Startups Weekly: This year in startups

In this week's newsletter: The moments that defined venture capital and startups in 2019.

Equity Dive: Direct Listings

Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the…

Price insurance platform Stable protects farmers from price volatility

From a Southwest England farmer’s son comes a risk management platform, Stable, a solution as simple…

VSCO acquires video editing startup Rylo

Rylo had raised roughly $38 million in VC funding at a $120.25 million valuation.

US VC investment in female founders hits all-time high

Female founders raised 2.8% of venture capital this year.

Startups Weekly: U.S. VCs eye European startups

In this week's newsletter: Vroom nabs $254M, the Away scandal and "inevitable takedown of a female…

Closing the race and gender funding gap

Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the…

New tweet generator mocks venture capitalists

"The S-1 is going to be MOST disrupted FASTEST in the next 3 YEARS? Caps for…

Airbnb officially bans all unauthorized house parties

One month after Airbnb confirmed plans to verify all of its listings, the home-sharing giant has…

Inside VSCO, a Gen Z-approved photo-sharing app, with CEO Joel Flory

Long before Instagram toyed with removing “likes,” VSCO, an Oakland-based photo-sharing and editing app, built a…