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
Leena AI nabs $8M Series as it expands from chatbots to HR service platform
When we covered Leena AI as a member of the Y Combinator Summer 2018 cohort, the young startup was firmly focused on building HR chatbots, but in the intervening years it has expanded the vision to a…
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Wed 04 Nov 2020
Indonesian logistics platform Logisly raises $6 million Series A to digitize truck shipments
Indonesia’s logistics industry is very fragmented, with several large providers operating alongside thousands of smaller companies. This means shippers often have to work with a variety of carriers, …
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Wed 04 Nov 2020
TVision raises $16M to measure viewer attention on connected TVs
TVision is building what its team hopes will become the standard for measuring streaming viewership — and to accelerate those efforts, it’s raised $16 million in new funding. The New York City startu…
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Tue 03 Nov 2020
NerdWallet acquires small business loan marketplace Fundera
Financial guidance company NerdWallet announced at the end of last week that it has acquired Fundera. New York City-based Fundera was co-founded in 2013 by Jared Hecht, who previously co-founded Grou…
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Tue 03 Nov 2020
Warren gets $1.4 million to help local cloud infrastructure providers compete against the giants
Started as a side project by its founders, Warren is now helping regional cloud infrastructure service providers compete against Amazon, Microsoft, IBM, Google and other tech giants. Based in Tallinn…
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Mon 02 Nov 2020
Daimler invests in lidar company Luminar in push to bring autonomous trucks to highways
Daimler’s trucks division has invested in lidar developer Luminar as part of a broader partnership to produce autonomous trucks capable of navigating highways without a human driver behind the wheel.…
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Mon 02 Nov 2020
One-click housing startup Atmos raises another $4M from Khosla, real estate strategics, and TikTok star Josh Richards
Atmos wants to make designing a house as simple as a single click. Well, that vision is now getting a double click from VCs. The company, which we profiled back in July, announced today that it raise…
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Fri 30 Oct 2020
One-click housing startup Atmos raises another $4M from Khosla, real estate strategics, and TikTok star Josh Richards
Atmos wants to make designing a house as simple as a single click. Well, that vision is now getting a double click from VCs. The company, which we profiled back in July, announced today that it raise…
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Fri 30 Oct 2020
Donut launches Watercooler, an easy way to socialize online with coworkers
If you miss hanging out with your coworkers but don’t want to spend a single second more on Zoom, the latest product from Donut might be the answer. The startup is launching its new Watercooler prod…
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Fri 30 Oct 2020
Upgrade adds rewards program to its credit card
Fintech startup Upgrade has been quite successful with its two flagship products —Â a low-cost credit card and personal loans. The company is making its credit card more attractive by adding rewards.…
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Thu 29 Oct 2020
Anima’s latest update draws on the popularity of design and no-code tools
Anima, the company that turns design prototypes into code, has today announced the launch of Anima 4.0, which will allow designers to create prototypes in Figma that are translated into components in…
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Thu 29 Oct 2020
Rockset announces $40M Series B as data analytics solution gains momentum
Rockset, a cloud-native analytics company, announced a $40 million Series B investment today led by Sequoia with help from Greylock, the same two firms that financed its Series A. The startup has now…
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Wed 28 Oct 2020
Let’s move beyond 2020 and start thinking about the 2020s
Seasonality is critical for the media. End-of-year wrap-ups, best books for the summer, things to do this weekend — they’re all methods to note not only the passage of time, but also to begin to set …
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Wed 28 Oct 2020
Ant Group could raise as much as $34.5B in IPO in what would be world’s largest IPO
The long-anticipated IPO of Alibaba-affiliated Chinese fintech giant Ant Group could raise tens of billions of dollars in a dual-listing on both the Shanghai and Hong Kong exchanges. Shares for the c…
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Tue 27 Oct 2020
This startup wants to fix the broken structure of internships
Internships are an opportunity for students to experiment with new career paths and land a full-time offer ahead of graduation. For companies, the weeks-long programs help recruit and train job-ready…
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Tue 27 Oct 2020
Linktree raises $10.7M for its lightweight, link-centric user profiles
Simple, link-centric user profiles might seem might not seem like a particularly ambitious idea, but it’s been big enough for Linktree. The Melbourne startup says that 8 million users — whether they’…
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Mon 26 Oct 2020
Nordic challenger bank Lunar raises €40M Series C, plans to enter the ‘buy now, pay later’ space
Lunar, the Nordic challenger bank that started out life as a personal finance manager app (PFM) but acquired a full banking license in 2019, has raised €40 million in Series C funding from existing i…
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Mon 26 Oct 2020
RepTrak partners with Onclusive to combine reputation and PR data
RepTrak and Onclusive are announcing a partnership that Onclusive CEO Dan Beltramo said will combine corporate reputation tracking and PR analytics for the first time. RepTrak, founded in 2004, helps…
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Fri 23 Oct 2020
Respect the hustle, not the stupidity
Yes, the media f’ing gorged on the Quibi story yesterday. We did, they did, everyone did. And really, truly, how could anyone not? Nearly $2 billion came in (with $350 million heading back), a star-s…
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Fri 23 Oct 2020
Freelancer banking startup Lili raises $15M
It’s only been a few months since Lili announced its $10 million seed round, and it’s already raised more funding — namely, a $15 million Series A. The startup, founded by CEO Lilac Bar David and CTO…
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Thu 22 Oct 2020
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