Heather Somerville

KeepTruckin secures $18m funding as Silicon Valley eyes trucking industry

In a novel approach, Bain Capital Ventures to fund ‘angel’ investors

Bain Capital Ventures MD Salil Deshpande is overseeing the programme

Europe’s ride-hail service Gett acquires U.S. rival Juno for $200m to fight Uber

Snap vaults venture investor Lightspeed into the Silicon Valley elite

Lightspeed owns 87 million Snap shares about $1.4 billion.

Uber rival Lyft looking to raise $500m fresh funds

The fundraising would value Lyft at up to $7 billion.

Cisco to buy AppDynamics for $3.7b in growth push

Cisco snapped up AppDynamics just before it planned to go public.

Uber hires former Google search chief Amit Singhal for senior engineering post

Startup investors fret over risks of mass data collection

Twitter executive exits to join venture firm Greylock

Better rules, long IPO wait mean secondary market boom for ‘unicorns’