Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs
9 min read

Learning From the Zoom Boom: 5 Things COVID Taught Us About Product-led Growth Tactics

Katya Skorobogatova is chief growth officer at TheVentureCity, a venture accelerator on a mission to make global entrepreneurship more diverse, international and accessible. TheVentureCity is accepting final applications for its...

Katya Skorobogatova, Chief Growth Officer at TheVentureCity

Entrepreneurs
7 min read

Remote Work is Not Here to Stay: The Rise of Flexible Working

COVID-19 has accelerated the adoption of remote work. However, it's not here to stay. Here's why and what will take its place going forward.

Alessandro Zanardi, CEO and Founder, Codeworks

Entrepreneurs
6 min read

A One-of-a-Kind Company: How Kim Kaupe is Creating the Kind of Experiences Superfans Are Really After

Kim’s fan engagement agency has helped over 100 of the world’s top entertainers and brands reach millions of their most loyal fans.

Dreamers & Doers, A Private Collective for Entrepreneurial Womxn

Entrepreneurs
4 min read

Invisible Infrastructure: The Software We All Depend On

Infrastructure, while critical to nearly every part of our lives, is invisible to many of us. The most basic needs of communication, food and water, as well as the production...

Daniel “Spoons” Spoonhower, CTO at Lightstep

Female Founders
9 min read

Female Founded & Funded: A Conversation with Fuel Capital and Autumn Adeigbo

The Crunchbase “Female Founder Series,” is a series of stories, Q&As, and thought-leadership pieces from glass-ceiling-smashers who overcame the odds, raised funding, and are now leading successful companies. Every entrepreneur...

Jaclyn Robinson, Senior Manager of Content Marketing at Crunchbase

Female Founders
7 min read

Rapid Scaling: How Jo Avent is Helping Companies Find the Talent They Need to Grow

Jo Avent, co-founder and Chief Strategy Office of TalentWall is transforming the way companies hire. TalentWall combines visual candidate management with beautiful, automated analytics dashboards to save recruiting teams time and speed up the hiring process.

Dreamers & Doers, A Private Collective for Entrepreneurial Womxn

Entrepreneurs
5 min read

The COVID Effect and Fintech Liquidity Gap

A year from now, we will be looking at COVID as the trigger event that became the primary driver for the proliferation of fiat digital currencies and the “reset” of the fintech venture landscape.

Thomas Buchar, Managing Partner at Global Accelerated Ventures

Entrepreneurs
5 min read

Future-Proof Your Business With Technology

It’s never been more important to embrace change. Ensure your business is prepared by implementing technologies that equip you for uncertainty.

Automation Anywhere

Investors
4 min read

Your Next Bank Will Be a Tech Giant

Today, it seems that every major technology company doubles as a bank. In the past few years, we’ve seen the launch of Apple Card, Facebook’s Libra, Uber Money, Square Cash...

Asheesh Birla, SVP of Product & Corporate Development at Ripple

Entrepreneurs
7 min read

A Look at 2020 Venture Funding Across U.S. Regions

In this report, we took a look at the Crunchbase dataset and analyzed global, country and region-specific funding performance.

Jaclyn Robinson, Senior Manager of Content Marketing at Crunchbase

Female Founders
6 min read

Dating Games: How Dani Fankhauser is Reinventing Online Dating

Dreamers & Doers, A Private Collective for Entrepreneurial Womxn

Female Founders
8 min read

8 Low-Cost User Acquisition Strategies That Actually Work

No matter how incredible your product or service is, there’s no guarantee that potential users and customers will be aware that it exists.

Dreamers & Doers, A Private Collective for Entrepreneurial Womxn

Entrepreneurs
4 min read

A Trusted and Safe Digital Space: How Simmone Taitt is Disrupting the Maternal Healthcare Model

Dreamers & Doers, A Private Collective for Entrepreneurial Womxn

Entrepreneurs
4 min read

How to Build a Platform Company with the Capital of a Product Company

We made Zipari the fastest-growing health company in insurtech with deep industry knowledge and relentless capital efficiency. At the start of this decade, big changes began brewing in the health...

Mark Nathan, Founder and CEO of Zipari

Female Founders
6 min read

“Immediate and Impactful”: How Anna de Paula Hanika’s Game-Changing Tech Improves Health Outcomes for Low-Income Seniors

Anna de Paula Hanika, CEO and Co-Founder of Uno Health, is bridging a staggering gap in the healthcare industry.

Dreamers & Doers, A Private Collective for Entrepreneurial Womxn

Entrepreneurs
6 min read

Orchestrating the Path to Early-Stage Startup Success

What do the art of practicing Aikido and launching a startup have in common? Well, they both require a great amount of focus and determination, they’re rooted in energy and spirit, they teach you how to deal with difficult situations while quickly adapting to gain a competitive advantage, and they happen to be things I take pride in.

Kevin O’Brien, CEO and Co-Founder of GreatHorn

Female Founders
6 min read

Teaching Girls to Love Their Curls: An interview with the Founder of Healthy Roots Dolls

Yelitsa Jean-Charles, founder of Healthy Roots Dolls, is on the entrepreneurial journey of a lifetime. But her success story started long before her now famous tweet--including a side-by-side picture of herself and her company’s product--offered joy to so many amid tumultuous times.

Jaclyn Robinson, Senior Manager of Content Marketing at Crunchbase

Female Founders
8 min read

Building a Better Workplace: Elizabeth Gulliver’s Mission to Support Working Parents

Elizabeth Gulliver, Co-Founder of Kunik, is building a community of support for working parents. When she became a mother, Elizabeth saw a need to help families struggling to integrate their careers and family.

Dreamers & Doers, A Private Collective for Entrepreneurial Womxn

Entrepreneurs
5 min read

SDRDefenders: Fighting for Change in the Sales Community from the Ground Up

By democratizing access to skills and information SDRs need to advance their careers, SDRDefenders seeks to attract and support a more diverse and inclusive generation of future sales leaders.

Jaclyn Robinson, Senior Manager of Content Marketing at Crunchbase

Diversity
7 min read

How Mandela Schumacher-Hodge Dixon Found Her Purpose Through Lived Experiences

Resilient and determined are two words that describe Mandela Schumacher-Hodge Dixon. Her story is an example of how to turn relentless drive into impact.

Jaclyn Robinson, Senior Manager of Content Marketing at Crunchbase