-
WTF is clickbait?
Let’s settle this, once and for all: Clickbaiting is the intentional act of over-promising or otherwise misrepresenting — in a headline, on social media, in an image, or some combination — what you’re going to find when you read a story on the web. Currently, clickbait is often characterized by wording like, “You won’t believe” or “What… Read More
-
Crunch Network
Apple done nothing wrong
Having read the European Commission’s original ruling, some prior rulings, the Treasury’s white paper about the European Commission’s actions and a lot of analysis in the tax community, in my opinion, the EC is over-reaching in their decision on Apple. Read More
-
Food delivery startup Deliveroo expands with Business tier for corporate accounts
Fresh from raising $275 million this August at around a $1 billion valuation, Deliveroo is now taking the next step in its bid to corner the market in Europe and other markets for high-end, high-concept restaurant food delivery; and turn the Deliveroo business profitable in the process. The startup is launching a new service catering specifically for the corporate market, Deliveroo for… Read More
-
Blue Bottle Coffee is raising another big round of funding
The coffee wars of San Francisco are back on! We’re now hearing from sources that Blue Bottle is raising a big round of financing a little more than a year after it raised a whopping $75 million. We don’t know the exact amount, but given the immense (and at times odd) interest in coffee from investors in Silicon Valley, it wouldn’t be surprising if it would be approaching… Read More
-
🎶 Can’t wear Snap sunglasses at night 🎶
Unless you plan on bumping into stuff, don’t expect to record after-dark concerts and parties on your Snap Inc Spectacles. The company formerly known as Snapchat (they really should have just changed it to the 👻 emoji, Prince-style) confirms to me its new camera glasses are not currently built to be worn at night. Their lenses are like normal sunglasses, so it’d be too shady to… Read More
-
Crunch Network
How to pull workers back from the brink of burnout
Work/life balance in startup culture is total BS. And you are probably part of the problem. Until you say “enough” — and fight back, stand up and resist — you’re perpetuating a culture of burnout in which no one wins. Read More
-
Marc Andreessen suddenly deletes all his tweets, goes on Twitter break
The Twittersphere was just a little bit quieter this morning after Marc Andreessen, father of the Tweetstorm, vacated the platform last night. While there’s no clear answer from him or others as to why he decided to take a break, Andreessen is not the first popular Silicon Valley figure to abruptly leave the service. Earlier this summer, Sam Altman, President of the Y Combinator… Read More
-
Crunch Network
Unpicking the Gordian knot around blockchain patents
As of June 22, 2016, there were 492 published patent families directed to the theme of blockchain and 192 relating to bitcoin. Patent applications filed over the last 18 months are not in these statistics, and it is expected that significant numbers of new applications connected to these themes have been filed in that period. The numbers we are seeing likely represent the tip of the iceberg. Read More
-
Crunch Network
Sol vs. Sol, for the fate of humanity
I happened to spend much of this week in Abu Dhabi, from whence came, conveniently, the most important news of this week, month, year, and arguably decade. Yes, bigger than the American election; yes, bigger than the long-awaited rise of machine learning; yes, bigger than Elon Musk’s one-two punch of space travel and electric cars — although it’s related to that. Read More
-
Crunch Network
Investing in AI offers more rewards than risks
It’s difficult to predict how artificial intelligence technology will change over the next 10 to 20 years, but there are plenty of gains to be made. By 2018, robots will supervise more than 3 million human workers; by 2020, smart machines will be a top investment priority for more than 30 percent of CIOs. Read More
Latest Videos Latest Videos
Have a tip?
Have a tip, pitch or guest column? Send us a tip.
