Govtech intelligence platform, The Atlas for Cities, bought by Government Executive Media Group The Atlas for Cities, the 500 Startups-backed market intelligence platform connecting tech companies with state and local governments, has been acquired by the Growth Catalyst Partners-backed publishing and market intelligence company Government Executive Media Group. The San Diego-based company will […]

Portugal’s Faber reaches .3M for its second fund aimed at data-driven startups from Iberia Portuguese VC Faber has hit the first close of its Faber Tech II fund at €20.5 million ($24.3 million). The fund will focus on early-stage data-driven startups starting from Southern Europe and the Iberian peninsula, with the aim […]

Startup fundraising is the most tangible gender gap. How can we overcome it? Ximena Aleman Contributor Share on Twitter Ximena Aleman is co-founder and chief business development officer at Prometeo, an open banking platform that serves Latin America. Year-in, year-out, the gender gap in venture capital investment continues to be a problem […]

Calling Amsterdam VCs: Be featured in The Great TechCrunch Survey of European VC TechCrunch is embarking on a major new project to survey the venture capital investors of Europe, and their cities. Our <a href=”https://forms.gle/k4Ji2Ch7zdrn7o2p6”>survey of VCs in Amsterdam will capture how the city is faring, and what changes are being wrought […]

Calling Helsinki VCs: Be featured in The Great TechCrunch Survey of European VC TechCrunch is embarking on a major new project to survey the venture capital investors of Europe, and their cities. Our <a href=”https://forms.gle/k4Ji2Ch7zdrn7o2p6”>survey of VCs in Helsinki will capture how the city is faring, and what changes are being wrought […]

Jeff Lawson on API startups, picking a market and getting dissed by VCs Last week TechCrunch sat down virtually with Jeff Lawson, the CEO and co-founder of Twilio as part of our long-running Extra Crunch Live series. As I expected, the chat was a good use of time. Why? Lawson was early […]

Calling Madrid & Barcelona VCs: Be featured in The Great TechCrunch Survey of European VC TechCrunch is embarking on a major new project to survey the venture capital investors of Europe. Our <a href=”https://forms.gle/k4Ji2Ch7zdrn7o2p6”>survey of VCs in Madrid & Barcelona will capture how the cities are faring, and what changes are being […]

Crowd equity platform Seedrs opens up its existing secondary market to any business Seedrs — the UK’s first full-function private equity secondary market to launch back in 2017 — is launching its secondary market offering to all private businesses. The idea is that this will allow founders, employees and early investors to […]

Synthetic biology startups are giving investors an appetite There’s a growing wave of commercial activity from companies that are creating products using new biological engineering technologies. Perhaps the most public (and tastiest) example of the promise biomanufacturing holds is Impossible Foods . The meat replacement company whose ground plants (and bioengineered additives) […]

Calling Paris VCs: Be featured in The Great TechCrunch Survey of European VC TechCrunch is embarking on a major new project to survey the venture capital investors of Europe. Our <a href=”https://forms.gle/k4Ji2Ch7zdrn7o2p6”>survey of VCs in Paris will capture how the city is faring, and what changes are being wrought amongst investors by […]