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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- 3558
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
Venture capitalists have found a new home to brag and debate: PrimeTime VC
Last week, we talked a bit about how investors are seeking new techniques to bring humanity back to their deal flow and sourcing mechanisms, beyond the boring Zoom call. The newest strategy I’ve seen…
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Thu 24 Sep 2020
Five years after creating Traefik application proxy, open source project hits 2B downloads
Five years ago, Traefik Labs founder and CEO Emile Vauge was working on a project deploying thousands of microservices and he was lacking a cloud native application proxy that could handle this kind …
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Wed 23 Sep 2020
Mailchimp launches new AI tools as it continues its transformation to marketing platform
Mailchimp may have started out as an easy to use newsletter tool, but that was almost 20 years ago. Today’s company still does email, but at its core, it is now a marketing automation platform for sm…
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Wed 23 Sep 2020
Pure Watercraft ramps up its electric outboard motors with a $23M series A
Electric power only started making sense for land vehicles about ten years ago, but now the technology is ready to make the jump into the water. Pure Watercraft hopes that its electric outboard motor…
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Tue 22 Sep 2020
Ride-hailing was hit hard by COVID-19. Grab’s Russell Cohen on how the company adapted.
Ride-hailing services around the world have been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic, and Grab was no exception. The company is one of the most highly-valued tech startups in Southeast Asia, where it o…
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Tue 22 Sep 2020
With $100M in funding, Playco is already a mobile gaming unicorn
Playco is a new mobile gaming startup created by Game Closure co-founder Michael Carter and Zynga co-founder Justin Waldron, as well as game producers Takeshi Otsuka and Teddy Cross. Although the Tok…
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Mon 21 Sep 2020
Amid layoffs and allegations of fraud, the FBI has arrested NS8’s CEO following its $100+ million summer financing
The tagline from today’s announcement from the United States Attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York says it all: “Adam Rogas Allegedly Raised $123 Million from Investors Using Financ…
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Mon 21 Sep 2020
Ron Howard and Brian Grazer say that their accelerator can help diversify Hollywood
Impact Creative Systems (formerly Imagine Impact) is bringing a startup accelerator-style approach to finding fresh creative talent, and it announced this morning that, with funding from venture capi…
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Fri 18 Sep 2020
X1 Card is a credit card based on your income, not your credit score
There are many reasons why you could have a good or a bad credit score. But if you’re just entering the job market, you may end up with reliable income and a low limit on your credit card. X1 Card wa…
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Fri 18 Sep 2020
The art of pivoting with Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins and Jessica Matthews
Building and growing a startup is hard, but pivoting said startup into something new and then achieving that same growth is even harder. But it’s not impossible. Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins, founder and CE…
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Thu 17 Sep 2020
Jefa is a challenger bank for women without a bank account
Meet Jefa, a startup that is building a challenger bank specifically designed for women in Latin America. The company is building a product that focuses on solving the problems that women face when o…
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Thu 17 Sep 2020
Quantum startup CEO suggests we are only five years away from a quantum desktop computer
Today at TechCrunch Disrupt 2020, leaders from three quantum computing startups joined TechCrunch editor Frederic Lardinois to discuss the future of the technology. IonQ CEO and president Peter Chapm…
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Wed 16 Sep 2020
Data virtualization service Varada raises $12M
Varada, a Tel Aviv-based startup that focuses on making it easier for businesses to query data across services, today announced that it has raised a $12 million Series A round led by Israeli early-st…
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Wed 16 Sep 2020
Bank-as-a-service startup Swan helps other companies issue cards, accounts and IBANs
Meet Swan, a new French startup that wants to let other companies offer financial services by issuing cards, bank accounts and IBANs with just a few lines of codes. The company could be considered as…
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Tue 15 Sep 2020
DaVinci Kitchen is building a robotic pasta-making kiosk
The robotics industry is having a major moment amid the uncertainty of the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s true that category has been an exciting target for investments for a number of years now, but labor …
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Tue 15 Sep 2020
Airtable raises $185M and launches new low-code and automation features
The spreadsheet-centric database and no-code platform Airtable today announced that it has raised a $185 million Series D funding round, putting the company at a $2.585 billion post-money valuation. …
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Mon 14 Sep 2020
Toucan raises $3M to teach you new languages as you browse the web
Toucan has developed a Chrome browser extension designed for anyone who wants to learn a new language but hasn’t found the motivation or the time. Once installed, the extension scans the text of any …
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Mon 14 Sep 2020
Carbon Health to launch 100 pop-up COVID-19 testing clinics across the U.S.
Primary care health tech startup Carbon Health has added a new element to its “omnichannel” healthcare approach with the launch of a new pop-up clinic model that is already live in San Francisco, LA,…
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Fri 11 Sep 2020
Diffblue launches a free community edition of its automated Java unit testing tool
Diffblue, a spin-out from Oxford University, uses machine learning to help developers automatically create unit tests for their Java code. Since few developers enjoy writing unit tests to ensure that…
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Fri 11 Sep 2020
Sprinklr raises $200M on $2.7B valuation three years after last investment
Sprinklr has been busy the last few years acquiring a dozen companies, then rewriting their code base and incorporating them into the company’s customer experience platform. Today, the late-stage sta…
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Thu 10 Sep 2020
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