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...
Entrepreneurship and Education
Stanford is well known for churning out successful entrepreneurs like SnapChat’s Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy. Then there is Harvard’s famous attendee Mark Zuckerberg and MIT’s Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi. Using...
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...
Sunrise Update Brings Foursquare, CrunchBase, And Google Maps Integration To The Already-Smart Calendar
Editor’s note: This is a repost of a TechCrunch article written by Jordan Crook. Sunrise is the latest addition to the CrunchBase Spotlight Program which highlights the best applications and research built on...
Introducing BizWiki for CrunchBase
Editor’s note: Guest author Jeff King is EVP/GM at Mimvi, a search and recommendation start-up located in Sunnyvale and Los Angeles. His background is in high tech and running large entertainment...
CrunchBase Adds 13,689 Companies and 1,462 Venture Rounds in May, Download in Excel
A little over a month ago, we released a version of the CrunchBase dataset in a simple Excel spreadsheet. Why? We wanted to make CrunchBase more accessible and give everyone...
Google Ventures Joins CrunchBase Venture Program, Now More Than 100 Members Strong
Since launching the CrunchBase Venture Program at TechCrunch Disrupt NYC last week, we’ve added more than 100 venture firms, angel groups, and incubators to the program including Google Ventures. Together our partners...
Announcing the CrunchBase Venture Program
Editors note: This is a repost of an article we did for TechCrunch article. We knew CrunchBase was big. We knew because there are 2 million people using the startup database...
NYC Angels Grab Market Share
Editor’s note: This is a repost of an article we did for TechCrunch. Looking forward to this week’s Disrupt NY 2013, we used the CrunchBase dataset to surface regional trends in...
CrunchBase Meets Excel, Discover Your Own Insights
CrunchBase is committed to providing the startup community an open, up-to-date, and accurate database of companies, venture fundings, and entrepreneurs. In the spirit of this commitment, we’ve decided to publish the raw data behind...
