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
Course Hero, a profitable edtech unicorn, raises rare cash
Like any successful founder, Andrew Grauer had bright, long-term ambitions for Course Hero from the moment he launched it in 2006. He started the business to create a place where students could ask q…
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Thu 27 Aug 2020
Payments services company Finix adds $30 million to its Series B
Finix, a startup that provides payments-related services to other companies, announced it has extended its Series B financing with a $30 million investment led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Amer…
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Wed 26 Aug 2020
Eden intros SaaS tools in a bid to become a more comprehensive office management platform
Eden, the office management platform founded by Joe du Bey, is today announcing the launch of several new enterprise software features. The company, which offers a marketplace for office managers to …
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Wed 26 Aug 2020
Visual collaboration startup MURAL raises huge $118M Series B
This morning MURAL announced that it has raised $118 million in an outsized Series B. The visual collaboration startup provides a whiteboard-like digital environment that allows for users to cooperat…
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Tue 25 Aug 2020
Conan is coming to Disrupt 2020
In 2010, TV show host Conan O’Brien was abruptly asked to give up the time slot he’d been handed just six months earlier by his longtime employer NBC. Instead, he famously gave the network the figura…
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Tue 25 Aug 2020
SugarCRM acquires Node to gain predictive customer intelligence
SugarCRM announced this morning it has acquired customer intelligence startup, Node. The companies did not reveal the purchase price, but the deal has closed. While Sugar gains a ton of AI expertise,…
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Mon 24 Aug 2020
Overlooked teams up with college newspapers to build a news-focused social network
George Sehremelis is building what he calls a “social news network,” with the aim of combatting the spread of misinformation and fake news online. “My goal has always been make an impact on the 2020 …
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Mon 24 Aug 2020
Cobalt.io grabs $29M Series B to continue building out pentesting platform
The promise of SaaS has always been about taking tedious, expensive manual tasks and finding a way to build a platform to automate them. Cobalt.io is doing that with pentesting, the process of testin…
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Fri 21 Aug 2020
DoorDash expands with on-demand grocery delivery
DoorDash is announcing that customers can now order groceries through the DoorDash app from partners including Smart & Final, Meijer and Fresh Thyme. Additional stores like Hy-vee and Gristedes/D’Agn…
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Fri 21 Aug 2020
Airbnb has confidentially filed to go public
In a turn of fortune, Airbnb today announced that it has filed to go public, albeit confidentially. The move puts the home-sharing service on a path to a public offering sooner rather than later, and…
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Thu 20 Aug 2020
Finmark wants to put sophisticated financial modeling within reach of startups
Finmark, a member of Summer 2020 Y Combinator cohort, is not your typical YC startup. In fact company co-founder Rami Essaid has already built Distil, a security startup and saw it through to exit wh…
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Thu 20 Aug 2020
Meet the startup that helped Microsoft build the world of Flight Simulator
Microsoft’s new Flight Simulator is a technological marvel that sets a new standard for the genre. But to recreate a world that feels real and alive and contains billions of buildings all in the righ…
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Wed 19 Aug 2020
Movable Ink raises $30M as it expands its personalization technology beyond email marketing
Movable Ink, a company that helps businesses deliver more personalized and relevant email marketing, is announcing that it has raised $30 million in Series funding. The company will be 10 years old i…
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Wed 19 Aug 2020
Attabotics raises a $50M Series C for its warehouse fulfillment robots
The uptick in robotics funding continues this week with a big round for Calgary, Alberta’s Attabotics. The warehouse fulfillment startup announced a $50 million Series C, led — interestingly enough —…
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Tue 18 Aug 2020
India’s OneCard credit card-maker FPL Technologies lands $10 million
A 20-month-old startup in India founded by a group of banking veterans that has built a mobile-first credit card and is improving the experience users have with credit cards has secured $10 million i…
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Tue 18 Aug 2020
AutoX launches its RoboTaxi service in Shanghai, competing with Didi’s pilot program
Autonomous vehicle startup AutoX announced the public launch of of its self-driving taxi service in Shanghai today. Called simply RoboTaxi, AutoX’s offering already faces competition from Didi, China…
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Mon 17 Aug 2020
Root AI raises $7.2M seed round to deploy its harvesting robot amid COVID-19-fueled demand
By all accounts, the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the adoption of robotics and automation by months, if not years. The reasons are fairly clear — robotics don’t call in sick, nor are they diseas…
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Mon 17 Aug 2020
Labster lands new cash to bring its virtual reality science lab software to Asia
You could Zoom call into your science class, or you could conduct a lab experiment in virtual reality. During the coronavirus pandemic, the latter has never felt more full of potential. The global ne…
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Fri 14 Aug 2020
Cube closes $5M Seed round to scale its financial planning software
This morning Cube announced that it has closed a Seed round worth just over $5 million. The software startup, focused on financial planning and analysis (FP&A) work, raised $3.8 million of the total …
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Fri 14 Aug 2020
Gong raises another $200M on $2.2B valuation
For the third time since last February, Gong has raised a significant sum. In February, the company scored $40 million. In December, it grabbed another $65 million, and today it was $200 million on a…
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Thu 13 Aug 2020
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