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...
Investments In Anonymity Begin To Grow
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...
