The TechCrunch List

The TechCrunch List is dead — long live commodity capital

It’s been almost exactly a year since we launched The TechCrunch List, a curated directory of venture capitalists designed to guide founders to the VCs most relevant to their startups. We had nearly

We’re updating The TechCrunch List soon. Founders, send in your recommendations of the most helpful lead VCs

Update July 2021: The TechCrunch List has been officially retired. Earlier this year, we launched The TechCrunch List, a carefully curated group of VCs who lead rounds recommended by thousands of foun

Does 👁👄👁 illustrate the power of meme culture in fundraising?

Fundraising was once a formal process. A decade ago, founders would make pilgrimages to the stodgy investor offices that line Sand Hill Road. Now, as the coronavirus ravages the world and venture capi

We’ve updated The TechCrunch List with 116 new VCs ready to write first and lead checks into startups

Update July 2021: The TechCrunch List has been officially retired. We asked, and you have delivered. We first launched The TechCrunch List two weeks ago to help founders find VCs who are ready to writ

With 600+ more founder recommendations, the second revision of The TechCrunch List is coming next week

Update July 2021: The TechCrunch List has been officially retired. Let’s just say it’s been busy times over here (Twitter being completely unusable has helped productivity though!). On Tuesday, we

Announcing The TechCrunch List, a founder-friendly directory of first check and lead VCs

Update July 2021: The TechCrunch List has been officially retired. Nothing is more important for founders than finding their first check or the investor who will lead their round, and yet, finding the

The VCs who founders love the most

Update July 2021: The TechCrunch List has been officially retired. Over the past month, we have been asking founders to submit recommendations of VCs for The TechCrunch List, our newly-launched curate

Raising VC is tough. Submit your investors today to our first-check database, The TechCrunch List

Update July 2021: The TechCrunch List has been officially retired. When we announced the formation of The TechCrunch List last week, we had no idea what response we would get to our proposal for found

Who’s writing first checks into startups?

The TechCrunch List will publish the most recommended “first check” writers across 22 different categories ranging from D2C & e-commerce brands to space, and everything in between.

How we’re rebuilding the VC industry

The venture capital industry is less transparent today than at any time in recent memory. For all the talk about expanding access and improving its sordid record on diversity, in reality, it has never