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...
The Wearables Market Is Wear It’s At
Editor’s note: This is a repost of a TechCrunch article written by Jon Shieber. Basis Science may not have two turnables and a microphone, but the company may have a deep-pocketed new owner...
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...
Euro Secondhand Marketplace Vinted Raises $27M To Take On The Salvation Army
Editor’s note: This is a repost of a story written on TechCrunch by Jon Shieber. The clothes may be cheap, but prices for tech companies launching mobile and web-based marketplaces...
No Industry Is Safe From VC Disruption
Editor’s note: This is a repost of a story written on TechCrunch by Jon Shieber. Procter & Gamble, allow me to introduce hair-dye company Madison Reed and baby care and home-cleaning-products retailer The Honest...
The Startup Accelerator Trend Is Finally Slowing Down
Editor’s note: This is a repost of a TechCrunch article written by Mark Lennon. Starting a company has never been easy. Not having to worry about market research and resources...
CrunchBase Venture Program Hits 400 and Launches Tools to Help Investors Manage Their Public Data
Editor’s note: This is a repost of a TechCrunch article written by Matt Kaufman. The CrunchBase Venture Program is backed by more than 400 venture firms, incubators, and angel groups...
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...
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...
Crunchbase Compared to Other Industry Sources
Editor’s note: This is a repost of a TechCrunch article written by Billy Gallagher. Now that the CrunchBase team has spent some quality time improving our data sets, we thought it’d be...
Introducing BizWiki for CrunchBase
Editor’s note: Guest author Jeff King is EVP/GM at Mimvi, a search and recommendation start-up located in Sunnyvale and Los Angeles. His background is in high tech and running large entertainment...
Mining the Series A Crunch
Editor’s note: This is a repost of an article we did for TechCrunch. Back in November, rumblings of a Series A Crunch took hold and speculation began about the number of seed...
6 Degrees of Crunchbase with Wikisway
Editor’s note: Guest author Huston Hedinger is the Founder and CEO of Wikisway, a Portland Seed Fund alumni company. He founded Wikisway while finishing his Master’s in Policy, Economics, and Social...
Crunching CrunchBase
Editor’s note: Guest author Bruno Aziza is Vice President of Marketing at SiSense and the author of two books on data and analytics. Prior to SiSense, Bruno worked at BusinessObjects/SAP, Apple, Microsoft and other data start-ups. You can...