Todd Chaffee has long been one of the most senior members of the late-stage venture firm Institutional Venture Partners. Chaffee joined IVP in 2000 after logging six years at Visa, and went on to lead rounds in numerous prominent later-stage companies, many (but not all) of which have gone public, including Coinbase, Compass, Klarna, Kayak, […]

Investing for good gains traction, but the yields on oil stocks remain compelling

The failures of loose monetary policy could prompt a fall from grace

Could Retirement Interest Only mortgages be an option for many older people?

The route to success these days is not chasing profits but hoarding market share

In an overleveraged world headed for economic slowdown, don’t rely on the heavily indebted for rescue

Investment trusts pass the longevity test and could provide the answer 

If you fall for a scam, who is to blame — you or your bank?

Look at the numbers and you can see how much age matters when it comes to wealth

From social mobility to how tax policy has shaped our history — and future

It’s time for unloved UK equities to take their place in investors’ portfolios

You might not like the thought of paying tax on your pension contributions — but it’s coming 

The global economy was already looking a bit ropey and vulnerable to shocks

All portfolios should at least nod to the idea that there’s more to life than short-term profits. But how?

We have no real sense of how to value stocks in this environment

The hum of the helicopters needs to start getting louder

We may have passed peak uncertainty and there is definitely a reason to start buying again — carefully

Cuts are painful for investors, but don’t write off investment trusts just yet 

‘The old globalised order is fracturing. We are seeing wartime-style falls in GDP’

Technology means small shareholders need not — and should not — be excluded from emergency equity fundraisings

Might we all be better off if government loans were fast converted into equity?

A large problem remains: Washington does not know what it is trying to achieve

The UK is entering a new world, going its own way while superpowers dominate

Favourable trends in employment relative to population are not going to be repeated

The notion of the west as an alliance with moral foundations would evaporate if the president wins

The UK’s dire productivity performance since the financial crisis needs to improve

The FT's chief economics commentator says Boris Johnson's levelling-up mission will come at a cost

Achieving zero emissions by 2050 would require unprecedented global co-operation

Britain’s new chancellor would be wise to treat it as a holding operation

The thrust of the UK chancellor’s Budget is welcome. Yet it will not transform prospects in the near term

As borrowers and spenders of last resort, governments must act now to avert a depression

After blundering, the government must admit that the lockdown will not be over in three weeks

To address the pandemic, China and the US must not only function. They must function together

‘We are used to having the grandchildren regularly in our house. When will that happen again? We have no idea. That is painful’

The lockdowns are necessary to get the disease under control — but they must be brief

It is simply another policy tool, neither the royal road to hyperinflation nor a cure-all

A microbe has overthrown our arrogance and sent global output into a tailspin

Pandemic's economic impact compared with historic crises of 1930s and 2008

It has near-unlimited firepower and is the only EU institution willing and able to act

It is not a matter of protecting people ‘or’ the economy but of protecting people ‘and’ the economy

This time it is capital markets, rather than banks, that have to reform

The rich will benefit if we create sustainable demand with less household borrowing

It seems foolish to imagine the UK will swiftly return to life as it was before Covid-19

If you're building a large-scale technology startup, sooner or later, you should be having a conversation about the Indian market.

“I want to build a business which profiles every single researcher and healthcare professional in the world and I want to sell it to industry,” says Ariel Katz, the co-founder and chief executive of H1 Insights.  With the healthcare industry on a mission to digitize and analyze every conceivable data point it can to wring […]

Early Stage SF is around the corner, on April 28 in San Francisco, and we are more than excited for this brand new event. The intimate gathering of founders, VCs, operators and tech industry experts is all about giving founders the tools they need to find success, no matter the challenge ahead of them. Struggling […]

Tech companies are getting so large that Russia is fast-tracking laws aimed at developing "digital sovereignty." How will these regulations affect tech companies looking to do business in the country?

There is a major change ahead for LinkedIn, the social network for the working world, now with 675 million members. Jeff Weiner, who has been leading the company as CEO for the past 11 years, is stepping down on June 1, 2020. His new role will be executive chairman. Ryan Roslansky, who is currently head […]

The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe here. 1. Jeff Weiner will step down as CEO of LinkedIn June 1, product head Ryan Roslansky steps up The changes are LinkedIn’s […]

The internet has, for better or worse, become the default platform for people seeking information, and today one of the companies leveraging that to deliver educational content has raised some funding to fuel its next stage of growth. Udemy, which provides a marketplace offering some 150,000 different online learning courses from business analytics to ukulele […]