Editor’s Note: This is a repost of a TechCrunch article by Christine Magee. There’s a brand new dance in venture capital, as investors have gone fashion-mad. After watching JustFab and...
CrunchBase Daily Featured Fundings
Osmo, an iPad-powered gaming device startup out of Palo Alto, has raised $12 million in a Series A round led by Accel Partners with participation from Upfront Ventures and K9...
CrunchBase Graph Notes
Naspers is making major moves to corner the South African retail market. Yesterday the multinational media group poured $40 million into Nigerian e-commerce platform Konga, with help from Stockholm-based Investment...
CrunchBase Graph Notes
It looks like Yahoo! will be dishing out a chunk of its Alibaba cash for a stake in the pricey messaging game. Yahoo! just spent a rumored $40 million to...
Israeli Startup Scene Thriving Despite Conflict
Editor’s note: This is a repost of a TechCrunch article written by Christine Magee. Investments in Israeli startups climbed to near record highs in the third quarter, even as the country was...
CrunchBase Weekly Market Momentum
Millions of children are settling into their first weeks back in the classroom, and parents everywhere have let out a collective sigh of relief. As many investors spurn startup pitches for...
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...
CrunchBase Monthly Investment Map
The month of August wrapped up as the lowest on record for 2014 according to CrunchBase data, with just $4.29B in venture investment globally over 831 funding rounds. The monthly total...
CrunchBase Monthly Investor Leaderboard
VCs got lazy in the final month of the summer, committing nearly $4.5 billion in capital in 558 August venture deals. In comparison to the $7 billion invested in July and $8.4 billion...
CrunchBase Weekly Investor Leaderboard
VCs prioritized entertainment and convenience this week, pouring millions into GIFs, beauty salons, and gourmet food for a total of $978 million invested across 134 venture rounds. Andreessen Horowitz took first place in amount of...
CrunchBase Weekly Market Momentum
On Monday, we pointed out major funding rounds in New York that highlighted design-focused InVision and the viral media site Buzzfeed. It came as no surprise that New York was...
CrunchBase Weekly Investment Map
Venture investment slowed to a crawl last week as only 160 venture rounds were announced, according to CrunchBase data. Characteristically, the ‘No-Vacation Nation‘ accounted for over 60% of them last...
CrunchBase Monthly Market Momentum
The Business Graph was built on the realization that the startup and venture investment world has evolved. Startups, as we know them, have expanded from disruptive, tech-centric hardware and software...
CrunchBase Top July Acquisitions
Apparently there’s no summer slump when it comes to mergers and acquisitions. Companies spent over $167 billion acquiring 100 companies in July, according to CrunchBase data. This figure doesn’t include the 120+ acquisitions...
The Jury Is Out On Legal Tech Startups
Editor’s note: This is a repost of a TechCrunch article written by Christine Magee. Venture capitalists may have rested their case for investing in legal startups, according to data from CrunchBase. Investments...
Investors In The Market For New Real Estate Companies
Even as the blockbuster $3.5 billion tie-up between Trulia and Zillow shows a preference for consolidation among the real estate market’s larger players, venture investment in new startups working in...
Enterprise Investments Surge To Over $5.4 Billion
Editor’s note: This is a repost of a TechCrunch article written by Jon Shieber. After years of backing headline-grabbing consumer internet deals, it seems that venture capitalists are paying more attention (and more...
Investors Are No Longer Cashing In On Payment Technologies
Editor’s note: This is a repost of a TechCrunch article written by Jon Shieber. It seems like investors are no longer paying out for payment companies. Over the past three quarters the number...
Cleantech’s Death Has Been Greatly Exaggerated
Editor’s note: This is a repost of a TechCrunch article written by Jon Shieber. The rumors of the death of cleantech investment have been greatly exaggerated. Clean tech’s big dream of a more...
Surge in Startups in South America
Editor’s note: This is a repost of a TechCrunch article written by Christine Magee and Mark Lennon. Winter is coming in South America, but for investors and entrepreneurs things are starting to heat...