Latest Crunch Report
CrunchBoard
Job Listings
-
VBScript or JavaScript Expert at C+R Research (Chicago, IL)
-
Social Advertising Analyst at UncommonGoods (Brooklyn, NY, United States)
-
Senior Software Engineer at Glassbreakers (Oakland, CA, United States)
-
Web/LAMP Developer - Integration, e-commerce at Sunrise Integration (Los Angeles, CA, United States)
-
Infrastructure Automation Engineer at Help Scout (anywhere)
-
-
Former Rothenberg employees allege mistreatment and cash management problems
As TechCrunch has previously reported, there’s been an exodus of talent from the Rothenberg “ecosystem,” amid claims of a significant breach of fiduciary responsibilities and other unconventional behavior by the venture firm’s founder, Mike Rothenberg. This week, we have learned more details about alleged employee abuses within Rothenberg Ventures, recently re-branded… Read More
-
Gillmor Gang: Just A Scratch
The Gillmor Gang — John Taschek, Keith Teare, Frank Radice, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Friday, September 23, 2016. With two days until the First Debate, the waiting’s almost over and the voting begins on all available channels. Cast your ballot now! + G3 with Mary Hodder, Elisa Camahort Page, Halley Suitt Tucker, and Tina Chase Gillmor @jtaschek, @kteare… Read More
-
Crunch Network
We’re looking at cyberbullying the wrong way
A bully is a bully and a troll is a troll, no matter where you go online. For as long as online mass communication has existed, online bullying has existed. To effectively address the issue of cyberbullying, one must not only question the environments that yield such behaviors, but examine how and why the behavior exists in the first place. Read More
-
The hopes and headaches of Snapchat’s glasses
Snapchat is the only company cool enough to possibly dismantle the Google Glass stigma. Awkward, useless, and a threat to privacy are how many think of computers you wear on your face. Can Snapchat show off the masterful marketing and smooth execution required to produce a product that won’t die on stores shelves or in a desk drawer? To quickly recount the basics, a video of… Read More
-
Taking a swing for the Grammys with the new Lip Sync Battle app
The art of the lip sync has had a profound impact on the state of our…ok no, but dammit is lip synching fun. For those of you locked in a Faraday cage, pretending to sing has become all the rage these days. You have Michelle Obama doing it for Carpool Karaoke, Tim Cook using it to open up events, and of course the ever entertaining LL Cool J and Chrissy Teigen using it as a platform… Read More
-
The ugly reality of an Oculus founder’s politics
It hasn’t been a great couple of days for Facebook PR. For one thing, the company admitted that, due to an error, it has been significantly inflating its reports on average video view times. For another, The Daily Beast discovered that Oculus founder Palmer Luckey is backing the pro-Donald Trump organization Nimble America, a group dedicated to promoting anti-Hillary Clinton… Read More
-
Doug Looks for Sweater Friends
What is Sweater Friends? It is a show hosted by Doug and the OG TechCrunch team many moons ago. It involved, you guessed it, sweaters, friends, and talk of the days best tech. Gadget reviewer Doug Aamoth uses an impressive $23 Inateck external hard drive dock to quickly but thoroughly search a mountain of hard drives for old Sweater Friends episodes.
Recent Funding Data by
-
PrecisionLender
- Not available Series B
- HQ: Charlotte, North Carolina
- Categories: Banking
- Investors: Not available
-
VentriPoint Diagnostics
- $600K Post IPO Equity
- HQ: Seattle, Washington
- Categories: Biotechnology
- Investors: Not available
-
PervasID
- 720K GBP Venture
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Not available
-
Orbiwise
- Not available Angel
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Not available
-
Pharmarack
- 50M INR Seed
- HQ: Pune, Maharashtra
- Categories: Information Technology
- Investors: Not available
-
SavvyMoney, Inc.
- Not available Series D
- HQ: Pleasanton, California
- Categories: Finance, Credit Cards, Financial Services
- Investors: Not available
-
Yodeck Digital Signage
- Not available Convertible Note
- HQ: San Francisco, California
- Categories: SaaS, Software, Digital Signage, Internet of Things, Outdoor Advertising ... See More
- Investors: Not available
-
Bioxis Pharmaceuticals
- 2.5M EUR Venture
- HQ: Lyon, Rhone-Alpes
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Not available
-
Flow.ai
- Not available Seed
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Not available
-
Certona
- $30M Private Equity
- HQ: San Diego, California
- Categories: Software, Real Time, Personalization, SaaS
- Investors: Not available
-
Cloudcherry
- $6.0M Series A
- HQ: Singapore, Central Region
- Categories: Mobile, Cloud Computing, Analytics, Apps
- Investors: Not available
-
Encompass Corporation
- 3.6M GBP Grant
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Not available
-
OneMedNet
- $350K Venture
- HQ: Tucker, Georgia
- Categories: Health Care
- Investors: Not available
-
Captio
- 1.0M EUR Venture
- HQ: L'hospitalet De Llobregat, Catalonia
- Categories: FinTech, Mobile
- Investors: Not available
-
Parentlane
- Not available Venture
- HQ: Bengaluru, Karnataka
- Categories: Social Network, Machine Learning, Internet
- Investors: Not available
-
Relationship Coffee Institute
- $10M Grant
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Not available
-
WealthHub Solutions
- $1.6M Venture
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Financial Services
- Investors: Not available
-
Aceable
- $4.0M Series A
- HQ: Austin, Texas
- Categories: E-Commerce, Mobile, Education
- Investors: Not available
-
Collaborative Solutions
- Not available Private Equity
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Information Technology
- Investors: Not available
-
KidPass
- $1.2M Seed
- HQ: New York, New York
- Categories: Internet, Events, Event Management
- Investors: Not available
-
Prey Studios
- Not available Funding Round
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Not available
-
District M
- $8.0M Venture
- HQ: Montréal, Quebec
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Not available
-
Aki
- $3.8M Seed
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Mobile Advertising, Advertising Platforms, Mobile
- Investors: Not available
-
FreightHub
- 3.0M EUR Venture
- HQ: Berlin, Berlin
- Categories: Logistics
- Investors: Not available
Message Us