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
Dog food startup Sundays launches its air-dried kibble alternative
Michael Waxman, co-founder and CEO of dog food startup Sundays, acknowledged that dog owners have no shortage of options when it comes to feeding their beloved pets — but he still thinks there’s room…
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Thu 13 Aug 2020
Adaptive Shield raises $4M for its SaaS security platform
Adaptive Shield, a Tel Aviv-based security startup, is coming out of stealth today and announcing its $4 million seed round led by Vertex Ventures Israel. The company’s platform helps businesses prot…
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Wed 12 Aug 2020
Zin Boats reinvents the electric speedboat in a bid to become the Tesla of the sea
The automotive industry is knee deep in the vast transition to electric, but one place where gas is still going strong is out on the water. Zin Boats wants to start what you might call a sea change b…
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Wed 12 Aug 2020
Parsable scores $60M Series D as pandemic forces faster digitization of industrial sector
It seems the pandemic has forced the business world to digitize faster, and the industrial sector is no different. Parsable, a San Francisco startup that is helping digitize industrial front line wor…
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Tue 11 Aug 2020
DoubleVerify says ad fraudsters are using public domain content to create fake TV apps
The team at DoubleVerify, a company that helps advertisers eliminate fraud and ensure brand safety, said that it’s recently identified a new tactic used by ad fraudsters seeking to make money on inte…
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Tue 11 Aug 2020
Sign up for the next Pitchers & Pitches competition on 8/13
Here’s a shout out to all the early-stage founders attending Disrupt 2020. Don’t forget to register for our next Pitchers & Pitches — on August 13 — and get ready to hone your 60-second pitch to a r…
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Mon 10 Aug 2020
Clean.io raises $5M to continue its battle against malicious adtech
Clean.io, a startup that helps digital publishers protect themselves from malicious ads, recently announced that it has raised $5 million in Series A funding. The Baltimore-based company isn’t the on…
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Mon 10 Aug 2020
Crossbeam announces $25M Series B to keep growing partnerships platform
As sales teams partner with other companies, they go through a process called account mapping to find common customers and prospects. This is usually a highly manual activity tracked in spreadsheets.…
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Sat 08 Aug 2020
What Q2 fundraising data tells us about the rest of 2020
If the current level of interest represents the new normal for VCs, we expect it to only increase as we enter the fall.
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00:08:19 |
Fri 07 Aug 2020
PandaDoc announces second Series B extension worth $30M
PandaDoc, the startup that provides a fully digital sales document workflow from proposal to electronic signature to collecting payment, announced a $30 million Series B extension today, making it th…
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Thu 06 Aug 2020
Krisp snags $5M A round as demand grows for its voice-isolating algorithm
Krisp’s smart noise suppression tech, which silences ambient sounds and isolates your voice for calls, arrived just in time. The company got out in front of the global shift to virtual presence, turn…
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Thu 06 Aug 2020
YC-backed Statiq wants to bootstrap India’s EV charging network
Electric vehicles (EVs) are spreading throughout the world. While Tesla has drawn the most attention in the United States with its luxurious and cutting-edge cars, EVs are becoming a mainstay in mark…
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Wed 05 Aug 2020
Intercom hires a CFO as it ramps towards an IPO
Today Intercom announced that it has hired a chief financial officer (CFO) as it ramps towards an IPO. The unicorn also promoted its COO to the CEO role earlier this year. The company’s recent CEO, K…
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Wed 05 Aug 2020
EventGeek relaunches as Circa to help marketers embrace virtual events
EventGeek was a Y Combinator-backed startup that offered tools to help large enterprises manage the logistics of their events. So with the COVID-19 pandemic essentially eliminating large-scale confer…
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Tue 04 Aug 2020
Cisco acquires Modcam to make Meraki smart camera portfolio even smarter
As the Internet of Things, proliferates, security cameras are getting smarter. Today, these devices have machine learning capability that help the camera automatically identify what it’s looking at —…
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Mon 03 Aug 2020
Recruiting for diversity in VC
Dan Miller Contributor Share on Twitter Dan is a Partner at True Search where he leads the firm's Investment Professional practice, having worked with many top VC & PE firms in their senior hiring ef…
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Mon 03 Aug 2020
Are option grants promoting gender and racial inequity?
I want to believe that companies that promise racial and gender equity in compensation make it happen, but not all do.
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00:06:27 |
Fri 31 Jul 2020
Point wants to provide credit card rewards with debit cards
Point, a new challenger bank in the U.S., is launching publicly today with an invite system. While Point is technically providing a bank account, the company focuses on rewards associated with a debi…
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Fri 31 Jul 2020
Singapore-based Volopay wants to be the “Brex of Southeast Asia”
Small- to medium-sized companies that do a lot of international business have to deal with two big headaches: high foreign exchange fees and corporate expense tracking. Volopay, a Singapore-based fin…
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Thu 30 Jul 2020
Explorium reels in $31M Series B as data discovery platform grows
In a world with growing amounts of data, finding the right set for a particular machine learning model can be a challenge. Explorium has created a platform to make that an easier task, and today the …
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Thu 30 Jul 2020
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