In 1999, Ron Conway backed Google before its IPO. 5 years later, the search giant went public at a $23 billion valuationRon Conway heard about Google when it was still a Stanford project. The idea interested him, but getting close to the founders took months....
30 Sep, 2026, 06.46 PM IST
AI startup Humans& raises $480 million at $4.5 billion valuation in seed roundAI startup Humans& has secured a massive $480 million in seed funding. This significant investment values the company at $4.48 billion. The...
20 Jan, 2026, 09.32 PM IST
Salesforce CEO Benioff apologises for saying Trump should send troops to San FranciscoBenioff initially said the National Guard should come to San Francisco in a phone interview with The New York Times last week. He said that...
18 Oct, 2025, 07.57 AM IST
Is Gavin Newsom already attracting donors for 2028? Netflix co-founder donates $2M into redistricting campaignNetflix co-founder Reed Hastings gave $2 million for California’s redistricting plan. The campaign, called Proposition 50, could change Hou...
01 Sep, 2025, 06.37 PM IST
VC firm Andreessen Horowitz joins $100 million effort to shape AI regulationThe group, called Leading the Future, plans to target what it sees as unnecessary regulation and support “policies that unlock the transfor...
27 Aug, 2025, 07.14 PM IST
OpenAI co-founder Brockman, other Silicon Valley big shots to launch pro-AI PAC network to oppose AI regulations in 2026 midterm pollsSilicon Valley heavyweights, including Andreessen Horowitz and OpenAI's Greg Brockman, are launching 'Leading the Future,' a super-PAC netw...
27 Aug, 2025, 12.07 PM IST
‘One of tech’s biggest contributors’: Sundar Pichai, Tim Cook condole death of former YouTube CEO WojcickiWojcicki was named the CEO of YouTube in 2014. She introduced new forms of ads and helped steer its growth by launching a streaming televis...
10 Aug, 2024, 09.25 PM IST
Tech investors are the latest to Zoom for Kamala HarrisThe latest affinity group to organize behind Kamala Harris on Wednesday represented the lowly millionaire and billionaire investors of Sili...
10 Aug, 2024, 08.31 PM IST
More than 100 Silicon Valley investors pledge to support Kamala HarrisThe moves are perhaps the most public pushback to right-wing venture capitalists and executives whom some tech leaders see as dominating po...
31 Jul, 2024, 11.11 PM IST
How Airbnb's CEO succumbed to an IPO he resistedAirbnb officially reached technology unicorn status in 2011, when it crossed the $1 billion valuation threshold. As Airbnb raised more mone...
20 Nov, 2020, 08.03 PM IST
How author Michael Wolff got into the White House for his tell-all book on TrumpNearly everyone who spoke with Wolff thought someone else in the White House had approved their participation.
18 Jan, 2018, 10.19 AM IST
Uber cofounder taking over stumbling social media company StumbleUponCamp, Geoff Smith, and Justin LaFrance started the content website in 2001 as they were finishing up their postgraduate studies in Canada.
27 Aug, 2015, 12.27 PM IST
How you can become a successful angel investorEverybody with any money is exploring angel investing. Over half-a-dozen angels tell ET what it takes to be successful while investing in s...
10 Mar, 2015, 06.31 AM IST
Startup Corridor: Taking Indian entrepreneurs to Silicon ValleyLauding the initiative, Infy co-founder Kris Gopalakrishnan said, "It will give exposure to young startups in our country."
11 Apr, 2013, 03.29 PM IST
Silicon Valley's Y Combinator to mentor Indian startups TapToLearn & PlivoTo be picked by Y Combinator means an almost certain path to success. Set up in 2005, it has backed over 460 start-ups, including Scribd.
17 Jul, 2012, 04.11 PM IST
- GM considers options ahead of court ruling
As General Motors executives await a key court ruling that will determine whether they can establish a new company, the shape of any future...
05 Jul, 2009, 12.42 AM IST
- Cloud over investments, Brand Bengal feels the heat
Tata Motors' decision to suspend work in Singur may mean that the time has come to start writing the obituary of Brand Bengal, with both pr...
03 Sep, 2008, 03.29 PM IST