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...
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...
Education Technology Startups Raised Over Half A Billion Dollars In Q1
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...
Bitcoin Gains Ballast As Investors Continue To Pile In
Editor’s note: This is a repost of a TechCrunch article written by Jon Shieber. The demise of Mt.Gox has been met with the launch of Bitcoin’s Ft. Knox and the establishment of new proprietary...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The New Age Of The Security Startup
Editor’s note: This is a repost of a TechCrunch article written by Jon Shieber. Last month Apple disclosed and fixed a massive bug in its operating system that left users’ information exposed to theft;...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
VCs Investing To Heal U.S. Healthcare
Editor’s note: This is a repost of a story written on TechCrunch by Jon Shieber. The U.S. healthcare system is sick, but increasingly early stage investors are spending money on new...
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,...