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Loveseat gets comfy with new funding to expand its returned home goods marketplace

Husband-and-wife co-founders Chris and Jenny Stanchak started Loveseat back in 2013 as a vintage furniture business that they pivoted into an auction marketplace.

Topsort, an auction-based advertising startup, now valued at $110M after seed round

When Regina Ye was in college, she was a Shopify seller and recalls being so fed up with advertising solutions that she spent finals week staying up late to figure out how ads worked on Facebook and A

Carta says it just used its own product to establish a new — and far higher — valuation for itself

Carta, the nine-year-old, San Francisco-based cap table management and valuation software company, just raised $500 million in its eighth round of funding, at a $7.4 billion valuation. That’s mo

Motorway’s auction platform for second-hand cars raises $67.7M Series B led by Index Ventures

Motorway is a U.K. startup that allows professional car dealers to bid in an auction for privately owned cars for sale. The startup has had rapid success by removing a lot of friction in the process.

Blockchain startup Propy plans first-ever auction of a real apartment as a collectible NFT

We previously wrote about Propy using blockchain technology to smooth real-world real estate sales by introducing the concept of smart contracts. Propy was the first blockchain startup to make that wo

CryptoPunks NFT bundle goes for $17 million in Christie’s auction

A lot of 9 CryptoPunks portraits ended up selling for just under $17 million in a Christie’s auction Tuesday evening, marking another substantial moment for NFT art sales. The lot of pixelated p

Beeple’s $69 million NFT sale marks a potentially transformative moment for the art world

Today, the auction of an NFT digital art collage from a relatively unrecognized digital artist ended with a purchase price above $69 million. The work, called “Everydays — The First 5000 Days,

Sotheby’s acquires Thread Genius to build its image recognition and recommendation tech

Every company today is a tech company, a maxim that was proven out today when one of the world’s oldest and biggest art auction houses acquired an AI startup. Sotheby’s has bought Thread G

Here are some more details of how Snap’s Spectacles work

Snap's spectacles are starting to hit the streets, and eBay. I've been able to glean some details about the way they work from early users. The images above and below come from the auction listing, wh

Naspers sells Polish eBay rival Allegro to Permira consortium for $3.3B

Earlier this year, it was reported that Naspers, the media and internet holding company, was planning to sell off Allegro, its online auction business based in Poland, and today the deal finally came

Jony Ive designs one-off iPad Pro and accessories for charity auction

Want some serious bragging rights in the tech community? Why? Inquire within yourself whether this craving for attention is healthy, and if you still want those rights, consider bidding on this one-of

Fast-Growing Online Auction Site Catawiki On How It’s Spending Its $82 Million

Catawiki may not yet be a household name outside of Europe, but the Accel-backed online auction house is one of the region’s fastest growing startups. In fact, according to founder and CTO Mar

Amazon To Let Shoppers Bargain For Lower Prices With New “Make An Offer” Option

Amazon, pushing hard to pick up more business during the holiday season, wants you to make a deal. Taking a page from the likes of eBay and Priceline, it is introducing a new dutch auction-style featu

FCC Passes 2015 Spectrum Auction Framework On Party-Line 3-2 Vote

Following its historic vote to proceed with new, and contentious net neutrality regulatory proposals, the Federal Communications Commission voted 3-2 to approve a framework for its coming spectrum auc

With Big-Name Backing And Some eBay Flavor, These Startups Are Looking To Shake Up The Art Market

Ebay is generally credited with being the first company to bring auctions -- a system that, for nearly 2,500 years, had exclusively taken place live in noisy, public (and offline) forums -- into the D

Meet Rhett, The Reason You Should Donate Money To Charity To Hang Out With A VC [TCTV]

How much is a dinner with SV Angel's co-founder and managing partner, David Lee, worth? When you put it into the context of where the money will be going, the answer should be "it's almost priceless."

If You Can’t Afford $605K For Coffee With Tim Cook, Jack Dorsey’s Charity Auction Is At $5K With Four Days Left

It's nice to see people in a power position in the valley give up their time for charitable causes. Apple's CEO, Tim Cook, recently offered up his time for probably <a target="_blank" href="https://ww

Another FCC Bandwidth Auction To Happen In July

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/fcc.gif" />For people who care, there's another FCC bandwidth auction coming this July. They're selling off more of the 700MHz range, whi

Got A Spare $100k? Buy Your Own Stargate For The Backyard

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Teh_gate.png" />Heads up Stargate fans, the prop auction starts on the 25th. They've got pretty much everything from uniforms to animatro

How much to tour Bill Gates' house? About $35k

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/gates-house-3.jpg">Microsoft (and particularly Bill Gates) is well known for it's philanthropic work, including a charity auction conduct
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