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The (Very Contradictory) Year in Unicorns
Early in 2015, Fortune deemed tech's current boom "The Age of Unicorns," citing the proliferation of startups valued at $1 billion or more. We wondered if those good times might be nearing an end. But...
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Exclusive: Illumio Taps Former NSC Guru as Strategy Chief
Illumio, the hot cybersecurity startup that aims to protect corporate infrastructure in internal data centers and outside clouds, has hired Nathaniel Gleicher, former director for cybersecurity policy...
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Airbus’ Venture Capital Arm Lands in Silicon Valley
Airbus has opened a new Silicon Valley venture capital arm whose first investment is in a company that wants to build cars, helicopters, and airplanes using open source designs. The fund, Airbus...
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DataGravity Cuts Jobs In Effort to Reduce Spending
DataGravity, a startup focused on securing stored corporate data against hacker attacks and other threats, is cutting jobs. Among those affected by the layoffs was Michael White, head of DataGravity...
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When Software Tries to Eat Regulation
Last night Zenefits, the corporate benefits software company, announced that its CEO and founder Parker Conrad had stepped down. Chief operating officer David Sacks became CEO. In an email to employees...
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VMware Exec Martin Casado Joins Andreessen Horowitz
Martin Casado, the pioneer of software-defined networking who spearheaded VMware’s work in that area, is joining Andreessen Horowitz as general partner. Casado co-founded Nicira, based on his...
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Marc Andreessen Just Ended His Two-Week Twitter Vacation
Marc Andreessen is back from his brief, self-imposed break from tweeting. The Silicon Valley venture capitalist is a billionaire with a penchant for tweeting from the hip, so to speak, and he saw quite...
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Android Guru Rich Miner Joins Dialpad Board
Rich Miner, half of the brain trust behind the popular Android mobile operating system, is now on the board of Dialpad, a new-age phone company that just changed its name from Switch.co. This is a good...
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What Does Google Want With 4chan Founder Chris Poole?
Google goog has made a surprising and fascinating hire: Christopher Poole, better known to many as “moot”, the founder of infamous meme mine and troll haven 4chan. “I can't wait to contribute my own...
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Smart Storage Startup DataGravity Pulls the Plug on Its Hardware Business
DataGravity, a startup that aims to secure corporate data where it is stored, is getting out of the hardware business and will focus on providing software that runs on other vendors’ storage arrays....
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Death of Intel’s Andy Grove Felt Across Tech Industry
Andrew Grove, Intel’s legendary co-founder and former CEO, passed away on Monday at 79, Intel said. He was one of the business world's most revered leaders who helped to usher in today's era of...
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Jumio Will Sell to Facebook Co-Founder Eduardo Saverin
Jumio, a startup that provides identity verification software to customers, filed for bankruptcy on Monday. Its next move: sell to Facebook co-founder Eduardo Severin. Amid investigations over its...
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This Cute Self-Driving Robot Wants to Deliver Your Food or Laundry
Someday your favorite burrito or fresh load of laundry could arrive to your door not via a friendly human courier, but a cute self-driving robot. One startup, aptly named Dispatch, has been working for...
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The Best Marketing Tool is Already in Your Customers’ Hands
Updated on June 15 The rapper Ryan Leslie has a problem: He doesn't feel all that attached to the hundreds of thousands of fans he has on Instagram, Twitter, or anywhere elsewhere on social media....
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Marc Andreessen Predicts A Lot More Tech IPOs
The two-year drought in initial public offerings by technology companies may be ending soon, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen predicted. “We believe the pendulum has gone too far against going...
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Marc Andreessen Feels ‘Free as a Bird’ Since Quitting Twitter
We still don’t know why exactly famed investor Marc Andreessen suddenly quit Twitter last weekend. But we do know that he feels “50 pounds lighter” and “free as a bird,” as he said on Thursday evening...
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Today’s Startups Aren’t Just Building Tech to Sell to Other Industries
A version of this post titled "Today’s startups are playing in the big leagues" originally appeared in the Startup Sunday edition of Data Sheet, Fortune's daily tech newsletter. If you think that tech...
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One of Silicon Valley’s Most Prominent Investors Is Joining Lyft’s Board of...
Famed Silicon Valley investor Ben Horowitz is joining Lyft’s board of directors, the company said on Monday. Horowitz’s venture capital firm, Andreessen Horowitz, first invested in the pink-mustachioed...
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Andreessen Horowitz Just Led a $15 Million Investment Round in This Fintech...
Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz has led a $15 million investment in PeerStreet, a financial technology startup that gives individual investors access to real estate-backed loans online. Alex...
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The Company That Was Supposed to Be a Google-Killer Has Called It Quits
Cyanogen Inc., which produced a version of the Android mobile operating system that competed with Google's, has announced it will cease services and updates for the software it claimed was installed on...
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