Bitcoin passed $89K for the first time, Tesla closed up 8.96%, Coinbase closed up 19.76%, and Robinhood closed up 7.4%, as investors pile into “Trump trades”
It Just Had Its Best One Ever Steven Walgenbach / Inside Bitcoins : BlackRock Bitcoin ETF Hits New Record As Polymarket Odds Of Bitcoin Hitting $100K This Year Soar Vladimir Popescu / Watcher Guru : T...
Coinbase, FTX, eToro, and other apps surge in popularity after multiple crypto Super Bowl ads; Coinbase rose from 186th to 2nd on US App Store after QR code ad
Hope you're having a great week. — Welcome to the mesha tribe … Sara Celi / The Crypto Connection : How Does It All Work, Anyway? Shannon Miller / Adweek : The 10 Best Super Bowl Ads of 2022 Kaya Yu...
Clubhouse raises Series B led by a16z, says it has 180+ investors, and will test options for paying creators and begin work on an Android app soon
When I first met Paul Davison, it took about 10 seconds to realize … Tae Kim / Bloomberg : Forget TikTok. Clubhouse Is Social Media's Next Star. Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch : Clubhouse announces ...
Designer toy maker Superplastic raises $10M Series A led by Craft Ventures to turn two of its characters, Janky and Guggimon, into animated Instagram stars
Janko Rottgers / Variety : Tweets: @rrhoover Tweets: Ryan Hoover / @rrhoover : Superplastic just announced their new characters and $10M in funding. #investor https://variety.com/... Keep an eye on t...
An analysis of Crunchbase data finds US-based VCs raised more sub-$100M venture funds in 2018 than in any prior year
Jason Rowley is a venture capital and technology reporter for Crunchbase News. — Recently, we bore out with data what has been felt for several years in most U.S. tech scenes … Tweets: @leepnet , @o...
Figma, maker of cloud-based collaborative interface design tools, raises $40M Series C, bringing the total raised to $82.9M at a post-money valuation of $440M
maybe a dumb question but why do people see so much value in design tools: isn't the addressable market tiny; way smaller than the Photoshop market...? Zack Hargett / @zackhargett : Congrats, @figmade...
Sources: Pinterest revenues were up 58% in 2017 to $473M; company now has almost 250M monthly active users
Sarah Frier / Bloomberg : Tweets: @shiraovide and @rrhoover Tweets: Shira Ovide / @shiraovide : For comparison, Snap had $405 million in revenue the year before its IPO. http://twitter.com/... Ryan H...
The number of early-stage VC rounds worldwide dropped from about 13.3K in 2014 to about 5.9K this year, with mobile app and SaaS startups hit hardest
Amid record amounts of capital raised by VCs worldwide, and a sharp rise in the number of private “unicorns” valued at $1 billion-plus … Tweets: @adamnash , @trengriffin , @gsands , @lutherlowe , @rrh...
Justin Kan's Atrium LTS legal technology services startup raises $10.5M led by General Catalyst, with nearly 100 institutional and angel investors participating
Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch : Tweets: @amittm and @rrhoover Tweets: Amitt Mahajan / @amittm : This is a product that should exist and is built by a team that deeply understands the problems they are sol...
Justin Kan's Atrium LTS legal technology services startup raises $10.5M led by General Catalyst, with nearly 100 institutional and angel investors participating
Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch : Tweets: @amittm and @rrhoover Tweets: Amitt Mahajan / @amittm : This is a product that should exist and is built by a team that deeply understands the problems they are sol...