Flight-hailing startup BlackBird raises $10 million to replace driving with flying
The origin story of BlackBird, a startup that links travelers to planes and commercial pilots through an app, didn’t begin with air travel. It was prompted by car sickness. BlackBird CEO and fou
Airbnb agrees to acquire last-minute hotel-booking app HotelTonight
Airbnb to purchase HotelTonight, a hotel-booking app last valued at $463 million.
Airbnb, Automattic and Pinterest top rank of most acquisitive unicorns
It takes a lot more than a good idea and the right timing to build a billion-dollar company. Talent, focus, operational effectiveness and a healthy dose of luck all play a part.
Startups Weekly: Flexport, Clutter and SoftBank’s blood money
Plus, Pinterest is going public too, Lyft's IPO is imminent and London is home to the largest pre-seed fund ever.
Pinstagram? Instagram code reveals Public Collections feature
Instagram is threatening to attack Pinterest just as it files to go public the same way the Facebook-owned app did to Snapchat. Code buried in Instagram for Android shows the company has prototyped an
Daily Crunch: Pinterest files to go public
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Pinterest and Lyft move closer to IPO, and LPs question the Vision Fund’s investment strategy
Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. What a week. It had looked a bit quiet with just a few big rounds t
Pinterest files confidentially to go public
The visual search engine has confidentially submitted paperwork to the Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering slated for later this year, the WSJ reports.
Ambitious Singapore startup Delegate wants to bring its event booking platform to the US
It’s not often that you hear about a startup from Singapore with ambitions to expand to the U.S, but that’s exactly the goal for event booking service Delegate. Founded in August 2015, th
How students are founding, funding and joining startups
Young founders who want to start companies while still in school have an increasing number of resources to tap into that exist just for them.
Spotify, eBay set standard for fertility benefits, study finds
FertilityIQ's survey also indicates some companies implicated by the #MeToo movement improved their fertility benefits in 2018.
Startups Weekly: Even Gwyneth Paltrow had a hard time raising VC
This week in startups: Celebrities mingle with VCs at the Upfront Summit, Pinterest preps banks for IPO and Sam Altman has a grand new idea.
Pinterest puts an IPO on its pinboard, hiring Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan to lead an offering this year
Pinterest, the nearly nine-year-old, San Francisco-based site known for the images and links that its users post about everything from wedding to beauty trends, has hired Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Ch
Startups Weekly: Will Trump ruin the unicorn IPOs of our dreams?
We explore the government shutdown's connection to tech IPOs, recount the demise of a well-funded AR project and introduce readers to an AI-enabled self-checkout shopping cart in this week's startups
With SEC workers offline, the government shutdown could screw IPO-ready companies
The weeks-long government shutdown may have lasting effects on the IPO market.
Uber’s IPO may not be as eye-popping as we expected
New analysis pegs the ride-hailing giant's initial market cap at around $90 billion, $14 billion higher than its latest private valuation and a whole $30 billion lower than early estimates from Wall S
My product launch wishlist for Instagram, Twitter, Uber and more
‘Twas the night before Xmas, and all through the house, not a feature was stirring from the designer’s mouse . . . Not Twitter! Not Uber, Not Apple or Pinterest! On Facebook! On Snapchat!
5 unicorns that will probably go public in 2019 (besides Uber and Lyft)
Five unicorn IPOs we can expect to witness in the year ahead that no one's talking about.
SoftBank’s triple, Pinterest is going public and the market meltdown
Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week we had 75 percent of the core crew on hand to chat: Conni
Did unicorns like Lyft and Uber wait too long?
It was several years ago, at a tech conference in Laguna Beach, Calif., that the venture capitalist Bill Gurley issued one of what would become repeated warnings that startups were staying private too