As a venture investor, you have to get lucky from time to time to back a category defining player. Sometimes you bet on the right market trend at the... more

As social media sites grow more massive and all-encompassing, one startup is looking to bring back the friendly customization of Myspace to a new... more

Email marketing startup Stensul is announcing that it has raised $7 million. Stensul spun out of founder and CEO Noah Dinkin’s previous company... more

TechCrunch first wrote about SmartAsset nearly six years ago, when it launched its first product, a tool allowing prospective homebuyers to analyze... more

There is no doubt that there is an evolution happening in how people get around, from new technologies like autonomous and electric vehicles to the... more

Former Tesla vice president Diarmuid O’Connell is now a key executive at another company on the forefront of automotive innovation. O’Connell,... more

Today, Thumbtack is announcing a new customer experience called Instant Results, providing a real-time experience to customers never before available... more

ExecThread, Inc., a premium job-sharing network for executives and the largest aggregator of unpublished executive-level job opportunities, has... more

Ally Financial Inc. and Fair today announced a strategic relationship in which Fair will use Ally's SmartAuction as a remarketing solution for its... more

Software-defined storage company Nexenta Systems Inc. is pitching a new cloud-native storage solution for customers using Amazon Web Services... more

Fitness kit and software supplier eGym has announced the acquisition of mobile fitness app business Netpulse for an undisclosed sum. The two... more

The delivery man in the bright-blue fleece rings the intercom at a home in the Richmond district of San Francisco. "It's James from Rinse," he says... more

SmartAsset’s personalized financial modeling, which can tell you how much house you can afford or what it will cost to retire in Los Angeles,... more

Just a week after we reported that Fair.com was acquiring the leasing portfolio of Xchange Leasing from Uber, the flexible car-ownership startup is... more

Voicelabs, a company that has been experimenting in the voice computing market for some time with initiatives in advertising and analytics, is now... more

As Uber works on trying to find a more profitable path ahead for its transportation-on-demand service, it has sold off one of its units that sat... more