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Grammy-winning DJs The Chainsmokers backed a $15 million round for finance...
Summary List PlacementAI-powered lender LoanSnap has raised a $5 million extension to its Series A funding round from Avanta Ventures, the VC arm of CSAA Insurance Group.The original $10 million round...
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After months of declines, the San Francisco condo market shot up in...
Summary List PlacementLast month yielded positive news for San Francisco's condo market, per a report by San Francisco-based real-estate group Polaris Pacific.Total transaction value was up 24.9%...
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Inside a 'haunted' 150-year-old million-dollar castle hidden away in San...
Summary List PlacementAlbion Castle is a four-story castle in San Francisco that was built in 1870 as a home and brewery.The tech hub has grown up and around it over the decades, and now the castle is...
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The one good thing in 2020 was suddenly cheap rent in Manhattan and San...
Summary List PlacementTwo big cities are clear losers from the coronavirus pandemic: New York and San Francisco. But that doesn't mean that people who live there are losing out — quite the opposite,...
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A new lawsuit accuses Uber of 'intentional race discrimination,' claiming the...
Summary List PlacementA former Uber driver filed a lawsuit on Monday accusing the ride-hailing company of discriminating against drivers of color through its star-based customer-rating system.Thomas...
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Each of the US' top 5 wealthy neighborhoods has an average household income...
Summary List PlacementF. Scott Fitzgerald once wrote, "Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me."For instance, a $400,000 yearly income is average for them, according to...
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Google's sister firm Waymo is pulling its self-driving cars out of San...
Summary List PlacementWaymo is pulling its self-driving cars from the streets of San Francisco Tuesday and Wednesday in case unrest ensues in the wake of the 2020 presidential election.Waymo, which is...
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San Francisco votes to raise surcharges on taxes for CEOs, big businesses,...
Summary List PlacementSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — In an effort to address economic disparity laid bare by the coronavirus pandemic, San Francisco voters overwhelmingly approved several tax measures targeting...
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San Francisco has enacted a new 'CEO tax.' It's for companies that 'overpay'...
Summary List PlacementWhile much of California's tech industry has been focused on passing statewide propositions like Prop 22, which prevents gig workers from being classified as full-time employees,...
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United is bringing back its ultra-premium West Coast flights to JFK in 2021...
Summary List PlacementTranscontinental travelers will have another option when choosing an airline this winter as United Airlines will soon return to New York City's John F. Kennedy International...
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The tech elite are abandoning Silicon Valley in droves because of...
Summary List PlacementThe tech diaspora is spreading.For the better part of a decade, tech founders and investors who earned their fortunes in San Francisco and the peninsula to the south have been...
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Is Silicon Valley finally dead?
Summary List PlacementSan Francisco brought Keith Rabois enormous riches. His resumé reflects a litany of Silicon Valley's success stories: executive roles with LinkedIn, Square, and Khosla Ventures;...
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As many as 89,000 households have left San Francisco since March, the latest...
Summary List PlacementAs many as 89,000 households have moved out of San Francisco since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. That's according to San Francisco-based site Public Comment, which worked...
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A Slack channel for Y Combinator founders who moved from San Francisco to...
Summary List PlacementA company has reportedly created a work messaging channel full of Y Combinator founders who have relocated from the San Francisco Bay Area to Austin, Texas.Initialized partner...
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Elon Musk and Oracle are leaving San Francisco for Austin. For founders...
Summary List PlacementBefore the pandemic, entrepreneurs were already leaving expensive cities like San Francisco and New York for cheaper ecosystems like those in Boise and Salt Lake City. But the...
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Officials condemned the naming of a San Francisco hospital after Mark...
Summary List PlacementSan Francisco officials on Tuesday passed a resolution condemning the naming of a local hospital after Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Dr. Priscilla Chan,The San...
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WHAT EXODUS? Venture capitalists say they're bullish on Silicon Valley and...
-Summary List PlacementIn San Francisco, idle cable cars, rents in free fall, and "for lease" signs on bars tell a story of a city on the decline. But the supposed permanent exodus of tech talent out...
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Nancy Pelosi's San Francisco house vandalized with a pig's head,...
Summary List PlacementEarly Friday morning, police were called to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's San Francisco home after vandals defaced the garage door and a severed pig's head, covered in fake blood,...
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The 10 American cities that saw the most residents flee at the height of the...
Summary List PlacementBig cities have been the clear losers of the coronavirus pandemic.Millions of Americans moved away from urban cores in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic. The rise of...
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I'm 23 and launched a luxury picnic service in the middle of the pandemic —...
Summary List PlacementIn the beginning of 2020, my friend's wedding was postponed due to the pandemic, so my close friend Coco Chan and I thought it would be nice to throw her and her fiance a cute...
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