1 min read · 05 October 2017
San Mateo, California-based Farmstead, an artificial intelligence-powered digital that delivers local food, announced it has raised $2.8 million in seed-stage funding from Resolute Ventures, Social Capital, Y Combinator and Liquid 2 Ventures, the venture firm of NFL Hall of Famer Joe Montana.
1 min read · 05 October 2017
Palo Alto, California-based Reach Capital, which focuses on edtech startups, is seeking to raise $75 million for its second fund, according to a regulatory filing. The firm, founded in 2015, is made-up of former teachers, entrepreneurs and product managers. General partners listed in the regulator document are Jennifer Carolan, Wayee Chu, Shauntel Poulson and Esteban Sosnik.
1 min read · 04 October 2017
Oakland-based Roofstock, a provider of an online real estate marketplace for single-family rental homes, announced it has raised $35 million in a Series C round of funding led by Canvas Ventures. Existing investors Lightspeed Venture Partners, Bain Capital Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Nyca Partners, QED Investors and FJ Labs also participated in the round. The company, formerly known as DwellConnect, had previously raised about $33 million in funding, including a $20 million Series B round late last year.
1 min read · 04 October 2017
Social Capital has added Sandhya Venkatachalam as a partner focused on its growth equity investing. Previously, she was a co-founding partner at investment adviser firm Centerview Capital Technology. And she previously led Skype's advertising and monetization before and after its sale to Microsoft, according to her LinkedIn profile.
1 min read · 04 October 2017
Wing Venture Capital Partner Martin Giles, who joined the Menlo Park, California-based firm in early 2015 to develop its intellectual capital, announced on his LinkedIn profile that he is heading back to his first love of journalism. Giles said he is going to be the San Francisco Bureau Chief of the MIT Technology Review beginning in November. Before joining Wing, Giles, was a tech writer with The Economist
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4 min read · 29 September 2017
Elizabeth Yin and Eric Bahn, former partners with 500 Startups, are seeking to raise $50 million for Hustle Fund I, according to a regulatory filing. The fund has not yet raised any commitments. Information about the Hustle Fund, which lists an address in San Carlos, California, is not available. But in a blog post earlier this, Yin described how today's crop of new VCs work hard to find deals and "They have to hustle for every deal. They have to hustle to fundraise for their current or next fund."
1 min read · 29 September 2017
Defy Partners has raised $151 million from 36 investors for its inaugural fund, according to a regulatory filing. The firm was founded by Trae Vassallo, formerly of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and Neil Sequeira, a onetime managing director at General Catalyst Partners.
1 min read · 28 September 2017
