Earlier this month CrunchBase data showed that venture funding is reaching new highs, so it’s no surprise that Q3 2013 also had the most number of venture-backed acquisitions. With 131 deals, Q3...
Startup Calendar for October 8th
Eight events are featured in this week’s Startup Calendar: Future Energy Investor Feedback Forum Opportunity Hack Glimpse NYC 2013 Techweek 2013 New York City Mobile Payments Hackathon Seattle Tech Meetup...
Angel-Backed Companies Are Taking Longer To Close Their First Venture Rounds
Editor’s note: This is a repost of a TechCrunch article written by Mark Lennon. There are more angel-backed companies in the US than ever trying to capitalize on a favorable economic market for...
Startup Calendar for October 1st
Seven events are featured in this week’s Startup Calendar: Startup Grind Eureka! Berkeley TechChallenge: NYC Startup BD HP Anywhere Hackathon UniMelb ’13 SF Uncubed Read the weekly newsletter for more…...
Q3 2013 Excel Released! 64k Profiles and 8k Rounds Added in Q3
In Q3, we’ve seen over 77k user-submitted changes, 16k more than Q2. Highlights of the Q3 2013 Export: $9.1B of total funding raised in the U.S. in Q3 Most active...
US Angel Investing This Year Likely Won’t Pass 2012 Levels
Editor’s note: This is a repost of a TechCrunch article written by Mark Lennon. Angel investing in the US this year looks like it’s falling back towards 2011 levels, after a record 2012....
Startup Calendar for September 24th
Six events are featured in this week’s Startup Calendar: Retail 20:20 Investor Forum Future Energy Investor Feedback Forum SF MusicTech Summit Base 3 LA CEOs Straight Shot’s Demo Day Read...
Startup Calendar for September 17th
Four events are featured in this week’s Startup Calendar: Startup Grind FlashStarts’ Demo Day NewME Miami Popup Mobile Photo Connect Read the weekly newsletter for more… To take part in...
Startup Calendar for September 10th
Six events are featured in this week’s Startup Calendar: VentureOutNY and iFridge’s German Innovation Showcase II Orrick Panel Event: The Future of Food and Technology Seattle Tech Meetup Tigerlabs Startup...
CrunchBase Hits 400k Profiles and 45k Funding Rounds. Download August 2013 Excel Export!
The CrunchBase dataset has now grown to 400k profiles and 45k investment rounds thanks to our community of contributors and members of the CrunchBase Venture Program. We’ve also seen monthly contributions...
CrunchBase Has A New Mobile Site, Is Bigger Than Ever
Editor’s note: This is a repost of a TechCrunch article written by Eric Eldon. We have some updates today from the other side of the TechCrunch office. The growing team at...
Startup Calendar for August 27th
Five events are featured in this week’s Startup Calendar: Orrick Panel Event: Startup Mistakes to Avoid Echelon Ignite Thailand 2013 LA CEOs Be Great Fest Velocity’s Demo Day Read the...
CrunchBase Partners with ILVenture to Expand Coverage of Israeli Startups
Israeli startups have been on a tear. Already this year Waze, Trusteer, and Adap-tv were acquired for a combined value of over $2.3B and CrunchBase has recorded $324MM of funding invested in...
Startup Calendar for August 20th
Four events are featured in this week’s Startup Calendar: TechCrunch San Diego Meetup AcceleratorYYC and VA Angels’ BaseCamp Investment Bootcamp Google for Entrepreneurs Day, Denver Starter Studio’s Ribbon Cutting Read...
Analysis Of Investment Activity By Season
Editor’s note: This is a repost of a TechCrunch article written by Eddy Kim. Many people in tech believe that VCs slow the pace of their investing during the summer, especially...
Startup Calendar for August 13th
Two events are featured in this week’s startup calendar: Seattle Tech Meetup beGLOBAL Read the weekly newsletter for more… To take part in this program as an organization that hosts startup events,...
CrunchBase Daily Read by Worldwide Audience of 80,000
Each weekday morning we send the CrunchBase Daily to over 80,000 subscribers and from what we can tell, it’s a hit. Nearly 40% of the emails are opened each day and people...
Entrepreneurship and Education
Stanford is well known for churning out successful entrepreneurs like SnapChat’s Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy. Then there is Harvard’s famous attendee Mark Zuckerberg and MIT’s Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi. Using...
Startup Calendar for August 6th
Two events are featured in this week’s startup calendar: VentureOutNY’s “The Brazilian” Scaling Startups Read the weekly newsletter for more… To take part in this program as an organization that hosts startup...
July 2013 Excel Released! 54k Changes to Dataset Including 7k New Companies
In July, CrunchBase saw 54,371 user-submitted changes, almost 9k more than we saw in June. Those edits included the addition of 7,286 companies, 676 people, and 452 financial organizations. Highlights...