Gené Teare

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2019 In Review: Crunchbase’s First Annual Report

As 2019 winds to a close, Crunchbase is taking a look back at private company investment in a year that delivered an outsized share of giant funding rounds, high profile...

Gené Teare, is head of content at Crunchbase and writes about women in venture and technology.

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The Companies You Want to Join to Begin Your Career

Wealthfront has published their list of career-launching companies. To qualify, a company must be privately held, and have a revenue run rate by year end of between $20 million and...

Gené Teare, is head of content at Crunchbase and writes about women in venture and technology.

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Nominations Open for Inclusion for Impact Awards at SaaStr 2019

For the second year running, PagerDuty is partnering with Crunchbase on the Inclusion for Impact Awards. Our goal is to identify and celebrate the people who made the biggest difference...

Gené Teare, is head of content at Crunchbase and writes about women in venture and technology.

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Diversity in Venture Capital: Founders for Change Launches a List of Diverse Investors

In an effort to promote diversity in Venture Capital we’re working with Founders for Change to highlight diverse venture capitalists and diverse founders. Founders for Change, an All Raise initiative...

Gené Teare, is head of content at Crunchbase and writes about women in venture and technology.

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94% Of Female Founders Experience Bias In Fundraising. We Want To Fix It.

Whilst fundraising is challenging for most entrepreneurs, and building a company is hard for all, it can be more so for women. Overcoming implicit bias and breaking into predominantly male...

Gené Teare, is head of content at Crunchbase and writes about women in venture and technology.

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U.S. companies buy a lot more startups than European acquirers

U.S. companies have a massively greater appetite for startups than their European counterparts, according to a new report on transatlantic M&As from Crunchbase and entrepreneurship foundation, Mind the Bridge. Over...

Gené Teare, is head of content at Crunchbase and writes about women in venture and technology.

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The TechCrunch Disrupt Lists!

by Edith Ho, Julie Kim & Gené Teare It’s a wrap! The winner of the Startup Battlefield at Disrupt SF 2016 is Mobalytics, a personal analytics performance tool for gamers....

Gené Teare, is head of content at Crunchbase and writes about women in venture and technology.

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CrunchBase sees some slowing for early-stage venture in the second quarter

By Gené Teare and Joanna Glasner U.S. venture investors tapped the brakes but did not carry out a sharp slowdown in Series A and B deal-making in the second quarter...

Gené Teare, is head of content at Crunchbase and writes about women in venture and technology.

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Kauffman Foundation & CrunchBase Team Up at AEA 2016

Last week at the American Economic Association (AEA) annual meeting in San Francisco, we co-hosted a session with our partners at the Kauffman Foundation. Attendees included academics, research, and business professionals from...

Gené Teare, is head of content at Crunchbase and writes about women in venture and technology.

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Let’s Face It, 2015 Was A Pretty Lousy Year For Unicorns

This feature was originally published by TechCrunch. It’s been a pretty awful year to be a unicorn in 2015. Box and Square went public this year at significantly less than their last private...

Gené Teare, is head of content at Crunchbase and writes about women in venture and technology.

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Infographic: Female Founders On An Upward Trend

Earlier this year, Crunchbase began a comprehensive study of Female Startup Founders by expanding our dataset to include gender. To date, we have published two reports — the first found...

Gené Teare, is head of content at Crunchbase and writes about women in venture and technology.

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Harvard, Stanford And MIT Top The List Of Schools For Female Founders

Editor’s note: Gené Teare (@geneteare), a past female founder, heads up the CrunchBase Venture Program and CrunchBase’s data work. Ned Desmond (@neddesmond) is the COO of TechCrunch and CrunchBase. Cory Cox, an analyst at...

Gené Teare, is head of content at Crunchbase and writes about women in venture and technology.

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Female Founders on an Upward Trend

Editor’s note: Gené Teare heads up the venture program and content for CrunchBase. Ned Desmond is the COO of TechCrunch and CrunchBase. This report is the first in a series looking...

Gené Teare, is head of content at Crunchbase and writes about women in venture and technology.

News About Crunchbase
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Got Exits? Get Them In CrunchBase

This month’s focus for Crunchbase Venture Program members is exits. We want to make sure Crunchbase has all the exits in your portfolio, which is why we sent each of...

Gené Teare, is head of content at Crunchbase and writes about women in venture and technology.

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The CrunchBase Venture Program Welcomes New Accelerators

The CrunchBase Venture Program had a recent spate of accelerators join in the last month. CrunchBase now tracks around 580 accelerators, and the largest accelerator hubs are in the US, UK and then Spain. Peak...

Gené Teare, is head of content at Crunchbase and writes about women in venture and technology.

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The Barbelling of the Venture Industry

Much has been said recently about the shifts in the Venture Capital industry since 2009. Mark Suster focused the debate in his discussion of “The Changing Structure of the VC...

Gené Teare, is head of content at Crunchbase and writes about women in venture and technology.

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Alchemist Accelerator launches Batch VII

Since 2012 Alchemist Accelerator has advanced 64 companies according to CrunchBase. Of these, 29 companies have received more than a 1M raise and of these, four have raised around $5M at a $25M...

Gené Teare, is head of content at Crunchbase and writes about women in venture and technology.

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TechCrunch Disrupt companies: here they are!

Welcome to TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco at Pier48! The Battlefield companies have just been announced, and here is the list by alpha. You can see the companies, founders and fundings...

Gené Teare, is head of content at Crunchbase and writes about women in venture and technology.

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South Korean Startups from Rocketpun.ch

CrunchBase has partnered with Korean startup database RocketPun.ch to showcase startups from Seoul and the broader South Korean marketplace. RocketPun.ch, launched in January 2013, also provides a job platform with the...

Gené Teare, is head of content at Crunchbase and writes about women in venture and technology.

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Teams, teams, teams …

From the earliest days at CrunchBase, countless PR and marketing teams have harangued our customer support staff about their team being out of date and who should be in the top...

Gené Teare, is head of content at Crunchbase and writes about women in venture and technology.

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