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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Robinhood raises $280M, pushing its valuation to $8.3B
As expected, Robinhood has closed a new round of capital. The late-stage, consumer investing app announced today that it has closed a $280 million Series F funding at an $8.3 billion valuation. This …
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Tue 05 May 2020
Tech stocks open lower ahead of another busy earnings week
The optimism that confounded many in April may be slipping in May, as stocks fell during Friday’s trading session and are down again this morning. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite is off 0.55% this mo…
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Mon 04 May 2020
Index and Credo lead a $2.75M seed in anti-fraud tech, Resistant AI
Prague based Resistant AI has nabbed a $2.75M seed round. The security startup’s machine learning technology is designed to be deployed on top of AI systems used for financial decision making to prot…
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Mon 04 May 2020
Determined AI makes its machine learning infrastructure free and open source
Machine learning has quickly gone from niche field to crucial component of innumerable software stacks, but that doesn’t mean it’s easy. The tools needed to create and manage it are enterprise-grade …
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Fri 01 May 2020
Early stage investor The Fund expands beyond NYC with new partners in LA and London
The Fund, an early-stage investment firm with a memorably straightforward name, is looking beyond New York City as it starts investing its second fund. Founders Jenny Fielding (who’s also managing di…
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Fri 01 May 2020
Biloba lets you chat with a doctor if you have questions about your children
Meet Biloba, a French startup that wants to leverage tech to make it easier to keep your children healthy. The company recently launched a new mobile app that lets you chat with a doctor whenever you…
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Thu 30 Apr 2020
Utah-based seed fund Kickstart closes fifth fund worth $110M
Continuing our week’s coverage of new venture funds, this morning let’s dig into Kickstart’s latest capital pool. Kickstart Seed Fund, based in Utah’s Salt Lake City, has raised a $110 million Fund V…
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Thu 30 Apr 2020
Smart contact lens startup Mojo Vision raises $51M
Mojo Vision’s technology still felt early-stage when we met with them back at CES. But the demos we did see were enough to convince us that there really could be something to the California startup’s…
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Wed 29 Apr 2020
Investors, startup founders in India pool $13M to fund projects that fight coronavirus
More than 150 investors and entrepreneurs in India are funding dozens of projects in a bid to help millions better combat the COVID-19 epidemic and help the nation’s booming startup ecosystem withsta…
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Wed 29 Apr 2020
OMERS Ventures announces a new $750M fund for investing in North America, Europe
OMERS Ventures, the venture capital arm of the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System (OMERS), has put together a new, $750 million fund to invest in both Europe and North America. The capital…
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Tue 28 Apr 2020
Smart ring maker Motiv acquired by ‘digital identity’ company
We weren’t alone in being impressed by Motiv. The startup helped flip the script on wearables by essentially cramming a fitness tracker’s worth of technology into a ring. This week, San Francisco ‘di…
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Tue 28 Apr 2020
Manufacturing startup Divergent 3D reduces staff by one-third
Divergent, the Los Angeles-based startup aiming to revolutionize vehicle manufacturing, has cut about one-third of its staff amid the COVID-19 pandemic that has upended startups and major corporation…
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Mon 27 Apr 2020
If we let the US Postal Service die, we’ll be killing small businesses with it
If we continue to view the USPS as simply a balance sheet and optimize for profitability in a vacuum, we ultimately stand to lose far more than we gain.
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Mon 27 Apr 2020
Opera Event closes $5M Series A for its esports-focused influencer platform
Today Opera Event, an influencer software service, announced that it closed a $5 million Series A. The Oakland-based startup raised the capital from new lead investor Antera, with prior investors Atl…
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Fri 24 Apr 2020
Atlanta’s SingleOps raises $6M for its outdoor-care focused software business
Today SingleOps, an Atlanta-based software startup, announced that it has raised $6 million in new capital. The startup’s service is built to support companies that deal with outdoor work like landsc…
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Fri 24 Apr 2020
Lambda School cuts staff and exec pay amid market uncertainty
Online coding bootcamp Lambda School is the latest startup to announce layoffs, writing in a blog post that it’s made the “difficult decision” to cut 19 staff from roles across the company. The eight…
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Thu 23 Apr 2020
Human Capital is an engineering talent agency and a VC fund all in one
Michael Ovitz didn’t invent the idea of a talent agency, but one might argue that he perfected it. He founded the CAA in 1975, and grew it into the world’s leading talent agency, serving as chairman …
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Thu 23 Apr 2020
Disruptor Beam relaunches as gaming infrastructure-maker Beamable
Disruptor Beam, the mobile gaming startup behind Star Trek Timelines, has a new name and a new business. It’s now calling itself Beamable, and it’s selling a set of tools to help game developers add …
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Wed 22 Apr 2020
Confluent lands another big round with $250M Series E on $4.2B valuation
The pandemic may feel all-encompassing at the moment, but Confluent announced a $250 million Series E today, showing that major investment continues in spite of the dire economic situation at the mom…
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Wed 22 Apr 2020
NextView Ventures is launching a remote accelerator for startups
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Tue 21 Apr 2020
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