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Crunch Network
Latin America’s Groupon Mafia
The founders of PayPal and its employees have produced many highly successful companies over the years. Often referred to as the “PayPal Mafia” because they’ve had such an impact on the startup ecosystem, this serial entrepreneur success story is reminiscent of a similar phenomenon taking place in Latin America. The story starts with another U.S. company, Groupon. Read More
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Facebook has a 100-person engineering team that helps advertisers build tools and infrastructure
Facebook says that one of its success stories in recent years involves a relatively small group of engineers. Originally it was just one engineer, Vastal Mehta, who serves as Facebook’s director of solutions engineering and now leads a team of more than 100 people that works with advertisers to build the technology and infrastructure needed to run more effective campaigns on Facebook. Read More
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All 50 states vote yes on AT&T’s $40 billion emergency response network FirstNet
Communications are the bedrock of emergency response and management. However, those communications can be challenging when quickly evolving situations cross multiple jurisdictions. Today, AT&T announced that all 50 states, Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia have officially signed on to FirstNet, a government program operated by AT&T to provide universal emergency response… Read More
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Amazon did a lot of funky stuff this year and it’s paying off
Holy hell, it’s been a year for Amazon. Jeff Bezos’ former-online-bookstore dumped $13.7 billion to buy a bunch of grocery stores, that speaker you talk to in your living room that Amazon makes is really popular and a bunch of server farms Amazon runs generate more than $10 billion in revenue annually. Read More
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iFixit drops its iPhone battery replacement to $29, matching Apple’s apology price
iFixit has never been particularly fond of Apple’s repair policies. The company’s gadgets regularly rack up poor repairability scores on the site. The site’s taking another jab at the tech giant today, dropping the price of its battery replacement kits to $29 — matching the cost of out-of-warranty battery replacements being offered up as consolation for its iPhone… Read More
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OKCupid’s rating sinks as users rebel over new ‘real name’ policy
OKCupid’s users are angry – very, very angry. Just ahead of the new year, the company made a radical change to its policies, and now requires people to use real names instead of an OKCupid username, as before. The change eliminates one of the biggest differentiators between the dating app and rivals like Tinder and Bumble, which have users log in via Facebook in order to use their… Read More
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TrendKite raises another $11M for its PR analytics platform
TrendKite is closing out 2017 with the announcement that it’s raised an additional $11 million in funding. The Austin-based startup says it’s currently analyzing 4.2 million articles every day, and using that analysis to help both brands and agencies to measure the impact of their PR efforts. Read More
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Pinterest adds former CBS Corp. CFO Fred Reynolds to its board
Pinterest announced today it’s adding former CBS and PepsiCo exec Fred Reynolds to its board of directors. Reynolds’ background includes global financial and strategic planning as well as business analysis, the company notes. He will also serve as Pinterest’s Audit Committee Chair. Prior to joining Pinterest’s board, Reynolds spent 15 years at CBS and… Read More
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A digitizing David takes on photo-scanning Goliath
Mitch Goldstone loves photo scanning. His business, ScanMyPhotos, does what it says on the tin: you send photos to the company and, using high speed scanners and special software, his team digitizes your photos, sticks them onto a USB key or online, and sends them back. He is proud of his business. Thanks to his scanners he’s helped users save their photos from tornadoes, floods, and theft. Read More
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You can now pick up an iMac Pro in-store, for $4,999 and up
Apple’s super-powered iMac Pro hit the company’s online store just ahead of Christmas. Now those who’d prefer to pick one up in-person can do so by paying a visit to one of its various retail establishments. Availability was first spotted by MacRumors earlier today, and you can check it for yourself by entering your zip code over on the company’s site. At $4,999 and… Read More
Latest TC Videos
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A cyclist is using a Google Assistant-controlled electric bike wheel to ride cross country to CES
