| Date | Title | Description |
| 17.06.2025 | All In Foods Raises $4M in Funding | All In Foods (fka This Bar Saves Lives), a Culver City, CA-based snack brand, raised $4M in funding.
The round was led by Obvious Ventures.
The company intends to use the funds to expand operations and its development efforts
The company of... |
| 01.03.2025 | The Venture Capital Landscape: New Funds Amidst Uncertainty | The venture capital scene is a wild jungle. New funds sprout like mushrooms after rain, yet the ground is shaky. Recent announcements from Perplexity AI and Obvious Ventures illustrate this dynamic landscape. Both firms are seeking to raise... |
| 26.02.2025 | Obvious Ventures, co-founded by Twitter’s Evan Williams, plans to raise $400 million fund | Obvious Ventures, which launched a little more than a decade ago, has filed paperwork with the SEC to raise $400 million for its fifth fund.
The firm, co-founded by Twitter’s Evan Williams, raised its last fund in 2022, when it brought in a... |
| 08.02.2025 | Lynx Secures $27M Series A to Revolutionize Healthcare Payments | In the bustling world of fintech, Lynx is making waves. The Boston-based company recently closed a $27 million Series A funding round, bringing its total funding to over $44 million since its inception in 2022. This financial boost is not j... |
| 06.02.2025 | Lynx Secures $27M Series A to Simplify Healthcare Payments and Administration | What You Should Know:
– Lynx, a leading fintech platform simplifying healthcare payments and administration, today announced the close of an oversubscribed $27 million Series A funding round, bringing its total funding to over $44 million s... |
| 21.05.2024 | LabGenius Raises £35M in Series B Funding | LabGenius, a London, UK-based drug discovery company, raised £35M in Series B funding.
The round was led by M Ventures (the strategic, corporate venture capital arm of science and technology company Merck), with participation from additiona... |
| 21.05.2024 | UK’s LabGenius secures €40.9M led by Amsterdam’s M Ventures to advance its drug discovery platform | Read this article in:
London-based LabGenius, a drug discovery company, announced that it has secured £35M (approximately €40.96M) in a Series B round of funding. The company specialises in using machine learning to discover new therapeutic... |
| 16.04.2024 | Bay Bridge Ventures is raising $200M for a new climate fund, filings show | Climate investor Bay Bridge Ventures is raising a new $200 million fund, TechCrunch has exclusively learned.
Bay Bridge filed paperwork Monday for the new climate fund with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The raise comes at a t... |
| 18.03.2024 | Apple приобрела ИИ-стартап, специализирующийся на контроле за производством компонентов для электронных плат | Apple пополнила свой список приобретений еще одним стартапом в области искусственного интеллекта, приобретя канадскую компанию DarwinAI. Она специализируется на технологии машинного зрения, которая позволяет повысить эффективность при произ... |
| 14.03.2024 | Pi Health Secures $30M to Democratize Cancer Clinical Trials | Pi Health Co-Founders Bobby Reddy, MD, COO & Geoff Kim, CEO (left to right)
What You Should Know:
– Pi Health, a newly independent oncology-focused clinical research company raises $30M in Series A funding led by AlleyCorp and Obvious V... |
| 14.03.2024 | Apple acquires AI startup specializing in overseeing manufacturing components | Apple has added another AI startup to its acquisition list with Canada-based DarwinAI, which specializes in vision-based tech to observe components during manufacturing to improve efficiency, Bloomberg reported.
While Apple and DarwinAI hav... |
| 01.08.2023 | Brief: Miyoko’s Creamery brings in ex-Coca-Cola executive as new CEO | Miyoko’s Creamery has appointed ex-Coca-Cola executive Stuart Kronauge as CEO following the recent departure of interim president Jon Blair.
