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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- every day
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- Episodes
- 3557
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
Cocoon’s social app for close friends gets VC backing to chase Path’s dream
You may have heard the pitch before, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram aren’t homes for your real friends anymore because they’re too big, too commercial and too influencer-y, the result is that your m…
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Wed 27 Nov 2019
Weekend Fund raises $10M for second early-stage fund
Product Hunt founder Ryan Hoover has raised another $10 million to invest in nascent upstarts viaWeekend Fund. The news represents the firm’s second fundraise after a $3 million debut angel fund tha…
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Tue 26 Nov 2019
Artiphon launches a Kickstarter campaign for its new musical device Orba
Artiphon, the startup that previously raised more than $1 million on Kickstarter for a device called the Instrument 1, has launched a new campaign for its latest invention, Orba. Co-founder and CEO M…
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Tue 26 Nov 2019
Max Q: NASA signs up new Moon delivery companies
Sign up here to receive Max Q weekly in your inbox, starting December 15. There were lot of highlights in the space industry this past week (even though a rocket launch that was supposed to happened …
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Mon 25 Nov 2019
Here’s the first look inside Orbex’s Scotland rocket factory
European private launch startup Orbex is getting ready to start actually launching payloads aboard its own rockets, and it’s pulling back the curtains to give a look at the factory it’s using to buil…
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Mon 25 Nov 2019
Give InKind’s smarter giving platform brings in surprise $1.5 million in pre-seed funding
Helping out a friend in need online can be surprisingly difficult. While giving cash is easy enough, that’s often not what people need most — so Give InKind aims to be the platform where you can do a…
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Fri 22 Nov 2019
Splice teaches AI to sell Similar Sounds as users double
Splice is blowing up like a hit song. The audio sample marketplace has doubled revenue and user count in a year, and now reaches 3 million musicians. 70% of those visit weekly to hunt down the fresh…
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Fri 22 Nov 2019
Bandit opens a ‘mobile-only’ coffee shop in New York
If you wander into the Bandit coffee shop in Midtown New York, you won’t be able to just walk up to the counter and order something. Instead, you’ll need to download a mobile app. I experienced it fo…
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Thu 21 Nov 2019
Brava, a smart oven maker with big names attached, just sold to an industrial equipment company
Brava had a lot of things working in its favor as startups go. It was founded in 2015 by serial executive John Pleasants, whose past stints have included as co-president of Disney Interactive Media G…
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Thu 21 Nov 2019
Bunch, the Discord for mobile games, raises $3.85M from Supercell, Tencent, Riot Games
Growing up, Selcuk Atli spent a good deal of his free time playing video games with his friends. And when I say with his friends, I mean actually with them. They’re called LAN parties, where everyon…
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Wed 20 Nov 2019
Ohi raises $2.75M to power same-day delivery for brands that aren’t Amazon
The world has gotten so much faster. Amazon has made two-day shipping the standard and same- or next-day shipping commonplace. And that doesn’t even include the collection of on-demand players that c…
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Wed 20 Nov 2019
Playbuzz becomes Ex.co and expands its content marketing platform – TechCrunch
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00:03:20 |
Tue 19 Nov 2019
SmartNews raises $92M at a $1.2B valuation – TechCrunch
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Mon 18 Nov 2019
Nigeria’s Interswitch confirms $1B valuation after Visa investment
Nigerian digital payments firm Interswitch confirmed today it has reached unicorn status after Visa acquired a minority equity stake in the firm. “The investment makes Interswitch one of the most va…
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Mon 18 Nov 2019
Less than 72 hours left to buy early-bird passes to Disrupt Berlin
Pull your heads out of the trenches, startup fans. You have just 72 hours to save up to €500 with early-bird pricing on passes to Disrupt Berlin 2019. When the clock strikes11:59 p.m. (CEST) on Frida…
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Fri 15 Nov 2019
Freshworks raises $150M Series H on $3.5B valuation
Freshworks, a company that makes a variety of business software tools, from CRM to help-desk software, announced a $150 million Series H investment today from Sequoia Capital, CapitalG (formerly Goog…
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Fri 15 Nov 2019
Yodel.io is a digital receptionist for SMBs taking calls
Yodel.io, an Austria-founded startup that’s developed a “digital receptionist” to help SMBs and other small teams handle in and outbound phone-calls, has picked up $1 million in “pre-seed” funding. I…
00:04:09 |
Thu 14 Nov 2019
These sneakers vibrate
Sometimes it seems like you can hear a song all the way in your toes. With these new sneakers, you actually can. Meet the new EP 01 sneakers out of DropLabs. Yes, you read that right. We’re talking a…
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Thu 14 Nov 2019
The Garage is a new blockchain-focused incubator based in Paris
Meet The Garage, a new incubator in Paris that is all about blockchain projects. Co-founded by Cyril Paglino from Starchain Capital, Fabrice Le Fessant from Dune Network and Oussama Ammar from The Fa…
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Wed 13 Nov 2019
Lawyers hate timekeeping — Ping raises $13M to fix it with AI
Counting billable time in six-minute increments is the most annoying part of being a lawyer. It’s a distracting waste. It leads law firms to conservatively under-bill. And it leaves lawyers stuck man…
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Wed 13 Nov 2019
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