Jessica Mathews

Jessica Mathews is a senior writer for Fortune covering startups and the venture capital industry. Previously, she wrote the daily dealmaking newsletter Term Sheet, where she won an EPPY award for best business/finance blog. Before joining Fortune, she covered wealth management and custody as a reporter at Financial Planning magazine. Jessica was a 2018 Dow Jones News Fund intern, and she interned at CNBC in 2017. She is a graduate from The King’s College in New York City, where she was the editor-in-chief of her student newspaper, the Empire State Tribune. Originally from Memphis, Tenn., you can now find her biking around Bentonville, Ark.

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Chris Thompson built Sober Sidekick himself as a personal project while he was in the early stages of sobriety.

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Venture capitalists wanted Sober Sidekick’s founder to take his addiction recovery app in a different direction. Now he’s proving them wrong

By Jessica Mathews

AUSTIN, TEXAS – MARCH 13: Everette Taylor speaks onstage at “Featured Speaker: Everette Taylor on Funding Dreams” during the 2023 SXSW Conference and Festivals at Hilton Austin on March 13, 2023 in Austin, Texas. (Photo by Amanda Stronza/Getty Images for SXSW)

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Exclusive: Kickstarter shakes up leadership team, terminating senior employees and promoting execs, as it tries to rebrand itself

By Jessica Mathews and Leo Schwartz

Anduril’s Sentry uses 360-degree radar to track drone threats.<br />
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In a single night, self-driving startup Cruise went from sizzling startup to cautionary tale. Here’s what really happened—and how GM is scrambling to save its $10B bet

By Jessica Mathews

The California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) revoked Cruise’s self-driving car permit, citing ‘unreasonable risk to public safety’ in San Francisco, California, on October 24, 2023.

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GM-owned Cruise reached a more than $8M settlement with pedestrian who was dragged by robo taxi

By Jessica Mathews

Melinda Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, speaks during the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) annual meeting in New York, US, on Monday, Sept. 19, 2022. For the first time since 2016, CGI will convene alongside the United Nations General Assembly. Photographer: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty Images

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Melinda French Gates is resigning from the $63 billion Gates Foundation to focus on ‘the next chapter’ of her philanthropy

By Jessica Mathews

David Sacks, co-founder of PayPal and chief operating officer of Zenefits, speaks during a Bloomberg West television interview in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2014. Zenefits, a human-resources software maker, said Sacks, the co-founder of Yammer, will join as the company’s first chief operating officer and director of the 18-month-old startup. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images

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Workers at Elon Musk’s Boring Co. accidentally dug too close to a supporting column of the Las Vegas monorail last year, forcing officials to briefly halt service

By Jessica Mathews

Jack Kokko (right) and Raj Neervannan started working on AlphaSense as classmates at the Wharton School.

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AlphaSense, a Goldman Sachs–backed AI research startup valued at $2.5B, gears up for IPO as it crosses $200M in annual recurring revenue

By Jessica Mathews

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA – OCTOBER 24: ‘Cruise’ driverless robot taxis are seen at a parking lot as California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) revokes its self-driving car permit and citing ‘unreasonable risk to public safety’ in San Francisco, California, USA on October 24, 2023. The self-driving service of ‘Cruise’, the autonomous vehicle company owned by General Motor, is thought to be a step towards wider commercial deployment of a long-promised autonomous alternative to ride-hailing services such as Uber or Lyft in the US. (Photo by Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images)

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General Motors has sliced Cruise’s budget by $1B, but says it may bring on new Cruise investors when it starts rolling robo-taxis back on the streets

By Jessica Mathews

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Venture capitalists wanted Sober Sidekick’s founder to take his addiction recovery app in a different direction. Now he’s proving them wrong

Exclusive: Kickstarter shakes up leadership team, terminating senior employees and promoting execs, as it tries to rebrand itself

Silicon Valley startups are invading the military market

Copyright issues at OpenAI and other AI startups are ramping up

Exclusive: Databricks is expanding the scope of its AI investments with second VC fund

In a single night, self-driving startup Cruise went from sizzling startup to cautionary tale. Here’s what really happened—and how GM is scrambling to save its $10B bet

GM-owned Cruise reached a more than $8M settlement with pedestrian who was dragged by robo taxi

Melinda French Gates is resigning from the $63 billion Gates Foundation to focus on ‘the next chapter’ of her philanthropy

Inside two ‘PayPal Mafia’ members’ plans to turn PayPal’s meteoric rise and internal drama into a Hollywood movie

Many U.S. state pensions have funds tangled up in ByteDance. It’s impossible to know how much

Top Carta exec David Kim has left the company a few months after the startup quit the secondary share business

Here’s more details about the access ByteDance had to U.S. TikTok user data

Workers at Elon Musk’s Boring Co. accidentally dug too close to a supporting column of the Las Vegas monorail last year, forcing officials to briefly halt service

AlphaSense, a Goldman Sachs–backed AI research startup valued at $2.5B, gears up for IPO as it crosses $200M in annual recurring revenue

General Motors has sliced Cruise’s budget by $1B, but says it may bring on new Cruise investors when it starts rolling robo-taxis back on the streets