Kronauge, who cut her teeth in multiple senior roles during her 18 years at Coca-Cola including pre... |
| 29.03.2023 | Inato Raises $20M to Make Clinical Trials More Inclusive | What You Should Know:
– Inato, a technology platform that connects pharma companies (trial sponsors) with community-based trial sites raises $20M in new funding (A2) led by Cathay Innovation with participation from existing investor Obvious... |
| 17.02.2023 | ‘Conflict grew around the best path forward for future growth…’ Miyoko’s founder weighs in as board seeks new CEO | Miyoko Schinner has weighed into the conversation sparked by news that fellow board members have removed her as CEO from Miyoko’s Creamery, the company she founded. In a LinkedIn post post, Schinner explained that “conflict grew around the ... |
| 15.11.2022 | Descript AI/Cloud-Based Editor Raises $50 Million, Launches New Interface | (Interface image courtesy of Descript) |
| 14.06.2022 | A decade after the bubble burst, 5 climate tech investors explain why they’re all in | Climate tech has been one of the biggest successes of the last few years. By 2025, investors are expected to sink $1.5 trillion to $2 trillion annually into a wide range of startups that promise to upend everything from travel and commuting... |
| 19.04.2022 | Nue Life Health raises $23M Series A Led by Obvious Ventures for psychedelics platform | Last year we covered the $3.3 million seed round for NUE Life Health, a US-based telemedicine startup in the US, which was building out a mental wellness platform that combined psychedelic-assisted therapies and a graph database-driven app.... |
| 03.03.2022 | Lynx Launches with $17.5M for API-Connected Healthcare Payments | What You Should Know:
– Lynx, a Boston-based API-connected healthcare payments, banking, and e-commerce platform announced today that it has emerged from stealth with $17.5M in equity financing led by Obvious Ventures and .406 Ventures with... |
| 03.02.2022 | ConcertoCare Raises $105M for Value-Based At-Home Care for Seniors | What You Should Know:
– ConcertoCare, a value-based care provider of at-home care for seniors and other adults with unmet health and social needs raises $105M in Series B funding led by Wells Fargo Strategic Capital. The round also includes... |
| 06.12.2021 | Forum Mobility Raises $7.5 Million Seed Funding to Fuel Expansion | SAN FRANCISCO (PRWEB) December 06, 2021
Forum Mobility, a zero-emission fleet and infrastructure provider, announced today it has raised $7.5 million in seed funding to build its operations, broaden its team, and further product development... |
| 20.09.2021 | Miyoko’s Creamery CEO on $52m funding, federal court victory & vegan cheese fails | “Vegan cheese has been the laughing stock of the food industry because it has been crap,” Miyoko Schinner tells AFN. “It’s fake food for the most part and we need to turn that around. We need to make real cheese out of real food ingredients... |
| 17.08.2021 | Putting the fin in fintech, XpertSea changes course following $20m Series B round | A startup’s journey can take unexpected twists and turns as it learns more about is customers and what they really need.
Canadian aquaculture platform XpertSea initially launched in 2011, offering a data-collection device for fish farms bef... |
| 17.08.2021 | Putting the ‘fin’ in fintech, XpertSea changes course following $20m Series B raise | A startup’s journey can take unexpected twists and turns as it learns more about is customers and what they really need.
Canadian aquaculture platform XpertSea initially launched in 2011, offering a data-collection device for fish farms bef... |
| 16.04.2021 | Home healthcare driver Tomorrow Health secures US $ 25 million in Series A | Tomorrow Health, a New York (United States) based startup that envisions providing healthcare at home, announced on 15th April 2021 that it has secured US $ 25 million in its series A funding round. The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz ... |
| 15.04.2021 | Medable Raises $78M to Expand Decentralized Clinical Trials Platform for Patient-Centered Drug Development | What You Should Know:
– Medable, Inc., a Palo Alto, CA-based global platform for decentralized clinical trials today announced $78M in new funding to fuel advances in the delivery of digital and decentralized clinical trials, accelerating t... |
| 04.02.2021 | Last we heard from Good Eggs, it was in a multi-city retreat. Now it’s expanding with $100m in funding | Grocery delivery seemed like it was on a meteoric trajectory when it erupted a few years ago. But it soon ran into more than a few roadblocks: customer churn, high margins, and complicated delivery logistics.
Consumers were also slow to ado... |
| 21.01.2021 | 8 VCs agree: Behavioral support and remote visits make digital health a strong bet for 2021 | In TechCrunch investor surveys of years past, we’ve seen a big focus on fixing what’s broken or bringing the infrastructure into the modern era. But the world has dramatically changed since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.
