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Author: BY ERIN GRIFFITH - Publish Date: November 5, 2021 at 02:19AM Start-up investors have often suspended skepticism while chasing a hot deal. The trial of Ms. Holmes, the founder of Theranos, has put that behavior under the spotlight.

Author: BY ERIC LIPTON, DAISUKE WAKABAYASHI AND EPHRAT LIVNI - Publish Date: October 30, 2021 at 12:01AM The Silicon Valley firm Andreessen Horowitz, whose founders played big roles in the development of the internet, aims to own a huge part of the digital currency world — and set the rules for it, too.

Author: BY ERIN GRIFFITH - Publish Date: February 22, 2021 at 03:00PM A fast-growing market for digital art, ephemera and media is marrying the world’s taste for collectibles with cutting-edge technology.

Author: BY NATHANIEL POPPER, MICHAEL J. DE LA MERCED AND DAVID MCCABE - Publish Date: February 2, 2021 at 06:51AM The high volume of trading by its customers, many of them egged on by social media, has put a strain on the company’s balance sheet.

Author: BY ERIN GRIFFITH - Publish Date: December 10, 2020 at 07:59AM The move, which is the second time the home-rental company raised its offering price, would value Airbnb for as much as $42 billion.

Author: BY PETER EAVIS - Publish Date: December 24, 2019 at 06:59AM T. Rowe Price led a new funding round for the start-up, a potential competitor to Tesla that was already backed by Amazon and Ford.

Author: BY ERIN GRIFFITH - Publish Date: October 26, 2019 at 07:22AM Mr. Valentine’s venture capital firm, established in 1972, helped cement Silicon Valley as a hub for technology companies.

Author: Unknown Author - Publish Date: August 29, 2019 at 07:00AM The ride-hailing company was once willing to break all the rules to take over the world. Now, it’s losing more money than ever.

Author: ERIN GRIFFITH - Publish Date: June 28, 2019 at 07:00AM In this season of multibillion-dollar I.P.O.s, the 15-year-old start-up is proving that failure, for companies of a certain size, rarely happens abruptly.

Author: KEVIN ROOSE - Publish Date: June 27, 2019 at 07:00AM One of Silicon Valley’s buzziest start-ups, Superhuman, is betting its app’s shiny features are worth a premium price.

Author: STEPHEN GROCER and ERIN GRIFFITH - Publish Date: June 24, 2019 at 07:00AM Despite all the hype and excitement, questions have hung over these I.P.O.s: What would the appetite be among investors?

Author: NATHANIEL POPPER - Publish Date: May 7, 2019 at 07:00AM A number of small companies are looking for ways to remove carbon from the atmosphere. But investors, burned by the clean-tech boom a decade ago, are leery.

Author: MICHAEL J. de la MERCED - Publish Date: April 26, 2019 at 07:00AM The maker of augmented-reality goggles said it has garnered $280 million from NTT Docomo of Japan, as part of a new partnership with the telecommunications giant.

Author: ERIN GRIFFITH - Publish Date: April 15, 2019 at 07:00AM The investment in Big Zodiac seems … preordained.

Author: ERIN GRIFFITH - Publish Date: April 7, 2019 at 07:00AM The digital pin board company is setting a price range for its I.P.O. that will put it at below its last private market valuation of $12 billion.

Author: ERIN GRIFFITH - Publish Date: March 24, 2019 at 07:00AM As high-profile start-ups like Lyft, Pinterest and Uber prepare to go public, Silicon Valley venture capitalists are using the moment to shine the spotlight on themselves.

Author: RAYMOND ZHONG - Publish Date: March 6, 2019 at 07:00AM After Uber sold its operations in the region to Grab last year, the company’s transport revenue doubled. Its food delivery revenue grew 45 times.

Author: TOM BISSELL - Publish Date: January 29, 2019 at 07:00AM In “Zucked,” the venture capitalist Roger McNamee — a former mentor to Mark Zuckerberg — reveals the inner workings behind the platform’s troubling rise to global behemoth.