The Latest Breaking News from Fred Wilson

Crypto messaging startup Ephemera raises $20 million to challenge Signal and WhatsApp

Fred Wilson, cofounder of Union Square Ventures, has joined Epherma’s board.

Fortune · Jul 17, 2025

How New York transformed from tech backwater into global venture capital

Behind the rise of the New York tech scene, from DoubleClick to Etsy.

Fortune · Nov 25, 2024

‘We’re going to find the next Shakespeare’: inside DC’s $80m library renovation

The reopened Folger Shakespeare Library aims to bring a wider audience to the world’s biggest collection of the Bard’s printed works

The Guardian - US · Jun 22, 2024

How Katie Haun and her $1.5 billion fund have navigated crypto’s year from hell

Once a star booster of crypto, Haun has largely retreated from the limelight.

Fortune · Aug 2, 2023

Beloved hardware shop Thorpes toasts 75 years on Gosforth High Street

Since 2017 the long-term fixture of Gosforth High Street has been run by Mike Ryans and is father-in-law, Fred Wilson

Birmingham Post · May 12, 2022

'Terrified': Musk Twitter Buyout Bid Rattles Tech World

Elon Musk's shock offer to buy Twitter drew immediate fears Thursday – and some cheers – over putting the platform in the hands of a mercurial billionaire who advocates fewer limits on what people can post. Tech watchers reacted to the Tesla chief's proposal for one of the world's most…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Apr 15, 2022