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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- 3558
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
Meet MarsCat, a robot cat with lots of love to give and room to grow
At CES 2020, one of the more well-represented gadget categories was definitely consumer robots – but none was more adorable than MarsCat, a new robo-pet from industrial robot startup Elephant Robotic…
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Tue 14 Jan 2020
Casper files to go public, shows you can lose money selling mattresses
E-commerce phenom and D2C bright light Casper has filed to go public. The New York-based company that raised nearly $340 million while private, according to Crunchbase data, expects to trade on the N…
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Mon 13 Jan 2020
Lime is laying off about 100 people and ceasing operations in 12 markets
Lime is hoping to achieve profitability this year by laying off about 14% of its workforce and ceasing operations in 12 markets, Axios first reported. “Financial independence is our goal for 2020, an…
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Fri 10 Jan 2020
Cloudflare acquires stealthy startup S2 Systems, announces Cloudflare for Teams
Cloudflare announced that it has acquired S2 Systems, a browser isolation startup started by former Microsoft execs. The two companies did not reveal the acquisition price. Matthew Prince, co-founder…
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Thu 09 Jan 2020
Ben Horowitz will explain how to create and sustain culture at TC Early Stage SF
The hardest challenges to tackle are usually the most nebulous. Culture, for example, is hard to define, implement, cultivate and evolve… How do you structure culture within a business or organizatio…
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Wed 08 Jan 2020
As NIO and Tesla rally, Chinese EV company Lixiang said to file for US IPO
The recovery in value of several high-profile electric car companies could help move yet-private EV manufacturers out of the pit lane and onto the IPO track. On the heels of NIO’s shocking value appr…
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Tue 07 Jan 2020
Exhibit your startup at TC Sessions: Mobility 2020
Mobility mavericks get ready to strut your stuff at TC Sessions: Mobility 2020 on May 14. Don’t miss our second annual day-long conference devoted to technologies that move people and parcels around …
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Mon 06 Jan 2020
In the shadow of Amazon and Microsoft, Seattle startups are having a moment
Venture capital investment exploded across a number of geographies in 2019 despite the constant threat of an economic downturn. San Francisco, of course, remains the startup epicenter of the world, s…
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Tue 31 Dec 2019
TikTok’s national security scrutiny tightens as U.S. Navy reportedly bans popular social app
TikTok may be the fastest-growing social network in the history of the internet, but it is also quickly becoming the fastest-growing security threat and thorn in the side of U.S. China hawks. The lat…
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Thu 26 Dec 2019
MasterCard acquires security assessment startup, RiskRecon
MasterCard announced today that it is acquiring RiskRecon, a Salt Lake City startup that uses publicly available data to build security assessments of organizations. The companies did not share the p…
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Wed 25 Dec 2019
Should you pay $50K for your pitch deck? Yes, why the hell not?
Every once in a while on VC Twitter, a comment or statement seems so outlandish, so completely outrageous, that it must be — certainly has to be — false.
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Mon 23 Dec 2019
F5 acquires Shape Security for $1B
F5 got an expensive holiday present today, snagging startup Shape Security for approximately $1 billion. What the networking company gets with a shiny red ribbon is a security product that helps stop…
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Mon 23 Dec 2019
Leapfin raises $4.5M to help companies track revenue while keeping its own profitability in view
Leapfin, a startup selling corporate finance tooling, announced a $4.5 million round this morning. The funding event was led by Bowrey Capital, and included dollars from a number of former technology…
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Fri 20 Dec 2019
Blindlee is Chatroulette for dating with a safety screen
Make space for another dating app in your single life: Blindlee is Chatroulette for dating but with female-friendly guardrails in the form of a user-controlled video blur effect. The idea is pretty s…
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Thu 19 Dec 2019
#ANGELS founding partner raises $25M for debut fund Moxxie Ventures
Katie Jacobs Stanton, a former Twitter executive and co-founder of the #ANGELS investment collective, has raised $25 million for her debut venture capital fund Moxxie Ventures. As the sole general pa…
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Thu 19 Dec 2019
Why is WeWork 2.0 trying to go public?
In the wake of WeWork’sembarrassing IPO rout, you might imagine that startups working in similar markets would cool it for a bit. Perhaps they could work on cutting spending, improving their gross ma…
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Wed 18 Dec 2019
With $4B food delivery acquisition, Korea poised to enter upper tier of startup hubs
Seoul and South Korea may well be the secret startup hub that (still) no one talks about. While often dwarfed by the scale and scope of the Chinese startup market next door, South Korea has proven ov…
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Tue 17 Dec 2019
Sleek raises $5M to help companies incorporate and operate in Singapore and Hong Kong
Sleek, a startup that is making it easier for other startups and companies to incorporate and operate in Singapore and Hong Kong, said today it has extended its seed financing round to raise $5 milli…
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Tue 17 Dec 2019
Startups Weekly: This year in startups
Welcome back to Startups Weekly, a weekend newsletter that dives into the week’s noteworthy startups and venture capital news. Before I jump into today’s topic, let’s catch up a bit. Last week, I wro…
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Mon 16 Dec 2019
Chicago’s Sprout Social prices IPO mid-range at $17 per share, raising $150M
On the heels of Bill.com’s debut, Chicago-based social media software company Sprout Social priced its IPO last night at $17 per share, in the middle of its proposed $16 to $18 per-share range. Selli…
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Mon 16 Dec 2019
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