Venture
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Early Stage: The LinkedIn for ex-cons wants to help 70 million people find jobs
70MillionJobs, backed by startup accelerator Y Combinator, is a job platform for people who tend to have trouble finding work — those with criminal records.
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Ellen Pao’s diversity project shows small gains in first report
Startups participating in Ellen Pao’s Project Include initiative increased their percentage of female, Asian, Hispanic and multi-racial employees over a period of eight months.
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Early Stage: Oakland startup delivers lunch, pulls young people out of poverty
Oakland-based The Town Kitchen offers training and jobs to at-risk teens and young adults who no one else wants to hire. Plus: a breathalyzer that helps you with your diet.
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Greylock COO steps down over ‘significant lapse of judgment’
Greylock Partners COO Tom Frangione engaged in a relationship with another employee and failed to disclose it to the firm, according to a person familiar with the situation.
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Early Stage: SF startup unleashes new feat in genetic engineering
Ravata Solutions says its method is more efficient for injecting genetic modifiers into mice, which means new drugs can come to market sooner.
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Vinod Khosla: Sexual harassment in Silicon Valley ‘perceived as a reality’
Speaking at a trade event in Palo Alto Thursday evening, Khosla shared his non-statistical “impression” on the sexual harassment problem in Silicon Valley.
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Early Stage: The pregnancy wearable that tracks contractions
San Francisco-based startup Bloomlife wants to use technology to help women have more healthy babies, starting with a device that tracks expectant mothers’ contractions.
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Early Stage: The hat that reads your thoughts
This entrepreneur, a former Google X executive, calls telepathy “the next step in computing.”
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Leaked emails: Binary Capital partner blames sexual harassment backlash on ‘corrupted’ media
Binary Capital partner Jonathan Teo, who has offered to resign from the helm of the firm, also slams “moronic” demand that he be replaced by a woman.
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Early Stage: Using apps to fight censorship, drug addiction and sexism in Iran
IranCubator, a tech incubator funded by Berkeley nonprofit United for Iran, produces apps that help Iranians circumvent censorship, protect themselves from domestic violence and fight drug addiction.
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