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Q1 2018 global diversity investment report: Investing trends in female founders
In this report, we look at venture and seed investment trends in female-founded startups over the last five quarters. For this time period, we look at more than 9,119 venture deals and 6,802 seed...
View ArticleTransferWise’s new debit card for the US fires the starting gun on a new war...
International money transfer service TransferWise, has made a significant incursion into the US market today, launching a MasterCard debit card alongside a multicurrency account. Mirroring the card it...
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Gift Guide: Leading VCs recommend their favorite reads from 2019
Welcome to TechCrunch’s 2019 Holiday Gift Guide! Need help with gift ideas? We’re here to help! We’ll be rolling out gift guides from now through the end of December. You can find our other guides...
View ArticleHow to make a deal with a VC at a tech conference
Mahendra Ramsinghani Contributor Share on Twitter Mahendra Ramsinghani founded Secure Octane Investments, which includes Demisto, CyberGRX and 16 other infrastructure and cybersecurity companies....
View ArticleUnpacking the Sumo Logic S-1 filing
Setting our dive into Palantir’s gross margins aside for another day, Sumo Logic filed to go public this morning. The Redwood City-based, former startup raised around $340 million while private,...
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NerdWallet’s IPO filing reveals high-margin content business, accelerating...
As last week came to a close, NerdWallet filed to go public. Given the late hour, our S-1 dive had to wait until today. The NerdWallet IPO comes at an interesting time. The company provides financial...
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The $25 Million Demo. Yext Scores A Big Round From IVP After TechCrunch50 Debut.
Howard Lerman can be a little intense. After the CEO of Yext finished his demo at this year’s Techcrunch50 (embedded below) he left one judge “speechless,” and during rehearsals Michael took him aside...
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AddThis Indeed: Clearspring Raises $20 Million As It Rides Social Sharing Boom
The name Clearspring Technologies may not be terribly familiar to you, but chances are you’ve often clicked on or at least come across its AddThis buttons, which are plastered on publisher sites...
View ArticleWhy Are There So Few Black Investors?
Richard Kerby Contributor Richard Kerby is a vice president at Venrock, where he focuses on early stage investments. More posts by this contributor Who Is A VC? Editor’s Note: Richard Kerby is a Vice...
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Dataminr Confirms $130M Raise To Take Its Social Media Data Analysis To New...
Dataminr, a startup that parses and crawls the vast glut of real-time informatio posted on social media sites like Twitter to extract key developments for public safety, bankers and news organizations,...
View ArticleScorching FinTech Market Keeps Attracting New Players As NerdWallet Raises...
NerdWallet, the six-year-old company launched with $800 by company co-founder and chief executive, Tim Chen, has raised $64 million in its first round of outside financing. Sources with knowledge of...
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GitHub Raises $250M Series B Round To Take Risks
GitHub, the software development collaboration and version control service based on the popular open source Git tool, today announced that it has raised a $250 million funding round led by Sequoia...
View ArticleTanium Gets Another $120M To Unpick The Cybersecurity Patchwork
Enterprise security and system management firm Tanium has announced another big tranche of funding, taking in $120 million, led by TPG and Institutional Venture Partners, with existing investor...
View ArticleCompass Raises $50M At An $800M Valuation Led By IVP To Supersize Its Real...
While sites like Zillow, Trulia and Redfin have become synonymous with how people list and find property online, a startup out of New York called Compass has raised $50 million to help secure its place...
View ArticleOnline Lender SoFi Seems To Push Back IPO Plans, Raising $1 Billion
Back in May, Mike Cagney, the CEO of online lender Social Finance, told CNBC’s “Squawk Box” that his company was “profitable and as any private company we want to be opportunistic about when we go...
View ArticleSteelBrick Snags $48 Million As Quote-To-Cash Stays Hot
SteelBrick, the quote-to-cash cloud service aimed primarily at small- and mid-market companies, announced a $48 million Series C round today. Quote-to-cash, as the name implies, is the part of the...
View ArticleWhy Google Capital deal could augur the reemergence of so-called PIPEs
Last Wednesday, Google Capital ventured into the world of investing in publicly traded companies, announcing it has backed Care.com, a platform that connects people with caregivers which went public in...
View ArticleHow to build a brand in 2017: Tips from Glossier CEO Emily Weiss
There’s no shortage of women’s beauty brands, yet for many millennial women in particular, one young outfit — the cosmetics company Glossier — seems to stand out. Having products that customers like is...
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