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McIlwain is the daughter of Matt McIlwain, a managing director at Seattle’s Madrona Venture Group. Growing up in Seattle, she considers herself fortunate to have learned from the longtime tech investor — and she valued enough of what her dad said that she followed him into the field.

Kimberly Shenk, CEO of Novi Connect on Forbes “The Next 1000” List.  Take a look at her profile!

Airspace — a technology platform revolutionizing time-critical logistics — announced recently that it closed a $38 million Series C round of funding

The digital media industry will give us plenty to talk about this year.

When we last surveyed venture capitalists about their media investments, the big topic was the impact that the pandemic would have on the industry, and on the prospects for new startups.

“We’ve more than doubled our growth every year and we are also very capital-efficient, so this round will allow us to continue that trend in 2021 and succeed not just in the U.S., but abroad,” says Nick Bulcao, co-founder and CEO at Airspace, which is based in Carlsbad, California. “Our motto during the Covid-19 downturn…

My original thesis about logistics was wrong, but I was able to learn from the best to invest in a business the world truly needed. I have been lucky to be a part of this ride alongside Nick and his incredible team. Onwards and upwards Airspace — congratulations on a great milestone along this amazing…

Airspace, the technology platform revolutionizing time-critical logistics, announced today that it closed a $38 million Series C funding round. The latest funding is led by Telstra Ventures, and joined by co-lead HarbourVest Partners. Other participants include return backers Scale Ventures, who led Airspace’s Series B; Defy Partners, who led Airspace’s Series A; along with Qualcomm Ventures and Prologis Ventures. To date,…

Modernizing the book club. Of all the weeks to launch a social platform, this was a tough one, with critics arguing that the likes of Facebook and Twitter aren’t doing enough—or are doing too much—to stem hateful discourse. That wasn’t lost on Padmasree Warrior, the former CTO of Motorola and Cisco, who unveiled her new startup called Fable, a social media…

Padmasree Warrior has spent most of her career in prominent C-suite offices, running large hard-technology operations at Cisco, Motorola, and Tesla competitor Nio.

Healthcare systems are always looking out for ways to save money and a startup called Lumiata has just raised $14 million to continue building out its service that aims to help them do it.