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Video: Marketplaces and the flywheel at Splash Spring

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M&A roundup – week ending 5/28/16

Facebook acquired spatial audio technology company Two Big Ears. No financial terms of the deal were disclosed.  The company will be hiring Read More

Video: Nextdoor CEO Nirav Tolia at Vator Splash Spring

At Vator Splash Spring, Vator's founder and CEO, Bambi Francisco sat down with Nirav Tolia, Co-Founder and CEO of Nextdoor. Some of the topics they discussed Read More

Meet Neill Occhiogrosso, Partner at Costanoa Venture Capital

There has been a big debate over the last few years over whether the Series A crunch is real or Read More

Digital health companies raise $2B in Q1, on record pace

If you were thinking of starting a digital health company, now is the time to do it, as that space Read More

Facebook starts selling off-site ads to target non-members

Twitter, with its stagnant user numbers, has made showing ads to non-users a top priority. It's a way to expanding Read More

Video: The zero waste economy at Splash Spring

At our Vator Splash Spring event earlier this month, Mike Walsh (Partner, Structure Capital) led a panel session with the Read More

Silicon Valley seems split over Thiel’s fight with Gawker

When Peter Thiel let the world know that he had indeed been funding Hulk Hogan's lawsuit against gossip website Gawker, Read More

Video: Handy CEO Oisin Hanrahan at Splash Spring

At our Vator Splash Spring event earlier this month, Oisin Hanrahan, founder and CEO of Handy, sat down with Vator Read More

Video: FanDuel’s Tom Griffiths at Vator Splash Spring

At our Vator Splash Spring event earlier this month, Tom Griffiths, CPO and Co-founder of daily fantasy sports company FanDuel, sat down with Read More

Snapchat just broke the funding record with its $1.8B round

The news of Snapchat raising $1.8 billion is pretty impressive, but it becomes even moreso when you realize that it's Read More

Holy smokes: Snapchat just raised an incredible $1.8B!

If you ever had any doubts about Snapchat, you can now, finally, put those to bed, as the company has Read More

Peter Thiel admits his role in trying to take down Gawker

Gawker just learned an important lesson: do not piss off Peter Thiel. The big news going around last day or Read More

Video: DFJ’s Josh Stein and WSJ’s Rolfe Winkler at Splash

At our Vator Splash Spring event earlier this month, Josh Stein, Partner at DFJ, sat down with Rolfe Winkler, a reporter for Read More

A snapshot of the ride-hailing dating scene

More and more, giant automakers are teaming up with smaller (but rapidly growing) tech startups focused on ridesharing and ride-hailing.Before Read More

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