Many VCs historically avoided placing bets on hit-driven mobile gaming content in favor of clearer platform opportunities, but as more success stories pop up, the
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In 2020, VCs invested $428M into US-based startups every day
Despite a pandemic that sparked a global recession, 2020 was still a record year for venture capital investments into American startups. According to data shared
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Citrix is acquiring Wrike from Vista for $2.25B
Citrix announced today that it plans to acquire Wrike, a SaaS project management platform, from Vista Equity Partners for $2.25 billion. Vista bought the company
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WeChat advances e-commerce goals with $250B in transactions
WeChat continues to advance its shopping ambitions as the social networking app turns 10 years old. The Chinese messenger facilitated 1.6 trillion yuan (close to
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Equity Tuesday: Everyone’s raising money, and Wrike exits yet again
Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This is Equity Monday Tuesday, our weekly kickoff
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Fintech startup Vise brings on Andrew Fong (formerly Dropbox) as CTO
Vise, a fintech firm that focuses on helping financial advisors rather than automating them out of existence, has today announced that its bringing on Andrew
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