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Talk Isn’t Cheap As Investors Pour Cash Into Collaboration And Intelligence Tools

Editor’s Note: This is a repost of a TechCrunch article by Jonathan Shieber. Investors and innovators have been trying to develop better tools for groups to communicate, collaborate, and make...

Jaclyn Robinson, Senior Manager of Content Marketing at Crunchbase

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Monthly Market Momentum

Venture capitalists put on their SaaS-y costumes just in time for Halloween, as investments for SaaS companies increased by 38% this month over last. The 43 total rounds were the most since May....

Jaclyn Robinson, Senior Manager of Content Marketing at Crunchbase

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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+...

Tim Li

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Follow, or Get Out of the Way

A month ago we reintroduced the “Follow” button. Follow lets users customize the activity they see on their CrunchBase home page. Since the relaunch, there were over 32,000 Follows by 5,300 users on...

Jaclyn Robinson, Senior Manager of Content Marketing at Crunchbase

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CrunchBase Monthly Export – Q3 VC Numbers Are Here

CrunchBase has just released the September data export. Download the file now (for free!), and take a look at all the latest funding and acquisitions in Silicon Valley and the...

Jaclyn Robinson, Senior Manager of Content Marketing at Crunchbase

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CrunchBase Quarterly Investment Map

The conventional Q3 venture summary has thus far focused on the spree of acquisition mega-deals and jumbo fundings in Silicon Valley. The fight to acquire Twitch, Zillow buying Trulia for...

Jaclyn Robinson, Senior Manager of Content Marketing at Crunchbase

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CrunchBase Monthly Market Momentum

Well that was fast. We’re already into the final quarter of 2014 and fast approaching the end of the year. To close Q3, September turned out to be a rebound...

Jaclyn Robinson, Senior Manager of Content Marketing at Crunchbase

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CrunchBase Launches the CrunchBase Open Data Map

The CrunchBase Dataset powers many well known applications including Mattermark, Datafox, and now the upcoming version of Evernote. We’re thrilled each time a partner integrates the CrunchBase Dataset and today...

Jaclyn Robinson, Senior Manager of Content Marketing at Crunchbase

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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....

Jaclyn Robinson, Senior Manager of Content Marketing at Crunchbase

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CrunchBase Monthly Investment Map

Following a slow August, CrunchBase data shows that September venture investments are making a strong rebound as $5.1B has already been invested worldwide, surpassing August totals with still a week left...

Jaclyn Robinson, Senior Manager of Content Marketing at Crunchbase

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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...

Jaclyn Robinson, Senior Manager of Content Marketing at Crunchbase

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Product News: Re-introducing “Follow”

CrunchBase 1.0 allowed users to “Follow” Companies & People yet the feature was very functionally limited; users could create a list but were not notified of any activity. Today, we’re launching...

Jaclyn Robinson, Senior Manager of Content Marketing at Crunchbase

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CrunchBase Weekly Market Momentum

September venture investments are starting to reverse a summer slowdown trend as we near the end of Q3. Over the last ten years, September is the fourth most active month for...

Jaclyn Robinson, Senior Manager of Content Marketing at Crunchbase

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CrunchBase Venture Program Hits 1,000 Members

The CrunchBase Venture Program now includes over 1,000 venture firms, incubators, and accelerators. Together these firms have backed 14,000 companies through 21,000 funding rounds totaling $170 billion in investment. The phenomenal growth of the venture program...

Jaclyn Robinson, Senior Manager of Content Marketing at Crunchbase

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Announcing the CrunchBase Investor Leaderboard

At the end of each quarter, a ritual plays out in the startup community. Services that analyze private companies scramble to gather up funding data from the preceding months, key it...

Jaclyn Robinson, Senior Manager of Content Marketing at Crunchbase

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CrunchBase Monthly Export – August Edition

The August CrunchBase Monthly is now out! During the August ‘summer break’, 2.4k investment rounds were added to the database, totalling $3.7 billion. The CrunchBase community also added 19.5k new...

Jaclyn Robinson, Senior Manager of Content Marketing at Crunchbase

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CrunchBase Top August Acquisitions

Similar to venture investments, M&A activity slowed in August with lower average acquisition prices and far fewer deals. Despite high-profile exits for Twitch and Tim Hortons, total acquisitions dropped nearly...

Tim Li

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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...

Jaclyn Robinson, Senior Manager of Content Marketing at Crunchbase

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Korean Startups to Bring Fresh Ideas to TechCrunch Disrupt

A host of startups from South Korea will be joining us at the upcoming TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco next week. Presented by NIPA (National IT Industry Promotion Agency), this pavilion of startups...

Jaclyn Robinson, Senior Manager of Content Marketing at Crunchbase

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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...

Jaclyn Robinson, Senior Manager of Content Marketing at Crunchbase