The Best of 2018: Relive this Year in Tech
From supergiant rounds to a shift in industry trends, to the biggest funding round to who’s gone public, to the most searched on Crunchbase – these are the biggest moments...
The Companies You Want to Join to Begin Your Career
Wealthfront has published their list of career-launching companies. To qualify, a company must be privately held, and have a revenue run rate by year end of between $20 million and...
Here’s How Blockchain Can Save Game Developers
The past decade has been a ride for the gaming industry. 25 years ago, people would have never believed you could play deep, engrossing games on mobile phones, let alone...
Deep Dive: SimilarWeb Looks at Top Companies by Crunchbase Rank
Crunchbase Rank uses algorithms to rank companies in the dataset with real-time analysis of factors such as funding data, recent news, connections, and profile traffic. It’s no surprise then that...
Crunchbase spotlights growth areas for seed investors
Seed investors are, by definition, the first ones to back startups and technologies that go on to become world-changing forces. So when they collectively raise their bets about something, it’s...
With VC drying, seed funding grows more selective
Jon Swartz of USA Today reviews Q3 2016 venture funding trends, citing strong investor interest in selective markets based on Crunchbase data. Seed funding in 2016 is up for the following five sectors:...
U.S. companies buy a lot more startups than European acquirers
U.S. companies have a massively greater appetite for startups than their European counterparts, according to a new report on transatlantic M&As from Crunchbase and entrepreneurship foundation, Mind the Bridge. Over...
Survey to Compare Startup Ecosystems Worldwide
Some metropolitan areas are powerhouses when it comes to attracting and cultivating successful startups. Others lag due to factors such as capital shortages, talent scarcity and lackluster support systems for...
CrunchBase sees rise in average seed round in 2016
By Joanna Glasner and Gené Teare The typical investment in a U.S. seed-stage company rose in the first half of 2016, with many startups and their backers looking to shore...
CrunchBase sees some slowing for early-stage venture in the second quarter
By Gené Teare and Joanna Glasner U.S. venture investors tapped the brakes but did not carry out a sharp slowdown in Series A and B deal-making in the second quarter...
CrunchBase Spotlight: Data hints at down rounds, but not wipeout, for marketplace lending
By Joanna Glasner and Gené Teare We’ve heard a lot about troubles in the marketplace lending space over the last couple months. LendingClub, the industry bellwether, ousted its founder-CEO and...
Kauffman Foundation & CrunchBase Team Up at AEA 2016
Last week at the American Economic Association (AEA) annual meeting in San Francisco, we co-hosted a session with our partners at the Kauffman Foundation. Attendees included academics, research, and business professionals from...
Let’s Face It, 2015 Was A Pretty Lousy Year For Unicorns
This feature was originally published by TechCrunch. It’s been a pretty awful year to be a unicorn in 2015. Box and Square went public this year at significantly less than their last private...
Infographic: Female Founders On An Upward Trend
Earlier this year, Crunchbase began a comprehensive study of Female Startup Founders by expanding our dataset to include gender. To date, we have published two reports — the first found...
Harvard, Stanford And MIT Top The List Of Schools For Female Founders
Editor’s note: Gené Teare (@geneteare), a past female founder, heads up the CrunchBase Venture Program and CrunchBase’s data work. Ned Desmond (@neddesmond) is the COO of TechCrunch and CrunchBase. Cory Cox, an analyst at...
Investments For Hearables Surge
Editor’s Note: This is a repost of a TechCrunch article by Ruochen Huang. These days the hardware you put in your ear can do much more than just play music. Although new...
Venture Capitalists Help Wearable Companies Expand Their Wares
When you hear the term “wearable,” you probably think of wristbands, such as the Fitbit or the Apple Watch. In reality, these devices represent only a small portion of an increasingly diverse sector....
Female Founders on an Upward Trend
Editor’s note: Gené Teare heads up the venture program and content for CrunchBase. Ned Desmond is the COO of TechCrunch and CrunchBase. This report is the first in a series looking...
VCs Put A Ring On Wedding Companies
Editor’s Note: This is a repost of a TechCrunch article by Christine Magee. Venture capitalists love markets where consumers spend exorbitantly for services that are extortionately priced, and no market exemplifies...
Investors Swing For The Fences With $1B In Sports Tech Deals
Editor’s Note: This is a repost of a TechCrunch article by Christine Magee. From wearable activity trackers to fantasy e-sports, technology is transforming the way athletes train for the game and fans...
