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The Silicon Valley Elite Need A Culture Of Duty
Editor’s note: Joe Lonsdale is a General Partner at Formation 8, an early growth technology fund. He is co-founder of Palantir and Addepar, and is also proud to be behind other successful...
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Formation 8 Raises Its First Fund Of $448M To Plug Silicon Valley Startups...
Formation 8 wants to bring venture capital back to its roots: investing in solutions to hard technology problems that could change the world. It just raised its first fund of $448 million — but with a...
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Veteran Venture Capitalist Pierre Lamond Joins Formation 8 As An Advisor
After leaving Khosla Ventures after its last fund, Silicon Valley icon Pierre Lamond has resurfaced in a new role. The veteran venture capitalist has taken an advisory position at Formation 8, the...
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Korean Mobile Media Company Yello Mobile Raises $100M From Formation 8 At A...
Korea-based startup Yello Mobile has raised $100 million from Formation 8 at a $1 billion valuation. You probably haven’t heard about Yello Mobile if you live outside of Asia, but the startup has set...
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Formation 8 Adds Shirish Sathaye As Its Newest Partner
Formation 8 has been busy lately, as the relatively new venture firm has been adding team members and (reportedly) is in the midst of raising its second fund. Today the company announced the hiring of...
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Formation 8 Closes Its $500 Million Second Fund
Formation 8, the investment firm founded by Joe Lonsdale, Brian Koo and Jim Kim, has closed its second fund, the company is announcing today. The new fund will give Formation 8 another $500 million to...
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Formation 8 Hires Flextronics Exec Lior Susan To Lead Hardware Investments
Venture firm Formation 8 has been on a bit of hiring spree recently, bringing on multiple partners and advisors over the past few months. Today it’s announcing Lior Susan will be joining the firm to...
View ArticleFormation 8 And Palantir Founder Joe Lonsdale Named In Sexual Assault Lawsuit
Joe Lonsdale, the technology executive best known as the co-founder of Palantir and a partner of venture capital firm Formation 8, has been accused of sexual assault, sexual harassment, and other...
View ArticleVenture Capital Firm Formation 8 Dropped From Sexual Assault Lawsuit
Venture capital firm Formation 8 has been removed as a defendant in a lawsuit filed in January against tech entrepreneur and investor Joe Lonsdale from a former girlfriend alleging sexual assault,...
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Cazena Raises $20M Series B For Its Enterprise Big Data-As-A-Service Platform
Cazena, a new platform that wants to make it easier for enterprises to process their data, today announced that it has raised a $20 million Series B round led by Formation 8. Other participants...
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Neighborly Raises $5.5M From Joe Lonsdale’s Formation 8, Ashton Kutcher To...
For American cities that need to raise millions or billions of dollars to finance projects from local parks to suspension bridges, the fractal-like complexity of global financial markets means that...
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Hyperloop Technologies Is Raising $80M, Names Ex-Cisco Pres Rob Lloyd CEO,...
Some big moves ahead for Hyperloop Technologies, the LA-based futuristic tubular transportation startup with high ambitions to rethink high-speed transportation services to “work anywhere and live...
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NodePrime Raises $7M In Seed Funding To Help Companies Manage Their Data Centers
Managing a complex modern IT infrastructure is hard. NodePrime, a San Francisco-based startup that’s emerging from stealth today, wants to make it easier for companies to map, monitor and control...
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Construction App Fieldwire Raises $6.6 Million, Led by Formation 8
Fieldwire, a San Francisco-based mobile and web platform designed to make collaboration on construction projects more efficient, has raised $6.6 million in fresh funding led by Formation 8. Other...
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Formation 8 Axes Plans For Third Fund, Lonsdale Now Raising $400M For “8...
We’ve heard about consolidation in the word of startups; today comes some news about a thinning of the ranks among VCs. Formation 8 — the VC firm co-founded by Palantir’s Joe Lonsdale, Brian Koo and...
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VR Live Streaming Platform NextVR Raises $30.5M Series A
NextVR, a startup that promises to give consumers rich VR experiences for live events has raised a $30.5 million Series A led by Formation 8 the WSJ reports. Notably the raise was also participated in...
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Korea’s Yello Mobile Raises $47M More At A $4B Valuation Led By Formation 8
Korea’s Yello Mobile has made a name for itself raising $100 million and using it to hoover up more than 80 startups to build its mobile apps business, which now serves 18 million users. Now, Yello...
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Branch.co raises $9.2 million to bring financial services where banks don’t go
San Francisco-based Branch International, or Branch.co, raised $9.2 million to bring digital financial services to mobile phone users in Sub-Saharan Africa. Andreessen Horowitz led the Series A round....
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Venerable audio company Bowers & Wilkins bought out by Gideon Yu’s EVA...
Bowers & Wilkins, an audio gear brand that has been familiar to millions for decades, is being bought out by EVA Automation, a two-year-old company that has never released a product. Yet the old...
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Bolt Threads raises $50 million to brew spider silk, inks deal with Patagonia
If the idea of wearing spider silk intrigues, the idea of managing a farm full of spiders isn’t all that appealing. A startup called Bolt Threads has developed a means of brewing spider silk and other...
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