Adobe plans to buy UI design and prototyping tool Figma for ~$20B, half cash and half stock; CEO Dylan Field will continue to lead Figma; ADBE closed down 16.8%
Today, we're announcing that Figma has entered into an agreement to be acquired by Adobe. TechCrunch : After the Figma-Adobe deal, which design startups are acquisition targets? Wall Street Journal : ...
AngelList launches AngelList Stack, a set of tools to help founders start and run their companies, including end-to-end incorporation and banking services
AngelList Stack is a new suite of workflow products for founders — AngelList this week launched AngelList Stack … Source: AngelList Venture and AngelList Venture Tweets: @angellist , @alexh_johnson ...
Interview with Semil Shah, founding GP of Haystack, on getting rejected from jobs at VC firms, innovation in the VC industry, Miami as a “tech hub”, and more
a path of following a technology, or trying to solve a problem, or building things with friends, etc. — and let the outputs fall where they may” Such an excellent interview, with so many powerful take...
A look at the changing landscape of seed funding as more big VCs compete there, and pros and cons of raising a seed round led by a big VC vs a seed-focused fund
When every fund is a seed fund — When Mike Fitzsimmons went out to raise his seed round, he negotiated with all the usual suspects. Tweets: @dscheinm , @sarthakgh , @dunkhippo33 , @semil , and @kate...
Sources: Rep. Ilhan Omar asked Jack Dorsey in a call why Twitter didn't pull Trump tweet with a video prompting death threats; Dorsey said it didn't break rules
Twitter did not take down the tweet, despite Omar's request, a source said. — Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey phoned Democratic … Tweets: @qasimrashid , @markseibel , @jordanuhl , @jamilsmith , ...
Recent news serves as a reminder that operators in startups and venture capital should work to ensure their investors are not bad actors
I got an email from the CEO of one of our portfolio companies last week. — It asked a very basic question, but one that I don't recall being asked before: Tweets: @gaberivera , @bznotes , @austinfis...
Startup L. Jackson revealed to be Parker Thompson, a VC who works for AngelList
Unmasking Startup L. Jackson, Silicon Valley's Favorite Twitter Persona — The anonymous tech personality is a venture capitalist but not any of the ones people thought. — Startup L. Jackson didn't...
For predictive computing to become ubiquitous, devices need accurate indoor location info so developers can build fully contextually aware apps
First Brain Computing and the Mouse Cursor for the Physical World — We are quickly approaching an era where smartphones, watches and computers are extensions of us as human beings. Tweets: @steveche...