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Investors Are No Longer Cashing In On Payment Technologies

Editor’s note: This is a repost of a TechCrunch article written by Jon Shieber. It seems like investors are no longer paying out for payment companies. Over the past three quarters the number...

Jaclyn Robinson, Senior Manager of Content Marketing at Crunchbase

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CrunchBase 2.0, the First 90 days…

We’re coming up on 90 days since we launched CrunchBase 2.0 and now seems like a good time to share a quick report card on our progress. Launching an entirely new version...

Jaclyn Robinson, Senior Manager of Content Marketing at Crunchbase

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VCs Find Fertile Ground In Women’s Health

Editor’s note: This is a repost of a TechCrunch article written by Christine Magee. Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and investors may be predominately male, but they’re fully attuned to the women’s health market. Mobile...

Jaclyn Robinson, Senior Manager of Content Marketing at Crunchbase

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CrunchBase Monthly Export: Q2 VC Numbers Are Here

The June data export is out. Take a look at the record-breaking venture investments in Q2 following huge funding rounds from Uber, Cloudera, Airbnb and many more. The CrunchBase dataset now contains...

Jaclyn Robinson, Senior Manager of Content Marketing at Crunchbase

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Continuing to Enhance CrunchBase

At CrunchBase, we’re extremely fortunate to have an engaged and passionate community of users. Since launching the new version of CrunchBase, we’ve received a tremendous amount of feedback, both positive...

Jaclyn Robinson, Senior Manager of Content Marketing at Crunchbase

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Investments In Anonymity Begin To Grow

As anonymous social networks proliferate, they’re increasingly turning to location-based features as a way to keep users coming back. For example, location-based private messaging app Yik Yak has raised $10...

Jaclyn Robinson, Senior Manager of Content Marketing at Crunchbase

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Surge in Startups in South America

Editor’s note: This is a repost of a TechCrunch article written by Christine Magee and Mark Lennon. Winter is coming in South America, but for investors and entrepreneurs things are starting to heat...

Jaclyn Robinson, Senior Manager of Content Marketing at Crunchbase

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One Year of the CrunchBase Daily

It’s been a full year since the first Daily Newsletter was prepped and delivered to the CrunchBase community last June. In that time, the Daily has kept readers up-to-date, covering...

Jaclyn Robinson, Senior Manager of Content Marketing at Crunchbase

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Crunchbase API v2.0 Released

Today, we (finally) released version 2.0 of the Crunchbase API. We originally released the 2.0 API into beta on May 3rd to gather feedback from the developer community. The response has been...

Jaclyn Robinson, Senior Manager of Content Marketing at Crunchbase

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Seoul’s Sprouting Startup Scene

Editor’s note: This is a repost of a TechCrunch Guest Column written by Sebastien Park, an associate at Collaborative Fund. A couple of years ago, a list of the world’s top startup...

Jaclyn Robinson, Senior Manager of Content Marketing at Crunchbase

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Investment Outlook Is Sunny In The Cloud Capital

Editor’s note: This is a repost of a TechCrunch article written by Christine Magee. Tomorrow TechCrunch will touch down in the cloud capital to showcase some local talent in Seattle’s startup scene, where...

Jaclyn Robinson, Senior Manager of Content Marketing at Crunchbase

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CrunchBase Monthly Data Export Is Back (and Better)

Since the launch of CrunchBase 2.0, we have been working hard to make it easier for everyone to contribute to the CrunchBase dataset. We have flown past 550k entities in the dataset...

Jaclyn Robinson, Senior Manager of Content Marketing at Crunchbase

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CrunchBase API v2.0 – Beta Feedback

On Sunday, May 4th, we released v2.0 of the CrunchBase API into beta. The response from our developer community has been fantastic; developers and partners have registered over 700 applications in...

Jaclyn Robinson, Senior Manager of Content Marketing at Crunchbase

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No, CrunchBase is not for sale…

This afternoon I was interviewed by Michael Arrington at TechCrunch Disrupt NYC and we had an entertaining exchange about the future of CrunchBase. This was reported on by Jon Shieber who concluded...

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Cleantech Reigns In Khosla Ventures’ Portfolio

Despite the lean times and bad press that the cleantech industry has faced, Khosla Ventures has remained consistent in its investment thesis around the promise of renewable energy and energy-efficiency technologies. It...

Jaclyn Robinson, Senior Manager of Content Marketing at Crunchbase

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After Years, Michigan’s Attempts To Build A Startup Ecosystem Bear Fruit

Editor’s note: This is a repost of a TechCrunch article written by Jon Shieber. Five years ago, Michigan had seven early-stage companies raise money from venture capital investors in the first quarter. This year...

Jaclyn Robinson, Senior Manager of Content Marketing at Crunchbase

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CrunchBase API v2.0 Beta Period Begins

Earlier today we launched the CrunchBase API v2.0 providing real-time access to the CrunchBase Dataset. Although the API is in a mostly-final form, we are releasing it as a Beta to...

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Feedback, Bug Fixes, and our Path Forward

Over the past seven years, CrunchBase has grown from a tiny TechCrunch side-project into an (often) indispensable tool of the tech community. Unbelievably, CrunchBase has enjoyed this success despite relative “benign neglect”. CrunchBase...

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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...

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Sequoia Backs Simplisafe In A Play For The Home Security Market

Editor’s note: This is a repost of a TechCrunch article written by Jon Shieber. Sequoia Capital has made a minority investment in the do-it-yourself home security company Simplisafe in a play on the home security and automation...

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