The past few years have been a rollercoaster for the startup world’s herd of unicorns. Two years ago, we saw a record number of companies cross the $1 billion valuation milestone. But that momentum slowed to a trickle last year, and this year’s market conditions look likely to reverse course...
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Western companies can learn much from the Eastern super apps and mobile-first marketing mavericks that engage millions of users every day.Read...
Top 5 cybersecurity stories of 2022: Ukraine war, top-paying IT certifications, ‘quiet quitting’
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A look at VentureBeat's top 5 cybersecurity stories of 2022 covering the Russia-Ukraine war, top paying IT certifications and quiet quitting.Read...
TechCrunch noted a week ago that an investor in Coupa was sounding the alarm that the software company might be sold to private equity for a price below what the money manager felt was fair. The plea went unanswered, with Coupa selling for a discount to what the investor had demanded as a minimum,...
Welcome to Q4, friends. If you were hoping to begin the final chunk of 2022 with good news, tough. We’re starting the quarter off with rough data instead. Sure, we’re waiting on data dumps from CB Insights, PitchBook, and Crunchbase about Q3 venture capital aggregates, but one particular...
This column is fascinated by Latin America, a region of the world rich in history, culture and, recently, a massive boom in technology company formation and financing. The period of rapidly accreting venture capital activity, however, is slowing. Fast. The declines in capital availability, as far...
Once upon a time, reaching a $1 billion valuation was a Big Deal. But the shine that a so-called unicorn valuation conferred on a startup eroded as more and more private companies reached the threshold — often with less and less to back it up. TechCrunch, where the term “unicorn” was born,...
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It’s not a bad year for startup fundraising. While venture totals are off sharply from records set last year, evidence is accumulating that 2022 is more of a return to an elevated baseline than a historic collapse. According to a review of a Crunchbase dataset tracking funding for unicorn...
Startups have seen better years. Last year, for example. We’ve worked to highlight bits of good news where possible (signs of resilient software revenue growth, indications that valuations can partially recover, and that a good number of startups have oodles of cash on hand), but today we are...
Welcome to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s inspired by the daily TechCrunch+ column where it gets its name. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here. When does a startup stop being a startup? It’s a tougher question than it seems — tech...
Monte Carlo will use aninfusion of new capital to continue improving experiences for its hundreds of customers, scale the data observability category to new verticals, and grow its U.S. and EMEA go-to-market and engineering teams. Read...
New data collected by Crunchbase News indicates that the value of global unicorns has crested the $4 trillion mark. The valuation milestone is notable not merely for its scale, but its relative size. Compared to what? The value of the major tech companies of the West, namely the U.S. Big Five....
Beyond Identity, which now has a $1.1 billion valuation, offers passwordless MFA using a zero trust approach for identity authentication.Read...
Neuralink’s communication with the SEC could possibly jeopardize future funding for the startup. Read...
Startups to watch: 13 venture capitalists offer their picks for the next Pacific Northwest unicorns
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CEOs of Pacific Northwest startups, clockwise from top left: Flexe CEO Karl Siebrecht; Syndio CEO Maria Colacurcio; Flyhomes CEO Tushar Garg; OctoML CEO Luis Ceze; Dooly CEO Kris Hartvigsen; Fabric CEO Faisal Masud; Glowforge CEO Dan Shapiro; Logixboard CEO Julian Alvarez; DexCare CEO Derek...
Startups to watch: 13 venture capitalists offer their picks for the next Pacific Northwest unicorns
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CEOs of Pacific Northwest startups, clockwise from top left: Flexe CEO Karl Siebrecht; Syndio CEO Maria Colacurcio; Flyhomes CEO Tushar Garg; OctoML CEO Luis Ceze; Dooly CEO Kris Hartvigsen; Fabric CEO Faisal Masud; Glowforge CEO Dan Shapiro; Logixboard CEO Julian Alvarez; DexCare CEO Derek...
Meet the unicorns: A look at the 15 Seattle-area startups that boast valuations over $1 billion
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(GeekWire Photo Illustration / Photo by Kevin Lisota) Another day, another unicorn spotting. These once elusive creatures of the corporate world — privately-held companies valued at a $1 billion or more — certainly are plentiful these days. Just this week, GeekWire reported on another...
Meet the unicorns: A look at the 15 Seattle-area startups that boast valuations over $1 billion
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(GeekWire Photo Illustration / Photo by Kevin Lisota) Another day, another unicorn spotting. These once elusive creatures of the corporate world — privately-held companies valued at a $1 billion or more — certainly are plentiful these days. Just this week, GeekWire reported on another...
The Korean startup ecosystem is one of the fastest-growing in the world. The country saw a slowdown in the last two years owing to the pandemic, but in 2022 it expects to get back on track of growth. As the world limps back to normalcy post-COVID-19 restrictions, the Korean economy is also...
Newly minted unicorn Tackle plans to use $100 million Series C to accelerate the future of software sales
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Tackle.io, an Idaho-based startup that helps software companies sell through cloud marketplaces such as AWS’s, announced today it has raised a $100 million Series C funding round. Co-led by Coatue and Andreessen Horowitz, the round also counted with participation from Bessemer Venture...
TikTok owner ByteDance is the world’s largest unicorn with a market valuation of $353 billion (RMB 2.25 trillion), according to a Monday unicorn ranking list from the Hurun Research Institute. Alibaba affiliates Ant Financial and Cainiao take the second and ninth spots, respectively, with...
TikTok owner ByteDance is the world’s largest unicorn with a market valuation of $353 billion (RMB 2.25 trillion), according to a Monday unicorn ranking list from the Hurun Research Institute. Alibaba affiliates Ant Financial and Cainiao take the second and ninth spots, respectively, with...
What is a startup? It’s a question so picked over at this point that it feels like the only answer is it depends. That’s fair. In the past, we might have said that once a private-market company earns a $1 billion valuation, it is no longer a startup. But with venture capitalists and crossover...
The market for crypto-focused investing is growing rapidly. News that Paradigm put together a $2.5 billion fund the other day is a reminder of the scale of funds now available to startups looking to build on the blockchain. Andreessen Horowitz has a mega-fund in the market as well, while Coinbase...
We're getting a good picture of what game companies are worth due to transactions happening in the game industry. Are these valuations fair?Read...
It’s a big morning for fintech startups today: Flywire, a Boston-based magnet for venture capital, has filed to go public. Flywire is a global payments company that attracted more than $300 million as a startup, according to Crunchbase, most recently raising a $60 million Series F last month. We...
There’s no question that we’re messing up the oceans big time. But shocking new research shows the world’s addiction to fossil fuels is changing the bodies of big ocean predators like narwhals. A study published this month in Current Biology uses narwhal tusks to examine how the animals store...
Indian startups are fast-moving in the race to achieve the ‘unicorn’ status. As per a recent report by Credit Suisse, globally, India is home to the third-largest set of unicorns. It is currently behind the US and China, with a total valuation of $90 billion. The report says that currently,...