Alex Wilhelm
The pace at which new billion-dollar startups are minted is in freefall.
Given what we’ve seen recently concerning the late-stage funding market, we shouldn’t be shocked. As late-stage dollars retreat and capital served up in mega-rounds — deals worth $100 million or more — evaporates, the fuel that once...
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Welcome to the new week.
While recording Equity this morning, I noted with surprise an interesting bit of data that got me wondering about the current premium that venture investors are paying for startup shares, and if we can see anything new compared to 2022 data, especially given that...
Sure, it’s demo day week over at Y Combinator, but that doesn’t mean we have to only discuss the smallest and youngest startups out there. In fact, a small news item from today reinforces our view that the list of companies we’re earmarking as strong possibles for an IPO...
I got excited — very excited — when I found out that Substack’s equity crowdfunding effort would result in it releasing financial results.
Sadly, due to rules and the timing of the fundraise, Substack is not required to detail its financials for 2022, and so the startup released hard...
Even as Y Combinator reveals the latest startups in its cohort for this winter, we have poor news for founders: the global venture capital market shrank in Q1 2023, and it would have been even worse if it were not for a few mega deals, according to Crunchbase...
Today Twitter users are noticing that an image of a dog has been added to a place of prominence. You can see it for yourself on Twitter.com, where you will be greeted with a pup:
The particular dog image — a shiba inu — corresponds with the logo of...
Welcome to the second quarter, friends. It’s time to take stock of just what went down in the first three months of the year, which means a deluge of venture capital data and yet another earnings cycle.
I want to start our formal Q1 2023 venture lookback with China....
It turns out that if you have an active customer audience invested in the long-term viability and success of your platform, you can crowdfund a venture-sized extension round.
Substack, a venture-backed subscription media platform popular with writers and known for its email service, has collected more than $5 million...
We are mere days away from the end of the first quarter, putting us on the precipice of a welcome data deluge. Starting in early April, TechCrunch+ will dig into information relating to startup fundraising in the first quarter.
But we’re an impatient lot, so instead of waiting for...
One of my most joyous technology memories concerns Project Origami. The effort from Microsoft, Intel and others launched ultra-mobile PCs, or UMPCs. The devices, akin to squeezing a full Windows machine into something about the size of an midrange iPad often complete with a physical keyboard, utterly fascinated...
