TechCrunch hires Loizos as Silicon Valley editor

TechCrunch editor Matthew Panzarino posted the following on Friday afternoon:

First, we’d like to welcome Connie Loizos to TechCrunch as our Silicon Valley Editor. Connie comes to us from StrictlyVC, a site, newsletter and conference series (which will continue!) that all of us at TC have grown to admire and enjoy greatly. Previous to StrictlyVC, Connie wrote for a variety of Thomson Reuters publications on private equity and venture capital topics including VC Journal, PE HUB and Reuters.com. Before Reuters, Connie covered VC for the San Jose Mercury news and has also held positions at Down Jones and Time Inc. 

We’ve admired her fearless voice, her insightful posts on important topics like the 1099 economy and her interviews like this one with known fave abuser Hunter Walk.

Connie will be covering Silicon Valley funding and VC news with her own unique voice for us here at TechCrunch. We often get asked why we cover funding news at all — especially given that there are times when the amounts or rationale are so divorced from the apparent utility or importance of the companies being funded. The simple answer is that this industry we cover is re-forging the economy as we know it, and to understand that effect fully, you have to follow the money.

The deeper answer is that the motivations and methods of the people funding the tools used to twist and pry the girders of our reality are as important as the tools themselves. A deep, contextually aware picture of what changes tech is having and will have on our society starts at the bottom and bubbles all the way up to the top.