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SoFi Raising New Cash To Help Ease Students’ $1 Trillion Debt Burden

Editor’s note: This is a repost of a TechCrunch article written by Jon Shieber. Student lending service Social Finance is close to securing a new round of as much as $75 million, according to two investors...

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Opening Consumer Products To Crowdsourced Investment, CircleUp Raises $14 Million

Editor’s note: This is a repost of a TechCrunch article written by Jon Shieber. Technology’s ability to harness the wisdom of crowds has created massive new businesses that support entrepreneurship around arts, craftsmanship, and technology while...

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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...

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For Tech Investors, The Midwest Is Flyover Country No More

Editor’s note: This is a repost of a TechCrunch article written by Jon Shieber. These days, Midwestern entrepreneurs and investors are seeding more than just fields. A resurgent U.S. technology industry, propelled by strong...

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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...

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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...

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New York VC Investments Top $1B In The First Quarter

Editor’s note: This is a repost of a TechCrunch article written by Jon Shieber. For New York City’s startup community, the future venture capitalists have hoped for may be taking place right now. Over...

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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...

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RainDance Technologies Closes On $16.5M More For Liquid Biopsy Tech

Editor’s note: This is a repost of a TechCrunch article written by Jon Shieber. The life sciences technology development company RainDance Technologies has raised $16.5 million from new investors GE...

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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...

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Corporate Investors Move Into The Accelerator Market

Editor’s note: This is a repost of a TechCrunch article written by Jon Shieber. Big banks do it, big phone companies do it, and even the biggest entertainment companies do it: After years of neglect,...

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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...

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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...

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Crunchbase Data Export Now Includes International Startups, Investors

Due to frequent user requests over the last few months, we have decided to now include international companies in the monthly Crunchbase data export. In 2013, we added over 22k...

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The Startup Universe According to Visual.ly

Editor’s note: Visual.ly is the latest addition to the CrunchBase Spotlight Program which highlights the best applications and research built on the CrunchBase dataset. Contact us if you’d like to be...

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Sunrise Update Brings Foursquare, CrunchBase, And Google Maps Integration To The Already-Smart Calendar

Editor’s note: This is a repost of a TechCrunch article written by Jordan Crook. Sunrise is the latest addition to the CrunchBase Spotlight Program which highlights the best applications and research built on...

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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...

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Onavo Ranks the VCs of Mobile

Our friends at Onavo recently combined data from their mobile insights platform with the CrunchBase API to rank the VCs of mobile. Using application market share as a proxy for success,...

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