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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- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
Locus Robotics has raised a $150M Series E
Massachusetts-based Locus Robotics today announced a $150 million Series E. The round, led by Tiger Global Management and Bond, brings the firm’s total to around $250 to date, and values the robotics…
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Thu 18 Feb 2021
Ally.io rasies $50M Series C as the OKR software market stays explosive
This morning Ally.io, a software startup with a focus on the OKR (objectives and key results, in case you’ve somehow avoided being exposed) goal-setting technique, announced that it has closed $50 mi…
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Thu 18 Feb 2021
Jet co-founder Nate Faust is building a more sustainable e-commerce experience with Olive
Nate Faust has spent years in the e-commerce business — he was a vice president at Quidsi (which ran Diapers.com and Soap.com), co-founder and COO at Jet (acquired by Walmart for $3.3 billion) and th…
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Wed 17 Feb 2021
Bitcoin briefly breaks the $50,000 barrier as Coinbase’s direct listing looms
The hodl-crew are having quite the moment as bitcoin passed the $50,000 mark earlier today for the first time. Data pegs the peak at just over $50,500. The price of bitcoin, the world’s best-known cr…
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Wed 17 Feb 2021
After pausing the business, Fronted finally launches to offer loans to cover rent deposits
Fronted, the London-based fintech aiming to make life easier for renters, including lending the cash needed for a deposit, has finally launched. In March, its founders took the decision to “hibernate…
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Tue 16 Feb 2021
Delivery company goPuff is in talks to acquire the UK’s Fancy
GoPuff, the U.S.-based startup that operates its own “microfulfillment” network and promises to deliver items such as over-the-counter medicine, baby food and alcohol in 30 minutes or less, is in tal…
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Tue 16 Feb 2021
Online workspace startup Notion hit by outage, citing DNS issues
Notion, the online workspace startup that was last year valued at over $2 billion, is currently offline after a DNS outage knocked the site off the internet. The collaborative online office and docum…
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Mon 15 Feb 2021
Datadog to acquire application security management platform Sqreen
Cloud monitoring platform Datadog has announced that it plans to acquire Sqreen, a software-as-a-service security platform. Originally founded in France, Sqreen participated in TechCrunch’s Startup B…
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Mon 15 Feb 2021
Ramp secures $150M debt line from Goldman Sachs as the corporate spend market grows
This morning Ramp, a startup that competes in the corporate spend market, announced that it has secured a $150 million debt facility with Goldman Sachs. Ramp previously raised a $30 million Series B …
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Fri 12 Feb 2021
2up launches ahead of Valentines Day to help gamers find one another
People don’t often equate gaming with dating, but maybe they should. As gaming continues to grow in popularity, particularly in the wake of the pandemic, a new startup called 2up is launching to help…
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Fri 12 Feb 2021
Monzo, the British challenger bank nearing 5 million customers, has recruited a new U.S. CEO
Monzo, the U.K. challenger bank with just shy of 5 million customers, has recruited a new U.S CEO to head up its efforts states-side, TechCrunch has learned. Carol Nelson, who previously spent ten ye…
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Thu 11 Feb 2021
Powder raises $14 million for its social app for game clips
Meet Powder, a French startup that helps you share video clips of your favorite games, follow people with the same interests and interact with them. The company has raised a $14 million Series A roun…
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Thu 11 Feb 2021
Klarna launches bank accounts in Germany
Fintech startup Klarna is turning its mobile app into a banking app in Germany. Customers living there can now open a consumer bank account and get a Visa debit card. For now, Klarna is launching ban…
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Wed 10 Feb 2021
Encrypted data handling startup DataFleets acquired by LiveRamp for over $68M
LiveRamp has acquired DataFleets, a fresh young startup that made it possible to take advantage of large volumes of encrypted data without the risk or fuss of decrypting or transferring it. LiveRamp,…
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Wed 10 Feb 2021
Monte Carlo raises $25M for its data observability service
This morning Monte Carlo, a startup focused on helping other companies better monitor their data inflows, announced that it has closed a $25 million Series B. The round, which was co-led by GGV and R…
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Tue 09 Feb 2021
InEvent raises $2M for its virtual conference platform
InEvent, a startup powering virtual and hybrid events, is announcing that it has raised $2 million in seed funding from Storm Ventures. That’s just tiny fraction of the $125 million that online event…
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Tue 09 Feb 2021
Harry Stebbings is leaving Stride, the VC firm he founded with Fred Destin
Harry Stebbings, the podcaster-turned-VC, is stepping down as a partner of Stride, the London-based venture capital firm he co-founded with Fred Destin, formerly of Accel. In a series of tweets, Dest…
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Mon 08 Feb 2021
Lightspeed and Max Levchin bet on Balance to bring B2B payments into the digital world
Consumer payments is by no means a solved problem (I’ll trigger one hundred blockchain people if I say otherwise), but it sure as heck a pretty improved one. Checkout is a breeze with modern tools ra…
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Mon 08 Feb 2021
Health tech startup Bold raises $7 million in seed funding for senior-focused fitness programs
Virtual health and wellness platforms have grown increasingly popular throughout the pandemic, but a new startup wants to focus that effort exclusively on senior citizens. Bold, a digital health and …
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Fri 05 Feb 2021
HubSpot acquires media startup The Hustle
Marketing software company HubSpot is acquiring The Hustle, the business and tech media startup behind the popular newsletter of the same name Axios broke the news of the deal and reported that it va…
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Fri 05 Feb 2021
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