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Overview
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Author
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Ian Ito
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Focus
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Goal: Get an objective view of how TechCrunch’s coverage of startup funding announcements has changed over the last three years.
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Question: How has TechCrunch’s volume and composition of funding-announcement coverage shifted?
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Data methodology
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Source: All TechCrunch articles tagged as Funding or categorized under Fundraising
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Funding
https://techcrunch.com/tag/funding/
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Fundraising
https://techcrunch.com/category/fundraising/
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Filter:
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Includes: startup funding announcements
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Excludes: fundraises by VC firms, acquisitions, pitch decks, analysis pieces, or non-startup financings
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Method: Articles were filtered using a set of keywords in the headline and reviewed manually
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Normalization: Cutoff of Nov 30 for each year (2022–2025) to ensure year-over-year comparison
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Early-stage proxy: Rounds < $30M, since Carta reports median Series B is $25M (added an arbitrary buffer)
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Source
LinkedIn | Peter Walker
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Data pulled on Nov 30th, 2025
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