Groq, a secretive silicon company in the Bay Area, raked in most of a $60 million round of funding. | Continue reading
What has two wheels and might be worth two billion? Bird, oddly. | Continue reading
DuckDuckGo raises money under the radar in the midst of Google's year of privacy and bias concerns. | Continue reading
A rapidly-growing company in the self-driving car sector takes down fresh cash, so say SEC filings. | Continue reading
The digital age has put traditional newspapers in the precarious position of having to compete with a plethora of online publications – some reputable, some not. | Continue reading
Crunchbase Data shows 23 unicorn IPOs globally so far in 2018, well outpacing full-year totals for 2016 and 2017. | Continue reading
Unicorns are not zoo animals. If they were, someone might have put up a “No Feeding” sign. | Continue reading
News of nine and ten-figure VC deals is a near-daily presence in tech headlines these days. But it hasn't always been like that. Here, we find when these supergiant rounds took over. | Continue reading
Which startup category is birthing more unicorns: consumer-oriented tech shops or enterprise concerns? | Continue reading
With our fixation on all things tech, we’re missing out on the big picture. There are actually a lot more biotech and healthcare startup IPOs than tech offerings. | Continue reading
An organization that aims to help boost equality in the tech sector is eyeing expansion into new cities and is launching a partnership with the Wharton School of Business. | Continue reading
Based on projections from Crunchbase, Crunchbase News reports that global venture capital activity has once again set post-Dot Com records. Specifically, deal and dollar volume blew past last quarters' highs, propelled by an upswing in late-stage venture capital investments and a … | Continue reading
Thinking carefully about selling your company can mean the difference between a sad shutdown, a below average acquihire, or an outright bidding war. Unlike investors, entrepreneurs don’t get to index their risk across a portfolio. Having seen dozens of exits over the years, total … | Continue reading
It is now time to get our fictitious investors a liquidity event from our little drone startup. Let’s sell our company! | Continue reading
Juul, the popular e-cigarette company, is raising a huge stack of money at a massive valuation that has both raised eyebrows and concerns. Is the company worth the money its raising and the valuation at which it's raising? | Continue reading
Leading up to our usual raft of quarterly reports, Crunchbase News dug into fresh funding data to see just how big a chunk of global VC activity is attributable to China. | Continue reading
We're going to take a second look the ARRG startup metric. Our goal is to better unpack its substance, flag what we missed the last time we employed it, and give ourselves a better understanding of how investors value quickly growing private companies. | Continue reading
Airbnb hosts face uncertainty in how to set flexible listing prices in response to changing market demands. The fancy economic term for this dilemma is “dynamic pricing,” and several startups, along with Airbnb itself, have tapped into the market. | Continue reading
It’s well known that immigrants founded or lead a large percentage of U.S. businesses from small mom-and-pop operations to major corporations. But what about the latest generation of fast-growing, high-valuation private companies? | Continue reading
For most of us, our ability to see, hear, and move without assistance are but fleeting privileges. We will grow old and, with age, feel the abilities we take for granted today slowly but inexorably slip away. And then there are many people who, by circumstance of birth or later l … | Continue reading
Rebtel is a Swedish company that provides a technology platform for migrants, and it is announcing new funding to expand its suite of resources. | Continue reading
In 2017, the use of prepaid and private label cards accounted for $6.4 trillion in payments for goods and services. And while swiping or inserting a card may be the preferred way to pay for consumers, it’s at the literal expense of many merchants. | Continue reading
The mechanics of funding are rife with legal and insider terminology. Parsing it all is daunting. But if you are a founder with VC money in the bank, it’s imperative you know just what you’re getting into, and a glossary of definitions from a textbook just isn’t going to get you … | Continue reading
Utah wants to be known for more than ski resorts and the Sundance Film Festival. | Continue reading
What has two wheels and might be worth two billion? Bird, oddly. | Continue reading
The government helped shape the Internet, so it should come as no surprise it is also game to invest in the companies working to bring it to new heights. In-Q-Tel, the venture arm of the CIA, has invested in 172 known startups (more than 20 of which Crunchbase News has reached ou … | Continue reading
With Microsoft’s $7.5 billion acquisition of GitHub this week, we can now decisively declare a trend: 2018 is shaping up as a darn good year for U.S. venture-backed M&A. | Continue reading
Agora announces a prior extension of its Series B round to a total of $50 million as it contemplates global scale and plans Series C. | Continue reading
Austin-based crypto-finance startup Unchained Capital has raised nearly $3 million in seed funding. Unchained’s first product is a crypto asset-backed loan, which is like borrowing against one’s home—except the company lends against digital assets such as bitcoin and ethereum. | Continue reading
According to Bloomberg, Bird, a leading US electric scooter company, is raising $150 million with terms "that will value the company at $1 billion." If the round closes at the reported thresholds, Bird will become the first scooter unicorn. | Continue reading
This week Rover announced that it raised $125 million in equity funding and $30 million in debt. The new capital and access thereof will help it compete with rival Wag, which recently raised huge sums from Softbank. | Continue reading
Didi is indeed a large company, and like any other industry powerhouse, a deep dive into its history can inform the outcome of future developments. However, recent reports of tensions between the U.S. in China over trade have raised the stakes for companies operating inside of Ch … | Continue reading
Access to talented folks and smart capital certainly makes the process of starting up a company easier, and it may increase the likelihood that a startup will survive long enough to raise some money and build a sustainable business. | Continue reading
Although bitcoin and blockchain technology may not take up quite as much mental bandwidth for the general public as it did just a few months ago, companies in the space continue to rake in capital from investors. | Continue reading
For a certain group of writers and self-styled curators, the email newsletter is the medium of choice for sharing their thoughts and findings with their personal following. Now, an emerging group of companies are springing up to help newsletter-ers generate sustainable income fro … | Continue reading
Recognizing opportunities to disrupt the multi-trillion dollar construction industry, a slew of startups are focused strictly on developing technologies to make construction projects go more smoothly while increasing productivity and efficiencies. | Continue reading
Brad Feld's venture firm is raising a new fund. Here's what we know about it so far. | Continue reading
After the bell, Snapchat parent company Snap reported its Q1 earnings results. The company saw revenue of $230.7 million, and a net loss of $385.8 million. The company's adjusted per-share loss totaled $0.17. | Continue reading