Caryn Marooney

Last week at TechCrunch’s annual Disrupt event, this editor sat down with VCs from two firms that have come to look similar in ways over the last five or so…

Top VCs have expanded into broader asset managers; is the model sustainable?

The company is investing in how to find data-quality issues faster and get to the root cause so that data outages can be prevented in the future.

Bigeye, providing data quality automation, closes second round this year with $45M

“The not-so-secret secret here is that the key to great retention is really simple,” says growth expert Susan Su.

Extra Crunch roundup: Finding GTM, China’s edtech clampdown and how to define growth

“You may think that the message is boring because you’ve said it once. But repetition never spoils the prayer.”

Silicon Valley comms expert Caryn Marooney shares how to nail the narrative

How psyched are you about our TC Early Stage: Marketing & Fundraising event? Still need some convincing? Here’s another great session we’ve got planned for the show, which will span…

Doug Landis, Emergence Capital growth partner, will talk startup storytelling at TC Early Stage in July

We’re thrilled to announce Caryn Marooney is speaking at our upcoming TechCrunch Early Stage virtual event in July. She spoke with us last year and we had to have her…

Comms expert and VC Caryn Marooney will detail how to get attention at TC Early Stage

About a decade ago, I remember having a conversation with a friend about big data. At the time, we both agreed that it was the purview of large companies like…

9 investors discuss hurdles, opportunities and the impact of cloud vendors in enterprise data lakes

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Extra Crunch’s top 10 stories of 2020

I’ve tried to gather a sample of stories that taught me something new (which means this top 10 list betrays my ignorance).

12:00 pm PST • December 31, 2020
Extra Crunch’s top 10 stories of 2020

Supabase, a YC-incubated startup that offers developers an open-source alternative to Google’s Firebase and similar platforms, today announced that it has raised a $6 million funding round led by Coatue,…

Supabase raises $6M for its open-source Firebase alternative
Startups

It’s holiday season for tech unicorns

11:00 am PST • December 5, 2020

Did you follow all of the unicorn news from the last couple of weeks? No? Here’s a list of headlines to catch you up….

It’s holiday season for tech unicorns

It’s never easy, deciding which of the 20 companies that make it into the Disrupt Battlefield Competition will be anointed its winner. There’s just so much at stake each year,…

Meet the final round judges who will decide the winner of this year’s Disrupt Battlefield Competition

Editor’s note: Get this free weekly recap of TechCrunch news that any startup can use by email every Saturday morning (7am PT). Subscribe here. The public markets are staying receptive to tech…

Startups Weekly: Will future unicorns go public sooner?

The battle between Epic Games and Apple continues, Facebook faces criticism in India and Pinterest appoints its first Black board member. This is your Daily Crunch for August 17, 2020.…

Daily Crunch: Epic Games escalates legal battle with Apple

At TechCrunch Early Stage, I spoke with Coatue Management GP Caryn Marooney about startup branding and how founders can get people to pay attention to what they’re building. Marooney recently…

Facebook’s former PR chief explains why no one is paying attention to your startup

Your product may solve problems. It may cost less and do more. It may very well change the world. But unless you can get the word out, ensuring the right…

Marketing, PR and brand building, oh my! TechCrunch Early Stage goes down July 21 and 22
Startups

The 7 deadly sins of startups

8:45 am PDT • March 12, 2020

Hopefully, this list will help you and your company stay out of startup purgatory.

The 7 deadly sins of startups

Early Stage SF is sneaking up on us and there is plenty to be excited about. The one-day event, which brings together a wide variety of startup experts to host…

Jeff Clavier, Sarah Guo, Ali Partovi and Caryn Marooney to speak at Early Stage SF