Listed for $9.25 million this past May and briefly pulled from the MLS when the Million Dollar Listing agent changed brokerages, the list price for Peter Thiel’s Marina mansion at 2140 Jefferson Street, which overlooks both the Palace of Fine Arts and Golden Gate Bridge, has just been reduced... Read More »

The Marina District mansion that PayPal co-founder, turned iconic Silicon Valley venture capitalist, Peter Thiel, purchased for $6.5 million in 2010 (and then spent a pretty penny to reconfigure and redecorate), has just hit the market listed for $9.25 million. Thiel had actually rented the 7,000-square-foot home at 2140 Jefferson... Read More »

Venture funding plummeted 30 percent in the fourth quarter of 2015 and deal flow dropped 13 percent to its lowest level since the first quarter of 2013, according to CB Insights which also notes, “this not due to seasonality.” Speaking of plummeting, local startup One Kings Lane, which... Read More »

The Glass Half Full: Venture capital investment in the U.S. was 59% higher in the first three quarters of 2014 versus the first three quarters of 2013, with $13.9 billion invested in second quarter of 2014 alone, the second highest quarter for venture funding since the first quarter of... Read More »

Two great maps (click to enlarge) and top ten lists from the Atlantic Cities (Why San Francisco May Be the New Silicon Valley) with respect to where the venture dollars are flowing and the deals are getting done across the Bay Area. The city of San Francisco is the... Read More »