Elise Craig
Elise Craig covers technology, innovation and startup culture in the Bay Area. She has worked as a news producer on the breaking news desk of the Washington Post and as an assistant research editor at Wired magazine. She is also an avid freelance writer and editor and has written for Wired, BusinessWeek, Fortune.com, MarketWatch, Outside.com, and others.
Craig earned her bachelor’s degree in English from Georgetown University in 2006, and a master’s of journalism from the University of California at Berkeley in 2010.
Recent posts
The idea behind Navdy, a heads-up device that sits on car dashboards and allows drivers to answer calls and get navigation help without ever touching their phones, came about the... Read more »
Before he founded SeeChange Health in 2008, CEO Martin Watson was working on new products for UnitedHealthcare Strategy, a wing of the giant healthcare network. As he looked at how the... Read more »
We’re awash in images. Human beings take one billion photos every day, and websites of all stripes have billions more. But most of those images vanish into the black hole of... Read more »
Ari Tulla, CEO and co-founder of BetterDoctor, knows what it’s like to need a good physician in the midst of health turmoil, when patients are often at their weakest. “There... Read more »
After Nicole Shariat Farb got married in 2011, she wanted to make the thank-you notes she sent to guests herself. Armed with inspiration from Pinterest, she headed to crafting supply... Read more »
When Nomad CEO Noah Dentzel first launched his startup, an early-stage company that makes portable smartphone accessories, he turned to crowdfunding to get it off the ground. Over the course of... Read more »
Earlier this month, Chegg, a company that pitches itself as “the student hub,” with services like textbook rentals and job and internship help, ponied up $30 million in cash to... Read more »
This morning, Misfit, maker of the activity-tracking device Shine, announced a partnership with Pebble, bringing its technology to the company’s namesake watch. Now, Pebble watch wearers who download the... Read more »
For about six months, Pat Martell experienced persistent headaches. He went back and forth with his doctor about treatments, but the aspirin and amoxicillin they tried weren’t working. “The doctor was... Read more »
After graduation, Collegefeed CEO and founder Sanjeev Agarwal was in an enviable position: He was a great student with a degree from MIT and membership in a bunch of honor societies.... Read more »
When Neema Moraveji and Jonathan Palley first started working on Spire, a wearable device that tracks movement but also measures state of mind, there were no wearables on the market.... Read more »
When Leah Busque founded TaskRabbit in Boston back in 2008 (under the name RunMyErrand), the terms “sharing economy” and “collaborative consumption” weren’t part of the tech lexicon, much less the national... Read more »
Back when I first wrote about snack subscription service Love With Food, the subscription box model was everywhere. Two years later, several companies have gone bust or pivoted away from... Read more »
Shopping for new clothes is still a pain, even with all the online options out there. Paging through a whole bunch of websites isn’t a quick process, and with the exception... Read more »
Owen Tripp, the CEO of Grand Rounds, likes trying to solve high-level problems. His company aims to make it easier for all patients to access specialists at the top of... Read more »
Here are the top six things we’re paying attention to in the San Francisco tech scene this week.
—San Francisco-based Fyusion, a startup that develops 3D image-processing technologies, announced a... Read more »
After Ukrainian engineers Max Lytvyn and Alex Shevchenko sold their first company, MyDropBox, they were left with a great team but no product. So they gave their employees a challenge: solve... Read more »
Here are the top six things we’re paying attention to in the San Francisco tech scene this week.
—iRhythm Technologies, maker of technology to improve the diagnosis of heart... Read more »
B2B document sharing services are nothing new, but DocSend, a San Francisco-based startup that launched out of TechCrunch Disrupt earlier this month, could change how you work—and let you check... Read more »
Here are the top six things we’re paying attention to in the San Francisco tech scene this week:
—Los Altos-based Netskope, a cloud analytics company, announced a $35 million Series... Read more »
