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VC Transparency Is The New Black
When Instagram was bought by Facebook earlier this spring for $1 billion, one question lingering on everyone’s minds was how much VC firm Andreessen Horowitz made on the deal. The firm had made an...
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Disrupt Battlefield Finalist Zumper Reveals It Raised $1M Seed Round From...
Zumper, the San Francisco-based startup that’s assisting apartment hunters in finding the most ideal abode, announced today that it closed a $1 million seed round. The announcement comes two weeks...
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Rally Software Buys Flowdock, A Real-Time Social Collaboration Hub For...
Rally Software has acquired Flowdock, a real-time collaboration service designed for developers. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Flowdock received $650,000 in seed funding in October 2011 from...
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Google Ventures Announces Its Newest General Partner, MG Siegler
After 19 months of working with our founder, Michael Arrington, on setting up CrunchFund, MG Siegler has moved on to a similar role at a firm that continues to make waves in the venture world, Google...
View ArticleCrunchFund Is Raising $40M For Its Second Fund, According To Filing
CrunchFund, the early-stage investment firm that's basically one giant conflict-of-interest statement for TechCrunch, is raising $40 million for a second fund, according to a regulatory filing. I've...
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Iotera Raises $1 Million For Its Super Simple GPS Tracking Device
Iotera, a U.S.-company that produces GPS devices with months of battery life, has closed a $1 million seed funding round led by ZenShin Capital Partners. Read More
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Mobile Action Raises $2 Million To Help App Makers Attract More Users
Getting apps discovered in an increasingly packed app store is a challenge. This is why a number of firms have launched services to help app publishers figure out how to better optimize their app’s...
View ArticleDatos IO Raises $12.5M Series A Round For Its Big Data Recovery Platform
When you have a lot of data in your data warehouse, NoSQL database or cloud-native data store, recovering all of that data after it has become corrupted or inaccurate is difficult. Datos IO, which was...
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Pingpad Launches Mobile-Centric Tools For Group Collaboration
Ross Mayfield said that at his new startup Pingpad, “We’re trying to build the next great productivity app.” Mayfield previously worked as director of business development at LinkedIn and co-founded...
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Mike Arrington takes on reduced role at CrunchFund
Michael Arrington — who famously co-founded TechCrunch in 2005 and just as famously parted ways with the outlet in 2011, one year after selling it to AOL — is now taking on a reduced role at the...
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CrunchFund has a new partner: Susan Hobbs
CrunchFund has a new partner, and it didn’t need to look far for her, either. Last week, Susan Hobbs joined the five-year-old, seed-stage outfit from Y Combinator, where she spent the last 15 months...
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Apply now for Include Office Hours with General Catalyst and CrunchFund!
TechCrunch Include Office Hours are happening on August 31st! Adam Valkin, Spencer Lazar and Peter Boyce from General Catalyst in NYC, along with Pat Gallagher and Susan Hobbs from CrunchFund in SF,...
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Simbi raises $1.2 million to make bartering services easy online
A startup called Simbi has raised $1.2 million in seed funding to popularize its marketplace where people can barter skills and services online. Greylock Discovery fund, Crunchfund and Ranch Ventures...
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Backed with $2.8 million Anchor’s digital radio revolution gets new tools
Anchor FM, the audio social network, has just raised $2.8 million and launched some new tools as it looks to make recording and transmitting interactive audio content even easier. Accel Partners, one...
View ArticleVC Transparency Is The New Black
When Instagram was bought by Facebook earlier this spring for $1 billion, one question lingering on everyone’s minds was how much VC firm Andreessen Horowitz made on the deal. The firm had made an...
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Disrupt Battlefield Finalist Zumper Reveals It Raised $1M Seed Round From...
Zumper, the San Francisco-based startup that’s assisting apartment hunters in finding the most ideal abode, announced today that it closed a $1 million seed round. The announcement comes two weeks...
View ArticleRally Software Buys Flowdock, A Real-Time Social Collaboration Hub For...
Rally Software has acquired Flowdock, a real-time collaboration service designed for developers. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Flowdock received $650,000 in seed funding in October 2011 from...
View ArticleGoogle Ventures Announces Its Newest General Partner, MG Siegler
After 19 months of working with our founder, Michael Arrington, on setting up CrunchFund, MG Siegler has moved on to a similar role at a firm that continues to make waves in the venture world, Google...
View ArticleCrunchFund Is Raising $40M For Its Second Fund, According To Filing
CrunchFund, the early-stage investment firm that’s basically one giant conflict-of-interest statement for TechCrunch, is raising $40 million for a second fund, according to a regulatory filing. I’ve...
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Iotera Raises $1 Million For Its Super Simple GPS Tracking Device
Iotera, a U.S.-company that produces GPS devices with months of battery life, has closed a $1 million seed funding round led by ZenShin Capital Partners. Crunchfund*, Startup Capital Ventures, String...
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