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Silicon Valley gender discrimination case heads to trial -- Reuters

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, the investment firm that has backed tech companies from Google to Amazon, will defend itself in court on Tuesday in a closely watched gender discrimination case that could lay open the inner workings of venture capital, Reuters News reported.

Crosslink Capital raises new $170 million fund -- Reuters News

Crosslink Capital, the San Francisco investment firm behind companies such as sports blog Bleacher Report and music service Pandora, said it had raised $170 million for a new venture fund, its seventh, Reuters News reported.

Kleiner doesn't have to share other complaints about former partner Nazre: court

(Reuters) - California's privacy laws have saved Kleiner Perkins from having to release potentially embarrassing information about a former partner in a discrimination lawsuit by a former female partner.

Women lag in VC even as they make strides as entrepreneurs: study

(Reuters) - Women venture-capital partners are becoming scarcer even as more women entrepreneurs are winning venture cash, according to a report from Babson College.

Robbed! Someone stole 5 computers from Kleiner Perkins

(Reuters) - California detectives are investigating a July computer theft at storied venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, a spokeswoman for the Menlo Park police said on Thursday.

Despite lip service, Silicon Valley venture capital still a man’s world

Despite the lip service Silicon Valley has given about the need to recruit more women venture capitalists, at senior levels the industry’s gender balance hasn’t budged, even as other industries with poor gender diversity show improvements.

Burrill booted from namesake firm for alleged misuse of funds

(Reuters) - Investors have fired G. Steven Burrill from the head of a $283 million venture capital fund he ran amid alleged fraud and misuse of capital, according to a lawsuit.

California legislators may flatten tires of Uber, Lyft

(Reuters) - Bills that would make it more complicated and expensive for ridesharing companies such as Uber and Lyft to do business in California passed a state Senate committee on Tuesday.

Red-hot Uber valued almost as much as Hertz and Avis combined

Uber Inc has raised $1.2 billion from mutual funds and other investors in a funding round that valued the fast-growing rides-on-demand service at $18.2 billion in one of the highest valuations ever for a Silicon Valley startup, Reuters reported.

Nextdoor CEO Tolia faces lawsuits over hit-and-run accident: Reuters

Nextdoor CEO Nirav Tolia, whose social networking website espouses neighborhood safety and community, is facing civil and criminal charges for leaving the scene of a highway accident that a driver says he caused, Reuters reported.