This is how bad China’s startup scene looks now

VoidZero, the company behind Vite, Vitest, Rolldown, Oxc, and Vite+, is joining Cloudflare. All team members are joining Cloudflare, and the projects remain open source and vendor-agnostic.

Jun 3, 2026

The venture capital world has always had a hot-and-cold relationship with the Midwest. Investors rush in during boom times, then retreat to the coasts when markets turn sour. For Columbus, Ohio-based Drive Capital, this cycle of attention and disinterest played out against the backdrop of its own internal upheaval several years ago -- a co-founder split that could have ended the firm but may have ultimately strengthened it.

Jul 5, 2025

Will the Epstein revelations lead to broader fallout in Silicon Valley?

Feb 15, 2026

According to the FT, the FBI is now poking around nine-year-old Hone Capital, a Palo Alto, Ca.-based venture firm funded by a Chinese private equity firm, to determine whether some of its capital came from the Chinese government — and if it shared sensitive startup data with Beijing. Originally launched with $115 million from China’s CSC Group, Hone has since snapped up stakes in more than 360 U.S. startups, including the investing platform AngelList, payments giant Stripe, and supersonic flig

Sep 24, 2024

In the U.S., it’s accepted that most startups fail — and when that happens, VCs (generally) accept their losses and move on. But that’s not the case in China, where VCs are trying to claw back their investments in failed startups by pursuing the personal assets of their founders in court, The Financial Times reports. As China’s economy stalls, the country’s VCs are enforcing redemption clauses written into funding terms that were previously rarely enforced, according to the FT. This is resultin

Jan 7, 2025