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Informatica Could Feel A Tight Squeeze From Its New Owners
Informatica was sold yesterday to private equity firm, Permira and The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, a rather strange mix of investors. The selling price was $5.3B and published reports...
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CommonBond Attracts Another $35 Million For Its College Lending Marketplace
New York-based lending marketplace, CommonBond, has managed to attract a more modest — but still significant — $35 million in fresh financing for its own expansion plans. Read More
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500 Startups Targets $200 Million For Fourth Fund, Plans Growth Fund Next
Just days after the third fund of 500 Startups was officially closed with $85 million, the five-year-old Mountain View-based firm has kicked things into high(er) gear, officially setting out to raise...
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Emergence Capital, Long A Top SaaS Investor, Shifts Focus To The Next Big Thing
Since its founding a decade ago, Emergence Capital Partners has become among the startup industry’s most highly regarded investors in enterprise software-as-a-service companies. Fact is, few firms are...
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An Interview With Brady Forrest On The New Hardware Startup Stars
Hardware startups are really cool and Brady Forrest has brought more of them to market than anyone we know. Now he and Dave McClure are the stars of Bazillion Dollar Club, a new show on SyFy that is...
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Pay To Play: How Investors Get Burned Fast In A Downturn
Earlier this year, the law firm Fenwick & West published a report analyzing the financing terms of 37 U.S.-based venture-backed companies that raised money at valuations of $1 billion or more in...
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Twenty-Year-Old Shahed Khan Has More Connections Than You Do
Shahed Khan is a kind of VC wunderkind at the moment. At age 20, while many of his peers are either attending college or living with their parents, he’s working as an entrepreneur-in-residence with a...
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Nokia’s Fall Means The Rise Of Startups In Finland
The Finnish economy, which has contracted for three years in a row, is still reeling, but the country’s rising startup scene is a careful indication that Finland – the land of a thousand lakes and...
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The Two Distinct Types Of Fintech Innovation
Fintech, the (faintly uncool) term for financial technology, is booming these days. But it’s wrong to think of fintech as a single sector. There are two very distinct types of fintech innovation that...
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Brooklyn Bridge Ventures Approaches $15 Million Target For Second Fund
Brooklyn Bridge Ventures, a three-year-old, seed-stage venture firm led by its founder and sole general partner, Charlie O’Donnell, is about to close its second fund with $15 million, up from an $8.3...
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How Early Exit Disease Stunts The Growth Of Midwest Startup Communities
There is an unnamed epidemic slowly traveling through the middle of the U.S. This epidemic goes by many names, but our venture fund refers to it as “early exit disease.” This disease spreads when...
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A New Way To Fund Unicorns Starts To Look Less Magical
If you haven’t heard of a fairly new twist on investing called special purpose vehicles (SPVs), you probably aren’t an institutional investor or a wealthy individual with direct ties to either a...
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The 20 Best Unicorn Companies For Paying Software Engineers Top Dollar
We pulled together all 153 unicorns currently listed on the Crunchbase Unicorn Leaderboard and then matched them up with data provided by Glassdoor to give you the top 20 highest paying startup...
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The End Of The Startup Gold Rush, Absurd Burn Rates And Tourist VCs
In 15 years as a venture capitalist, I’ve seen just about every market condition you can imagine. I started at Insight Venture Partners in 2000 at a time when the stock market was experiencing...
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Going Public Isn’t Selling Out, It’s The Best Way To Stay Alive
When Amazon went public in 1997, its stock opened 62.5 percent above the target price and the company ended its day $54 million richer than it had started it. In the three years or so leading up to...
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Google Launches Equity-Free Accelerator Program For Mobile Startups In...
Google is launching a new accelerator program today. The Launchpad Accelerator will provide mobile startups in India, Brazil and Indonesia with mentorship, training, support, and up to $50,000 in...
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How To Make Calculated Decisions When Forming Your GP Entity
You just turned 30 and are either a successful entrepreneur who made a fortune developing a very popular gaming app, or you’re one of the early employees at an emerging technology company that just...
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Utah’s Unicorns, How “Silicon Slopes” is Gaining Momentum
Four of these fabled creatures popped up along the Wasatch this last year, including Omniture founder Josh James’ business intelligence platform Domo. There’s also Pluralsight, Qualtrics and...
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In The Middle East, Increasing Startup Opportunities Bring Hope
The presence of the investors – in large numbers from both the region and beyond, including Silicon Valley – at a recent RiseUp event in Cairo indicated that entrepreneurship in the Middle East is...
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18 Female Founders Who Killed It In 2015
Last week, on an internal conversational thread here at TechCrunch, the staff began chatting about some of female founders who’ve made a major dent on the tech scene in 2015, and the thread quickly...
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