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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- 3558
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
Iron Ox raises $20 million for its robotic farms
Bay Area-based Iron Ox today announced a $20 million Series B. The funding, led by Pathbreaker Venture and family office firms, brings the robotics company’s total funding up to $45 million to date. …
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Thu 10 Sep 2020
Snyk bags another $200M at $2.6B valuation 9 months after last raise
When we last reported on Snyk in January, eons ago in COVID time, the company announced $150 million investment on a valuation of over $1 billion. Today, barely nine months later, it announced anothe…
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Wed 09 Sep 2020
Snowflake’s IPO could value it as high as $24B, Salesforce and Berkshire to invest
On the heels of new filings from both Sumo Logic and JFrog, Snowflake, a venture-backed unicorn looking to go public on the strength of its data-focused cloud service, set an initial price range for …
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Wed 09 Sep 2020
Revolut launches its financial app in Japan
Fintech startup Revolut is expanding to Japan. After testing the service with 10,000 users, anybody can now sign up and open an account. The company originally obtained its authorization to operate f…
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Tue 08 Sep 2020
Why a startup with $10M in annual revenue took 18 months to get VC funding
Back in 2006, Joseph Heller went to China where he spent the next decade learning about the manufacturing business. Based on that experience he eventually built a startup called The Studio. The idea …
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Tue 08 Sep 2020
Lokalise raises $6 million to make it easier to localize your product
Meet Lokalise, a Latvian startup that focuses on translation and localization of apps, websites, games and more. The company provides a software-as-a-service product that helps you improve your workf…
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Mon 07 Sep 2020
Exhibitors at Disrupt 2020: Register now to meet accelerators next week
Disrupt 2020 is all about helping startups find and create ways to drive their business forward in these most challenging times. We partnered with cela to give exhibitors in Digital Startup Alley one…
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Mon 07 Sep 2020
Optimizely acquired by content management company Episerver
Episerver is announcing that it has reached an agreement to acquire Optimizely for an undisclosed sum. Optimizely was founded in 2009 by Dan Siroker and Pete Koomen. It became synonymous with A/B tes…
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Fri 04 Sep 2020
48 hours left on early-bird prices to TC Sessions: Mobility 2020
We’re just about a month away from launching TC Sessions: Mobility 2020, but you have only 48 hours left to save yourself $100 on the price of admission. Join the global mobility community on October…
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Fri 04 Sep 2020
Workplace management startup Legion raises $22 million
Legion, an artificial intelligence driven platform for workplace management, has raised a $22 million series B round led by Stripes with participation from Workday Ventures and others. Legion is desi…
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Thu 03 Sep 2020
Transposit scores $35M to build data-driven runbooks for faster disaster recovery
Transposit is a company built by engineers to help engineers, and one big way to help them is to get systems up and running faster when things go wrong — as they always will at some point. Transposit…
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Thu 03 Sep 2020
Capchase raises $4.6M to deliver fast cash to SaaS companies
As a business model, SaaS has expanded to epic size. A number of major SaaS companies filed to go public last week, and there are now thousands of SaaS startups growing all around the world. That sca…
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Wed 02 Sep 2020
Fresh off $200M Series D, Gong acquires early stage startup Vayo
Gong announced a $200 million Series D investment just last month, and loaded with fresh cash, the company wasted no time taking advantage. Today, it announced it was buying early stage Isreali sales…
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Wed 02 Sep 2020
Owl Ventures’ new pair of funds gives edtech a $585 million boost
Edtech just keeps on booming. Today, Owl Ventures, a San Francisco-based education technology fund whose portfolio includes Byju’s, Labster, Masterclass and Quizlet, announced that it has closed a pa…
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Tue 01 Sep 2020
Steno raises $3.5 million led by First Round to become an extension of law offices
The global legal services industry was worth $849 billion dollars in 2017 and is expected to become a trillion dollar industry by the end of next year. Little wonder that Steno, an L.A.-based startup…
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Tue 01 Sep 2020
Banks aren’t as stupid as enterprise AI and fintech entrepreneurs think
The right question is almost never whether to buy software or build it internally. Instead, banks have often worked to walk the difficult but smarter path right down the middle.
Learn more about your…
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Mon 31 Aug 2020
Register for our last pitch-off next week on September 2
It’s time again to start warming up your pitching arm. Our next Pitchers & Pitches session takes place next week on September 2. Register today! Pitchers & Pitches sessions combine critique and compe…
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Mon 31 Aug 2020
Fondeadora is a Mexican challenger bank that just raised $14 million
Meet Fondeadora, a fintech startup based in Mexico City that wants to build a full-stack neobank. The company just raised a $14 million Series A round led by Gradient Ventures, Google’s AI-focused ve…
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Fri 28 Aug 2020
Property tech startup Habi raises $10M to drive expansion in Latin America
When Brynne McNulty Rojas moved to Bogotá, Columbia four years ago, she encountered a fragmented real estate industry that lacked a central database for consumers to find or compare homes. Rojas was …
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Fri 28 Aug 2020
Narrative raises $8.5M as it launches a new data marketplace
Narrative has raised $8.5 million in Series A funding and is launching a new product designed to further simplify the process of buying and selling data. I’ve already written about the company’s exis…
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Thu 27 Aug 2020
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