Peter Thiel’s  Venture fund Valar Ventures invests in Granify Granify announces a $7 million Series A round led by Peter Thiel’s Venture fund Valar Ventures. Existing investors such as iNovia Capital, Social Starts and many known business angels also joined the round. The new investment will be used to expand. A first international office will open…

We often hear that a happy worker is a hard worker. But for a growing number of companies worldwide, it’s a truism that’s revolutionising workplace culture. Enter the Feelgood Manager or Feelgood Department; a Santa’s workshop for your workplace happiness and lifestyle needs. From finding you new friends and hobbies to organising drinkathons and StarCraft-themed…

Caught between venture capital and a hard place? Founders trying to get companies off the ground may see only two options: bootstrap – work in a garden shed, build desks out of scrap wood – or jump on a treadmill of equity-sucking financing rounds. Not so, says O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures co-founder Bryce Roberts. Speaking at tech industry conference NEXT Berlin yesterday, he called…

The four winners of Seedcamp Week Berlin were announced yesterday at the mentoring event taking place at art and coworking space The Wye, representing a spread of startups from trucking logistics to “porn for fishing”. In addition to a move to Seedcamp’s base at Google Campus in London, where they will join the full year-long programme and an…

It’d be hard to think of a way to improve Silicon Valley giant Peter Thiel’s resume. He’s a cofounder of PayPal, the first outside investor in Facebook, and a philanthropist with an accumulated worth of $1.6bn. At the moment he’s focused on investing in startups, mostly as a managing partner of Founders Fund, backer of Asana, Palantir,…