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
[Corrected 5/15/09, 11:50 am. See below.] When Sprig co-founders Gagan Biyani and Neeraj Berry went looking for a head chef for their newly founded healthy meal delivery startup, they received... Read more »
In the mere two years since Sean O’Sullivan and Cyril Ebersweiler founded the Shenzhen, China-based HAXLR8R hardware accelerator, a lot has changed. Technology prices continue to fall, more and more entrepreneurs... Read more »
Heads up, social media fiends. Menlo Park’s Moju Labs is launching its first product today, a photo sharing app that the company is marketing as “Instagram on steroids.”
Co-founders Mok Oh... Read more »
Here are the top six things we’re paying attention to in the San Francisco tech scene this week.
–Yesterday, online teaching marketplace Udemy announced a $32 million Series C round, bringing... Read more »
If there’s a misconception about Strava, it’s that the fitness app is only for super athletes, CEO Mark Gainey says. While Strava users do include elite athletes like Olympic road race... Read more »
Table8, maker of an app that allows users to make last-minute reservations at sought-after restaurants for a fee, today announced a $4.6 million funding round led by angel investors and... Read more »
As viruses like Heartbleed and security breaches like Target’s massive credit card data hack become more and more common, it’s obvious to Jumio CEO Daniel Mattes that our current online security... Read more »
Here are the top six things we’re paying attention to in the San Francisco tech scene this week.
–Weight Watchers International has acquired Wello, the fitness training via two-way video... Read more »
Cengage Learning, the billion-dollar edtech giant that started life as Thomson Learning before it was sold off in 2007, is celebrating a brand-new office in San Francisco this week.
The new... Read more »
After college, Apartment List CEO John Kobs and his co-founder Chris Herndon both decided to buy property and become landlords. Kobs purchased some single-family homes in his Ohio hometown, while Herndon... Read more »
Big travel sites like Expedia and Priceline have been around since the dawn of the Internet age, but a local startup with a lot of venture backing is offering something different.... Read more »
Here are the top six things we’re paying attention to in the San Francisco tech scene this week.
—AdRoll, the San Francisco-based ad retargeting platform, closed a $70 million funding round... Read more »
After four years as Xconomy San Francisco editor, Wade Roush, our new editor-at-large, is handing me the reins, and I couldn’t be more excited.
I’ve worked as a freelancer for Xconomy... Read more »
CEO Lynn Perkins took UrbanSitter, a service that connects parents and babysitters, from concept to company in about three weeks.
Three and a half years ago, she was taking time... Read more »
In celebration of National Robotics Week, Xconomy brought together big hitters from across the space yesterday to chat about the future of robotics at Robo Madness, our third annual Silicon... Read more »
The idea for HomeJoy started with a dirty apartment.
Back in the summer of 2012, CEO Adora Cheung and her brother and cofounder Aaron were both engineers, working on ideas for... Read more »
Andrew Gadson doesn’t love shopping, but that hasn’t stopped him from building HeartThis. It’s a Pinterest-style app that allows users to discover and curate products, but goes a step farther... Read more »
[Corrected 2/11/14, see below] Google’s recent purchase of Nest gave huge validation to the promise of the Internet of Things—a $3.2 billion endorsement. But if a $249 thermostat and... Read more »
Hampton Creek Foods’ products may be vegan, but that’s not the point. Founder and CEO Josh Tetrick started the company after his best friend, Joshua Balk, told him about some... Read more »
For CEO Ann Hand, the hardest part about building up Project Frog, a company that creates ready-to assemble “smart buildings,” was convincing venture capitalists and customers that it was indeed... Read more »