More of us... |
| 01.12.2020 | Obvious Ventures outlines the ‘world-positive’ impact of its startups and shares what’s next | Today, the early-stage, mission-focused, San Francisco-based venture firm Obvious Ventures released a very readable overview of how each of its portfolio companies is benefiting the world in its own way.
Its report shines a light on the gro... |
| 24.11.2020 | Talking tech’s exodus, Twitter’s labels and Medium’s next moves with founder Ev Williams | Earlier today, we had the chance to talk with Twitter and Medium co-founder Ev Williams, along with operator-turned investor James Joaquin, who helps oversee the day-to-day of the mission-focused venture firm they separately co-founded six ... |
| 28.09.2020 | Just Launched: Long-Term Stock Exchange For Companies Building Lasting Impact For All Their Stakeholders | Eric RiesStandard industries |
| 21.05.2020 | Why don’t more VCs care about good tech (yet)? | Johannes Lenhard Contributor
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One of the VC partners in a well-established London firm told me straight out... |
| 04.02.2020 | Serena, Obvious Ventures Invest In This Clinical Trial Marketplace’s $14M Series A | 25 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
Inato wants to make clinical trials, which often tackle the most complex of diseases, more inclusive of all patients. The startup, founded in 2016 in Paris, France, has raised $14 million in a Serie... |
| 14.01.2020 | Obvious Ventures Closes Third Fund At A Not-So-Obvious Size | 12 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
Obvious Ventures, founded in 2014 by Medium CEO and Twitter co-founder Ev Williams, as well as James Joaquin and Vishal Vasishth, has closed its third fund at $271,828,182.
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| 14.01.2020 | Obvious Ventures, a new venture fund founded by Twitter co-founder and early Beyond Meat investor, announces $271.8 million for its third fund | Obvious Ventures, a new venture fund founded by Twitter co-founder and early Beyond Meat investor, just raised $271,828,182 for its third fund (OV3), bringing its total size to about $585 million. The firm made the announcement on Medium to... |
| 14.01.2020 | Obvious Ventures Closes Third Fund At A Not-So-Obvious Size | 15 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
Obvious Ventures, founded in 2014 by Medium CEO and Twitter co-founder Ev Williams, as well as James Joaquin and Vishal Vasishth, has closed its third fund at $271,828,182.
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| 23.10.2019 | LabGenius: London-based startup gets €11.5M for discovering next-gen drugs using AI | The growth in Artificial Intelligence (AI) has proliferated into various sectors. A lot of startups across the world are creating new approaches and seeking after the inventive business models in a bid to alter the pharmaceutical businesses... |
| 23.10.2019 | London-based LabGenius raises €11.5 million to scale its AI-driven drug discovery platform | LabGenius has announced today that it has raised over €11.5 million in its Series A funding round. Founded in 2012, LabGenius is a drug discovery company that is using artificial intelligence (AI), robotic automation, and synthetic biology ... |
| 22.10.2019 | beam Announces Seed Round With Obvious Ventures | Today, the former pro-athlete founders of beam, a new wellness brand offering an innovative line of CBD products, announce a $5M funding round led by Obvious Ventures, a top Silicon Valley venture capital firm.
Obvious is known for backing ... |
| 22.10.2019 | beam Announces Seed Round With Obvious Ventures | Today, the former pro-athlete founders of beam, a new wellness brand offering an innovative line of CBD products, announce a $5M funding round led by Obvious Ventures, a top Silicon Valley venture capital firm.
Obvious is known for backing ... |
| 12.09.2019 | Incredible Health Raises $15M to Transform The Way Nurses Get Hired | – Incredible Health raises $15M in Series A funding led by Andreessen Horowitz to solve America’s looming health care labor crisis.
– Founded in 2017 by a former physician and an MIT alum from a family of nurses, the company has pioneered a... |
| 11.09.2019 | Can alternative protein startups justify their climbing valuations? | Editor’s Note: Yanniv is an investment associate at AgFunder.
It’s hard to miss the investor enthusiasm for meat-free animal products these days. Beyond Beyond Meat’s epic IPO, we continue to hear about mega valuations in the space and it w... |
| 27.08.2019 | Insurtech Hedvig raises €9m in bid to become Europe’s Lemonade | The Swedish home insurance startup Hedvig has raised €9,3m from San Francisco based Obvious Ventures and Swedish retailer group Axel Johnson’s venture leg D-Ax.
