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
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- 4 minutes
- Episodes
- 3557
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
African logistics startup Lori Systems raises Series A led by Chinese investors
African on-demand trucking logistics company Lori Systems has raised a Series A round led by Chinese investors Hillhouse Capital and Crystal Stream Capital. Other participating investors included Nig…
00:03:01 |
Tue 12 Nov 2019
Andreessen Horowitz launches free crypto startup school
Last month, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) general partner Chris Dixon announced at TechCrunch Disrupt that the VC firm would run a free crypto startup school. And the company is officially launching its…
00:03:34 |
Tue 12 Nov 2019
Coda Biotherapeutics is developing a cure for pain
If the researchers, executives and investors behind Coda Biotherapeutics have their way, one day soon there really could be a cure for pain. Co-founded by researchers Joseph Glorioso, from the Univer…
00:05:33 |
Mon 11 Nov 2019
Uber’s losses top $1 billion, trumping better than expected revenues
Better than expected revenues couldn’t divert investor attention from the fact that Uber still managed to lose more than $1 billion in the most recent quarter as the company’s stock fell in after-ho…
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Fri 08 Nov 2019
Robocorp announces $5.6M seed to bring open source option to RPA
Robotic Process Automation (RPA) has been a hot commodity in recent years as it helps automate tedious manual workflows inside large organizations. Robocorp, a San Francisco startup, wants to bring o…
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Fri 08 Nov 2019
Wardrobe picks up $1.5 million for a new fashion rental marketplace
Wardrobe, a new peer-to-peer fashion rental marketplace, has today announced the close of a $1.5 million seed round and its public launch out of beta. The funding was led by angel investor Cyan Banis…
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Thu 07 Nov 2019
Arweave’s Permaweb blockchain can host sites & apps forever
What if you could pay now to store something online permanently? You could preserve a website against censorship, save legal contracts, or offer an app even after your company fails. That’s the promi…
00:06:04 |
Wed 06 Nov 2019
Gradeup raises $7M to expand its online exam preparation platform to smaller Indian cities and towns
Gradeup, an edtech startup in India that operates an exam preparation platform for undergraduate and postgraduate level courses, has raised $7 million from Times Internet as it looks to expand its bu…
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Tue 05 Nov 2019
CTO.ai’s developer shortcuts eliminate coding busywork
There’s too much hype about mythical “10X developers”. Everyone’s desperate to hire these ‘ninja rockstars’. In reality, it’s smarter to find ways of deleting annoying chores for the coders you alrea…
00:06:46 |
Tue 05 Nov 2019
Max Q: SpaceX and Boeing gear up for commercial crew mission tests
Welcome back to Max Q, our weekly look at what’s happening in space and space startup news. This week was a bit more quiet than usual coming off of the amazingly over-packed International Astronautic…
00:04:23 |
Mon 04 Nov 2019
Let’s have a word about what3words with Clare Jones at Disrupt Berlin
Addresses are ambiguous, not precise enough or don’t even exist in some places. what3words wants to map the entire world and overhaul addresses three words at a time. That’s why I’m excited to announ…
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Fri 01 Nov 2019
Muy raises $15M to grow its new cloud kitchen concept
The cloud kitchen craze has reached Latin America. Food tech startup called Muy landed a fresh $15 million Series B to expand into Mexico and soon Brazil. The service is currently operative in Colomb…
00:04:55 |
Fri 01 Nov 2019
Video news startup Brut raises $40M, officially launches in the U.S.
Digital media startup Brut is announcing that it has raised $40 million in Series B funding. The money will be used, in part, to finance its launch in the United States. CEO Guillaume Lacroix said th…
00:04:41 |
Thu 31 Oct 2019
Webiny announces $347K seed to build open source serverless CMS
Webiny, a London startup developing a serverless content management system, announced a $347,000 (£247,000) seed round today led by EU investment firm Episode 1. Webiny founder Sven Al Hamad says th…
00:03:34 |
Thu 31 Oct 2019
Quip wants to help you floss
Quip, the dental care startup that first went to market with electric toothbrushes, has launched its first product outside of brushes:a floss applicator with a refillable canister. The floss costs $2…
00:02:26 |
Wed 30 Oct 2019
Shadow announces new plans for its cloud gaming platform
Blade, the French startup behind Shadow, held a press conference this morning to announce some product news as well as some corporate changes. Shadow is a cloud computing service for gamers. For a mo…
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Tue 29 Oct 2019
Less than 2 weeks left for early bird savings to Disrupt Berlin 2019
Entrepreneurs, founders, investors and all startup fans in between — take heed. The days for saving serious dough on tickets to Disrupt Berlin 2019areseriously numbered. Right now, early bird pricing…
00:03:39 |
Tue 29 Oct 2019
Welcome to the Jungle raises $22.3 million to make recruitment easier
French startup Welcome to the Jungle has raised a new $22.3 million funding round (€20 million). The startup is both a media company and a tech startup that wants to empower tech companies when it co…
00:03:25 |
Mon 28 Oct 2019
Medium says it will compensate writers based on reading time, not claps
Medium is announcing significant changes to its Partner Program, where subscribers pay for access to exclusive content, and the revenue gets split with writers. The biggest change is that writers wi…
00:02:58 |
Fri 25 Oct 2019
Swiftmile will become the ‘gas station’ for electric bikes and scooters in Austin
Anyone who has tried to ride an electric scooter knows the likelihood of finding one with a charged battery is quite low. Swiftmile, which just landed a contract with the city of Austin, supplies cit…
00:04:08 |
Fri 25 Oct 2019
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