be serving as entrepreneur-in-residence at Andreessen Horowitz, one of the more important venture capital firms in Silicon Valley.
“Of course, I’ll continue to be there for …
The makers of web and mobile applications for location-based flirting have landed a local conquest of their own.
Five year-old Skout has raised $22 million in funding from esteemed venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz.
“[Skout] is really helping people to …
