7 Failed Startups and the Lessons Learned
7 Failed Startups and the Lessons Learned: We analyze seven companies that failed, and summarize key lessons from each.
Deep Dive: SimilarWeb Looks at Top Companies by Crunchbase Rank
Crunchbase Rank uses algorithms to rank companies in the dataset with real-time analysis of factors such as funding data, recent news, connections, and profile traffic. It’s no surprise then that...
Announcing Crunchbase for Salesforce
We’re excited to announce that you can now access Crunchbase for Salesforce with Crunchbase Enterprise, giving you access to real-time company data right in your Salesforce. Sales teams can now...
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...
The ultimate pre-conference checklist all startups need to read
After a few conferences, and a few (too many) days of prepping in hotel rooms into the wee hours of the night, we know how scrappy events can be. Piecing...
Buy signals in the startup economy
In today’s competitive sales landscape, you’re only as good as your next deal. That’s why gathering industry data, researching prospects, and maintaining competitive intelligence is critical to finding the next...
Discover opportunities: Update your Crunchbase Investor Profile
Impress potential investments With a place for companies to track your exits and successful investments, you’ll be sure to attract unicorns. Track your portfolio companies and your follow-on investments List...
How Crunchbase Pro Saved Frank’s Valentine’s Day
It’s the morning of February 14th, just another workday in the life of Frank, sales director at the Bay Area headquarters of CloudStuff, Inc. A conscientious and thoughtful fellow, he...
Crunchbase spotlights growth areas for seed investors
Seed investors are, by definition, the first ones to back startups and technologies that go on to become world-changing forces. So when they collectively raise their bets about something, it’s...
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...
Crunchbase Pro launches at TechCrunch Disrupt!
One year ago today, we announced on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt that Crunchbase was spinning out to become a standalone company. What many people don’t know is only 10 minutes...
Udacity Course: How to Get Your Startup Started featuring Matt Kaufman
Udacity, a leader in online higher education, is offering a free course called “Get Your Startup Started” to teach critical skills for building a foundation for a business. CrunchBase’s very own...
New Ways to Use Crunchbase Data
You asked, we listened. Today, we’re excited to introduce new and easy solutions to access Crunchbase data for your business. In the past year, 8,000+ users have signed-up to explore the data through the...
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...
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...
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...
Investments For Hearables Surge
Editor’s Note: This is a repost of a TechCrunch article by Ruochen Huang. These days the hardware you put in your ear can do much more than just play music. Although new...
VCs Put A Ring On Wedding Companies
Editor’s Note: This is a repost of a TechCrunch article by Christine Magee. Venture capitalists love markets where consumers spend exorbitantly for services that are extortionately priced, and no market exemplifies...
Investors Swing For The Fences With $1B In Sports Tech Deals
Editor’s Note: This is a repost of a TechCrunch article by Christine Magee. From wearable activity trackers to fantasy e-sports, technology is transforming the way athletes train for the game and fans...
Birthday 1.0 for CrunchBase 2.0
Just a year ago today, the small but wonderful CrunchBase team flipped the switch to launch CrunchBase 2.0, an entirely new front end built on fancy new graph technology to...