Many of the most successful startups in the insurtech sector are brokers for in... |
| 11.08.2019 | The venture studio is the model we need right now | The world needs big, audacious solutions to the thorniest problems impacting humanity. Problems like climate change, space exploration, oceanic exploration, food shortages and mass violence require government, nonprofits and private enterpr... |
| 11.08.2019 | The venture studio is the model we need right now | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
The world needs big, audacious solutions to the t... |
| 06.11.2018 | Term Sheet — Tuesday, November 6 | PE’S TECH LOVE AFFAIR
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| 20.07.2018 | Term Sheet — Friday, July 20 | UBER → DOORDASH
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| 10.05.2017 | Obvious Ventures has closed on a funky amount of funding (again) for fund two | The early-stage venture firm Obvious Ventures has a sense of humor that any math nerd can appreciate. The three-year-old, San Francisco-based firm closed its debut fund with $123,456,789. (They said at the time they just wanted to have a li... |
| 10.05.2017 | Obvious Ventures closes Fund II with $191,919,191. (Read on.) | - |
| 18.04.2017 | Term Sheet — Tuesday, April 18 | ET CETERA
Unicorn Watch: Houzz, an online platform for home remodeling and design services, is in the market raising a large new round of venture funding that could value the company at more than $5 billion, several sources familiar with th... |
| 17.04.2017 | Obvious Ventures Raises $178.4m for Second Venture Capital Fund | Obvious Ventures, a San Francisco, CA-based early stage tech venture capital firm, raised $178.4m for its second fund.
Per an SEC filing, Obvious Ventures II, LP, was subscribed by 38 investors.
Led by Ev Williams, Co-founder, James Joaquin... |
| 08.03.2017 | From real estate to healthcare: Trulia cofounder’s new health IT venture takes on Type 2 diabetes (Updated) | Two years after Zillow acquired online real estate company Trulia in a $2.5 billion deal, Trulia’s Cofounder and former president Sami Inkinen has moved into healthcare with the launch of telehealth startup, Virta Health. The digital health... |
| 14.02.2017 | Investing in GoodBusiness | Ted Rheingold Contributor
Ted Rheingold is a profit-from-purpose entrepreneur. He was the founding COO of Tala and founder of the social networks Dogster and Catster.
Since 2001, impact VC firms have raised $13 billion to invest in companie... |
| 17.01.2017 | When Medium was young: the early years | Created by former Twitter co-founder and CEO Evan Williams, Medium is now a publishing powerhouse
Editor's note: Our Splash Health, Wellness and Wearables event is coming up on March 23 in San Francisco. We'll have Mario Schlosser (Founder ... |
| 15.12.2016 | Term Sheet — Thursday, December 15 | TRUMP, VERIHOO, LAYOFF WATCH
Yesterday the Titans of Tech met with Trump, drank his Trump-branded water, rode his Trump-gold elevator. A few notes for those of you that didn’t spend the afternoon refreshing Twitter for new photos of CEOs lo... |
| 26.11.2016 | Venture capitalists and the search for moonshots | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
In Silicon Valley, there are companies that prefer to target low-hanging fruit, problems that may not be significant but that have a hi... |
| 26.11.2016 | Venture capitalists and the search for moonshots | In Silicon Valley, there are companies that prefer to target low-hanging fruit, problems that may not be significant but that have a high likelihood of gaining traction quickly. But a few are bucking this trend, instead opting to look at th... |
| 18.10.2016 | Joy raises $2.5M for its interactive photo frame | Joy, hardware startup and resident positive emotion, today announced the launch of its first product, the Joy Album — an interactive photo frame designed from the ground up. Joy has raised $2.5 million in seed funding from investors includi... |
