TechCrunch Startup News
Listen to select TechCrunch articles on startups coverage—who's raising, who's exiting, who's changing the world.
- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 4 minutes
- Episodes
- 3557
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
Bustle Digital Group shuts down The Outline as part of broader layoffs
Bustle Digital Group, owner of a portfolio of digital media properties including Bustle itself, says it laid off two dozen staffers today. That includes eliminating the entire staff of The Outline, …
00:03:27 |
Mon 06 Apr 2020
IRL pivots into virtual event calendar In Remote Life
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00:09:07 |
Fri 03 Apr 2020
Activity-monitoring startup Zensors repurposes its tech to help coronavirus response
Computer vision techniques used for commercial purposes are turning out to be valuable tools for monitoring people's behavior during the present pandemic. Zensors, a startup that uses machine learnin…
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Fri 03 Apr 2020
Hio wants to put networking events back on your remote-only calendars
The Center for Disease Control (CDC) guidelines and the COVID-19 pandemic has surged event cancellations across the country. Tech workforces have found ways to stay productive: back-to-back Zoom call…
00:06:39 |
Thu 02 Apr 2020
Take your shot: Apply to TC Top Picks at Disrupt SF 2020
TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco is known around the world as the place where the early-stage startup community gathers to learn and launch, connect and collaborate. We know COVID-19 has created chal…
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Thu 02 Apr 2020
Dining and takeout startup Allset raises $8.25M as it adapts to life under lockdown
Even though this might seem to be the absolute worst time to try to round up funding for a restaurant-related startup, Allset is announcing that it’s raised an $8.25 million Series B. It was not, to …
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Wed 01 Apr 2020
Substack offers $100K in grants for independent writers
Substack is taking several steps to support the writers and publications using its newsletter platform. After all, just as writers and newsrooms are starting to build real businesses on Substack, the…
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Wed 01 Apr 2020
Not all entrepreneurs are 30-year-old guys
There is a serious flaw in how businesses are funded, and it's the same discussion we had twenty and thirty years ago about who was at the table in managing businesses.
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Mon 30 Mar 2020
Jupe is a new startup aiming to address hospital room shortfalls with modular, mobile space
We’re already entering into a healthcare crisis due to the global coronavirus pandemic, and creative solutions to address shortfalls in supplies, protective equipment and more are being developed to …
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Mon 30 Mar 2020
Tech giants should let startups defer cloud payments
Google, Amazon, and Microsoft are the landlords. Amidst the Coronavirus economic crisis, startups need a break from paying rent. They’re in a cash crunch. Revenue has stopped flowing in, capital mark…
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Fri 27 Mar 2020
Stripe leads $20M Series A into Fast, which is building a universal checkout service for e-commerce
Early this morning, Fast, a startup building platform-agnostic login and checkout services, announced that Stripe has led a $20 million investment into its business. Prior investors Index Ventures an…
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Thu 26 Mar 2020
Mammoth Media launches CatchUp, an app that summarizes the latest news and trending content
A new app called CatchUp might be useful for anyone who’s struggling to keep up with the latest headlines, podcasts and Netflix shows. CatchUp is the latest offering from Mammoth Media, the startup b…
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Thu 26 Mar 2020
Swiss startup Creal is building display tech for the next generation of AR/VR headsets
After years of hype, the AR/VR space has certainly grown quieter as of late, but some investors are still coalescing behind a vision that the technologies could one day replace mobile if the technica…
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Wed 25 Mar 2020
Backed by Harry’s Labs, Cat Person launches its lineup of cat care products
Cat Person is a new startup trying to change the way you think of cat people — and hoping to sell that new type of cat owner a whole range of cat products. “We know what the stereotypes are, we just …
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Wed 25 Mar 2020
Ceros launches MarkUp, a design collaboration tool for live websites
When designers need to collaborate with other teams, they can currently turn to products like InVision and Zeplin. But Ceros creative director Jack Dixon said there’s a “pretty interesting gap in the…
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Tue 24 Mar 2020
Streaming service fuboTV to merge with virtual entertainment technology company, FaceBank
Over-the-top live TV streaming service fuboTV announced today it plans to merge with the virtual entertainment technology company, FaceBank Group. The proposed merger would retain the name fuboTV for…
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Tue 24 Mar 2020
YC startup Felix wants to replace antibiotics with programmable viruses
Right now the world is at war. But this is no ordinary war. It’s a fight with an organism so small we can only detect it through use of a microscope — and if we don’t stop it, it could kill millions …
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Mon 23 Mar 2020
Hospital droid Diligent Robotics raises $10M to assist nurses
28% of a nurse’s time is wasted on low-skilled tasks like fetching medical tools. We need them focused on the complex and compassionate work of treating patients, especially amid the coronavirus outb…
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Mon 23 Mar 2020
Startups rethink what it means to be high-touch during a pandemic
Glossier NYC, in normal times, is typically visited by more than 2,000 people every day, with lines of people from all over the world curling out the door. And when you enter, it’s tempting to touch,…
00:11:23 |
Fri 20 Mar 2020
ReMarkable’s redesigned e-paper tablet is more powerful and more papery
It's no secret I'm a fan of the reMarkable, a tablet with a paper-like display that's focused on text and sketching rather than rich media and games. The sequel to the original, announced today, look…
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Thu 19 Mar 2020
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