San Francisco VC firm fined $215M for using Russian oligarch funds Among GVA Capital’s investments was a now-defunct church converted into a startup incubator in Russian Hill dubbed the “Startup Temple.”

GVA Capital, the San Francisco-based VC firm that tried to build a Russian Hill “startup temple,” has been fined $215 million for illegally using funds from a Russian oligarch.
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‘Everyone is building’: Why foreign founders are crossing oceans for San Francisco Donald Trump who? International AI startup founders are descending on San Francisco to cash in on the boom.

Attitudes about San Francisco have reversed since the pandemic, when remote work and doom-loop fears drove white-collar workers out of the region. #sfnews from @ryajetha.bsky.social

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Leaving X for BlueSky? Here are the SF accounts to follow Since the election, users are heading en masse to BlueSky, a platform that promises more control over the social media experience than X and Meta-owned Threads.

First post on BlueSky is fittingly about the growing popularity of the app! @sfstandard.bsky.social curated a list of SF accounts to follow if you’re new to the app. And we have a bonus list of our journalists!