#SeoTips Airbnb just redesigned its website to change the way users search for listings on the platform. Category search allows users to explore travel without having a specific destination in mind. Rather, they can look for A-frames or countryside...
Wednesday, May 11, 2022
Wednesday, October 20, 2021
Stampli, the invoice management platform, launches a digital card
#Tech Stampli, a SaaS company that streamlines corporate invoice management, has announced the launch of Stampli Card. The idea here is that some corporations sign on with vendors who only accept, or prefer to accept, credit card payments. This can...
Tuesday, September 28, 2021
Carrot, a plug-in that automatically categorizes what you’ve added to cart, raises $5.5 million #Ecommerce
#SeoTips While the growth of ecommerce has left us browsing and shopping more than ever, that doesn’t mean we’re actually buying all that much. In fact, the Baymard Institute, as cited by Shopify, says that about 70 percent of shopping carts are ab...
Tuesday, September 14, 2021
Canva raises $200 million at a $40 billion valuation
#Tech Canva is now valued at $40 billion following a fresh capital injection of $200 million (USD) in a round led by T. Rowe Price. New and existing investors participated in the round, including Franklin Templeton, Sequoia Capital Global Equities,...
The Disrupt Desk will help you catch everything you missed at Disrupt 2021
#Tech This year at TechCrunch Disrupt (happening just next week), there is more to explore than ever before. From the scores of Startup Alley companies to the Startup Battlefield presentations to the Disrupt Stage, Extra Crunch Stage and beyond. We...
Friday, May 14, 2021
Legionfarm, pairing pro gamers with amateurs, raises $6 million Series A
#Tech Legionfarm, the gaming platform that lets gamers play with pro players in their favorite games, has today announced the close of a $6 million Series A round. Investors in the round include SVB, Y Combinator, Scrum VC, Kevin Lin, Altair Capita...
Saturday, May 1, 2021
Sequoia’s Mike Vernal will share how to iterate with tempo at TC Early Stage in July
#Tech TC Early Stage is back in July and we have a fantastic lineup in store that’s laser-focused on marketing and fundraising. That includes, but is not limited to, Sequoia’s Mike Vernal, whose portfolio companies include Citizen, PicsArt, Whisper...
Saturday, April 10, 2021
Founder and investor Melissa Bradley outlines how to nail your virtual pitch meeting
#Tech Melissa Bradley wears many hats. She’s the co-founder of a startup called Ureeka, an investor at 1863 Ventures, and a professor at Georgetown’s business school. So it’s not an understatement to say that she understands the fundraising process...
Saturday, March 27, 2021
CEO Manish Chandra and investor Navin Chaddha explain why Poshmark’s Series A deck sings
#Tech Mayfield partner Navin Chaddha and Poshmark founder and CEO Manish Chandra met all the way back in 2003, well before Poshmark was even a glimmer in his eye. They stayed connected over the years, through Chandra’s sale of his startup Kaboodle ...
Monday, February 22, 2021
Ironclad’s Jason Boehmig: The objective of pricing is to become less wrong over time
#Tech In 2017, Ironclad founder and CEO Jason Boehmig was looking to raise a Series A. As a former lawyer, Boehmig had a specific process for fundraising and an ultimate goal of finding the right investors for his company. Part of Boehmig’s process...
Monday, February 15, 2021
The Series A deal that launched a near unicorn: Meet Accel’s Steve Loughlin and Ironclad’s Jason Boehmig
#Tech The only people who truly understand a relationship are the ones who are in it. Luckily for us, we’re going to have a candid conversation with both parties in the relationship between Ironclad CEO and cofounder Jason Boehmig and his investor ...
Sunday, February 14, 2021
Felicis’ Aydin Senkut and Guideline’s Kevin Busque on the value of simple pitch decks
#Tech Even though Kevin Busque is a co-founder of TaskRabbit, he didn’t get the response he was hoping for the first time he pitched his new venture to Felicis Ventures’ Aydin Senkut. Nonetheless, he said the outcome was one of the best things that...
Thursday, January 21, 2021
PlayVS acquires GameSeta to accelerate expansion into Canada
#Tech PlayVS, the esports company bringing organized leagues to high schools and colleges, is today announcing its first acquisition. The startup, which has raised more than $100 million, has acquired GameSeta, a Vancouver-based startup that is als...
Saturday, November 28, 2020
How Ryan Reynolds and Mint Mobile worked without becoming the joke
#Tech In the past decade, celebrity interest and investment in tech companies has significantly increased. But not all celebrity investments are created equally. Some investors, like Ashton Kutcher, have prioritized the VC pursuits. Some have inves...
Tuesday, November 17, 2020
OpenPhone rings up $14 million to put your work phone in an app
#Tech Communication tools are evolving quickly. We have all kinds of social media for our personal lives, Slack for chatting with our co-workers, Discord for gaming and other communities, and Zoom and FaceTime for when we want to look someone (almo...
Thursday, October 29, 2020
Goodcover, the YC-backed insurance startup, raises $7.5 million in Series A
#Tech YC-backed Goodcover, the insurtech startup that looks to pass unused premiums back to the policyholder, is today announcing the close of a $7.5 million Series A funding round. The funding was led by Goodwater Capital, with participation from ...
Thursday, September 10, 2020
Orchard real estate platform raises $69 million Series C led by Revolution Growth
#Tech Orchard, the tech-forward residential real estate platform, has today announced the close of a $69 million Series C funding led by Revolution Growth. Existing investors FirstMark Capital, Navitas, Accomplice and Juxtapose also participated in...
Wednesday, August 12, 2020
Personal training sessions come to ClassPass
As the coronavirus hampers the fitness industry, leading to a rapid evolution toward digital classes, ClassPass is pressing onward with its product roadmap, albeit a bit ahead of schedule. The company, which has raised more than $500 million from i...
Wednesday, July 15, 2020
Lemonade launches pet insurance
Lemonade today launched pet insurance, marking its entry into a new vertical of insurance for the first time since it launched its renters/home owners insurance in 2016. Lemonade CEO Daniel Schreiber told TechCrunch back in February that some 70 pe...
Monday, July 6, 2020
Minted.com’s Mariam Naficy will join us at TechCrunch Early Stage
At Early Stage, the first event of its kind from TechCrunch, entrepreneurs will have the opportunity to learn from some of the greatest minds in the tech world across categories like fundraising, scaling, operations and marketing. Alongside these V...