| Can a Y Combinator startup bring back supersonic air travel? The new company wants to bring back the faster-than-sound era -- and announced before hitting the stage at Y Combinator demo Day on Wednesday that it has an impressive partner in the project.
Meet 29 Bay Area startups who pitched at Tuesday's Y Combinator Demo Day The first 63 companies in the Winter 2016 Batch at Y Combinator pitched at the Computer History Museum on Tuesday. More than 60 more pitch on Wednesday. Here are the Bay Area startups in the first group.
Sequoia, Jim Goetz rule Midas List of top VCs again this year This is the third straight year that Goetz has topped the annual Forbes ranking, thanks to his early investment in WhatsApp.
Zoox driverless car maker OK'd for test rides on California roads The Menlo Park company that lists the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory as its address got its permit this week.
DoorDash raises $127M in down round, with a caveat The San Francisco-based startup gave its investors the ability to block an IPO if DoorDash can’t at least triple its investment from this latest round price.
Corvus Pharmaceuticals raises $71M in Bay Area's first IPO of 2016 The quarter nearly passed without a single IPO from a Bay Area company and is the first quarter in more than 20 years in which no non-healthtech companies went public in the U.S.
Research marketplace Science Exchange raises $25M to increase staffing The company grants secure access to a network of screened and verified contract research organizations, academic labs and government facilities available to conduct experiments on the behalf of the scientists.
Enterprise software startup BetterWorks to expand with $20M funding BetterWorks' software helps large organizations manage strategic plans, collaborative goals and ongoing performance conversations.
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