Editor’s Note: This is a repost of a TechCrunch article by Christine Magee. Atlanta is home to the world’s largest drive-in, some of rap music’s greatest minds, and 71 streets named...
Underwear Startups Have Investors Hot and Bothered
Editor’s Note: This is a repost of a TechCrunch article by Christine Magee. After taking the runway at New York Fashion Week, fashion tech is making a play for the bedroom. A new collection of underthings and intimates startups...
VCs Stop, Collaborate And Listen To Teamwork Tech
Editor’s Note: This is a repost of a TechCrunch article by Christine Magee. While we struggle to set up a group Skype chat and create Google Sheets to organize our list of Google Docs, a...
Venture Investors Put $2 Billion Into The Blackboard Jungle
Editor’s Note: This is a repost of a TechCrunch article by Christine Magee. Venture capitalists really hit the books in 2014. Edtech companies stockpiled nearly $2 billion in venture funding — a 50% jump from...
VCs Hold Back On Drone Tech Deals
On Sunday, the FAA issued the long-awaited set of regulations around unmanned aerial vehicles. Four years overdue and two weeks after a drone crashed on the White House lawn, the new rules are not...
The Rise Of The “Uber For X” Startup
You know you’ve made it big when the name of your company inspires an entirely new startup terminology. We’ve seen the Uber for boats, the Uber for lawn care, and the Uber for cannabis...
Bitcoin Blazes New Trail In Emerging Markets
Editor’s Note: This is a repost of a TechCrunch article by Christine Magee. While the tech world is busy speculating about bitcoin’s volatile value, cryptocurrency is making arguably its biggest impact in countries where the current price...
Japan’s TechTsushin Features CrunchBase
We were excited to see CrunchBase featured in Japanese business magazine TechTsushin this week: Our president, Matt Kaufman, explains the vision behind the Business Graph and urges Japanese entrepreneurs to take advantage of the CrunchBase platform....
VCs Battle For A Spot In The Parking Market
Editor’s Note: This is a repost of a TechCrunch article by Christine Magee. As Uber continues on its quest to corner the global ride-hailing marketplace, venture investors in search of the next billion dollar...
Clean Tech Stages A Comeback In The Smart Building Space
Editor’s Note: This is a repost of a TechCrunch article by Christine Magee. After the clean tech boom went bust, the industry seemed to disappear from the tech world’s focus as quickly as the billions of dollars...
Will Tech IPOs Set New Records In 2015?
VC-backed startups set a high bar for exits in 2014, but a handful of unicorns have the potential to surprise us all again in 2015. Beating current records is going to be tough. Alibaba holds the trophy for the largest...
Female Founders Fare Much Better In 2014
Editor’s Note: This is a repost of a TechCrunch article by Christine Magee. In a place where having a penis is referred to as the sine qua non of the startup founder, it’s easy to jump...
Seed Investments Take A Hard Hit in 2014 — Globally
So the seed bubble has popped in the U.S. — but what about the rest of the world? After finding that the number of U.S. seed rounds raised in 2014 went...
Prices Plunge But Investors Are Still Bullish On Bitcoin
Bitcoin has taken a major hit in the past year, now trading at just over $200 from a peak of roughly $1,200 at the end of 2013. But VCs are undeterred....
Ask A VC: Rock Health’s Halle Tecco
Editor’s Note: This is a repost of a TechCrunch article by Christine Magee. Halle Tecco is the founder and managing director of Rock Health, a digital health-focused seed fund. Rock...
Start-Up Chile Launches Follow-On Fund To Boost Local Growth
Editor’s Note: This is a repost of a TechCrunch article by Christine Magee. Shortly after launching Start-Up Chile, the state-backed accelerator program designed to spur the development of a startup ecosystem in Chile, the...
Israeli Entrepreneurs Drive Transportation Tech
With a fresh $50 million in Series C funding announced yesterday, Israeli public transportation startup Moovit has sped into 5th on a list of Israel’s top venture-backed startups. Israeli entrepreneurs have been winning in the transportation market lately —...
As CES Frenzy Dies Down, Sin City’s Local Tech Scene Thrives
The focus of the tech world shifted away from Las Vegas this weekend as CES came to a close, but a growing ecosystem of local entrepreneurs is giving investors something new to talk...
VC-Backed Exits Reach Record Highs In 2014
2014 was a revolutionary year for tech exits, from the largest global IPO ever (Alibaba) to Facebook’s purchase of mobile messaging service WhatsApp for a whopping $22 billion in the biggest...
Home Automation Startups Shine In Hardware Battlefield
Yesterday TechCrunch announced the 14 contestants participating in this year’s Hardware Battlefield at CES. The startups pitching range from mobile gaming platform LyteShot to silent baby monitor NapTime, but home automation startups...