| 03.10.2016 | Fifty Years — The new Silicon Valley VC that wants to save the world AND make money | “We shall escape the absurdity of growing a whole chicken in order to eat the breast or wing, by growing these parts separately under a suitable medium. Synthetic food will, of course, also be used in the future. Nor need the pleasures of t... |
| 11.08.2016 | Fundings-in-Brief: Startup Manufacturing Wine without Grapes Raises $2.7m, Ashton Kutcher Invests in Farm-2-Consumer Startup, Vestaron Raises $18m, lots more | Alternative Wine Startup Ava Winery Raises $2.7m Seed Round with Horizon Ventures
Ava Winery, a startup engineering wine without grapes or fermentation, has raised $2.7 million in seed funding in a round led by Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-s... |
| 10.08.2016 | Why S2G and Obvious Ventures Invested in Good Eggs as Food E-Commerce Startup Funding Falls 22% YoY | Good Eggs, the San Francisco-based food delivery service that last year shocked consumers by having to shut down all operations outside of the Bay Area, has surprised the market again by raising $15 million in fresh funding. The company’s n... |
| 27.07.2016 | Good Eggs raises $15 million to expand across the U.S. | A San Francisco startup that many people assumed was toast, Good Eggs, has raised $15 million in a new round of venture funding led by Index Ventures to expand its online, organic grocery business first in the San Francisco Bay Area, and la... |
| 24.06.2016 | Plant Prefab raises $3 million from Obvious Ventures for durable, sustainable homes | Plant Prefab wants to make it easier for people to build homes within urban neighborhoods and cities, and it has raised $3 million to do just that. The investment, led by Obvious Ventures, will go some way toward helping the company scale, ... |
| 24.03.2016 | Abraaj Leads $150m Series D for BigBasket as Bubble Grows and Instacart Finds Profit | Investment in food e-commerce companies shows no signs of abating after Indian e-grocer BigBasket raised a whopping $150 million in a Series D round led by The Abraaj Group, a high-profile global private equity firm. The round attracted som... |
| 09.03.2016 | How to Invest in Agtech with #WorldPositive Venture Capital | Obvious Ventures is a VC firm that invests with purpose in what it calls #wordpositive venture capital. The food and agriculture sector fits nicely into its overall thesis. Portfolio companies of relevance include satellite imagery company ... |
| 09.03.2016 | Daily funding roundup - March 9, 2016 | Catalyst DevWorks raised $11.5M; Omnes led investment in Intersec; Drive Spotter secured $750k
Drive Spotter, a video analytics platform for commercial fleets, secured $750,000 in seed financing led by Grinnell Mutual Reinsurance Company wi... |
| 21.12.2015 | Daily funding roundup - December 21, 2015 | Neural Analytics Inc secured $10M; MapsAnything completed $7.3M funding; ChargeItSpot closed $5.6M
Gusto, a company that used to be ZenPayroll, before it rebranded in September, raised a round of funding of up to $50 million, according to a... |
| 02.11.2015 | Ev Williams’ Obvious Ventures Invests In Solar Software Company Sighten | Evan Williams’ venture firm, Obvious Ventures, has led a $3.5 million investment into solar financing and supply chain software developer Sighten.
Sighten looks like it provides tools for solar installers and project developers to optimize ... |
| 02.11.2015 | Sighten Closes $3.5M Series A Financing | Sighten, a San Francisco, CA-based solar software provider, closed a $3.5M Series A financing round.
The round was led by Obvious Ventures. In conjunction with the funding, Andrew Beebe, managing director of Obvious Ventures, will join Sigh... |
| 05.10.2015 |
Obvious Ventures To Announce $50,000 Investment Prize In Hollywood Next Week
| Obvious Ventures, the venture investment firm co-founded by Twitter founder Ev Williams and James Joaquin of When.com/Ofoto/Xoom, is announcing a $50,000 investment in one of 50 startups being featured at a conference in Hollywood next week... |
| 16.09.2015 | Enbala Power Networks Receives $3M Venture capital Funding | Enbala Power Networks, a Vancouver, BC, Canada-based provider of distributed energy resource management solutions, received a $3m investment.
