Steve built your phone. Mark connects your friends. Larry runs your searches. Reed streams your shows. Jeff sells you everything. Jack lets you complain about it (and pay for coffee)....
Russian and Ukrainian startups seduce Silicon Valley investors, Telegram gives up blockchain project amid lawsuits
Crunchbase and East-West Digital News are teaming up to cover key tech and venture trends from Russia, Ukraine and Belarus
The Oxford Future of Real Estate Initiative uses Crunchbase data to investigate the emerging PropTech movement
The real estate industry is traditionally a slow-moving asset class. The recent hype around real estate technology or ‘PropTech’ stands in stark contrast to this traditional view on real estate....
findexable Launches Global Fintech Index with Crunchbase
findexable is launching the Global Fintech Index – the world’s first real-time fintech ranking and categorisation tool to benchmark fintech ecosystems and fintech companies globally. The inaugural 2020 rankings report...
Top Startup Ecosystems in 2020: Ranking 1,000 Cities and 100 Countries
StartupBlink, a global startup and innovation research centre, has launched the Startup Ecosystem Rankings Report 2020. The 2020 version ranks 1,000 cities and 100 countries worldwide, tracking both momentum and...
EdTechX Releases Global Report on Education & Training Technology – powered by Crunchbase
The EdTechX Global Research Report, created in collaboration with IBIS Capital and Cairneagle Associates, explores the growth in EdTech adoption during COVID-19 lockdown and long-term prospects. It takes a holistic...
Alberta Shows Stunning Growth in 2019, Opportunity in 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic is an unprecedented event that has forced all businesses to re-evaluate their markets, risks, and priorities. In this time of volatility, predicting the future of venture capital...
From starting to scaling in Europe
The European Investment Bank, Nesta, and Crunchbase have partnered to publish From Starting to Scaling: How to foster startup growth in Europe. High growth startups are widely recognized as key...
Tech Nation and Crunchbase Cover Emerging Tech in the UK and Globally
Crunchbase and Tech Nation have partnered to bring spotlights to data-driven insights on emerging technologies in UK Tech for a Changing World – Tech Nation’s latest annual UK tech report....
Amid the pandemic, some Western investors take a closer look at Eastern European tech companies
Crunchbase and East-West Digital News are teaming up to cover key tech and venture trends from Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. This column by EWDN chief editor Adrien Henni highlights the...
Rise and fall! – A look at the Russian VC market in 2019
The record volume of transactions, the growth of the average round, and the development of deep tech – such trends are cited by Dsight analysts in the latest report on...
25 Startups to See at RSA Conference 2020
RSA Conference 2020, one of the world’s largest cybersecurity conferences, takes place February 24th-28th in San Francisco. We’ve curated this list of 25 startups to see at RSAC from the...
Europe Needs to Wake Up to the Potential of Start-ups and Scale-ups
Start-ups and scale-ups play an important economic role. These firms are drivers of aggregate investment activities, carriers of innovation, and an important source of labour demand. However, the European Investment...
2019 in Eastern Europe: Russia moves towards digital isolation, neighboring countries export IT services and gifted entrepreneurs
Crunchbase and East-West Digital News are teaming up to cover key tech and venture trends from Russia and other countries of the former Soviet Union. This column by EWDN chief...
Announcing the GovTech 100 for 2020
Last week, Government Technology magazine released its fifth annual GovTech 100 list. The GovTech 100 was created to recognize technology companies that were primarily focused on state and local government...
Brookings & Crunchbase: What’s your city’s economic development frontier?
America’s innovation sector is critical to regional and U.S. prosperity, but a recent Brookings report finds that five U.S. metro areas accounted for 90% of the nation’s innovation-sector growth between...
City.AI Creates AI Ecosystem Wiki, Featuring Crunchbase Data
Through a data partnership with Crunchbase, City.AI launched the AI Ecosystem Wiki. The AI Wiki aims to aggregate relevant artificial intelligence startups, events, influencers, and groups in 26 active ecosystems....
November 2019 in Eastern Europe: Sberbank expands its empire, Baring Vostok cancels new fund, IT firms merge in Belarus and Ukraine
Crunchbase and East-West Digital News are teaming up to cover key tech and venture trends from Russia and other countries of the former Soviet Union. This monthly column by EWDN...
Roma Tre University launches database for researchers looking to step into entrepreneurship
Roma Tre University (Rome, Italy) is excited to announce the launch of the ResearchInno database, powered by Crunchbase data. This project was developed in partnership with the National University of...
Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship Collaborates With Crunchbase to Track Alumni Startups
In 2019, the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship launched a new online platform called MIT Orbit. This site serves as a “one-stop-shop” for MIT student entrepreneurs. It allows them...