Jonathan Shieber
Jonathan is a Senior Editor at CrunchBase. Previously he worked as a senior reporter for Dow Jones & Co., covering venture capital and private equity investment from New York and Shanghai.
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ROCKI Adds Spotify To Its List Of Integrated Music Services
ROCKI, which makes a device that turns any speaker into a wireless speaker system, is partnering with Spotify so its users can stream the music service over their existing speaker systems. In its latest update, ROCKI devices will work with Spotify Connect. Premium subscribers to Spotify’s music service will find the device under Spotify’s Connect icon. This means users can… Read More
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The Dawn Of Our Robot Overlords Inches Closer As iRobot Starts VC Shop
Robot domination may have just taken another step forward. Just as venture capital investments in robotics are beginning to take off, the granddaddy of consumer robotics companies, iRobot, is launching a venture capital firm. Read More
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Investors Join Dating App The League With $2.1 Million Seed Round
Swiping right on the 4,500 users in San Francisco who are now using the mobile dating app The League in their quest for true love, venture investors have put $2.1 million in seed money behind the company. With the money, The League joins the ranks of venture- or angel-backed startups like Coffee Meets Bagel, Bumble, Hinge, and the Holy Grail of hook-up and dating apps, Tinder, in answering… Read More
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Health And Wellness Wearable GOQii Launches US Beta
GOQii, a health and wellness services company combining a wearable device with a mobile app and coaching services, is launching a limited US beta today. Only open to 500 initial customers here in the US, selected applicants will receive 12 months of personal training through unlimited chat and monthly video calls over the company’s mobile app, along with a free wearable… Read More
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Serial Entrepreneur Andrew Weinreich Launches Intensive Startup Bootcamp
New York-based serial entrepreneur and angel investor Andrew Weinreich’s next venture is to offer a free education for would-be founders. Weinreich is joining the ranks of business schools, serial entrepreneurs and even national foundations offering startup entrepreneurs a compressed education in how to succeed in (starting up) a business through Andrew’s Roadmaps. Rather than… Read More
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Update: BlueVine Raises $18.5 Million For Invoice Financing
Update: This post has been updated to reflect that BlueVine charges per week and that the company’s transaction volume is not $100 million, but that it process millions of transactions. Providing capital financing to small and medium sized businesses often at the mercy of lagging payments from larger vendors has netted BlueVine $18.5 million in funding. The company is part of a growing… Read More
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TicketZen Partners With PayByPhone To Make Parking Ticket Payments Easier
Terrible Labs, the maker of parking ticket payment app TicketZen, is partnering with PayByPhone‘s municipal parking payment service to bring its technology to the 9 million registered users on the PayByPhone platform. TicketZen launched with the goal of making paying for tickets less of a pain, and now that the company is aligning itself with PayPoint’s flagship PayByPhone… Read More
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The Black Tux Raises $10 Million For Its Deluxe Suit Rental Business
It’s true. Everybody’s crazy about a sharp-dressed man. A little less than a year after raising $2.6 million in a seed round, the entrepreneurs behind the men’s formalwear rental business, The Black Tux have raised an additional $10 million from a group of its previous investors led by First Round Capital. As a result First Round’s Josh Kopelman is taking a seat on… Read More
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Robotics Co. Jibo Says Domo Arigato To $25.3 Million In Cash
Jibo, the company operating at the intersection of artificial intelligence and the automated home via its eponymous family-friendly robot, said it has raised a whopping $25.3 million in its latest round of financing. Jibo’s been touted as the family-friendly face of robotics since its launch last year with a massive media blitz and a hugely successful Indiegogo campaign. The… Read More
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Battery Ventures Poaches Intel Capital’s Dharmesh Thakker
Battery Ventures continues its westward expansion with the addition of Dharmesh Thakker, a former Intel Capital managing director who focuses on enterprise software. Thakker, who will be a general partner at Battery Ventures, will be the third senior investment professional to work out of the firm’s Menlo Park, Calif. office. The move is another step to build out Battery’s… Read More
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Pond5 Issues 80,000 Free Media Assets With The Launch Of Its Public Domain Project
Bloggers, designers, illustrators, researchers, documentarians, historians, and media makers of all stripes now have a new online repository for nearly 100,000 free media assets with the launch of Pond5’s Public Domain Project. Read More
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Stride Health Launches A New Mobile App For Its Healthcare Recommendation Service
Stride Health has launched a new mobile-focused version of its healthcare recommendation engine targeting the beleaguered workers who comprise the nation’s 1099 laborers. Essentially Stride acts as a private competitor to the federally funded healthcare.gov. The company says its service provides a high-tech recommendation engine for healthcare coverage that’s tailored to suit… Read More
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BlockCypher Raises Seed Funding To Be The Web Services For Cryptocurrency
With an eye toward making blockchain technology easy to integrate into any application, BlockCypher has raised $3 million in its first round of financing. The financing comes amid a steep slide in Bitcoin pricing over the past year, which has stymied some of the enthusiasm in the market. Read More
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Video Technology Brings Millennial Marketers To Vidyard
With video and imagery increasingly becoming the lingua franca of the web, businesses are looking for ways to capitalize on the new media as they market to each other. Consider it the latest embodiment of the evolution of businesses to assume a more consumer-centric mindset when it comes to technology. Riding the crest of this wave of video consumption for, among, and by businesses is Vidyard… Read More
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Online Education Company Lynda.com Gets $186 Million For A Shopping Spree
Online personal and professional continuing education company lynda.com has raised $186 million at a roughly $1 billion valuation to go shopping for education technology companies. It’s the second mammoth round for Lynda, following a $100 million initial investment from Accel Partners, Spectrum Equity and Meritech. The new round was led by TPG, a private equity firm with some $65… Read More
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Bringing Programming Education Online, Thinkful Raises $4.25 Million
Thinkful, the online continuing education services company for programmers and developers, has raised $4.25 million in a new round of funding as it looks to expand its portfolio of education offerings. “We’ve found a away to get a lot of professional engineers excited about helping people learn,” says Darrell Silver, who, along with Thiel Fellowship recipient Dan Friedman… Read More
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UPDATE: There Is A Media Sponsored Fund And A Crowdfunding Campaign To Support Charlie Hebdo
There’s now a crowdfunding campaign to support the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo and the families of victims of yesterday’s killing spree at its headquarters. Read More
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Machine Learning Startup GraphLab Gets A New Name And An $18.5M Check
Looking to bring machine learning to the masses — or at least the masses of businesses that could benefit from embedding artificial intelligence in their applications — Seattle-based GraphLab has raised $18.5 million in new funding and picked up a new name, Dato. The brainchild of former Carnegie Mellon professor and machine learning guru Carlos Guestrin, GraphLab began as an… Read More
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New Funding For Privateer Highlights Marijuana’s Massive Market In The U.S.
The nondescript four-story former tenement at 149 Bowery, with its ground floor “Organic Spa and Shop” sandwiched between lighting fixture outlet stores, is an unlikely staging ground for the next push in the battle against the prohibition of marijuana. Read More
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Nous Sommes Charlie
Here at TechCrunch we primarily write about gadgets and gizmos and the folks who build and fund them. It’s a job we love… an amazing job… where we get to be among the first witnesses to the tools of tomorrow, while telling the stories of the magicians who make them. As a writer, I’m incredibly grateful for the privilege.. And every once in a while I’m… Read More
