Ask A VC: Lightbank’s Paul Lee On The Art Of Finding Your Co-Founder
2:30 pm PDT • July 5, 2013
In this week’s episode of Ask A VC, Lightbank partner Paul Lee stopped in the studio. Lee, who is based in Chicago, joined Lightbank as a Partner in February 2011…
CommonFloor Raises $7.5M From Tiger Global, Accel To Be India’s Zillow
8:44 am PDT • July 4, 2013
CommonFloor, a real estate search engine and listings site in India, has raised $7.5 million in funding from existing investors, Tiger Global Management and Accel India. CommonFloor is similar to…
Greylock Adds Former Quora, Facebook And Twitter Alum Andy Johns As ‘Growth Strategist In Residence’
2:30 pm PDT • July 1, 2013
How to get customers for your product is a huge area of interest these days as we see the rise of the “growth hacker.” Venture capital firm Greylock Partners is…
Shervin Pishevar And Scott Stanford’s New Startup Studio Sherpa Is Raising $150 Million For New Fund
1:37 pm PDT • July 1, 2013
As reported earlier this year, Menlo Ventures partner Shervin Pishevar and Goldman Sachs managing director Scott Stanford left their day jobs to build a new, company building venture and VC…
Send In Your Questions For Ask A VC With Resolute.VC’s Mike Hirshland
12:34 pm PDT • July 1, 2013
This week on TechCrunch TV’s Ask A VC show Resolute.VC founder and investor Mike Hirshland is in the studio. As you may remember, you can submit questions for our guests…
DFJ Restructures Firm Partner Network
12:00 pm PDT • June 29, 2013
Back in 1990, then relatively young venture firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson started thinking about how to expand the firm’s presence outside of Silicon Valley and share ideas and diligence with…
Drew Houston And Bryan Schreier On Dropbox’s Future As An Enterprise And Consumer Company
3:30 pm PDT • June 28, 2013
Dropbox founder and CEO Drew Houston and Sequoia Capital partner Bryan Schreier joined us in the TechCrunch TV studio for a special three-part series on how Houston and Schreier work…
Ask A VC: General Atlantic’s Brett Rochkind On Spotting Startups That Have IPO Potential
2:30 pm PDT • June 28, 2013
In this week’s Ask A VC episode, General Atlantic Managing Director Brett Rochkind joined us in the studio to talk about international investing and more.
YouWeb Founder Peter Relan Sunsets His Gaming Incubator, Will Open A New Company Building Studio Soon
12:45 pm PDT • June 28, 2013
Peter Relan is best known for his gaming and mobile incubator YouWeb, which spawned Crowdstar, Agawi, Spaceport, OpenFeint and others. Today, the serial entrepreneur is announcing that YouWeb will no…
First Round Capital Debuts Original Content And Knowledge Hub For Startups, Review
8:00 am PDT • June 28, 2013
First Round Capital has been one of the few firms who started providing compelling services for startups before the agency model became popular. For example, the firm created a Yelp-like…
After 17 Years In Business, Expense Management SaaS Replicon Raises $20M In Series A Funding From Social + Capital And Emergence
4:30 am PDT • June 28, 2013
Replicon, the developer of a cloud time tracking and expense management application, has raised $20 million Series A funding led by The Social + Capital Partnership and Emergence Capital Partners.…
With New Initiative ‘Galactic,’ PayPal Wants To Own Payments And Commerce In Space
9:00 pm PDT • June 26, 2013
In a slightly bizarre announcement today, PayPal is debuting PayPal Galactic, an initiative to own universal payments and commerce in space. Yes, outer space.
