Joanna Glasner
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VCs Squandered Billions On Scooter Startups. Markets Think They’re Worth A Pittance
Investors' bets on micromobility upstarts, most of which rely wholly or partly on electric scooters, hasn’t gone particularly well. → Read More
Startups Names Stay Strange As Bad Spelling Proliferates
Creatively misspelled words, long popular for startup names, continue to rank among the top choices for nascent companies. Other top naming trends include short brands, “ly” suffixes, puns and human first names, according Crunchbase’s latest deep-dive into startup brands. → Read More
nTopology Lands $40M For Manufacturing And Design Software
The investment comes amid a time of rapid change in the adoption of digital manufacturing technologies. → Read More
These Are Countries Where Startup Funding Is Really Taking Off
Which places are set to be the next growth centers of startup action? We perused our country-by-country funding data to pinpoint which nations are seeing the biggest jumps in funding activity. → Read More
Startups Raise Record Sums To Take On Packaging Waste
Startups have been busy developing alternatives to plastic packaging and other environmentally damaging materials, and investors have been writing them some big checks. → Read More
AI Companies Raise More Money Across Fewer Rounds
A Crunchbase News analysis of venture funding for companies tied to AI and machine learning finds that investment in U.S. startups continues to rise. → Read More
Everyone loves pizza, including VCs –
What are startup investors doing vis-à-vis the pizza industry? → Read More
Which public US universities graduate the most funded founders? –
When it comes to public universities, the old adage “you get what you pay for” clearly does not apply. Leading public research universities have a track record of turning out successful graduates. → Read More
Where Funded Founders Went To School
Universities don’t give out degrees in how to launch a startup. Yet over time, some schools have established impressive track records as starting grounds for funded founders. → Read More
Big revenues, huge valuations and major losses: charting the era of the unicorn IPO –
Joanna Glasner Contributor More posts by this contributor From lab-grown meat to fermented fungus, here’s what corporate food VCs are serving up A record $2.5B went to US insurance startup deals last year, and big insurers are in all the way We can make charts galore about the tech IPO market. Yet none of them […] → Read More
Some reassuring data for those worried unicorns are wrecking the Bay Area –
The San Francisco Bay Area is a global powerhouse at launching startups that go on to dominate their industries. For locals, this has long been a blessing and a curse. → Read More
From lab-grown meat to fermented fungus, here’s what corporate food VCs are serving up
We put together a list of venture funds operated by some of the larger food and beverage producers, covering literally everything from soup to nuts (plus lunch meat and soda, too!). → Read More
A record $2.5B went to US insurance startup deals last year, and big insurers are in all the way
Joanna Glasner Contributor More posts by this contributor Corporate biotech venture funding rises again 2019 US VC funds take a more boutique approach → Read More
Space tech rockets higher
Joanna Glasner Contributor More posts by this contributor Corporate biotech venture funding rises again 2019 US VC funds take a more boutique approach → Read More
Corporate biotech venture funding rises again
Biotech venture funding has been on a tear for the past couple of years, and corporate investors in the space are doing their part to boost the totals. → Read More
2019 US VC funds take a more boutique approach
Ever since the rollout of the $100 billion SoftBank Vision Fund, established VCs have been outdoing each other to raise ever-bigger funds. But let’s not write the epitaph on smaller funds. → Read More
VCs aren’t falling in love with dating startups
Coinciding with Valentine’s Day, Crunchbase News took a look at the state of that most awkward of pairings: startups and the pursuit of finding a mate. → Read More
Startup Names May Have Passed Peak Weirdness
For years, decades even, startup names have been getting weirder. This isn’t a scientific verdict, but it is how things have seemed to someone who spends a lot of hours perusing this stuff. → Read More
Where seed and early-stage funding is growing, contracting or holding steady
While Silicon Valley remains ground central for hobnobbing with investors, the common wisdom goes, early-stage funding stretches much further elsewhere. → Read More
Hire faster, work happier: Startups target employment with AI and engagement tools
There’s a good chance you reached out to your employer and interviewed with other humans to get your job. But if some startups have their way, your next employment experience could be quite different. → Read More