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Entertainment Deals Take Center Stage In LA’s Burgeoning VC Scene

Editor’s note: This is a repost of a TechCrunch article written by Jon Shieber. A string of big acquisitions, public offerings, and a pipeline of growing young startup companies has venture investors saying “I...

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Boston Wraps Up Its Best Venture Quarter In Years

Editor’s note: This is a repost of a TechCrunch article written by Jon Shieber. The TechCrunch wrecking ball is smashing into Boston as startups in the city are coming off their best quarter in years. Boston-based...

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Saeed Amidi’s Global Accelerator Network Plug And Play Expands To Brazil

Editor’s note: This is a repost of a TechCrunch article written by Jon Shieber. The warp and weft of Saeed Amidi’s family story — transitioning from Iranian immigrants fleeing revolution in the 1970s to running a multi-million-dollar...

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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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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...

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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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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...

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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...

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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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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...

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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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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;...

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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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