Colleen Taylor
Colleen Taylor is based in San Francisco where she is a reporter for TechCrunch and the editorial director for TechCrunch TV.
Previously she worked as a reporter for GigaOM, the Financial Times' Mergermarket newswire, and the semiconductor industry newsletter Electronic News.
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Nextdoor Joins The Billion Dollar Valuation Club With New $110M Funding
Nextdoor just became the latest private tech company to join the swelling ranks of the billion-dollar valuation club. The San Francisco startup, which runs a social network for people to interact with others who live in their physical neighborhoods, announced today it has raised $110 million in new funding. Nextdoor has confirmed that the raise was conducted at a $1.11 billion post-money… Read More
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Kleiner Trial Is A Front Row Seat To A VC Firm In Flux
“Didn’t you tell Ms. Pao at the time that one of the reasons you chose Randy Komisar to be a board partner was that Randy ‘needed a win’?” asked Alan Exelrod, the lead counsel for the plaintiff in the case of Ellen Pao V. Kleiner Perkins. Read More
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42Floors Lays Off Half Of Staff As It Cuts Brokerage Team, Refocuses On Search
42Floors, the startup that’s built a platform for finding and leasing commercial office space, has laid off around half of its staff as part of a plan to refocus on its core search business, TechCrunch has learned. A total of 14 people across 42Floors’ San Francisco and New York offices were let go today, we’re told. That’s around half of 42Floors’ workforce. The… Read More
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Chamath Palihapitiya’s Social+Capital Raising $450M For New Fund, Filing Shows
Social+Capital Partnership, the investment firm founded by former Facebook executive Chamath Palihapitiya, is raising $450 million for its third fund, dubbed “Social Capital Partnership III, L.P.,” according to regulatory documents filed today. The new fund represents a significant boost in size from Social+Capital’s second fund, which targeted a $325 million raise beginning… Read More
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Uber Database Breach Exposed Information Of 50,000 Drivers, Company Confirms
Uber announced today that its database was breached by an unauthorized third party last year. The company confirmed the breach in a company blog post published this afternoon, authored by Uber’s managing counsel of data private Katherine Tassi. The breach, which occurred on May 13 2014, revealed the names and license plate numbers of approximately 50,000 drivers across various states. Read More
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As Kleiner Trial Plays On, VC’s Upper Echelon Is Laid Bare To The Real World
The world of venture capital has long been cloaked in understated reticence and secrecy. That’s especially been true for the traditional top tier Sand Hill Road firms, such as Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers. After all, a big benefit of being in the private market is, well, the privacy. Deals can be done with handshakes. Salaries and bonuses can be confidential. Business strategies… Read More
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As Ellen Pao Vs. Kleiner Trial Gets Underway, A Number Of Power Players To Take Stand
It was nearly three years ago that TechCrunch broke the story that Ellen Pao, then a partner at vaunted Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers, was suing the firm for alleged gender discrimination and professional retaliation she said she experienced after reporting a colleague for sexual harassment. Subsequently, Kleiner responded that Pao’s case has… Read More
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Thumbtack Adds Big Name Design And Engineering Execs To Oversee Big Growth
Nearly six months after scoring an attention-grabbing funding round of $100 million, service marketplace Thumbtack has attracted two new big name executives to help oversee its ambitious growth plans for the months ahead. Thumbtack is announcing today it’s brought on former Google executive Mark Schaaf to serve as its first VP of engineering, and former Apple design director Vander… Read More
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CrunchWeek: YikYak Vs. Spam, VCs Funding Coffee, Big Steps For Science Tech
Another week in tech has come and gone, bringing a fresh crop of stories for us to talk about on CrunchWeek, the show that brings a few TechCrunch writers together to talk about some of the most interesting news of the past seven days. This time, Sarah Buhr, Josh Constine and I gathered around the big white table to talk about Josh’s big story on YikYak’s controversial methods… Read More
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Despite What The FCC Says, Some Carriers Still Make It Hard To Unlock Your Phone
