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 right time, with the right team behind it. Sometimes the strategic stars align and a particular... more

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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 generation of users looking to define their online presence in a unique way. Universe is a mobile-based... more

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Email marketing startup Stensul is announcing that it has raised $7 million. Stensul spun out of founder and CEO Noah Dinkin’s previous company FanBridge. Dinkin explained via email that the startup isn’t competing with the big email service... more

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TechCrunch first wrote about SmartAsset nearly six years ago, when it launched its first product, a tool allowing prospective homebuyers to analyze the rent vs. buy decision and to see what kind of home they could actually afford. According to... more

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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 massive growth of ride-sharing. It seems that disruption to a mature industry is happening right... more

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Former Tesla vice president Diarmuid O’Connell is now a key executive at another company on the forefront of automotive innovation. O’Connell, who was Tesla’s vice president of business development for 11 years before leaving the company last... more

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Today, Thumbtack is announcing a new customer experience called Instant Results, providing a real-time experience to customers never before available in local services. Leveraging data from hundreds of thousands of local services professionals... more

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ExecThread, Inc., a premium job-sharing network for executives and the largest aggregator of unpublished executive-level job opportunities, has announced two industry executives have joined its Board of Directors. The incoming Board Members... more

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