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“It’s the jockey, not the horse,” when it comes to venture investing according to Jack Selby...
Unicorn companies with massive valuations during the pandemic-era frenzy may be in for a reckoning as they turn to the market for additional investments in 2024...
Jack Selby was one of PayPal Holdings Inc.’s first employees and sold his stake in the Silicon Valley firm when eBay Inc. bought it for $1.5 billion about two decades ago...
The pace at which technology is driving innovation, unlocking value and solving global challenges has never been higher. In this environment, data and compute are both emerging...
Jack Selby, managing director at Peter Thiel’s family office, Thiel Capital, and a managing partner at AZ-VC, a Phoenix-based venture firm that has raised a $110 million fund targeting...
Phoenix-based venture capital firm AZ-VC sees no signs of slowing down more than a year after launching the state’s largest fund. In 2022, the firm closed a $110 million fund...
With a passion for supporting underserved markets, veteran venture capitalist Jason Pressman has set his sights on Arizona, determined to seek out investment opportunities that could help...
Jack Selby, Managing Director of Thiel Capital & Managing Partner of AZ-VC; Pierpaolo Barbieri, Founder & CEO of Ualá; and Marcelo Claure, Founder of Claure Group, discuss how the current economic climate is impacting the tech sector w...
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The venture capital community had no obligation to rescue Silicon Valley Bank as it struggled to stay afloat amid a run by depositors, Thiel Capital’s Jack Selby said. “There have been other VCs saying, ‘We’re a community. Why didn’t w...
Right-Hand Cybersecurity
The round was led by former PayPal executive Jack Selby and Arizonan venture capital business AZ-VC. Right-Hand claims it takes a human-centered approach to cybersecurity that improves employee behaviours in real-time that are otherwise pro...
Managing Partner of Arizona's largest venture fund to discuss the emerging Silicon Desert during the 2023 Qatar Economic Forum, Powered by Bloomberg. As the Middle East’s leading voice dedicated to global business and investm...
Venture Madness, the longest-running venture capital and pitch conference in Arizona, has released names of finalists for this year’s competition. Invest Southwest, a nonprofit that organizes the event, said Wednesday that judges selected ...
Phoenix-based aviation
Bluetail Inc., a Phoenix-based company that helps aircraft owners digitize flight records, recently raised $2.2 million in series A funding. The investment allows Bluetail to expand its FAA-compliant, cloud-based software platform and doubl...
InvisionAZ Tech Summit
If Valley-based tech veteran and investor Andy Lombard was asked to name how many venture capital firms exist in Arizona eight months ago, it would have been a 30-second conversation. Now that’s changing as this year is poised to be a renaiss...
Proprietary technology and interactive financials give small to medium-sized businesses the actionable insights they need to save thousands on monthly expenses SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Dec. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Uplinq, the tech-powered company...
Jack Selby
Jack Selby, a former PayPal exec and the longtime managing director of Thiel Capital who attracted some attention years back for his low-key largesse, has a new, $110 million venture fund that he intends to invest mostly in his adopted state ...
Veteran Investor Raises
Jack Selby, a veteran venture capitalist and former entrepreneur who played an early role in building PayPal Holdings Inc. into an online payments giant, has launched his own venture fund to target startups based in Arizona. The $110 million ...
Mosaic raises
Mosaic Building Group, a Phoenix, Arizona-based construction tech startup, has raised $44 million in a Series B funding round led by Peak State Ventures. New investors Starwood Capital, invisionAZ, Tekfen Ventures and Brightstone also put m...
Mark Cuban
Among other things, the high-profile Texas investor and sports team owner said he is not running for president, he believes in hiring for diversity to celebrate people's strengths, and has given out close to $6 million to help military famili...