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Saving Billions of Lives with Next Generation CRISPR Company Mammoth
The relationship between Mayfield and Mammoth Biosciences began when Mayfield managing director Navin Chaddha met Mammoth co-founder and CEO Trevor Martin back in 2017. Trevor was ...
Engineering Biology
KiwiCo: Doing Well While Doing Good
Sandra Oh Lin knew it would be easy for venture capitalists to typecast her as a “mompreneur.” It was 2011 and she was raising money for ...
Consumer | Gamechangers
What is happening to risk-taking in venture capital?
Sam Lessin’s post in The Information, “The End of Venture Capital as We Know It,” prompted heated debate in Silicon Valley. He argued that the arrival of new ...
Company Building
NoSQL Database Couchbase Makes Public Debut with IPO
Couchbase is on a mission to empower enterprises to develop, deploy, and maintain their mission-critical applications by delivering a high-performance, flexible and scalable modern database. Today ...
Enterprise | Company Building | News
Hiring Success Platform SmartRecruiters Raises $110M Series E at a $1.5B Valuation 
Enterprise | News
DevRev Launches with $50 Million in Seed Funding and a Dev-Centric CRM for the Product-Led Growth Era
Led by former Nutanix co-founder and CEO Dheeraj Pandey, the startup's investors include Mayfield Fund and Khosla Ventures.
Enterprise | News
AI Vision Cognition Provider Recogni Raises $48.9 Million to Drive Autonomy Forward
Enterprise | News
Conscious Leadership in the Post-2020 Era
As we celebrate President’s Day under a new leader, I reflected on the “unprecedented” year that was 2020. While the challenges of taming the virus, reinvigorating ...
Conscious Capital
Gosh(Posh), It’s been a Ten Year Journey to Poshmark’s IPO
I first met Manish Chandra, Poshmark Co-founder and CEO, in 2004. We were both charter members of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TIE), a pioneering community organization for ...
Consumer | News
