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Now that 2023 is in our rearview mirror, the startup winter is behind us, but we’re not quite out of the woods yet.
A new supersonic jet, Notion launches a calendar app, and CES chases off sex tech
Welcome, folks, to TechCrunch Week in Review (WiR), a digest of the past few days in tech happenings. As I write this, snow’s gracing New York City — an increasingly…
As unicorns grow rarer, maybe it’s time to look toward revenue, not valuations
We should forget the whole unicorn debate and instead ask: How many startups can reach the $100 million revenue mark for a given period?
$10B is the new $1B, and we need a new framework for startup valuations
We need a new framework for us to use to sort private-market companies.
The Crunchbase Unicorn Leaderboard is back, now with a record herd of 452 unicorns
We are very pleased to announce that the new and improved Crunchbase Unicorn Leaderboard re-launched today after nearly a year’s absence from TechCrunch. Venture investors did a lot of handwringing in…
2019 looks to continue another lights-out year for fintech startups
We predicted fintechs would prove to be the more relevant disruptors in 2018. Looking ahead to 2019, we predict that fintechs will continue to steal the show.
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In venture capital, it’s still the age of the unicorn
This month marks the 5-year anniversary of Aileen Lee’s landmark article, “Welcome To The Unicorn Club”. At the time, the piece defined a new breed of startup — the $1 billion privately held company. When Lee did her first count, there were 39 “unicorns”; an improbable, but not impossible number.. Today, the once-scarce unicorn has…
Crunch Report | Symphony Messaging App Joins the Unicorn Club
It’s Day 2 from Disrupt New York, Symphony joins the Unicorn Club, you can now sort Instagram stories by location and scientists 3D-printed ovaries and made mouse babies. All this…