Here, we’re going to specifically focus on investment activity and the structure of its investment network in the ridesharing industry. This serves both to quantify the margin by which Uber currently leads, as well as to identify the growing network of alliances by a potential usurper.
Like many large corporations, SoftBank invests its cash across a broad portfolio of asset classes. It also invests some of its substantial capital reserves in earlier-stage technology companies. So where does that cash go, and how is it doled out to startups across the globe?
The American Midwest, to some, is just the “flyover states.” Its tropes – rusted-out factories, cornfields, and calorically-dense fried foods at state fairs – are well known.However, it’s also increasingly home to more technology startups.
An anonymous source tipped off Crunchbase News that Eaze, the Series B-stage cannabis delivery startup with over $24 million in venture funding, has experienced a security incident.
Crunchbase News has viewed certain documents related to the recapitalization and new financing round. What we’ve been able to gather from these documents, in concert with discussions with sources close to the current transaction, confirm some assertions made by the Journal, as well as provide additional details about the state of Teespring.
The concentration of earning power in just a few giant companies, plus other market forces, leads us to the conclusion that venture capital investment into advertising technology startups has already peaked.
There’s a certain seasonality to release dates. Apple announces new software in the summer and hardware in the autumn. Hollywood, historically, has dumped its cinematic clunkers in January and February. And Mary Meeker, current partner at KPCB and the veritable patron saint of Internet trend reporting, has taken to dropping her reports in early summer.
Bitcoin, Ethereium, Litecoin, and other blockchain-based digital tokens have rallied sharply in the last month.
A lot of attention has been drawn to the issue of income inequality and the distribution of resources in the US. Here, we’re going to explore the distribution of venture capital funding across a fairly large population of companies. This includes all the technology companies in the United States founded in or after 2003 with at least one recorded round of funding.
As very cheap capital becomes a thing of the past, VCs and other private investors will simply lack the capital to invest in the huge Series D+ rounds on which the likes of Uber, Airbnb, and others have relied. Now that the tech IPO market is starting to rev up again in the US, relying on private markets is becoming a non-issue.
Juicero has a problem: extracting juice from the packets is as easy as giving the pouch a firm hand squeeze—no $400 squasher needed.
Although it’s tempting to think that a technology sector predicated on open development and distribution of software would be a lousy place to do business, open source software (OSS) is a surprisingly lucrative industry that has heated up in the last decade.
In a new test, Google has quietly launched an applicant tracking system to a small number of businesses looking to hire talent.
Using reported data and projections from Crunchbase, this report from Crunchbase News takes the pulse of the global venture capital ecosystem. It focuses on the numbers behind investment and liquidity—of Money In versus Money Out.