San Francisco, CA-based early stage venture capital firm Obvious Ventures made the investment join... |
| 09.06.2015 | Daily funding roundup - June 9, 2015 | Blue Apron completes $135M; Outset Medical raised $91M; Rancher Labs landed $10M
As part of its co-investment activities, E.ON acquired a stake in the US start-up Enervee. Founded in 2012, Enervee provides a dynamic platform on which consum... |
| 27.05.2015 | Obvious Ventures Closes Inaugural Fund at $123,456,789 | Venture capital firm Obvious Ventures announced the close of its first fund, raising $123,456,789. The firm exceeded its initial target of $100 million and, according to cofounder James Joaquin, decided to have a bit of fun by settling on t... |
| 22.05.2015 | Funding roundup - week ending 5/22/15 | Oradian, WePay, MuleSoft, Videopixie, OnboardIQ, Mobcrush, Taboola, Lookup, Metabiota, Centro, Fuze
Seed stage
Oradian, a developer of technology platforms for microfinance institutions, raised an undisclosed amount of seed funding from Cre... |
| 21.05.2015 | Ev Williams’ Obvious Ventures closes $123,456,789 fund | Obvious Ventures, the venture capital firm cofounded by Twitter’s Evan Williams, announced the close of its very first fund today.
Guess how much it raised? $123,456,789. No joke.
Updated at 12:56 p.m. PT with an interview with Obvious Vent... |
| 21.05.2015 | Obvious Ventures raises $123,456,789 for its first fund | The firm has made 11 investments, and looks for companies that offer positive social benefits
If there's one thing that will always be true about life it's that it's never a bad thing to have a sense of humor.
In this world of deal-making a... |
| 21.05.2015 | Ev Williams’ Obvious Ventures closes $123,456,789 fund | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Obvious Ventures, the venture capital firm cofoun... |
| 24.03.2015 | Vator Splash Health 2015 Finalist - Stroll Health | Check out Stroll Health's presentation
Vator Splash Health 2015 finalist Stroll Health delivers an app for ambulatory and primary care physicians’ offices that enables clinicians to make personalized value-based referrals. Stroll's technolo... |
| 17.03.2015 | Vator Splash Health 2015 Finalist - Cloudwear | Check out Cloudwear's presentation
Vator Splash Health 2015 finalist Cloudwear has developed the next generation of cloud account security solutions that are fully HIPAA compliant. Cloudwear can improve online healthcare data security aroun... |
| 16.03.2015 | Obvious Ventures Closes Venture Capital Fund at $77.7M | According to a filing with the SEC, San Francisco-based venture capital firm Obvious Ventures closed its maiden fund at $77.7m.
Co-founded by Ev Williams, a co-founder of Twitter, James Joaqin, and Vishal Vasishth, Obvious Ventures was offi... |
| 13.03.2015 | Ev Williams’ VC Firm Obvious Ventures Has Raised $77.7 Million For Its First Fund, Filing Shows | Obvious Ventures, the venture capital firm started by Twitter and Medium co-founder Ev Williams, has raised a total of $77.7 million for its inaugural fund, Obvious Ventures I, according to a regulatory document filed today.
Obvious Venture... |
| 13.03.2015 | Vator Splash Health 2015 Finalist Nodexus | Check out Nodexus' presentation on stage and the judges' feedback
Vator Splash Health 2015 finalist Nodexus is commercializing a versatile system, consisting of a hardware platform (tablet-sized) and disposable cartridges, that was develope... |
| 10.03.2015 | Vator Splash Health 2015 Finalist - Core Mobile | Check out Core Mobile's presentation on stage and the judges' feedback
Vator Splash Health 2015 finalist Core Mobile makes Healthcare - Mobile, Efficient & Coordinated to achieve 3 objectives, (1) Improve efficiency to reduce healthcare... |
| 06.03.2015 | Splash Health 2015 People's Choice Award Winner | Check out Privail's presentation on stage and the judges' feedback
At Vator Splash Health, Privail won the People's Choice Award. Here's the video of Anwaar Al-Zireeni, Privail co-founder and CEO, giving on of the winning presentation.
Pri... |
| 27.02.2015 | Luminate Health's Splash Health 2015 winning pitch | Check out Luminate Health's presentation on stage and the judges' feedback
At Vator Splash Health, Luminate Health took home the gold. Here's the video of Siddharth Sinha, Luminate co-founder and CEO, giving the winning presentation.
Lumin... |
| 12.02.2015 | Presenting the 6 finalists for Vator Splash Health! | These 6 startups will be pitching their ideas to some of the top tech VCs and entrepreneurs!
Today, Vator will be holding its first ever Splash Health event in Oakland, where speakers such as Dr. Katrina Firlik, Tom Lee, Founder & CEO o... |
| 12.02.2015 | The winner of Vator Splash Health is Luminate Health! | And a big congratulations to our People's Choice winner, Privail!
