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...
Venture Investors Say Logistics Companies Are In For The Long Haul
Editor’s Note: This is a repost of a TechCrunch article by Christine Magee. In a world where consumers are increasingly expecting frictionless, tech-enabled services, snail mail is just not cutting it. Just...
Acquisitions End Q3 On Upswing Led by Financial Services
After last month’s low, September had slight bumps in average acquisition prices and a 13% increase in the number of deals. According to CrunchBase data, acquiring companies spent over $105B on 90+ deals, not including the 120+...
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...
Google Glass Finds a Home in Healthcare
When Google Glass was announced, outcries of invasion of privacy were inevitable. With its capability to discretely take photos and record video, the concern was and is still very real....
Alchemist Accelerator launches Batch VII
Since 2012 Alchemist Accelerator has advanced 64 companies according to CrunchBase. Of these, 29 companies have received more than a 1M raise and of these, four have raised around $5M at a $25M...
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...
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...
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 Market Momentum
Just a month ago, we highlighted the emergence of fintech startups by measuring investor momentum over all of CrunchBase’s major market categories. Now, we have extended this methodology forward another...
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...