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• MongoDB shares jump more than 30 percent in $192 million IPO

  10:34 AM ET Fri, 20 Oct 2017

  MongoDB's database services are popular among software developers.

• One of the hottest smart home start-ups in Silicon Valley was just acquired

  8:52 AM ET Thu, 19 Oct 2017

  The start-up August Home, which is being acquired by Stockholm-based Assa Abloy, raised $25 million as recently as the summer.

• London is the European hotspot for venture capitalists when it comes to fintech

  2:04 AM ET Thu, 19 Oct 2017

  Investors have poured more than $1 billion into British fintech companies since the beginning of the year, London & Partners said Thursday.

• Blue Apron layoffs hit office hardest, warehouse workers mostly spared, say sources

  12:10 PM ET Thu, 19 Oct 2017

  Blue Apron is laying off 6% of its employees, but thousands of shift workers in its meal kit fulfillment centers were spared.

• Halogen Ventures: Creating the female billionaires of the future   

  11:57 AM ET Wed, 18 Oct 2017

  Jesse Draper, Halogen Ventures founding partner, discusses investing in female-founded consumer tech start-ups.

• The myth behind unicorn valuations   

  3:01 PM ET Tue, 17 Oct 2017

  CNBC's Jon Fortt speaks with the "Power Lunch" team about the incredibly high valuations for Silicon Valley unicorns and why they may not be what they seem.

• Tech's 'winner take all' system is making valuations spike, says NYU professor

  1:19 PM ET Tue, 17 Oct 2017

  "This valuation number is hard to even call it a number. It really is an illusionist trick," Galloway said.

• Tesla employees detail how they were fired, claim dismissals were not performance related

  2:35 PM ET Tue, 17 Oct 2017

  Tesla employees claim they were fired with almost no warning, and the cuts targeted those who were paid most not just "performance" issues.

• In defense of private equity

  2:30 PM ET Mon, 16 Oct 2017

  The image of private equity as a parasitic form of business completely misses the point, writes VC Joe Lonsdale.

• Social Capital's Chamath Palihapitiya explains the beauty of a calculated risk

  9:00 PM ET Sun, 15 Oct 2017

  Chamath Palihapitiya is one of the most sought-after investors in Silicon Valley because he has a knack for figuring out how things work.

• Tesla fires hundreds of employees while trying to ramp up vehicle production

  11:04 AM ET Mon, 16 Oct 2017

  Tesla is firing hundreds of employees even as the company aims to ramp production of its electric vehicles.

• CarGurus shares rise more than 72 percent in trading debut

  4:18 PM ET Thu, 12 Oct 2017

  CarGurus wants to do the same thing for car dealerships that TripAdvisor did for hotels: increase transparency.

• Spotify on pace to grow revenue 40% this year, according to report

  2:21 PM ET Thu, 12 Oct 2017

  Investors estimate that the company has grown to about $16 billion in value, up from $13 billion earlier this year, according to The Information.

• Airbnb is teaming up with a local developer to build a large apartment complex in Florida

  9:56 AM ET Fri, 13 Oct 2017

  Airbnb has joined Miami-based Newgard Development Group to build apartments for home-sharing, further challenging the traditional hotel industry.

• Using tech intelligence to defend big data: 8VC's Joe Lonsdale   

  9:04 AM ET Thu, 12 Oct 2017

  Joe Lonsdale, 8VC founding partner, talks about reinventing the way technology is used to monitor big data problems.

• Meet the start-up making it easier to buy and sell shares in private companies

  4:29 PM ET Wed, 11 Oct 2017

  A startup called eShares raised $42 million to make it easier for privately-held companies to issue shares to investors and employees.