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...
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...
Angel-Backed Companies Are Taking Longer To Close Their First Venture Rounds
Editor’s note: This is a repost of a TechCrunch article written by Mark Lennon. There are more angel-backed companies in the US than ever trying to capitalize on a favorable economic market for...
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...
CrunchBase Daily Read by Worldwide Audience of 80,000
Each weekday morning we send the CrunchBase Daily to over 80,000 subscribers and from what we can tell, it’s a hit. Nearly 40% of the emails are opened each day and people...
Yahoo! Leads 2013 YTD Acquisitions with 19 including RockMelt, Xobni, and Tumblr
In 2013 Yahoo!‘s acquisitions have consistently been in the news. So far this year, Yahoo! has acquired 19 companies, including last week’s talent acquisition of Rockmelt. Other notable acquisitions include Xobni, Qwiki, Tumblr,...
Crunchbase Daily: Everything You’ll Need To Start The Day
You know who you are. You check into Crunchbase every day, maybe a few times, just to make sure your competition has not closed that new round. Crunchbase is about to make...
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...
Announcing the CrunchBase Venture Program
Editors note: This is a repost of an article we did for TechCrunch article. We knew CrunchBase was big. We knew because there are 2 million people using the startup database...
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...