Ben Bergman
Senior Correspondent, Venture Capital and Startups at Business Insider
Senior Correspondent @BusinessInsider, investigating VC/startups. Big into tennis, skiing and poker. Got a tip? Message me securely on Signal: BenBergman.11
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1 week ago |
businessinsider.de | Ben Bergman
Laut General-Catalyst-CEO Hermant Taneja ist „Venture ist bequem und faul geworden“. Sam Barnes/Sportsfile for Collision via Getty Images Venture-Firmen unterstützen normalerweise hochfliegende Tech-Startups. Deshalb haben sich viele in der Branche den Kopf zerbrochen, als General Catalyst (GC) eine Krankenhauskette kaufte.
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1 week ago |
businessinsider.com | Leena Rao |Ben Bergman |Rebecca Torrence |Henry Blodget
Venture firms are normally in the business of backing high-flying tech startups, so many in the industry were scratching their heads when General Catalyst bought a chain of hospitals. The San Francisco-based firm spun out a separate healthcare unit, dubbed the Health Assurance Transformation Company or HATCo, in 2023 to buy Akron, Ohio-based Summa Health the following year.
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1 week ago |
businessinsider.com | Leena Rao |Ben Bergman |Henry Blodget
With a shaky IPO market, tariff uncertainty, and stock market jitters, these are not easy times to be the chief financial officer of a late-stage tech company. Against that precarious backdrop, I sat down last week with the CFOs of Mercury, Vercel, and Cribl at the San Francisco office of CRV, one of Silicon Valley's oldest venture firms and an early investor in all three startups.
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2 weeks ago |
businessinsider.com | Leena Rao |Rebecca Torrence |Ben Bergman |Henry Blodget
IPOs are back — just a month after a sudden market slump forced tech companies to put their public market debuts on hold. This time, bankers are telling companies to rush out while they still can. "If you're trying to get public, now is the time to 'go go go' before something else happens," a healthcare banker told Business Insider. The banker requested anonymity because they weren't authorized to speak to the press.
Gokul Rajaram believes seed investing is a 'marathon.' Here's how that's helped him notch top deals.
3 weeks ago |
businessinsider.com | Vishal Persaud |Ben Bergman |Henry Blodget
Gokul Rajaram's approach as an angel investor starts with finding exceptional founding teams who can go the distance. "At the earliest stages, it's truly all about the founder," he explained.
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Here is the Seed 40: The best women early-stage investors of 2025. https://t.co/gz8qt4ExBs
Behind every great company, there was a prescient early investor who planted the seed that helped it grow into a redwood. Here is our list of the top 100 seed investors of 2025. https://t.co/U63tAHoSJ1
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