Some personal news. I am beyond thrilled to announce that today is my first day as a venture capital and startup reporter at @TechCrunch . I can’t believe I’ll be working alongside some of the best reporters and editors on the beat.
Marina Temkin
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Marina Temkin
@MTemkin
Financial analyst turned journalist. Covering VC/startups at @TechCrunch. Previously @PitchBook, @VCjournal. email for Signal: [email protected].
San Francisco, CA
Joined September 2013
- Replying to @MTemkinI’d like to thank PitchBook’s entire news team, especially my editors @jamescthorne and @alecdavis, for the wonderful three years where I got to write about VC for the world’s most definitive private markets data platform.
- Two weeks ago, @Zeff and I scooped that Cursor maker @anysphere reached $300 million in ARR. Our reporting has since been confirmed by Anysphere's CEO Michael Truell. techcrunch.com/2025/04/22/why…Replying to @lennysanHere's our full conversation youtube.com/watch?v=En5cSX…
- Scoop: LangChain is raising fresh capital at about $1B valuation from IVP. A rich price for a startup whose revenues are ARR is $12M - $16M, according to sources.
- Would be great to see more VCs share their returns, whether next to USVs or just on their own.
- My last month's deal scoop about Thrive leading Cursor's $100M Series B round confirmed. techcrunch.com/2024/12/19/in-…Thrilled to announce that @a16z is co-leading the Series B of @cursor_ai. We couldn't be more excited to continuing working with the Cursor team as they take the world of coding by storm.
- When a host of my favorite podcast tweets my article.SaaS valuations have fallen from about 100x ARR to 15x ARR. That means you need to grow 7x to get a flat round. pitchbook.com/news/articles/…
- Scoop: @NEA leads $20M Series A at $95M valuation for Anterior, a prior authorization automation startup.
- Have to agree that San Mateo is about as convenient as it gets in the SF Bay Area. It may not be as glorious as NYC, but happy to be living here.Came to the realization that work-from-home isn't compelling to me personally, as the magic of working together in an office Selling the office in SF & starting a search for space in San Mateo to go to every day [ current remote workers will be grandfathered, of course! ]
- Replying to @alexYou just have to accept that it will be like this for a while.
