Venture capital has taken a turn for the glamorous as investors funnel more venture dollars than ever into beauty products and services. In the past year and a half, beauty...
Investment Updates October 3, 2014
From intelligent thermostat systems to bluetooth-enabled power adapters, home automation startups are getting smarter as VC dollars rush in. Today, Bay Area startups Building Robotics and Roost both raked in early-stage cash to fund workplace comfort...
Investment Updates October 2, 2014
The many may not be smarter than the few, but the wisdom of the tech consumer crowd sure seems to satisfy VCs. Tile, the location-tracking device startup that vastly exceeded fundraising goals...
Birds Of A Feather
Birds of a Y Combinator feather flock together. Y Combinator president Sam Altman just led a massive $50 million Series B round for social news site Reddit, an early YC graduate out of the...
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Jared Leto may have kicked off the past week in the celebrity gossip headlines for scandalous photos, but a week later the actor and 30 Seconds to Mars frontman appears...
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To cap off an unconventional week in venture capital, the CIA’s In-Q-Tel has broken its dry spell with its first investment in months for real-time analytics platform MemSQL. Launched in 1999 to...
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Sequoia Capital tops the Investor Leaderboard for most investments made worldwide, dominating the venture scene in North America as well as in Asia and ranking 3rd for most exits of...
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Insect-based protein bars have become the latest bizarre food product to capture the attention of tech investors, following in the footsteps of malty food replacement shakes and plant-based egg substitutes....
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Eduardo Saverin may have been duped out of Facebook, but he’s not letting the airport car rental game get away from him. The Facebook co-founder and Brazilian billionaire makes his...
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Do neighbors stick together in the case of the Sand Hill Road crowd? This week, yes. Menlo Park’s VC Row is looking more chummy than ever. In the past five...
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Rapper Nas’s Queensbridge Venture Partners may be the most active celebrity-run VC firm, with 44 investments since February of last year, but it remains to be seen if Nas can...
CrunchBase Trivia Insights
British billionaire Sir Richard Branson records his 14th venture investment today in drone startup 3D Robotics on the heels of yesterday’s investment in Bay Area ride-sharing service Sidecar. Branson invested alongside Union...
CrunchBase Monthly Investor Leaderboard
VCs got lazy in the final month of the summer, committing nearly $4.5 billion in capital in 558 August venture deals. In comparison to the $7 billion invested in July and $8.4 billion...
CrunchBase Weekly Investment Map
As August comes to a close, venture capitalists still aren’t ready to slow up the pace on a summer-long investment marathon, shoveling nearly $1.2 billion into 164 companies worldwide last week....
South Korean Startups from Rocketpun.ch
CrunchBase has partnered with Korean startup database RocketPun.ch to showcase startups from Seoul and the broader South Korean marketplace. RocketPun.ch, launched in January 2013, also provides a job platform with the...
CrunchBase Weekly Investment Map
Investors picked up the pace this week after a noticeably slow past week, closing 216 venture rounds for a total of $1.43 billion in capital committed. U.S.-based companies led the way, capturing 118 of those rounds....
CrunchBase Weekly Investor Leaderboard
VCs prioritized entertainment and convenience this week, pouring millions into GIFs, beauty salons, and gourmet food for a total of $978 million invested across 134 venture rounds. Andreessen Horowitz took first place in amount of...
CrunchBase Weekly Investor Leaderboard
From mattresses to medical practices, venture capitalists are backing it all this summer, investing over $1.7 billion in 136 venture rounds in the beginning of August. In the past two...
Teams, teams, teams …
From the earliest days at CrunchBase, countless PR and marketing teams have harangued our customer support staff about their team being out of date and who should be in the top...
Tracking The Rise Of Micro-Funds
Early stage venture funding has changed since 2009. For many startups it takes longer to raise a Series A and those rounds are getting larger, according to our data. In response, companies are raising multiple...