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
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- 4 minutes
- Episodes
- 3558
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
This serial founder is taking on Carta with cap table management software she says is better for founders
Yin Wu has cofounded several companies since graduating from Stanford in 2011, including a computer vision company called Double Labs that sold to Microsoft, where she stayed on for a couple of years…
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Thu 22 Oct 2020
Index nabs $2.6M seed to create BI dashboards without coding
Index founders, Xavier Pladevall and Eduardo Portet, have been friends since they were small children in the Dominican Republic. Both came to college in the U.S., and last year the two decided to lau…
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Wed 21 Oct 2020
Beam is building a web browser that gathers knowledge from your web activity
Remember Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer? Those applications from the 1990s used emphatic metaphors in their names to talk about a simple task — browsing the web. Today, nobody would say tha…
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Wed 21 Oct 2020
Trilo lets merchants offer rewards to customers choosing bank-to-bank payments
Open banking enables bank-to-bank payments, meaning that (in theory) merchants should be able to accept payments without having to hand over fees to Visa or Mastercard or other payment providers, suc…
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Tue 20 Oct 2020
PearPop lets TikTok celebrities monetize by sharing shoutouts and screentime with fans
PearPop a new Los Angeles-based company, is on its way to racking up nearly 25,000 users in less than a month, and has already landed seed funding from the firm Rocket One Capital. The company’s prem…
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Tue 20 Oct 2020
Singapore tech-based real estate agency Propseller raises $1.2 million seed round
Propseller, a Singapore-based real estate agency that combines a tech platform with in-house agents to close transactions more quickly, announced today it has raised $1.2 million in seed funding. The…
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Mon 19 Oct 2020
Datto sets initial IPO price range, indicating a valuation of around $4B
It was just a few weeks ago that Datto, what TechCrunch called a “backup and disaster recovery firm,” filed to go public. This week the firm set an initial range for its debut. The Vista Equity Partn…
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Mon 19 Oct 2020
Vivun announces $18M Series A to keep growing pre-sales platform
Vivun’s co-founder and CEO, Matt Darrow used to run pre-sales at Zuora and he saw that pre-sales team members had a lot of insight into customers. He believed if he could capture that insight, it wou…
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Fri 16 Oct 2020
Small business payments and marketing startup Fivestars raises $52.5M
It’s a difficult time for small businesses — to put it mildly. And Fivestars CEO Victor Ho said that many of the big digital platforms aren’t really helping. Ho argued that those platforms — whether…
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Fri 16 Oct 2020
WizVille Local Monitor helps small shops track Google Maps ratings of competitors
French startup WizVille is launching a new product called Local Monitor to help restaurant owners, haircut places, bakeries and all kinds of small shops track their Google Maps ratings and the rating…
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Thu 15 Oct 2020
M1 Finance closes $45M Series C mere months after it raised its $33M Series B
Just months after it announced a $33 million Series B, Chicago-based M1 Finance today disclosed a $45 Series C. The new financing event was led by Left Lane Capital, the same investor that led M1’s S…
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Thu 15 Oct 2020
Caliber, with $2.2 million in seed funding, launches a fitness coaching platform
The coronavirus pandemic has thrown the fitness space for a loop. Caliber, a startup that focuses on one-to-one personal training, is today launching a brand new digital coaching platform on the heel…
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Wed 14 Oct 2020
Spendesk raises another $18 million for its corporate card and expense service
French startup Spendesk has added $18 million to its Series B round. The company already raised $38.4 million as part of its Series B last year, which means that it raised $56.4 million as part of th…
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Wed 14 Oct 2020
Malaysian on-demand work platform GoGet lands $2 million Series A
GoGet, a Malaysian on-demand work platform, announced today that it has raised a $2 million Series A led by Monk’s Hill Ventures. The platform currently has 20,000 gig workers, who are called “GoGett…
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Tue 13 Oct 2020
Quince launches out of beta with new ‘manufacturer-to-customer’ model
The retail landscape is shifting rapidly. While D2C brands have changed the way we shop, Quince is looking to change retail even more dramatically. The brand, which raised $8.5 million in seed fundin…
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Tue 13 Oct 2020
Twilio is buying customer data startup Segment for between $3B and $4B
Sources have told TechCrunch that Twilio intends to acquire customer data startup Segment for between $3 and $4 billion. Forbes broke the story on Friday night, reporting a price tag of $3.2 billion.…
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Mon 12 Oct 2020
YC grad DigitalBrain snags $3.4M seed to streamline customer service tasks
Most startup founders have a tough road to their first round of funding, but the founders of Digital Brain had it a bit tougher than most. The two young founders survived by entering and winning hack…
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Mon 12 Oct 2020
Grid AI raises $18.6M Series A to help AI researchers and engineers bring their models to production
Grid AI, a startup founded by the inventor of the popular open-source PyTorch Lightning project, William Falcon, that aims to help machine learning engineers more efficiently, today announced that it…
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Fri 09 Oct 2020
Revolut lets you track your subscriptions, adds savings bonus in the US
Fintech startup Revolut has rolled out a handful of additional features over the past few days. The financial app lets you track all your subscriptions that you pay with your Revolut account or your …
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Fri 09 Oct 2020
Lydia partners with Tink to improve open banking features
French fintech startup Lydia is going to work with financial API startup Tink for its open banking features in its app. Lydia started as a peer-to-peer payment app and now has 4 million users in Euro…
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Thu 08 Oct 2020
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