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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- 2018 - 2025
WellSet is doing a limited launch in Los Angeles of its alternative medicine booking platform
WellSet is doing a limited launch in Los Angeles of its alternative medicine booking platform Alternative and holistic healthcare seekers in the Los Angeles area have a new service they can turn to i…
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Wed 04 Mar 2020
Podium rolls out payments for its customer-focused local business SaaS service
Podium, a Utah-based SaaS company focused on small business customer interactions, added payments technology to its product suite today. The move accretes a new income stream to the company’s quickly…
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Wed 04 Mar 2020
Le Wagon raises $19 million to build a global coding bootcamp
French startup Le Wagon has raised its first round of funding after many years of bootstrapping. The company closed a $19 million funding round (€17 million) a few months ago. Cathay Capital is leadi…
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Tue 03 Mar 2020
mParticle raises $45M to help marketers unify customer data
mParticle, which helps companies like Spotify, Paypal and Starbucks umanage their customer data, is announcing that it has raised $45 million in Series D funding.
Learn more about your ad choices. Vi…
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Tue 03 Mar 2020
End Game, the startup behind Zombs Royale, raises $3M
End Game Interactive CEO Yang C. Liu has a refreshingly straightforward description of what he and his co-founder Luke Zbihlyj are up to: “We’re just building games. And to be honest, we don’t know w…
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Mon 02 Mar 2020
Notivize makes it easier for non-technical teams to optimize app notifications
A new startup called Notivize aims to give product teams direct access to one of their most important tools for increasing user engagement — notifications. The company has been testing the product wi…
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Mon 02 Mar 2020
Indian research firm Convergence Catalyst is ready for its second act
A 9-year-old is smashing the shuttle far and wide, and frantically pacing back and forth on the court in Bangalore, India, as her competition refuses to back down. Her rival is not a human. She is pl…
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Fri 28 Feb 2020
Salesforce grabs Vlocity for $1.33B, a startup with $1B valuation
It’s been a big news day for Salesforce . It announced that Co-CEO Keith Block would be stepping down, and that it had acquired Vlocity for $1.33 billion in an all-cash deal. It’s no coincidence that…
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Fri 28 Feb 2020
Chicago’s M1 Finance, a consumer-focused fintech platform, reaches $1B under management
Eagle-eyed readers will recall that we mentioned M1 Finance earlier today in our look at a few trends in the fintech industry. We’re back with the firm this afternoon as it has a bit of news that’s w…
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Thu 27 Feb 2020
Vice President Mike Pence will lead the US response to the COVID-19 outbreak
In an early-evening press conference, President Donald Trump tapped Vice President Mike Pence to lead the U.S. response to the COVID-19 outbreak that has spread through Europe, Asia and Latin Americ…
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Thu 27 Feb 2020
New York’s BounceX reaches $100M ARR, rebrands
Welcome to the $100 million ARR club, BounceX. This morning (evening, timezone depending), BounceX, a New York-based marketing technology startup, announced that it has reached the $100 million annu…
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Wed 26 Feb 2020
Startup malaise, startup ambition
Recapped. Layoffs. Slowdown. CEO transition. Budget cuts. Downsizing. In spite of a spate of massive startup exits the last few months, culminating in fintech’s shining moment yesterday with Intuit’s…
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Wed 26 Feb 2020
Revolut raises $500 million at $5.5 billion valuation
Fintech startup Revolut is raising a large Series D round of funding. TCV is leading the $500 million round, valuing the company at $5.5 billion. Over the past few years, Revolut has raised $836 mill…
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Tue 25 Feb 2020
With cinnamon, fruit and mint-flavored nicotine gum, is LA’s Lucy Goods the next Juul?
With cinnamon, fruit and mint-flavored nicotine gum, is LA’s Lucy Goods the next Juul? David Renteln, the Los Angeles-based co-founder of Soylent and the co-founder and chief executive of new nicotin…
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Tue 25 Feb 2020
Fintech startups raised $34B in 2019
Financial services startups raised less money in 2019 than they did in 2018 as VC firms looked to back late stage firms and focused on developing markets, a new report has revealed. According to rese…
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Mon 24 Feb 2020
Tier Mobility, the European e-scooter rentals startup, adds another ~$40M to its Series B
Tier, the European e-scooter rentals startup that operates in 55 cities across 11 countries, has topped up its funding for the second time in four months. The Berlin-based company has extended its Se…
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Mon 24 Feb 2020
A group of ex-NSA and Amazon engineers are building a ‘GitHub for data’
Six months ago or thereabouts, a group of engineers and developers with backgrounds from the National Security Agency, Google and Amazon Web Services had an idea. Data is valuable for helping develop…
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Fri 21 Feb 2020
As Morgan Stanley buys ETrade, Robinhood preps social trading
Before it was worth $7.6 billion, the original idea for Robinhood was a stock trading social network. At my kitchen table in San Francisco in 2013, the founders envisioned an app for sharing hot tips…
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Fri 21 Feb 2020
Liquid Death raises $9M to make canned water cool
It sounds like Liquid Death has won over investors with its promise to “murder your thirst” — the startup is announcing that it’s raised $9 million in Series A funding. Liquid Death sells water in a …
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Thu 20 Feb 2020
BluBracket scores $6.5M seed to help secure code in distributed environments
BluBracket, a new security startup from the folks who brought you Vera, came out of stealth today and announced a $6.5 million seed investment. Unusual Ventures led the round with participation by Po…
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Thu 20 Feb 2020
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