Board members should view board membership as a subtle yet massively impactful role they play in the creation of great businesses.

Most robots these days make use of some form of Deep Learning. These are basically large neural networks that allow the robot to learn both the perception of an object(s) it engages with as well as...

With challenges in meeting clean energy goals and new electricity demands, politicians in both parties seek to prolong and even expand reactor use.

The somewhat dilapidated business suite next to a dentist’s office that was home to Confluent back in 2015 wasn’t that discouraging to me. We were pretty convinced from day one that we wanted to...

Many insightful books and articles have been written about innovation and entrepreneurship. They are the two most important ingredients that have shaped Silicon Valley as we know it. Yet, as Silicon...

Scale cleans up data so companies can build good artificial intelligence models. It's been trying to keep up with fast-growing customer DoorDash this year.

Index Ventures has closed a trio of new funds: a $900 million early-stage fund, a $2 billion growth-stage fund and a previously announced $200 million

Artificial Intelligence has captured our interest and fascination at Index Ventures for many years now. With investments in companies like Scale, Aurora, Covariant, Cohere, Arthur.ai, Lightning,...

Cockroach Labs, the NYC enterprise database company, announced an $86.6 million Series D funding round today. The company was in no mood to talk

Our partner Mike Volpi shares his thoughts on Confluent, one of the fastest growing enterprise software companies we've seen, on the heels of their latest ...

Their startup, called Cohere, is backed by AI luminaries Geoffrey Hinton and Fei-Fei Li.

The first thing I learned about Nina is that she is incredibly driven. When we onboard new team members at Index, we encourage them to take their time, to get to know people and to breathe the...

Covid-19 has made plenty of things hard. Raising venture capital isn’t one of them, said Kong Inc. Chief Executive Officer Augusto Marietti.“The amount of volume you can do is huge,” Marietti said in...

Index Ventures partners Sarah Cannon and Mike Volpi talk about what makes Slack special. Sarah ...

It’s somewhat of an anniversary for Index and Cockroach (Ok, two months shy of the 5th anniversary…). In March 2016, we led the Series A in Cockroach Labs. While it may seem like a no-brainer today,...

As unbelievable as the Elastic journey has been,

We are thrilled to share that we’re opening an office in New York City.Index opens an office about once a decade. Yet in many ways this was an easy decision. For years we’ve been deepening our...

The company sells data curation tools to the likes of Toyota, PayPal, and the U.S. Air Force.

Listen to this episode from The Logan Bartlett Show on Spotify. Mike Volpi is a top AI investor and GP at Index Ventures, where he’s invested in companies such as Confluent, Scale AI, Sonos, and many...

In May of last year, Covariant announced that it had raised a $40 million Series B. It was a healthy sum of money for the young company, bringing its

For all the excitement around places like Austin and Miami, the biggest tech expansion has been in Canada’s largest city.

Artificial intelligence startup Cohere has raised $270 million from a mix of venture capital and strategic investors including Oracle Corp. and Nvidia Corp., an executive said in an interview.

ClickHouse was created 10 years ago and is already used by firms like Uber, eBay, and CloudFlare. Now, it's building a business around the product.

Co-founder of Cohere says we should be more worried about use of artificial intelligence in social media and medicine

FDIC holds auction to buy tech lender as Washington promises policies to stem fallout from its collapse

Starburst Data Inc., a maker of enterprise software, reached a $1.2 billion valuation after raising $100 million in a funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz.

The venture firm, which plans to announce $1.65 billion in new funds, is hoping to use the money for new investments in Europe and Silicon Valley.

Online analytical processing specialist ClickHouse today announced the launch of ClickHouse Cloud and an extension to its Series B round.

Command R+ is a state-of-the-art RAG-optimized model designed to tackle enterprise-grade workloads, and is available first on Microsoft Azure  Today, we’re introducing Command R+, our most powerful,...

Los Angeles was always more than a one-industry town, even when it comes to technology startups, as media and entertainment (and social networking) were

For Zuora founder Tien Tzu...

In the realm of modern technology, it doesn’t get more exciting than self-driving vehicles.From the start, Aurora’s special sauce stemmed from the strength o...

Cockroach Lab's open source SQL database, CockroachDB, has been making inroads since it launched last year, but as any open source technology matures, in

Self-driving company Aurora raises Series A in a round co-led by Greylock Partners and Index Ventures, bringing the combined capital invested in the company to...

Creating a new A.I. system requires lots of money and lots of computing power, which is controlled by the industry’s giants.

Our most recent VC guest at Data Driven NYC, Mike Volpi of Index, has had a pretty amazing last couple of years, with three of his venture investments going public: Zuora, Sonos and Elastic. Before...

I became a US citizen 15 months ago, so this was my first election. The candidate I voted for did not win. As the hours have ticked by…

Covariant nabs another $75M.

Mike Volpi's answer: 1. Before you get started make sure that entrepreneurship is right for you. These days, especially in Silicon Valley, entrepreneurship can be a “lifestyle” - it is not. Being an...

Marty Chavez was the CIO at Goldman Sachs until he retired a couple of years ago. Of all the enterprise technology executives that I’ve worked with over the years, very few “get it” as Marty does....

Cohere, which is developing large language models for a range of use cases, has launched its commercial API.

Developing a database is a lot like building a company. At its core, a database is only as good as the way it’s built, the data people put into it, and the use cases built on top of it. Similarly, a...

Confluent co-founder Neha Narkhede says outside counsel was invaluable during her entrepreneurial rise through Silicon Valley from engineer to technology chief.

Mike volpi — You’ve been studying machine learning since high school, and you’ve interacted with many clients and experts, including those you’ve recruited at Scale. Give us your state of the union...