TechCrunch Startup News
Listen to select TechCrunch articles on startups coverage—who's raising, who's exiting, who's changing the world.
- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 4 minutes
- Episodes
- 3560
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
Sunday raises $24 million seed round to build a fast restaurant checkout flow
Meet Sunday, a new startup that is going to attract some headlines as it has raised a $24 million seed round at a $140 million post-money valuation. That’s a lot of money for a company that started j…
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Fri 16 Apr 2021
Feels is a new dating app with profiles that look more personal
Meet Feels, a new French startup that wants to change how dating apps work. According to the company, scrolling through photos and reading descriptions tend to be a boring experience. Feels want to i…
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Fri 16 Apr 2021
Challenger bank N26 to offer insurance products
Fintech startup N26 is launching N26 Insurance as it plans to offer insurance products that you can access from the company’s mobile app and website. The first insurance product is a smartphone insur…
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Thu 15 Apr 2021
Zeta in talks with SoftBank to raise at over $1 billion valuation
Banking tech startup Zeta is inching closer to the much sought-after unicorn status as it talks to investors to finalize a new round, sources familiar with the matter told TechCrunch. SoftBank Vision…
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Thu 15 Apr 2021
PlexTrac raises $10M Series A round for its collaboration-centric security platform
PlexTrac, a Boise, ID-based security service that aims to provide a unified workflow automation platform for red and blue teams, today announced that it has raised a $10 million Series A funding roun…
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Wed 14 Apr 2021
Willo launches its tooth-brushing robot for kids
Are you 100% sure that your children are brushing their teeth properly? A New York-based startup called Willo has been working for several years on a device that should transform the tooth-brushing e…
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Wed 14 Apr 2021
Bloomscape’s Justin Mast explains how he built a thriving garden startup in Detroit
Justin Mast has a simple reason for starting his plant retail startup Bloomscape in Detroit. “This is home,” he told me. “This is where I have a really strong network and I knew I’d be able to find a…
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Tue 13 Apr 2021
When wildfires rage close, Perimeter wants to tell you where to go
Out the window, a fire is raging — and it’s moving ever closer. Confusion. Fear. A run for the car. Roads open and then suddenly closed by authorities. Traffic jams. A fire break that stalls the flam…
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Tue 13 Apr 2021
Wonder Dynamics raises $2.5M seed to equip indie filmmakers with AI-powered VFX
Practically every film production these days needs some kind of visual effects work, but independent creators often lack the cash or expertise to get that top-shelf CG.
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Mon 12 Apr 2021
Elior acquires food delivery startup Nestor
Corporate catering company Elior has acquired French startup Nestor for an undisclosed amount. Nestor originally started with a simple idea to differentiate itself from food delivery giants, such as …
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Mon 12 Apr 2021
Vybe raises $2.9 million for its challenger bank for teens
French startup Vybe has raised a $2.9 million funding round (€2.4 million) to build a challenger bank for teens. The company is currently testing its product with a soft launch. Users get a Mastercar…
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Fri 09 Apr 2021
Realworld raises $3.4M to help Gen Z navigate adulthood
Realworld has a big vision — founder and CEO Genevieve Ryan Bellaire told me her goal is “simplifying adulthood.” And the New York startup has raised $3.4 million in seed funding to make it happen. A…
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Fri 09 Apr 2021
Spend management startup Ramp confirms $115M raise at a $1.6B valuation
This morning, Ramp, which provides corporate cards and spend management software, announced that it has closed $115 million across two investments, the latter of which valued the company at $1.6 bill…
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Thu 08 Apr 2021
Authentic Artists is building virtual, AI-powered musicians
Chris McGarry, who previously led music integration at Facebook’s Oculus, is taking a new approach to bringing music into the virtual world with his startup Authentic Artists. McGarry pointed to virt…
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Thu 08 Apr 2021
Plaid raises $425M Series D from Altimeter as it charts a post-Visa future
Plaid, a unicorn that helps connect consumers’ bank accounts to financial applications, has raised a $425 million Series D, it announced this morning. TechCrunch understands that the new capital infu…
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Wed 07 Apr 2021
Aporia raises $5M for its AI observability platform
Machine learning (ML) models are only as good as the data you feed them. That’s true during training, but also once a model is put in production.
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Wed 07 Apr 2021
Hipmunk’s founders launch Flight Penguin to bring back Hipmunk-style flight search
Hipmunk’s founders are building a successor to their now-defunct flight search service. The startup was acquired by SAP-owned travel and expense platform Concur in 2016, and its CEO Adam Goldstein de…
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Tue 06 Apr 2021
ConductorOne raises $5M in seed round led by Accel to automate your access requests
Over the course of their careers, Alex Bovee and Paul Querna realized that while the use of SaaS apps and cloud infrastructure was exploding, the process to give employees permission to use them was …
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Tue 06 Apr 2021
Want to take a road trip with Kevin Costner? Investors are betting you might
Woody Sears has long been interested in storytelling. After spending several years in sales after nabbing an MBA from Pepperdine — and following the debut in 2007 of the first iPhone — he founded a s…
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Mon 05 Apr 2021
Uruguayan payments startup dLocal quadruples valuation to $5B with $150M raise
Cross-border payments startup dLocal has raised $150 million at a $5 billion valuation, less than seven months after securing $200 million at a $1.2 billion valuation. This means that the five-year-o…
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Mon 05 Apr 2021
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