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Venture
Raising VC is tough. Submit your investors today to our first-check database, The TechCrunch List
9:25 am PDT • June 24, 2020
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…
Venture
A reading guide to Reliance Jio, the most important tech company in the world
1:00 am PDT • June 20, 2020
Over the past few months, COVID-19 has brought much of the fundraising community to a standstill. However, amidst it all India’s hypergrowth telco Reliance Jio Platforms has put its fundraising…
Featured Article
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.
11:33 am PDT • June 18, 2020
Featured Article
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 been harder for founders to figure out who can even write a check to their startups…
11:32 am PDT • June 18, 2020
Hardware
Arm’s financials and the blurring future of the semiconductor sector
1:51 pm PDT • May 18, 2020
Amidst the blitz of SoftBank earnings news today comes the financials for all of SoftBank’s subsidiaries, which includes Arm Holdings, the most important chip design and research company in the…
Venture
The first Vision Fund is officially done investing (and spent $100M every day of its existence)
8:26 am PDT • May 18, 2020
There is a flurry of news out of SoftBank this morning, which announced its Fiscal Year 2019 (ending March 31, 2020) financial results overnight. It’s been a bad year for…
In the space of several weeks, COVID-19 has transformed countless industries and will continue to do so in ways we can only imagine. The pandemic has also spurred many to…
Featured Article
7 VCs look into the future of fintech
TechCrunch recently asked a number of venture capitalists who invest in fintech to share their thoughts about the state of the industry; they pulled us into the present moment, drawing from their portfolio companies, deal flow and inboxes. Today, we asked them to look into the future. Although it looks…
6:30 am PDT • April 23, 2020
Startups
8 top fintech VCs discuss COVID-19 trends, signals and opportunities
6:30 am PDT • April 21, 2020
In recent years, fintech’s revolution has felt like a rising tide. Behemoths like Stripe and Square edged out banks while newbies like Brex nonchalantly raised nine-figure rounds. Today, however, the…
Media & Entertainment
Investors explain COVID-19’s impact on consumer startups
7:00 am PDT • April 16, 2020
Home fitness and games as gathering places are a few of the startup verticals propelled by unprecedented shifts in behavior due to shelter-in-place orders. We surveyed the top investors in…
There’s no doubt that the coronavirus has had a monumental impact on the way we view technology’s relationship with education. For now, students are learning from home. But what happens…
Ready or not, edtech has been shoved into the spotlight as millions of students shifted to remote learning due to pandemic-related school shutdowns. But backing these companies are investors who…
Voice-based social networks and gaming as a new form of identity were among the top emerging trends in consumer social startups, according to an Extra Crunch survey of top social…
Featured Article
How 6 top VCs are adapting to the new uncertainty
As the global economy grinds to a halt, every business sector has been impacted, including the linked worlds of startups and venture capital. But how much has really changed? If you read VC Twitter, you might think that nothing has changed at all. It’s not hard to find investors who…
6:16 am PDT • April 2, 2020
Venture
Leading VCs discuss how COVID-19 has impacted the world of digital health
6:07 am PDT • March 31, 2020
In December 2019, Extra Crunch spoke to a group of investors leading the charge in health tech to discuss where they saw the most opportunity in the space leading into…
Venture
Leading VCs discuss how COVID-19 is impacting real estate & proptech
11:11 am PDT • March 26, 2020
Several months ago, we surveyed more than 20 leading real estate VCs to learn about what was exciting them most in the real estate tech sector and hear their opinions…
Featured Article
Where top VCs are investing in D2C
If you’re looking for toothbrushes, skin-care face masks, mattresses, glasses or even socks, there’s a digitally-native, direct-to-consumer (D2C) company or two that can help you out. And thanks to smart digital marketing, the cult followings that ensue and the economics of e-commerce, D2C has changed how we relate to consumer…
6:30 am PDT • March 24, 2020
The novel coronavirus pandemic has rapidly moved companies into a remote-first world. Nearly all of the world’s largest events have been canceled, put on pause or pivoted to online-only. In…
AI
Where top VCs are investing in manufacturing and warehouse robotics
6:00 am PST • February 21, 2020
Robotics and automation tools are now foundational parts of warehouses and manufacturing facilities around the world. Unlike many other robotics and AI use cases, the technology has moved well beyond…
Venture capital has been flooding the various subverticals under the robotics umbrella in recent years, and the construction space is one of the largest beneficiaries. Last November, we surveyed 13…
Startups
Where top VCs are investing in open source and dev tools (Part 2 of 2)
2:34 pm PST • February 5, 2020
In part two of a survey that asks top VCs about exciting opportunities in open source and dev tools, we dig into responses from 10 leading open-source-focused investors at firms…
Venture
Where top VCs are investing in open source and dev tools (Part 1 of 2)
1:43 pm PST • February 5, 2020
The once-polarizing world of open-source software has recently become one of the hotter destinations for VCs. As the popularity of open source increases among organizations and developers, startups in the…
Startups
Where top VCs are investing in travel, tourism and hospitality tech
4:48 am PST • January 30, 2020
The venture community has been fixated on travel and hospitality since the dot-com era and early-2000s, when mainstays like Kayak and Airbnb were still Silicon Valley darlings. As the multi-trillion-dollar…
Lately, the venture community’s relationship with advertising tech has been a rocky one. Advertising is no longer the venture oasis it was in the past, with the flow of VC…
Venture
Gift Guide: Leading VCs recommend their favorite reads from 2019
10:45 am PST • December 18, 2019
As we reach the end of 2019 and approach crunch time for everyone who has procrastinated holiday gift buying, we wanted to highlight a few more great reads that might…
The world of healthcare has notoriously been described as “broken” — plagued with high-friction workflows, sky-high costs and convoluted business models. Over the past several years, a long list of…
The Valley’s affinity for robotics shows no signs of cooling. Technical enhancements through innovations like AI/ML, compute power and big data utilization continue to drive new performance milestones, efficiencies and…
Startups
Where top VCs are investing in real estate and proptech (Part 2 of 2)
9:26 am PST • November 14, 2019
In part two of our survey that asked top VCs about the most exciting investment areas in real estate, we dig into responses from 10 leading real estate-focused investors at…
Startups
Where top VCs are investing in real estate and proptech (Part 1 of 2)
9:26 am PST • November 14, 2019
The multi-trillion dollar global real estate market is getting flipped on its head. Business model innovation, data accessibility and the proliferation of mobile, SaaS and other cloud-native software have already…
Over the past several years, ‘fintech’ has quietly become the unsung darling of venture. A rapidly swelling pool of new startups is taking aim at the large incumbent institutions, complex…
