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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 Weekly Market Momentum
It’s been a big news week for tech as Twitch and Snapchat have stirred up enough interest to distract us even from Burning Man. Twitch, the video platform for gamers, along with...
CrunchBase Weekly Investor Leaderboard
Venture investments rode the summer wave back over the billion dollar mark this week, with nearly $1.5B invested over 194 rounds. The 15 Series C growth rounds accounted for over...
CrunchBase Weekly Market Momentum
Summer is drawing towards its official close at the end of the month and we’re already halfway through Q3. Thus far in 2014, we’ve seen emerging venture investment categories supported...