Drew Houston And Bryan Schreier On Dropbox’s Early Days and Stealth Code Name
3:00 pm PDT • June 26, 2013
As we mentioned earlier this week, Dropbox founder and CEO Drew Houston and Sequoia Capital partner Bryan Schreier joined us in the TechCrunch TV studio for a special three-part series…
Planet Labs Raises $13M From DFJ, OATV, Founders Fund To Build The World’s Largest Fleet Of Earth-Imaging Satellites
11:59 pm PDT • June 25, 2013
Planet Labs, a space and analytics company formerly known as Cosmogia, is announcing $13 million in funding from DFJ, Capricorn, OATV, Founders Fund Angel, Innovation Endeavors, Data Collective and First…
Send In Your Questions For Ask A VC With NEA’s Jon Sakoda
11:00 am PDT • June 25, 2013
On this week’s Ask A VC, we have NEA’s Jon Sakoda. As you may remember, you can submit questions for our guests either in the comments or here and we’ll…
Greylock Deepens Enterprise Bench, Adds VMware Cloud And App VP Jerry Chen As General Partner
4:30 am PDT • June 25, 2013
Greylock continues to staff up on enterprise-focused investment partners. Today, the venture firm is announcing that former VMware VP Jerry Chen is joining Greylock’s enterprise investment team as a general…
Rent The Runway Acquires Fashion-Focused Photo Sharing And Styling App Go Try It On
2:40 am PDT • June 25, 2013
Rent The Runway, the Netflix for designer clothes, accessories and jewelry; has acquired Go Try It On, a startup that allows users to share photos of themselves and get opinions…
Dropbox’s Drew Houston And Sequoia’s Bryan Schreier On How To Recruit (And Retain) Top Talent
3:00 pm PDT • June 24, 2013
Dropbox founder and CEO Drew Houston and Sequoia Capital partner Bryan Schreier joined us in the TechCrunch TV studio for a special three-part series on how Houston and Schreier work…
Customized Tablet For Restaurants E La Carte Raises $13.5M From Intel Capital And Others
8:00 am PDT • June 24, 2013
E la Carte, a company that develops a tableside tablet for the restaurant and related hospitality industries, has raised $13.5 million in Series B funding led by Intel Capital with…
CrunchWeek: Instagram Video; 3D Printing Startup MakerBot’s Big Exit, And More Cash For Fab
3:00 pm PDT • June 22, 2013
It’s that time of the week for a new episode of CrunchWeek, the weekly show where three of us writers plop ourselves down in the TechCrunch TV studio for some…
Stripe’s Payments Payout Technology For Collaborative Consumption Startups Now Processing Up To $500K Per Day
2:00 pm PDT • June 22, 2013
A few weeks ago, payments startup Stripe made it significantly easier for collaborative consumption startups to take and process payments. The company’s new technology allowed for payments to be distributed…
Ask A VC: Mayfield Fund’s Navin Chaddha On The Consumerization Of Digital Health Care
2:40 pm PDT • June 21, 2013
In this week’s episode of Ask A VC, Mayfield Fund Managing Director Navin Chaddha sat down in the hot seat to answer reader questions.
Wired Editor Michael Copeland Joins Andreessen Horowitz To Lead New ‘Content Strategy’
12:20 pm PDT • June 19, 2013
Wired Senior Editor Michael Copeland is joining venture firm Andreessen Horowitz. We’ve confirmed with the VC firm that Copeland will be leading Andreessen’s new ‘content strategy.’
Pindrop Raises $11M From Andreessen Horowitz, Citi Ventures And Others To Detect And Block Phone Fraud
6:00 am PDT • June 19, 2013
Pindrop Security, a startup that aims to prevent and protect against phone-based fraud, has raised $11 million in funding led by Andreessen Horowitz, with Citi Ventures, Webb Investment Network, Redpoint…
Fab Grabs $150M At $1B Valuation (And Is Raising Another $100M+ More)
9:00 pm PDT • June 18, 2013
Design-focused commerce company Fab has raised that round of funding we scooped a few months ago. Fab is announcing today that it has raised $150 million in the first tranche…
Please Join Us For The 8th Annual August Capital Party: July 26 In Silicon Valley
12:44 pm PDT • June 18, 2013
It’s that time of the year again for us nerds to infiltrate Sand Hill Road, let loose, and enjoy some good food and libations. We’ve been hosting the TechCrunch summer…
Maveron-Backed DarbySmart Launches DIY Crafting Marketplace For Fashion Accessories And More
7:00 am PDT • June 18, 2013
While Pinterest has become a go-to destination for crafting ideas for accessories, parties, home design and more; the pinning giant (and Pinners) doesn’t provide the instructions on how to actually…
Online Coupon Giant RetailMeNot (Formerly WhaleShark Media) Files For $230M IPO
3:20 pm PDT • June 17, 2013
Online coupon giant RetailMeNot has just filed for $230 million IPO, according to an S-1 released today.
As Hardware Startups Take Off, Materials And Technology Marketplace Inventables Raises $3M
10:01 pm PDT • June 16, 2013
Chicago-based Inventables, a marketplace for technology and materials for developers and designers, has raised $3 million in new funding led by Tim Draper (via Draper Associates) with Dundee Venture Capital,…
CrunchWeek: Path’s $1B Valuation, Google’s Waze Buy And The WWDC Recap
1:08 pm PDT • June 15, 2013
It’s that time of the week for a new episode of CrunchWeek, the weekly show where three of us writers plop ourselves down in the TechCrunch TV studio for some…