This is one way to put your new electric bicycle wheel through its paces ahead of launch. But more importantly, it’s a pretty solid publicity stunt, funded by Google — a company that likes making a grand entrance. It’s all part of what’s shaping up to be a pretty big push for Google Assistant at the year’s biggest consumer electronics show. Read More
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Consumers dropped $200 million on apps on Christmas, up 12 percent from last year
Consumers spent $196 million on apps, in-app purchases and subscriptions on Christmas Day 2017 across the App Store and Google Play, according to new data from Sensor Tower. The report, while excluding Android revenue in China, represents a 12.3 percent increase over last year’s spending of approximately $174 million. That speaks to a still-growing market for apps and games as well as… Read More
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Historian Leslie Berlin talks about the rise of Silicon Valley
In this week’s episode of Technotopia I spoke to author and historian Leslie Berlin, writer of Troublemakers: Silicon Valleys’ Coming Of Age. Berlin is the Project Historian for the Silicon Valley Archives at Stanford University and one of the few people who can see the entire rise of SV tech culture from a researcher’s perspective. Berlin’s book is quirky, fun… Read More
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Crunch Network
The U.S. needs to create civic social networks
I have no doubt that the same great minds who are actively driving new platforms for commerce and engagement can formulate a new product (or adapt an existing one) that allows elected officials to engage the American people in a civic environment without paid ads and political spending. Read More
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Equity podcast: 2017 IPO recap and who will go public in 2018?
Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week the crew — Katie Roof, Matthew Lynley, Alex Wilhelm — were joined by Barrett Daniels, the CEO of Nextstep Advisory, an IPO shop that helps companies go public. Guess what we talked about? Yes, we went back through the biggest debuts… Read More
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Crunch Report | South Korea Announces New Cryptocurrency Regulations
South Korea announces new cryptocurrency regulations coinciding with the drop in bitcoin prices, YouTube gets pulled from Fire TV and SoftBank will now own about 15 percent of Uber. All this on Crunch Report. Read More
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Google retires the Pixel C tablet as it shifts focus to the Pixelbook
As noted earlier today by Android Police, Google has stopped selling the Pixel C through its online store. It’s a quiet and not unexpected end for the company’s well-received tablet, designed to make room for Google’s latest and greatest. Read More
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Trump’s website is coded with a broken server error message that blames Obama
If you’re a fan of Easter eggs hidden in source code, this is a pretty good one. Apparently, as Washington Post data reporter Christopher Ingraham observed on Twitter, some Trump administration and GOP websites have a portion of code with a joke that throws shade at Obama’s golf habits, the irony nowhere to be found. Read More
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It’s surprisingly easy to program living tissue to form new 3D shapes
The boundary between biology and technology blurs further and further as researchers discover more and more parallels between the two. Today they have found that it’s relatively simple to essentially hack living tissue by programming a pattern into cells, making them grow and fold on their own into a desired shape. Read More
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Crunch Network
Hiring has gone Hollywood
The top of the hiring funnel has gotten very crowded. We’ve always had recruiters or headhunters for top executives. They’re also commonly used in many industries for lower-skill positions, i.e. staffing. What’s changed is that staffing or fee-for-placement intermediaries are emerging for a range of professional positions. Read More
Recent Funding Data by
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Uber
- $8.7B
- HQ: San Francisco, California
- Categories: ride sharing, transportation, mobile apps, public transportation
- Investors: General Atlantic, TPG, Tencent Holdings, Dragoneer Investment Group, ... See More
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Uber
- $1.2B
- HQ: San Francisco, California
- Categories: transportation, mobile apps, public transportation, ride sharing
- Investors: SoftBank
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Ericsson
- $370M
- HQ: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan
- Categories: mobile, telecommunications, public relations, internet of things
- Investors: AB Svensk Exportkredit, Nordic Investment Bank
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Theranos
- $100M
- HQ: Palo Alto, California
