Gené Teare

Teare, Eva Pascoe, David Rowe and Keith Teare opened Cyberia Café on Whitfield Street in London’s Fitzrovia, offering public internet access and training. The project also sought to bring more women online.⁠[1]

Teare and Eva Pascoe jointly received the Sunday Times Technology Award.⁠[1]

Teare joined TechCrunch to run the recently established Crunchbase. She subsequently led data teams, expanded database coverage and increasingly focused on research and reporting based on private-company data.⁠[2][3]

Teare helped introduce a gender dimension to Crunchbase’s founder data. The team published an initial report roughly two months later and continued tracking funding for female founders.⁠[4]

For Seed Series, she interviewed Susan Lyne of BBG Ventures about investing in female founders, consumer markets and opportunities for innovation. It was the series’ second installment.⁠[5]

Crunchbase, Him For Her and Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management released a board-gender-diversity benchmark covering 200 U.S. private companies. As Crunchbase’s strategic research lead, Teare explained that the work extended its focus beyond founders and investors to boards and established a baseline for future comparisons.⁠[6]

At RSA Conference’s innovation and entrepreneurship program, she moderated VC Outlook for 2020 with Mark Hatfield and Dafina Toncheva.⁠[7]

In a Holloway interview, Teare argued that data cannot itself change funding allocation but can ground discussion in comparable evidence. She also described the U.S.-focused Diversity Spotlight initiative launched in 2020 and its collaboration with founder organizations on data collection.⁠[4]

At HumanX in San Francisco, she joined Esther Wong, Salil Deshpande and Mark Terbeek for Inside the 2026 AI VC Playbook, discussing AI capital flows, go-to-market strategies and intellectual property.⁠[8]

Drawing on her onstage interviews with Fabrizio Del Maffeo and Mehdi Ghissassi at HumanX Amsterdam, she examined Europe’s sovereign AI ambitions. Her article emphasized that government and corporate purchasing, access to computing and choices across chips and applications matter alongside financing.⁠[9]

In her October global funding report, she compared capital across countries, sectors and large deals, highlighting concentration in a small number of megadeals and AI businesses. The article specified a November 2 data cutoff and noted reporting lags in early-stage funding.⁠[10]

Teare leads monthly, quarterly and annual venture funding reports and discusses market changes through interviews and conferences. Her public professional profile lists the University of Cape Town and Palo Alto, California, United States. Her work appears at https://news.crunchbase.com/author/gene/ (opens in a new window) ; her public accounts are https://x.com/geneteare (opens in a new window) and https://www.linkedin.com/in/geneteare (opens in a new window) . She also maintains a speaking and interview portfolio at https://medium.com/@geneteare/public-speaking-83af288aa73c (opens in a new window) .⁠[2][3][11][12][13]