Over the past week, a number of headlines have trumpeted a big victory over the notoriously bad practices of big U.S. mobile carriers when it comes to unlocking phones. But one digital rights activist and researcher says that things aren’t quite as rosy as they might seem. The backstory is this: It’s been completely legal for people to unlock their phones for months now, but… Read More
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Silicon Valley Favorite Philz Coffee Gulps Up $15 Million To Expand Nationwide
A lot of coffee shops would love to claim that they’re not *just* a coffee shop. But that can actually be said about Philz Coffee. Philz has become an institution of sorts in its native San Francisco Bay Area, with many a tech industry product or deal being hatched over a cup of its strong brew. Product Hunt’s founder Ryan Hoover says that the Philz in San Francisco’s… Read More
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CrunchWeek: President Obama In Silicon Valley, Tesla’s Earnings Miss, Facebook After Death
There’s definitely a feeling of love in the air. You could say that’s because the weather is unseasonably warm in San Francisco just in time for the weekend, or because Valentine’s Day is right around the corner. But I’d argue that it’s because it’s time for another episode of CrunchWeek, the show that brings a few of us TechCrunchers together in the… Read More
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August Capital Raises $450 Million For Its Seventh Fund, August VII
August Capital said today it has closed on $450 million for its latest venture capital fund, called August VII. The new raise represents a downsizing of sorts for the 20-year-old Sand Hill Road firm. In 2012 August Capital raised $550 million for its sixth fund, August VI, and prior to that in 2009 raised $650 million for its fifth fund, August V. In a blog post today, August Capital parter… Read More
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Clothing Rental Startup Le Tote Lands $8.8M In Series A Funding
The “sharing economy” has been a buzzy concept for several years now — but if startup investor activity is any indication, the trend isn’t going anywhere any time soon. The latest example of this is that Le Tote, the “Netflix for clothing” startup that rents out apparel and accessories for women to wear and return (you can read a more in-depth description of… Read More
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AnyPerk, A Platform For Delivering Perks To Employees, Raises $8.5M In Series A Funding
In the tech industry at least, it seems like the pressure for companies to provide “perks” to their employees has never been higher. But oftentimes, startups don’t have the ability to provide the same level of perks as larger established corporations do. That’s where AnyPerk, a startup itself, wants to help. AnyPerk, which makes a platform aimed at letting companies of… Read More
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CrunchWeek: Apple’s Huge Quarter, Snapchat Discover, And Newsweek’s Cover Fail
Today’s episode of CrunchWeek is a very special milestone for us here at TechCrunch, marking the 100th time we’ve met up to casually talk about the week’s most interesting news. Read More
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Formation 8 And Palantir Founder Joe Lonsdale Named In Sexual Assault Lawsuit
Joe Lonsdale, the technology executive best known as the co-founder of Palantir and a partner of venture capital firm Formation 8, has been accused of sexual assault, sexual harassment, and other charges in a civil lawsuit filed this week in San Francisco. Formation 8 is also named as a defendant in the suit. Reached today for comment, Lonsdale categorically denied all of the claims and said he… Read More
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CrunchWeek: Box’s IPO Pop, Microsoft’s HoloLens Headset, Google’s $1 Billion Bet On SpaceX
We’re at the end of another big week for the tech industry, so Alex Wilhelm, Kyle Russell and I gathered ’round the big white table for CrunchWeek, the TechCrunch TV show in which we roundup the biggest and most interesting news stories of the past seven days. In this episode, we talk about Box’s spectacularly popular initial public offering, Microsoft’s venture… Read More
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Pachyderm Wants To Be The Data Processing Tool For The Docker Generation
If you’ve collected a large amount of data that you want to analyze, the go-to method for years has been to follow a programming paradigm called MapReduce, typically using Apache’s Hadoop framework. It’s a tried and true process, but it isn’t simple: Hadoop, which is mostly written in Java, has a reputation for being difficult. Companies that want to get serious about… Read More
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Box Said To Price IPO At $14 Per Share, Will Raise $175M At $1.67B Valuation
Box has priced its IPO at $14 per share, according to a Reuters report citing an underwriter of the offering. The company initially priced its shares in the range of $11 to $13, a more conservative band than it had initially signaled in its first S-1 document. The price values Box at approximately $1.67 billion. Box last raised private capital at a $2.4 billion valuation, making the IPO… Read More
