CrunchBase, People+, and the EFF
We are in the midst of a disagreement with new mobile startup called People+. Wired.com broke the story and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has elected to represent People+. The...
CrunchBase Venture Program Hits 400 and Launches Tools to Help Investors Manage Their Public Data
Editor’s note: This is a repost of a TechCrunch article written by Matt Kaufman. The CrunchBase Venture Program is backed by more than 400 venture firms, incubators, and angel groups...
Tech Acquisition Sprees Create Exits for Venture Investors
Earlier this month CrunchBase data showed that venture funding is reaching new highs, so it’s no surprise that Q3 2013 also had the most number of venture-backed acquisitions. With 131 deals, Q3...
Angel-Backed Companies Are Taking Longer To Close Their First Venture Rounds
Editor’s note: This is a repost of a TechCrunch article written by Mark Lennon. There are more angel-backed companies in the US than ever trying to capitalize on a favorable economic market for...
US Angel Investing This Year Likely Won’t Pass 2012 Levels
Editor’s note: This is a repost of a TechCrunch article written by Mark Lennon. Angel investing in the US this year looks like it’s falling back towards 2011 levels, after a record 2012....
Q3 2013 Excel Released! 64k Profiles and 8k Rounds Added in Q3
In Q3, we’ve seen over 77k user-submitted changes, 16k more than Q2. Highlights of the Q3 2013 Export: $9.1B of total funding raised in the U.S. in Q3 Most active...
CrunchBase Hits 400k Profiles and 45k Funding Rounds. Download August 2013 Excel Export!
The CrunchBase dataset has now grown to 400k profiles and 45k investment rounds thanks to our community of contributors and members of the CrunchBase Venture Program. We’ve also seen monthly contributions...
CrunchBase Partners with ILVenture to Expand Coverage of Israeli Startups
Israeli startups have been on a tear. Already this year Waze, Trusteer, and Adap-tv were acquired for a combined value of over $2.3B and CrunchBase has recorded $324MM of funding invested in...
Analysis Of Investment Activity By Season
Editor’s note: This is a repost of a TechCrunch article written by Eddy Kim. Many people in tech believe that VCs slow the pace of their investing during the summer, especially...
CrunchBase Daily Read by Worldwide Audience of 80,000
Each weekday morning we send the CrunchBase Daily to over 80,000 subscribers and from what we can tell, it’s a hit. Nearly 40% of the emails are opened each day and people...
Yahoo! Leads 2013 YTD Acquisitions with 19 including RockMelt, Xobni, and Tumblr
In 2013 Yahoo!‘s acquisitions have consistently been in the news. So far this year, Yahoo! has acquired 19 companies, including last week’s talent acquisition of Rockmelt. Other notable acquisitions include Xobni, Qwiki, Tumblr,...
July 2013 Excel Released! 54k Changes to Dataset Including 7k New Companies
In July, CrunchBase saw 54,371 user-submitted changes, almost 9k more than we saw in June. Those edits included the addition of 7,286 companies, 676 people, and 452 financial organizations. Highlights...
Vancouver’s Venture Capital History and HootSuite’s $165 million round
Last week, Vancouver-based social media aggregator platform HootSuite raised a $165 million series B round from Insight Venture Partners, Accel Partners, and OMERS Ventures. This was the largest round in Vancouver’s history...
Crunchbase Compared to Other Industry Sources
Editor’s note: This is a repost of a TechCrunch article written by Billy Gallagher. Now that the CrunchBase team has spent some quality time improving our data sets, we thought it’d be...
Introducing the CrunchBase Startup Calendar
Today we are introducing the CrunchBase Startup Calendar to share upcoming events in the startup community. Each week, we’ll send an email featuring upcoming events and their participating startups. The first...
AngelList Partners with CrunchBase
Editor’s note: This is a repost of a TechCrunch article written by Eric Eldon. It used to be that you had to pay a bunch of money to get basic information...
The Startup Universe According to Visual.ly
Editor’s note: Visual.ly is the latest addition to the CrunchBase Spotlight Program which highlights the best applications and research built on the CrunchBase dataset. Contact us if you’d like to be...
June Excel Released! And Q2 2013 Article – SF Beats NY, Boston, and LA COMBINED
TechCrunch and CrunchBase collaborated to publish a Q2 2013 recap article using data found in the newly released June 2013 Excel Spreadsheet. In June, CrunchBase saw 70,000 edits, 7,000 new company profiles,...
CrunchBase Goes Pound for Pound With VentureSource – Insights From Guillaume Goujon
Editor’s note: Research by Guillaume Goujon (@Inn0vmatt3rs) is the latest addition to the CrunchBase Spotlight Program which highlights the best applications and research built on the CrunchBase dataset. After CrunchBase released the April...
Crunchbase Daily: Everything You’ll Need To Start The Day
You know who you are. You check into Crunchbase every day, maybe a few times, just to make sure your competition has not closed that new round. Crunchbase is about to make...
