The Investors Who Passed on Airbnb’s Seed Funding Had Their Reasons
Over the weekend, Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky shared some of the rejection letters he received in 200...
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Harry’s Raises $75.6 Million In Series C, Valued At $750M Post Money
Harry’s, the direct-to-consumer mens’ razor company, has just announced the close of a $75.6 mi...
Karmic Labs Gets $5M to Give Every Employee a Company Card
Karmic Labs wants to deliver the future of expense management. To get there it just raised $5 mil...
Payments Startups See 260% More Financing From Banks, Hedge Funds,...
Hedge funds like Tiger Global and investment banks like Goldman Sachs are quickly warming to the...
The Anatomy of Healthcare Startups : 69 Companies In Patient Treatment
Venture capital-backed healthcare startups are addressing diseases and conditions affecting virtu...
(Video) GoFundMe’s Valuation Rises To Around $600M-$650M In Latest...
Our sources have given us some additional information since crowdfunding site GoFundMe confirmed...
Airing for Sleep Apnea Reaches Crowdfunding Goal in 2 Hours
Airing, the Burlington-based maker of a tiny device that aims to help sleep apnea patients, on Mo...
Quarterly Trend Report - Q.2 2015 Edition
TRENDBIRD Quarterly Report (SiliconValley VC Funding Report) - Q2. 2015 Edition Released !TRENDBI...
SoftBank’s Startup-Investing Spree By The Numbers
Japanese telecom giant SoftBank has completed 6 deals already in 2015, including a $1B round to S...
The Top 13 Virtual Reality And Augmented Reality Startups To Watch
Magic Leap seems to grab all the press attention for AR and VR startups, but it has already moved...
Hot Spots For Health Tech Startups
Whether activity trackers, smartwatches or sensors, wearables have made fitness and wellness an a...
High-End Coffee Retailer Blue Bottle Coffee Has Raised an Additiona...
Why people are crazy about Blue Bottle, the coffee chain that just raised another $70 million fro...
The Sharing Economy Has Created 17 Billion-Dollar Companies (and 10...
Sharing is big business. Big big business.There are now 17 billion-dollar companies with 60,000 e...
How Ever-Higher Valuations Lead Unicorns Into A Cycle Of Private Ca...
Unicorns and dragons have become so ubiquitous that some argue investing in these companies is th...
Consumer Tracking Company FullStory Raises $9M from KPCB & Google
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers led a $9 million funding round for consumer tracking company...
(M&A) The 10 Most Active Acquirers in Payments Tech
Google, Samsung, PayPal and Visa have pursued payments tech M&A in 2015. Here's who's been mo...
The World's First 3D Fabric Printer - Electroloom
Inspired by 3D printers, the idea came from a gang of entrepreneurs after working at California P...
HAX Accelerator’s Startups Get Healthy
HAX, formerly Haxlr8r, has been incubating hardware startups since 2011, taking 65 companies to m...
EcoQube C Fish Tank Uses a Plant to Clean its Water
The EcoQube C reportedly doesn't need to be cleaned by its owner.Owning an aquarium can be quite...
The Future of Wind Turbines ? No Blades, Vortex
The Vortex is a new kind of wind turbine being developed without any blades. IT’S NO LONGER SURP...
(Infographic) Here are South Korea’s 15 Top-funded Startups
Here’s the latest installment of our country-by-country top-funded startups series – South Kore...
The Light Phone : Apparently Even Anti-Smartphones Require a Smartp...
The Light Phone is designed to let users escape that constant barrage of smartphone notifications...
Uber Funding Talks Highlight the Speedy Pace of Investments
Uber raised a total of more than $2 billion from investors in June and December last year — and...
Blockchain - The Next Big Thing
ASKED TO NAME an event that has reshaped finance in recent years, bankers will point to the colla...
Footwear Companies Leverage 3D Tech for Customized Products and Ser...
The days of struggling to find a shoe that fits perfectly without squeezing toes or rubbing heels...
Chinese Drone Maker DJI Raises $75M in Funding at a $10 Billion Val...
Chinese Drone Maker DJI Raises $75 Million From Accel Partners. Accel investment values SZ DJI Te...
Quip’s Subscription-Based Toothbrush Replacement Service Raises Se...
A startup called Quip, showcasing its service here today at TechCrunch Disrupt NY’s Startup Alle...
(Infographic) Inside the Investor’s Mind
Whether you ever raise funding from investors or not, you as an entrepreneur really benefit from...
(Video) The World's Smartest Personal Safety Device - Revolar
Revolar is a discrete device that allows users to call for help with a button press.Feeling safe...
(Video) Sticky Raises $5M To Help Publishers And Advertisers Track...
Eye-tracking company Sticky is announcing that it has raised $5 million in Series A funding.Previ...
Zirx Parks $30M to Build a Fleet of Valets
San Francisco-based startup Zirx is looking to fulfill this desire for an increasing number of fr...
Simple Sample : Federal Grant Advances Pain-Free Blood Tests
A company with deep roots at UW-Madison wants to make blood sampling less painful and more conven...
