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Transparency in Government Surveillance 18 Jul 2013 | 06:00 pm
Today, we have joined a large and diverse group of companies, non-profits and consumer advocates in an open letter urging the US government to allow internet and telecom companies to freely report sta...
SigFig 3 Jul 2013 | 07:00 pm
Investment management is an increasingly important problem. With the decline of defined benefit plans and the increasingly shaky social security system, most people will have to rely primarily on thei...
Firebase 21 Jun 2013 | 12:45 am
Arthur C. Clarke famously wrote that "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." I have always had mixed feelings about this quote because as an engineer my reaction to som...
Auxmoney 11 Jun 2013 | 08:27 pm
Today we are delighted to announce that we have made an investment in Auxmoney, an online credit marketplace in Germany. The CEO, Raffael Johnen was in London last week and appeared on a LeWeb panel w...
Yahoo acquires Tumblr 21 May 2013 | 01:11 am
Yahoo announced today that they will acquire our portfolio company Tumblr. In September of 2007 we, together with Spark Capital, invested in a 3 person start-up founded by David Karp, a 21 year old co...
The Patent Quality Improvement Act 9 May 2013 | 03:48 pm
This week, Senator Schumer introduced legislation that would take a whack at patent trolls: the Patent Quality Improvement Act aims to make it easier and cheaper for companies facing spurious infringe...
Coinbase 8 May 2013 | 02:37 pm
We have been thinking about and looking to make an investment in the Bitcoin ecosystem for several years. Today, we are happy to be able to talk about our first investment in the sector. We have made ...
CircleUp 7 May 2013 | 02:14 am
As venture capitalists, we understand how valuable an injection of capital into an early-stage, fast-growing business can be. But our industry has a particular set of economics, one that has skewed th...
Science Exchange 30 Apr 2013 | 12:36 am
Right now, there are thousands of scientists whose research is being held up because they lack access to the experimental expertise needed to test a hypothesis or verify a result. But while we have se...
Shapeways Restocks 23 Apr 2013 | 05:29 pm
In the Fall of 2010 we helped spin Shapeways out of Philips. At the time, the founders made a gutsy choice: relocating the company headquarters to New York City. They arrived here in a cold December w...
