MG Siegler is leaving to become an investor at Google Ventures. We chatted with him about the move and what it means for his former firm CrunchFund.
The San Francisco company wants to reinvent chat by creating a better user interface for grouping people together.
Reid Hoffman says that when he visits a university to give an entrepreneurship lecture now, he gets asked for money.
Editor's Pick Betable hopes to disrupt social casino games by enabling real-money online gambling in social gaming titles.
Tumblr CEO David Karp announced today at that the Michael Arrington-led CrunchFund has joined as an investor in his popular blogging company.
Karp was speaking with CrunchFund partner MG Siegler on stage at the TechCrunch Disrupt event in New York. …
955 Dreams, a mobile publishing startup, has sealed a sweet deal: $3.25 million from some of Silicon Valley’s buzziest angel investors and venture capitalists.
The funding comes from Dave McClure’s 500 Startups and former TechCrunch editor Mike Arrington’s CrunchFund.
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Gogobot has raised an $15 million second round of funding for its social travel search site.
Gogobot recommends travel deals powered by tips from friends and family. It also has an iPhone app that allows people to share their travel …
There’s something about Codecademy that made investors plunk down $2.5 million dollars today to help the Y Combinator startup teach more people to code online. Codecademy uses game mechanics to make JavaScript instruction fun and engaging for people who use …
Y Combinator alumni Everyme is making sure you’re never missing information from your address book again. In order to do this, the company closed a $1.5 million round of funding from a slew of big name investors including Andreessen-Horowitz, CrunchFund, …
Former TechCrunch staff member Paul Carr announced today on his blog that he was starting a new company based in Las Vegas, Nevada with investments from Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh and Michael Arrington’s CrunchFund.
Carr resigned from TechCrunch last week …
Car sharing website Getaround announced a large seed round of $3.4 million today from a number of investors including the recently publicized CrunchFund.
People are loving the “what’s mine is yours” mentality stemming out of popular companies like HomeAway, Airbnb, …
