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Microsoft said in January this year that Teams, its online collaboration platform, was being used by over 100 million students — boosted in no small part by the COVID-19 pandemic and many school

Divorce is messy and stressful, made even messier and stressful when a couple is unable to go through the legal process because of the cost.

Remote Year wants to help people travel around the world and keep their job while doing so. The Chicago startup relies on the idea that “great work can be done anywhere.” And to prove it, it bring

On the heels of Bill.com’s debut, Chicago-based social media software company Sprout Social priced its IPO last night at $17 per share, in the middle of its proposed $16 to $18 per-share range.

Boom Supersonic has raised a new $33 million Series A round, which it says is enough to build and fly its first supersonic jet, the XB-1 demonstration and testing craft, which will be a 1/3-scale prot

Jim Kim, who most recently co-founded the venture firm Formation 8, is launching a brand-new venture firm called Builders that looks to be raising a $200 million fund, judging by a recent SEC filing.

Neumob, a service that helps mobile app developers get their in-app content to users faster, today announced that it has raised an $8.5 million Series A round led by Accel Partners. Additional investo

Chicago-based Lightbank, the VC firm started by Groupon investors Eric Lefkofsky and Brad Keywell, is launching a new co-working space at 600 W. Chicago Avenue today, called <a target="_blank" href="h

<a target="_blank" href="http://www.talentbin.com">TalentBin</a>, a startup that uses data to help recruiters discover hard-to-find technical talent, has raised $2 million in new funding led by Lightb

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 and has led investments in BabbaCo, U

As we <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/12/23/lightbank-looks-beyond-chicago-as-it-aims-to-disrupt-the-venture-capital-industry/">reported</a> a few weeks ago, VC firm <a target="_blank" href="http

There's a lot of talk about disruption in the venture capital world. We've<a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/02/12/why-vcs-are-getting-into-pr/"> discussed</a> at length the shift that many VCs ar

When Instagram was <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/04/22/andreessen-horowitz-made-78m-off-250000-investment-in-instagram/">bought</a> by Facebook earlier this spring for $1 billion, one question

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When we last heard from <a href="http://www.12society.com/">12Society</a> -- the stealth startup described as a "guy-focused lifestyle platform built on the intersection of culture, technology and com

I've always heard that stores and retailers are willing to barter with customers on pricing, including many chains, but I never have the courage to actually haggle with salespeople. To be honest, I lo

After <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2011/08/01/kids-educational-products-retailer-babbaco-raises-1-2m-from-lightbank-and-sv-angel/">backing Babbaco</a>, <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/financial-