As anonymous social networks proliferate, they’re increasingly turning to location-based features as a way to keep users coming back. For example, location-based private messaging app Yik Yak has raised $10...
Investments Decline As Education Technology Grows Up
Editor’s note: This is a repost of a TechCrunch article written by Jon Shieber. School may be out for summer, but the nation’s education-focused technology startups are still hitting the books, drumming up...
YouTube’s Marketing And Content Platform Nets Startups Millions
Editor’s note: This is a repost of a TechCrunch article written by Jon Shieber. The rise of YouTube and its attendant online celebrity millionaires has created opportunities for venture investors to launch new...
Job Hunting Bags Millennials New HR Apps
Editor’s note: This is a repost of a TechCrunch article written by Jon Shieber. With an overwhelming number of millennials still out of work despite a slowly recovering U.S. economy, venture capital firms...
Investment Outlook Is Sunny In The Cloud Capital
Editor’s note: This is a repost of a TechCrunch article written by Christine Magee. Tomorrow TechCrunch will touch down in the cloud capital to showcase some local talent in Seattle’s startup scene, where...
VCs Say “Ni Hao” To Chinese Startups
Editor’s note: This is a repost of a TechCrunch article written by Jon Shieber. Venture capital investment in Chinese startup companies is surging again. After several years of a moribund market, investment in Chinese...
Sequoia Expands Scope Of Asian Investments
With its latest $100 million investment in a Korean startup announced late last month, Sequoia Capital is seemingly expanding the scope of its investing in Asia. Since 2009, Sequoia Capital...
Investors Build New Marketing Tools For The Visual Web
Editor’s note: This is a repost of a TechCrunch article written by Jon Shieber. Navigating the web these days is increasingly a case of what you see is what you get. Sites like Pinterest and...
Does The Beats Aftermath Usher The Next Episode For Wearables?
Editor’s note: This is a repost of a TechCrunch article written by Jon Shieber. As Beats potentially prepares to move on to the next episode, there are a few things about the news that...
Feedback, Bug Fixes, and our Path Forward
Over the past seven years, CrunchBase has grown from a tiny TechCrunch side-project into an (often) indispensable tool of the tech community. Unbelievably, CrunchBase has enjoyed this success despite relative “benign neglect”. CrunchBase...
Sequoia Backs Simplisafe In A Play For The Home Security Market
Editor’s note: This is a repost of a TechCrunch article written by Jon Shieber. Sequoia Capital has made a minority investment in the do-it-yourself home security company Simplisafe in a play on the home security and automation...
Seeking Growth, The Payments Industry Embraces New Technologies
Editor’s note: This is a repost of a TechCrunch article written by Jon Shieber. Now a victim of its own omnipresent success, the global electronic payments industry is increasingly turning to new technologies as...
Boston Wraps Up Its Best Venture Quarter In Years
Editor’s note: This is a repost of a TechCrunch article written by Jon Shieber. The TechCrunch wrecking ball is smashing into Boston as startups in the city are coming off their best quarter in years. Boston-based...
Saeed Amidi’s Global Accelerator Network Plug And Play Expands To Brazil
Editor’s note: This is a repost of a TechCrunch article written by Jon Shieber. The warp and weft of Saeed Amidi’s family story — transitioning from Iranian immigrants fleeing revolution in the 1970s to running a multi-million-dollar...
Education Technology Startups Raised Over Half A Billion Dollars In Q1
Editor’s note: This is a repost of a TechCrunch article written by Jon Shieber. Education technology-focused startups raised over $500 million already in the first quarter of 2014, marking the single biggest quarter for capital...
Startup Financial Services Companies Come Of Age
Editor’s note: This is a repost of a TechCrunch article written by Jon Shieber. With one eye on businesses abandoned in the wake of the financial crisis and the other on a new generation of investors, startup companies...
Travel Tech Investors Are Ready For Takeoff
Editor’s note: This is a repost of a TechCrunch article written by Christine Magee. Despite the popularity of travel booking sites like Kayak, TripAdvisor, and Expedia, venture capital firms are...
Tiger Global Checks In To Brazil’s Hotel Urbano With $50M Round
Editor’s note: This is a repost of a TechCrunch article written by Jon Shieber. The Brazilian online travel agency Hotel Urbano has gotten a 120 million Reais ($50 million) reservation from the...
On The Road To An IPO, Wayfair Picks Up $157M
Editor’s note: This is a repost of a TechCrunch article written by Jon Shieber. On the way to an initial public offering later this year, the home furnishing online retail juggernaut Wayfair has...
Black Tux Raises $2.6M So You Can Rent That Suit And Tie
Editor’s note: This is a repost of a TechCrunch article written by Jon Shieber. Looking to take on the rental tux market with a higher-quality, lower-priced suit and tie, Black Tux has raised...