Jessica Mathews

Jessica Mathews is a senior writer for Fortune covering venture capital, private equity, startups, and M&A. She writes Term Sheet, a daily dealmaking newsletter. 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. Follow all of Jessica's stories here.

Newsletters How VC Headline notched a 30% stake in Brazil’s biggest startup acquisition in 5 years
BYJessica Mathews
Newsletters Oddity—the tech-fueled parent company of makeup brands Il Makiage and SpoiledChild—pulls off a positive Nasdaq IPO
BYJessica Mathews
Newsletters The War on Deals: Why the Biden Administration is battling Big Business—and putting all sorts of deals under the microscope
BYJessica Mathews
Newsletters Exclusive: Carlyle Group promotes new CIO as firm’s chief executive drills down on efficiency
BYJessica Mathews
Tech Yuga Labs’ new CEO is betting on ‘audacious’ metaverse plans as Bored Ape prices collapse—but details of this virtual world are thin
BYJessica Mathews
Newsletters 4 takeaways from Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference
BYJessica Mathews

Newsletters Watch out WeWork: Adam Neumann is back
BYJessica Mathews
Newsletters How to nominate a company for Fortune’s Change the World list
BYJessica Mathews
Newsletters The Term Sheet monthly wrap: Biggest deals, funding rounds, and top stories for June 2023
BYAnne Sraders, Jessica Mathews, and others
Newsletters Venture capitalists are betting big on pickleball
BYJessica Mathews and Jackson Fordyce
Newsletters Truth Social’s latest hurdle to going public: An insider trading scandal
BYJessica Mathews
Newsletters 11 investigations that have moved the private markets since 2021
BYJessica Mathews
Finance Venture capitalist Joe Lonsdale pitched a $2.6 billion citywide tunnel system project built by Elon Musk’s Boring Company to Austin’s mayor, emails show
BYJessica Mathews
Newsletters Everything to know about the Microsoft-Activision Blizzard hearing that starts today
BYJessica Mathews
Newsletters How to fundraise during a VC drought: One startup shares their 6-month process
BYJessica Mathews

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