Connie Loizos

When it comes to the world of venture-backed startups, some issues are universal, and some are very dependent on where the startups and its backers are located. It’s something we talked about this week in London, when TechCrunch took its StrictlyVC series of more intimate, more investor-focused events on the...

When Marissa Mayer co-founded a startup six years ago in Palo Alto, Ca., expectations were sky high for the former Yahoo CEO and early Google employee. When that startup, Sunshine, revealed that its first app centered around subscription software for contact management, people wondered if something more ambitious might...

Last night, for an evening hosted by StrictlyVC, this editor sat down with Trae Stephens, a former government intelligence analyst turned early Palantir employee turned investor at Founders Fund, where Stephens has cofounded two companies. One of these is Anduril, the buzzy defense tech company that is now valued...

Felicis, the 16-year-old Bay Area-based early-stage venture firm, has a reputation for investing globally. Indeed, firm founder Aydin Senkut — who spent a handful of years at Google as a product manager in its earlier days — was born in Turkey and talks often of the hustle he sees...

Last week, at a StrictlyVC event in San Francisco, we sat down with Mamoon Hamid and Ilya Fushman, two longtime VCs whose paths first crossed as children in Frankfurt, Germany, and who were brought in to reboot the storied venture firm Kleiner Perkins roughly six years ago. They’ve seemingly accomplished...

Last week, at our first StrictlyVC evening of the year, prominent AI investors Elad Gil and Sarah Guo joined us in San Francisco to talk about how they think about AI investing in a world where deals were getting bid up feverishly two months ago, and where reportedly, some...

Lightspeed Venture Partners is formalizing its scale-up efforts, as other outfits make similar moves Connie Loizos @Cookie / 8 hours The hurdle for Series A funding is a lot higher than it was a year ago — and investors in seed-stage companies are having to respond. They don’t have much choice if they...

Firm made rapid-fire investments in startups for years, driving up valuations in some cases, but returns were impacted when the market abruptly shifted Connie Loizos @Cookie / 9 hours Tiger Global Management is going through a major management change. Per a message from founder Chase Coleman sent this afternoon to investors of...

Mike Rothenberg, a former VC known for hosting lavish parties, was convicted today on 21 counts for defrauding investors Connie Loizos @Cookie / 8 hours This year will be remembered for a lot of things. Among them could be the growing number of stars in the startup world who were later convicted...

Up-and comers are taking over prime office space as a cycle begins anew; "I sold rugs for 17 years, so I have some skills in negotiation" Connie Loizos @Cookie / 7 hours Ten years ago, Pear VC, then a tiny new venture firm, operated out of a nondescript office in Palo...