(Image: Jules Walker (KPMG), Bambi Francisco (Vator), Sidd Sinha (Founder & CEO, Luminate Health), Jessica Hsu (Founder & CTO)
The ballots are in! They have all been ... |
| 09.12.2014 | VC Firm Obvious Ventures Officially Launches | San Francisco, CA-based venture capital firm Obvious Ventures launched.
Co-founded by Ev Williams (who told the story on a post on Medium here), James Joaquim, and Vishal Vasishth, the firm typically invests within the following categories:... |
| 08.12.2014 | Evan Williams’ Obvious Ventures wants to fund companies doing good — and making money | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Doing good is not the first goal that comes to mi... |
| 08.12.2014 | Evan Williams’ Obvious Ventures wants to fund companies doing good — and making money | Doing good is not the first goal that comes to mind when thinking about what investors want, but this is what Obvious Ventures is setting out to do.
Officially emerging from the darkness today, Obvious Ventures is a new fund that Twitter’s ... |
| 08.12.2014 | Ev Williams’ Obvious Ventures Is A Fund For Investing In ‘World-Positive’ Startups | Serial entrepreneur Ev Williams has made a fortune over the years, and now wants to invest some of his riches into startups. But not just any startups — the co-founder of Blogger and Twitter is looking for companies that are built to make p... |
| 21.08.2013 | The Quantified Soul: A Guide to the Best Habit and Mood Tracking Apps | Self-knowledge through numbers – the idea that self-quantification tools can help us understand more about ourselves, ultimately leading us to improve our daily functioning and quality of life. This concept of the “quantified self” was made... |
| 03.05.2013 | Silicon Valley And The Reinvention Of Food | Fake meats have been around for years, but a new crop of Bay Area startups backed by tech investors think they can make meat substitutes good enough to compete with the real deal. Beyond Meat — backed by Twitter founders Evan Williams and B... |
| 05.04.2013 | The Obvious Corp. Takes Backseat As Ev Williams, Biz Stone, And Jason Goldman Shift Focus To Individual Startups | The Obvious Corporation, the startup incubator and investment vehicle headed up by Twitter co-founders Evan Williams, Biz Stone, and former Twitter exec Jason Goldman that has become an umbrella company of sorts to a number of buzzy startup... |
| 16.02.2013 | The Rise Of Company Builders | Entrepreneur-turned-investor is a classic story arc in Silicon Valley but recently the plot has earned a twist. Certain operators are foregoing the traditional path of joining a traditional VC to instead create a studio-like holding operati... |
| 23.09.2012 | Biz Stone and Ev Williams On Why Founders Should Err On The Side Of Saying Too Much | Evan Williams and Biz Stone are probably still best known for their roles in co-founding Twitter, but what many people in the general public don’t realize is that Twitter was actually born as just a small project within a technology startup... |
| 16.08.2012 | What Is the Point of . . . Branch? | Whenever a new Web trend comes along, there are people who ask, “What is the point of this?” If millions of people are using something, there has to be a reason. In our What Is the Point of… series, we’ll explain it to you.
This week, we’re... |
| 20.07.2012 | Students Seeking Startup Workshops: Lean Startup Machine Announces Scholarship Program | Lean Startup Machine wants to bring some young blood to its startup workshops — on its own dime.
The new initiative was supposedly inspired by the founders of Branch, a startup that aims “to turn the Internet’s monologues into dialogues” an... |
| 05.07.2012 | Lift’s method for unlocking human potential is so simple, it’s obvious | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
What’s the key to unlocking human potential? Tony Stubblebine, a first-hand witness to the coming-of-age moments of some of today’s mos... |
| 19.06.2012 | Lift, the stealthy startup backed by Twitter founders, prepares for August launch | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Stealthy San Francisco-based startup Lift has tod... |
| 02.05.2012 | Branching Out: How Josh Miller Went From Princeton Dropout to Alley Darling in Just Nine Months | On a recent Wednesday afternoon, Josh Miller, the precocious 21-year-old Princeton dropout behind Branch, one of tech’s most buzzed-about new startups, took The Observer on a tour of the Obvious Corporation, a growing operation helmed by th... |
