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
Lili raises $10M for its freelancer banking app
Lili, a startup building banking products to meet the needs of freelance workers, is announcing that it has raised $10 million in seed funding. The startup takes its name from its founders, CEO Lilac…
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Wed 03 Jun 2020
Overjet raises $7.85M for its dental-focused AI tech
Overjet, a startup focused on using AI to help dentists and insurance companies understand dental scans, today announced that it has raised $7.85 million in what it describes as a seed round. Accordi…
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Wed 03 Jun 2020
Cisco to acquire internet monitoring solution ThousandEyes
When Cisco bought AppDynamics in 2017 for $3.7 billion just before the IPO, the company sent a clear signal it wanted to move beyond its pure network hardware roots into the software monitoring side …
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Tue 02 Jun 2020
Jeremy Conrad left his own VC firm to start a company, and investors like what he’s building
When this editor first met Jeremy Conrad, it was in 2014, at the 8,000-square-foot former fish factory that was home to Lemnos, a hardware-focused venture firm that Conrad had cofounded three years e…
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Mon 01 Jun 2020
Stackin’ raises $12.6M Series B to help millennials navigate the crowded fintech space
Fintech’s funding boom for the past decade has led to a flurry of new consumer startups tackling a wide range of money-related issues, from saving apps to investing platforms. Should you download Rob…
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Mon 01 Jun 2020
BeeHero smartens up hives to provide ‘pollination as a service’ with $4M seed round
Vast monoculture farms outstripped the ability of bee populations to pollinate them naturally long ago, but the techniques that have arisen to fill that gap are neither precise nor modern. Israeli st…
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Fri 29 May 2020
Wasabi announces $30M in debt financing as cloud storage business continues to grow
We may be in the thick of a pandemic with all of the economic fallout that comes from that, but certain aspects of technology don’t change no matter the external factors. Storage is one of them. In f…
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Fri 29 May 2020
Gogoro unveils Eeyo, its new ebike brand
Gogoro, the mobility company best known for its SmartScooters, revealed details about its new ebike brand Eeyo today. Eeyo will launch with two lightweight models, both powered by the SmartWheel, a s…
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Thu 28 May 2020
Angling to be eyewear’s next big thing, Futuremood launches with mood-altering sunglasses
Austin Soldner and Michael Schaecher, the co-founders of the new sunglasses brand Futuremood, met at the newly formed San Francisco research and development lab created by the high end audio tech dev…
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Thu 28 May 2020
LeverEdge wants to get you and your friends a volume discount on student loans
Student loans are both a trillion-dollar debt category and also one of the most popular mini-verticals out there in fintech startup investing right now. There are dozens if not hundreds of companies …
00:07:27 |
Wed 27 May 2020
AI is more data-hungry than ever, and DefinedCrowd raises $50M B round to feed it
As AI has grown from niche to mission-critical technology, the companies that enable it have multiplied and in many cases prospered. A good example of that success is DefinedCrowd, which has gone fro…
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Wed 27 May 2020
Benepass raises $2.4 million to help employees get the most out of their tax-advantaged benefits
Tax-advantaged benefits, like flexible spending accounts, can save employees in the United States thousands of dollars annually, and reduce the amount of payroll taxes companies pay. But those benefi…
00:08:05 |
Tue 26 May 2020
Work collaboration unicorn Notion is blocked in China
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00:04:23 |
Mon 25 May 2020
PathSpot sells a scanner that fact checks your handwashing efficacy
The novel coronavirus disease has reminded millions that handwashing is a great way to avoid preventable diseases. Christine Schindler, the CEO and co-founder of PathSpot, has been preparing for the …
00:06:20 |
Mon 25 May 2020
Statespace, the platform that trains gamers, raises $15 million
Statespace has today raised a $15 million Series A financing round led by Khosla, with partner Samir Kaul joining the board. Existing investors, such as FirstMark Capital, Lux and Expa, also particip…
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Fri 22 May 2020
Algolia gets a new CEO as founder steps down
Search-as-a-service startup Algolia is announcing some changes at the helm of the startup. Co-founder and CEO Nicolas Dessaigne is transitioning to a non-operational role at the company. He’ll still …
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Fri 22 May 2020
The future of flight can be energy-efficient
Can eVTOL vehicles be green? Specifically, can eVTOL vehicles be more energy-efficient than cars?
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Thu 21 May 2020
FireHydrant lands $8M Series A for disaster management tool
When I spoke to Robert Ross, CEO and co-founder at FireHydrant last week, we had a technology adventure. First the audio wasn’t working correctly on Zoom, then Google Meet. Finally we used cell phone…
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Wed 20 May 2020
Buzzy Ethereum wallet app Argent comes out of stealth
Argent is launching the first public version of its Ethereum wallet for iOS and Android. The company has been available as a limited beta for a few months with a few thousand users. But it has alread…
00:07:21 |
Wed 20 May 2020
Notion drops usage limit on its personal free tier
Notion, a popular note-taking and wiki-creation app, revamped their personal pricing plans today stripping many of the user limitations from the free tier, bringing it on par with the functionality o…
00:03:29 |
Tue 19 May 2020
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