Who Invited Muppets to Tech's VC Bash?
Corporate money, some from surprising sources, is flooding into tech startups.
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The companies behind your breakfast cereal and Sesame Street characters have helped create a potentially unsustainable state of affairs in Silicon Valley.
Startups such as Uber and Airbnb couldn't have grown so big so fast in recent years without a historically aberrant amount of money flowing to young tech companies. Traditional venture capital investors -- the firms that make their living hunting for the next Google or Facebook -- have been big contributors to that Silicon Valley money feast, but more quietly so have nontraditional startup investors from the corporate world.