A Crunchbase analysis of companies developing self-driving tech that went public in the last few years shows an average decline of over 80%. | Continue reading
The big global venture capital pullback we all expected is truly here. Venture funding for the third quarter of 2022 fell by 33% quarter over quarter. | Continue reading
Imagine founding the most quickly minted unicorn ever, spending $22M on a Miami mansion, and then realizing your company stake is worth less than your house. | Continue reading
Funding to Black-founded startups in the U.S. dropped sharply from prior quarters amid a general pullback in venture dollars invested. | Continue reading
While most cash-strapped startups leverage social media to advertise, founders in the femtech sector are meeting resistance from some platforms. | Continue reading
Investors' bets on micromobility upstarts, most of which rely wholly or partly on electric scooters, hasn’t gone particularly well. | Continue reading
There are two sides to valuing a startup: potential and ambition. | Continue reading
Enjoy Technology, founded by former Apple exec Ron Johnson, has reportedly filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. | Continue reading
With big and growth-stage tech layoffs, there is an influx of high-grade experienced talent available to startups with the runways to hire. | Continue reading
Tech layoffs in 2022 have included cuts at Netflix, Better, Fast, and other U.S. tech companies. We track all the notable tech and startup layoffs of 2022. | Continue reading
Have the most active investors actually pulled back their investments this year? To get a sense of that, we analyzed their spending patterns. | Continue reading
Startup accelerator Y Combinator is the latest investment firm to warn the good times may be coming to an end for startups and the venture market. | Continue reading
Stock trading platform Robinhood announced plans this week to cut about 9 percent of its workforce. | Continue reading
The still nascent market of synthetic data—or artificially manufactured data—seems to be having a moment right now. | Continue reading
Last year, the average Series B round for a U.S. company clocked in at $45 million—up nearly 50 percent from 2020. And so far in 2022, round size has ticked up even higher. And size isn’t the only thing that’s changing. | Continue reading
Initialized Capital has an impressive stable of unicorn startups in its portfolio. We speak with partner Garry Tan about the firm's success. | Continue reading
2021 was a blockbuster for the IPO markets, and we think that sets 2022 up to be another robust year for stock market debuts as many well-capitalized startups head for the exits. With that in mind, here are the Crunchbase News staff’s top picks for who we think could go public ne … | Continue reading
Figuring out better ways to ID and authenticate people is something security experts have been working on for decades—and while new methods are seeing slow adoption, they are realizing large dollar investment from venture capitalists. | Continue reading
Every time it seems like the SPAC bubble has burst, a slew of companies say they’re going public via a blank-check merger. | Continue reading
São Paulo, Brazil headquartered Nubank is one of the largest fintech companies to go public in 2021. We take a look at the winners backing the company in advance of it's public market debut. | Continue reading
Seed funding experienced steep growth in the past decade, with more than 40,000 U.S.-based startups raising this early capital since 2011, per Crunchbase data. How many of these startups are successfully raising post-seed funding to graduate to the next phase? | Continue reading
In 2021, the pace of new unicorns has increased considerably, with close to 1,000 current private unicorns on the Crunchbase Private Unicorn Board for the first time. | Continue reading
Working for a FAANG company used to be a novelty, and some considered it a reliable litmus test for technical competence or business success. Investors today are less starstruck by FAANG founders and more cognizant of their advantages and challenges, so you should be too--before … | Continue reading
The supposed “death” of Silicon Valley appears to be greatly exaggerated, writes Alberto Onetti, chairman of Mind the Bridge. But while there will likely be multiple clusters in different places able to get beyond critical mass, there’s no new Silicon Valley in sight. | Continue reading
The tech talent market is crazy right now, and one-year equity grants are likely to become the new standard. | Continue reading
Series A funding round sizes have grown significantly in recent years, with average Series A funding tripling over the decade. So who are the investors still funding Series A? | Continue reading
Although they have the means, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Facebook have not been especially acquisitive this year. | Continue reading
At least 23 private Latin American companies have now crossed the $1 billion valuation threshold, per an analysis of Crunchbase data. Collectively, they’ve raised over $15 billion in sectors ranging from fintech to food. | Continue reading
While Black female startup founders have received just 0.34 percent of the total venture capital spent in the U.S. so far this year — a far cry from being representative — the dollars invested in their companies is on the rise, an analysis of Crunchbase data shows. | Continue reading
Shef provides an outlet for local cooks to sell authentic, homemade dishes to their neighbors. | Continue reading
For tech startups, many of which have been beneficiaries of lockdown life, the impacts of the economic reopening aren’t entirely straightforward. We take a closer look at what reopening looks like for upstart companies in dating, gaming and entertainment, fitness, event planning, … | Continue reading
NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, are becoming mainstream, and that means more people are looking for ways to build upon the interest in these digital assets. | Continue reading
EAT Club offers Compass a technology to provide a more adaptive food delivery model to clients. | Continue reading
Biden will propose increasing the capital gains tax rate for high-income earners from 20 percent to 39.6 percent, Bloomberg reported on Thursday. | Continue reading
Crunchbase News ranks 35 of the top U.S. universities for funded startup founders, along with fourteen of the top business schools. The top regions are California and the Northeast. And the top schools are Harvard, Stanford and MIT. | Continue reading
2021 is proving to be a year for really big venture investments, breaking records for funding totals and round counts. Rather than the pandemic-inspired decline many predicted, we are seeing industry scaling ever-higher peaks. | Continue reading
The investment vehicle supports founders who don’t have access to angel investors, an experienced board or adviser network. | Continue reading
MX wants to make interacting with money as intelligent and personalized as shopping Amazon or streaming on Netflix. | Continue reading
This has been by far the best year yet for Y Combinator, with two of its biggest portfolio companies debuting on the public markets and the largest acquisition ever of one of its alumni. This also marks the beginning of a new era for YC that could see twice as many of its alumni … | Continue reading
The company aims to provide universal access to cryptocurrency. | Continue reading
Co-living startup Starcity said Thursday that it’s acquiring another co-living company, Ollie. | Continue reading
While taking a private company to the public markets is a big deal that comes with much fanfare at the stock exchanges and in the financial press, it also comes with a big price tag. | Continue reading
Media company Quibi is reportedly shutting down. The company had drawn $1.75 billion in funding, including from high-profile investors. | Continue reading
Venture investors and leaders in the fintech space can visualize a future where such startups will move toward again rebundling services. | Continue reading
Shogun enables brands to create unique buying experiences and optimize their online stores. | Continue reading
Y Combinator today released three new lists on Black-, Latinx- and women-founded portfolio companies as a part of its startup directory. | Continue reading
Episerver, which was acquired by Insight Partners in 2018 for $1.16 billion, didn’t disclose the purchase price of Optimizely. | Continue reading
In the S-1 filing, the company reported $155 million in revenue for the year that ended on Jan. 31, 2020, up nearly 50 percent from the same period the year prior. | Continue reading