Conway urges the tech community to support a nonprofit founded by the community of Newtown, Conn., where a gunman killed 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary.
VC funding was down 15 percent in 2012, while crowdfunding grew 91 percent, as a new infographic from Startups.co shows
Y Combinator is tightening the purse strings, cutting the $150,000 investments startups get in half.
Editor's Pick Venture capital's gut-call days are over.
Conway's latest viral video, which he describes as a "gift to San Francisco," is already making its rounds on the Internet. It's not surprising, given that the stars of the new video boast a combined 4.2 million Twitter followers.
Mayor Ed Lee and SV angels share their plan to keep San Francisco on the top of the innovation chain
SV Angel, Ron Conway and David Lee's investment firm, is in the process of raising a new fund, "SV Angel IV".
Editor's Pick We all have regrets, but they don't typically involve blowing billions of dollars.
Zaarly, the online marketplace where users find and hire talented local builders and artisans, is announcing a new “Zaarly Anywhere” initiative that allows any site to enable offline commerce from online content.
This comes just a month after the local …
The San Francisco police department has announced the development of its very own crime-fighting “bat computer” to help keep officers on the streets for longer.
In the nation’s technological capital, it is striking how the city’s institutions have been hindered …
Stripe, an online-payment system company going after PayPal, is said to have raised $18 million at a $100 million valuation from Sequoia Capital and other investors, Bloomberg reported Thursday.
The deal has not been finalized but a few unnamed sources …
It’s time to get excited for The Crunchies Awards. The final line-up of notable guests has been released, making us all the more excited to co-host this star-studded event.
Harris Wittels, “Parks and Recreation” writer and all-around funny guy, will …
Angel investor Ron Conway, Flickr co-founder Caterina Fake, Craiglist founder Craig Newmark, and rapper MC Hammer spoke to a crowd of more than a hundred people today at an anti-SOPA protest in San Francisco.
One speaker who garnered a lot …
Being successful in business is about knowing what your competitors know and being able to act on it. If you could find out what kinds of work tools are helping your competitors stay lean and mean, it could be a …
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Someone close to SV Angel, the investment firm headed by Silicon Valley living legend Ron Conway, has leaked the firm’s entire list of investments to date.
Altogether, according to the SV Angel spreadsheet, the firm placed 75 bets on various …
Venture capital firm Andreessen-Horowitz announced today that it is participating in startup incubator Y Combinator‘s Start Fund, alongside venture capitalists Ron Conway and Yuri Milner.
“We’ve been working with Paul [Graham, founder of Y Combinator] for awhile and we’ve just …
Twilio announced today 500 Startup‘s Dave McClure (pictured left) and SV Angel‘s Ron Conway (pictured below, right) started a second $250,000 seed fund for startups built on top of Twilio.
“We’re giving access to some of the best angels in …
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A lot has changed since I first made it to Silicon Valley a little more than a year ago.
But one thing has remained constant: the ruthless competition for discovering and reporting the best news stories. Among those competitors is …
Michael Arrington, founder of the influential technology blog TechCrunch, is raising a $20 million fund to invest in early-state tech startups.
According to Fortune, the primary partner in the fund will be TechCrunch parent company Aol.
UPDATE: An Aol spokesperson …
Startup incubator AngelPad will offer applicants an additional $100,000 in funding when they enter the program, bringing the incubator’s total investment in each of its 15 or so startups up to $120,000.
Startups entering AngelPad have to decide whether they …
