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
Exhibit for free at Disrupt 2020: Apply to TC Top Picks
Looking for a way to get your early-stage startup the massive attention it deserves? Of course, you are. One of the best ways to get in front of thousands of influencers is by exhibiting in Startup A…
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Wed 17 Jun 2020
DeepSource announce $2.6M seed round to automate static code analysis
DeepSource, a member of the Winter 2020 Y Combinator cohort, announced a $2.6 million seed investment today. The company is building a solution to help developers automate static code analysis to fin…
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Wed 17 Jun 2020
Reebelo, a Singapore-based site for refurbished electronics, raises $1.25 million seed round
Reebelo, a Singapore-based marketplace for refurbished electronics, announced it has raised a seed round of $1.25 million led by June Fund, with participation from Antler. The new funding will be use…
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Tue 16 Jun 2020
Free money for startups? It’s possible with MainStreet’s platform for economic development incentives
Startups need money. State and local governments need startups and the employment growth they offer. It should be obvious that the two groups can work together and make each other happy. Unfortunatel…
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Tue 16 Jun 2020
So you want to talk about race in tech with Ijeoma Oluo
“A lot of people denigrate the value of talking about race and racism in technological spaces,” said Ijeoma Oluo, author of So You Want to Talk About Race, which has surged to the top of the New York…
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Mon 15 Jun 2020
Uber shares tumble 5% as reports indicate it will lose the Grubhub deal to European rival
Reports this morning indicate that Uber, the American ride-hailing giant with a global footprint, will lose out on its attempt to buy Grubhub, an American food ordering and delivery service. Uber com…
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Mon 15 Jun 2020
API platform Postman delivers $150M Series B on $2B valuation
APIs provide a way to build connections to a set of disparate applications and data sources, and can help simplify a lot of the complex integration issues companies face. Postman has built an enterpr…
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Fri 12 Jun 2020
This startup just raised $12 million from top VCs to offer financial planning as an employee perk
Companies increasingly recognize that one of the greatest stresses for their employees is financial wellness. Even at innovative tech startups, people typically bump up against the limits of how much…
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Fri 12 Jun 2020
Conversa Health raises $12M Series B for its digital health platform
It’s no surprise that the coronavirus pandemic is accelerating the digital health space and so it’s also no surprise that a lot of the startups in this area are currently getting funded. Conversa Hea…
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Thu 11 Jun 2020
Vendr raises $4M from David Sacks’s Craft Ventures to reduce SaaS bills
When TechCrunch last checked in with the Y Combinator-backed Vendr in October, the company had just raised $2 million, and was crowing about its profitability. Profitable seed-stage companies aren’t …
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Thu 11 Jun 2020
Flatfile scores $7.6M seed investment to simplify data onboarding
One of the huge challenges companies like enterprise SaaS vendors face with new customers is getting customer data into their service. It’s a problem that Flatfile founders faced first hand in their …
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Wed 10 Jun 2020
Yugabyte lands $30M Series B as open source database continues to flourish
It’s been a big period of positive change for Yugabyte, makers of the open source, cloud native YugabyteDB database. Just last month they brought on former Pivotal CEO Bill Cook as CEO, and today the…
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Wed 10 Jun 2020
Acceleprise announces 26 SaaS startups from its trio of accelerators
The TechCrunch crew has worked to keep tabs on this year’s startup accelerator classes. Conventional wisdom in startup land states that great companies are founded during more trying economic times. …
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Tue 09 Jun 2020
Portobel turns food producers into direct-to-consumer businesses
A startup called Portobel is working to help food producers shift their businesses so that they can support direct-to-consumer deliveries. Portobel is backed by Heroic Ventures and led by Ranjith Kum…
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Tue 09 Jun 2020
France refines its plan to support startups
A few days ago, the French government detailed different measures as part of its support plan for startups. France already announced a $4.3 billion (€4 billion) plan back in March. The new announceme…
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Mon 08 Jun 2020
Zigazoo launches to be a ‘TikTok’ for kids, surpasses 100,000 uploads and downloads
Like many parents, Zigazoo founder Zak Ringelstein worries about his children’s screen time. His worries only grew when COVID-19 led to school shutdowns and kids came home to a world of remote learni…
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Mon 08 Jun 2020
Searchable.ai nabs additional $4M seed to continue building AI-driven search
Searchable.ai is an early-stage startup in the alpha phase of testing its initial product, but it has an idea compelling enough to attract investment, even during a pandemic. Today the company announ…
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Fri 05 Jun 2020
Cowboy releases updated e-bike with new carbon belt
Electric-bike maker Cowboy has released a new iteration of its bike, the Cowboy 3. It’s a relatively small update that should make the experience better for newcomers. The first orders will be delive…
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Fri 05 Jun 2020
NetApp to acquire Spot (formerly Spotinst) to gain cloud infrastructure management tools
When Spotinst rebranded to Spot in March, it seemed big changes were afoot for the startup, which originally helped companies find and manage cheap infrastructure known as spot instances (hence its o…
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Thu 04 Jun 2020
What the last 2 months of fundraising tells us about the future
There is just as much capital ready to deploy, and just as much investor interest, as there was earlier this year, but founders are still adjusting to new market conditions.
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Thu 04 Jun 2020
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