TechCrunch Startup News
Listen to select TechCrunch articles on startups coverage—who's raising, who's exiting, who's changing the world.
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- every day
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- Episodes
- 3563
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
BeeHero’s precision pollination platform wings its way to $19M in new funding
Move over, precision agriculture — precision apiculture is what’s on the minds of all future-focused farmers. BeeHero has been growing fast since its debut and seed round last year.
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Thu 07 Oct 2021
Goldman Sachs spinoff Juven to back African high-growth companies with large checks
Mauritius and U.K.-based investment company Juven went live today with plans to fund growth-stage technology and consumer companies in Africa. The one-year-old firm is looking to invest large checks …
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Wed 06 Oct 2021
Podcastle raises $7M for its all-in-one platform for podcast production and publishing
Both Anchor and Descript have made their names as being among the most significant Podcast creation platforms of recent times, but hoving into the rear-view mirror recently has been Podcastle, an all…
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Wed 06 Oct 2021
YC grad Wasp land $1.5M seed to help developers build web apps faster
It seems that a lot of startups are trying to help developers reduce the complexity involved in coding an app. Last week we covered the seed round for RunX, a company that helps developers code back-…
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Tue 05 Oct 2021
Ladder raises $100M on a $900M valuation for a platform selling flexible term life insurance
Life insurance has had a new lease on life in the era of insuretech, and today one of the companies building a business out of rethinking everything.
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Tue 05 Oct 2021
Komunidad, a Philippines-based environmental intelligence platform, lands seed round
The Philippines is one of the most disaster-prone countries in the world, with geography that makes it vulnerable to typhoons, floods, volcanos, earthquakes and droughts. While working in IT, Felix A…
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Mon 04 Oct 2021
ProductWind raises $1.67M to connect your brand with hundreds of influencers
Brands wanting to get into influencer marketing can use ProductWind's platform to set up campaigns with hundreds of influencers.
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Mon 04 Oct 2021
Climate volatility helps agtech platform Semios raise $100M round led by Morningside
One of the greatest challenges for farmers today is the increasing volatility in the climate, leading to unpredictable weather patterns, making growing conditions challenging. If farmers can’t grow c…
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Fri 01 Oct 2021
Mobile gaming company Voodoo acquires Beach Bum
French startup Voodoo has made a significant acquisition in the casual mobile gaming market. The company is acquiring Beach Bum, a game studio based in Israel and specialized in tabletop and card gam…
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Fri 01 Oct 2021
Spudsy bags $3.3M to turn ‘ugly’ sweet potatoes into snacks
Spudsy is on track to save 1 million of these so-called flawed sweet potatoes by the end of 2021.
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Thu 30 Sep 2021
Starfish Space raises $7M for in-orbit servicing space tug
Satellite servicing company Starfish Space has closed $7 million in funding to accelerate the development of a space tug vehicle that can extend the life of spacecraft and get rid of orbital debris. …
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Thu 30 Sep 2021
Tonic.ai raises $35M Series B to help engineers create synthetic data sets
When engineers are building software, they often run into issues around testing it without using actual customer data. Creating a meaningful test set can be time-consuming and challenging. Tonic.ai, …
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Wed 29 Sep 2021
Federated Genomic data startup Lifebit raises $60M round led by Tiger Global
Genomic data is considered to be the key to unlocking so-called “precision medicine”. Some estimates suggest that by 2025, 500 million human genomes will have been sequenced, but only a fraction of i…
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Wed 29 Sep 2021
Indonesian ID and data verification startup Verihubs gets $2.8M led by Insignia Venture Partners
For many financial institutions in Southeast Asia, verifying new customers takes a week or two, said the founders of Verihubs. The startup cuts that time down to as little as five seconds, using AI-b…
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Tue 28 Sep 2021
YC-backed Malloc wants to take the sting out of mobile spyware
Mobile spyware is one of the most invasive and targeted kinds of unregulated surveillance, since it can be used to track where you go, who you see and what you talk about. And because of its stealthy…
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Tue 28 Sep 2021
Singapore-based logistics startup Ninja Van secures $578M Series E
Ninja Van, a Singapore-based logistics startup, has closed a $578 million Series E round to support its operations infrastructure and technology systems growth.
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Mon 27 Sep 2021
Robotic farming firm Iron Ox raises $53M
Bay Area-based autonomous farming startup Iron Ox this week announced a $53 million round. The Series C, led by Breakthrough Energy Venture, brings the firm’s total funding up to $98 million.
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Mon 27 Sep 2021
Loyal raises $27M, aims to give dog owners more time with their pets
Loyal is building an animal pharmaceutical company that is developing therapeutics aimed at extending both lifespan and healthspan for dogs.
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Fri 24 Sep 2021
Nosh uses AI to help people and businesses cut down on their food waste
When founder Somdip Dey was a computer science masters student at the University of Manchester, his parents got in a terrible car accident. He sent all of his money back to his parents in India to he…
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Fri 24 Sep 2021
Crypto asset management platform Cobo bags $40M Series B
Cobo, a Singapore-based crypto asset management platform, raised a $40 million Series B to accelerate the development of decentralized finance as a service (DFaaS). The round was co-led by DST Global…
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Thu 23 Sep 2021
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