Welcome to CrunchBase 2.0
Today we launched CrunchBase 2.0. From the UX to the underlying data model, we’ve rebuilt the entire platform. The new site aims to meet the increasing demands of our 2...
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...
Noesis Raises $30 Million Finance Fund For Energy Efficiency
Editor’s note: This is a repost of a TechCrunch article written by Jon Shieber. Taking a page from the SolarCity playbook, the hosted energy efficiency software and services company Noesis Energy has raised a new...
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...
These Fledglings Could Fall Now That Google Has Its Nest
Editor’s note: This is a repost of a TechCrunch article written by Jon Shieber. Google’s $3.2 billion acquisition of Nest could herald a new wave of interest in companies sitting at the intersection of data, services,...
Turn’s Series E Round Further Boosts Ad-Tech Startups
Editor’s note: This is a repost of a TechCrunch article written by Jon Shieber. Venture investors may have turned their attention to earlier stage ad-tech companies at the right time now that big investments...
Turning A Corner On Ad Investing?
Editor’s note: This is a repost of a TechCrunch article written by Jon Shieber. Venture investors may have turned their attention to earlier stage ad-tech companies at the right time now that big investments...
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...