- Categories: biotechnology, health diagnostics, health care
- Investors: Fortress Investment Group
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Internet Archive
- $1.0M
- HQ: San Francisco, California
- Categories: education, non profit, e-learning
- Investors: Pineapple Fund
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Collibra
- 40M EUR
- HQ: Manhattan, New York
- Categories: saas, information services, enterprise software
- Investors: ICONIQ Capital
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TrendKite
- $11M
- HQ: Austin, Texas
- Categories: public relations, enterprise software, analytics
- Investors: Harmony Partners
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Coinify ApS
- 30M DKK
- HQ: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden
- Categories: payments, internet, e-commerce, bitcoin, mobile payments, point of sale, ... See More
- Investors: Seed Capital, Nordic Eye, SEB Venture Capital
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Lendingkart
- 250M INR
- HQ: Ahmedabad, Gujarat
- Categories: internet, financial services, venture capital
- Investors: State Bank of India
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Realbest
- 7.0M EUR
- HQ: Berlin, Berlin
- Categories: real estate
- Investors: CommerzVentures GmbH, IBB Beteiligungsgesellschaft, Ventech, Hevella ... See More
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Unbound
- $2.7M
- HQ: New York, New York
- Categories: women's, health care, sex tech, wellness
- Investors: SoGal Ventures, Arena Ventures, Founders Fund, Slow Ventures
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Squirrel
- 509K GBP
- HQ: London, England
- Categories: personal finance, fintech, apps, banking
- Investors: Not available
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Billy Inc.
- Not available
- HQ: Portland, Oregon
- Categories: software, accounting
- Investors: Not available
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Kolte-Patil Developers
- 1.9B INR
- HQ: Pune, Maharashtra
- Categories: real estate, intellectual property, social media
- Investors: Not available
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Futurestay
- $2.3M
- HQ: Somerset, New Jersey
- Categories: tourism, service industry, travel
- Investors: New York Angels, Newark Venture Partners
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Foyr
- $3.8M
- HQ: Pune, Maharashtra
- Categories: interior design, home decor
- Investors: JLL India Real Estate Technology Ventures
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Influencer
- Not available
- HQ: London, England
- Categories: social media marketing
- Investors: Not available
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Prasos
- 2.5M EUR
- HQ: Helsinki, Southern Finland
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Not available
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Triggi
- 1.1M EUR
- HQ: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland
- Categories: internet of things, apps, internet
- Investors: Not available
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Flexenclosure
- 10M EUR
- HQ: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan
- Categories: data center, web hosting, telecommunications
- Investors: European Investment Bank (EIB)
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MEL Science
- $2.2M
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: edtech, software, education
- Investors: Sistema Venture Capital
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Sirin Labs
- $158M
- HQ: London, England
- Categories: manufacturing, mobile, privacy, mobile devices, security
- Investors: Not available
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African Export-Import Bank
- $100M
- HQ: Cairo, Al Qahirah
- Categories: financial services
- Investors: Not available
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TrySome
- $61K
- HQ: Brooklyn, New York
- Categories: marketplace, market research, consumer, e-commerce platforms
- Investors: Not available
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Starry
- $31M
- HQ: Boston, Massachusetts
- Categories: wireless, hardware, internet, network hardware
- Investors: Not available
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IGP.com
- Not available
- HQ: Mumbai, Maharashtra
- Categories: lifestyle, e-commerce, gift card
- Investors: VentureCatalysts
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OfficeRock
- Not available
- HQ: Dubai, Dubai
- Categories: small and medium businesses, e-commerce, internet
- Investors: WOMENA, Wamda Capital, Camac Partners, Enabling Future, Jabbar Internet ... See More
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Long Blockchain
- $2.0M
- HQ: Long Island City, New York
- Categories: food processing, consumer goods, food and beverage
- Investors: Court Cavendish
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Imanis Data
- $2.0M
- HQ: San Jose, California
- Categories: big data, data storage, database, software
- Investors: Wipro Technologies
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