It's raining cat and dog deals in startupland. Venture capital investors are pawing at the door of startups in the pet industry, which have benefited from dog-loving millennials and a surge in animal adoptions during the pandemic.VC-backed pet companies have attracted more than $1.1 billion so far this year to surpass…...
Startups have never had it so good
The venture capital market is racing ahead, foot on the gas, middle finger out the window, hair on fire. That’s our read of the Q2 2021 data released thus far concerning how much money venture capitalists deployed around the world during the second three months of the year.Startups have never had…...
VC Pledged to ‘Do Better’ on Diversity. It’s Barely Changed
IT'S NO SECRET that the venture capital industry, for as long as it's existed, has been overwhelmingly white. Last summer, as the murder of George Floyd focused national attention on racial inequalities in the US, firms seemed committed to changing that. “Black Lives Matter,” the firm Benchmark tweeted last May. “Change starts with…...
