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How a poker game launched Silicon Valley Bank’s four-decade ride on the tech...

In the early Eighties, when “High Tech” was still written with quotation marks and the region was starting to become known as The Silicon Valley, tennis buddies Bob Medearis and Bill Biggerstaff took...

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Venture capitalist Lisa Lambert of National Grid on ‘toughing it out,’...

Lisa Lambert has come a long way from her childhood in Toledo, Ohio, raised by a single mother in subsidized housing. At age 55 – after a two-decade career at Intel and a stint in cleantech investing...

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Silicon Valley ‘party animal’ VC faces second fraud trial

By Joel Rosenblatt | Bloomberg Mike Rothenberg, the venture capitalist once described as Silicon Valley’s “party animal,” faces a new criminal trial over charges he gouged investors after a jury failed...

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Silicon Valley VC firm raises $1.2 billion to find and fund the next Elon Musk

By Edward Ludlow | Bloomberg Silicon Valley investment firm Eclipse has raised $1.2 billion for two new funds, both dedicated to backing startups trying to modernize physical industries. The funds...

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Opinion: SEC rule changes would harm startups, sabotage innovation

In the name of greater transparency, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is looking to rewrite some of the basic rules that have long governed the world-class venture capital market in the...

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Silicon Valley investor plans $100 million Saudi Arabia VC fund

By Fahad Abuljadayel | Bloomberg Silicon Valley-based tech investor Plug and Play Tech Center, an early backer of firms including Dropbox Inc. and PayPal Holdings Inc., is looking to raise $100 million...

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Will business travel to the Bay Area bounce back to pre-COVID levels? Maybe not

Before the pandemic, Oakland lawyer Bryan Schwartz boarded planes for three to four business trips a month. Now he takes that many work trips in an entire year. Some events and hearings function better...

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Another top Silicon Valley investor is splitting off its China business as...

By Michelle Toh | CNN Hong Kong  — GGV Capital, a prominent Silicon Valley venture capital firm, has become the latest big investor to break up its US and China operations into separate companies as...

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age1 VC Alex Colville says longevity field isn’t just for ‘rich old...

Alex Colville had just completed his PhD in genetics at Stanford when he met Laura Deming, the wunderkind who dropped out of MIT at 16 and launched The Longevity Fund. At an age when most teenagers...

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Silicon Valley startups had their worst funding year since 2019

By Sarah McBride | Bloomberg The value of venture capital deals in the US last year fell to levels not seen since 2019, according to new year-end data highlighting startups’ chaotic 2023. Over the last...

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