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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- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
A bike lover’s take on the Cowboy e-bike
Electric-bike maker Cowboy recently let me spend a couple of weeks with one of their e-bikes. It’s a well-designed e-bike that makes biking effortless, even if you’re going uphill. Cowboy is a Bruss…
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Thu 24 Oct 2019
Databricks announces $400M round on $6.2B valuation as analytics platform continues to grow
Databricks is a SaaS business built on top of a bunch of open source tools, and apparently it’s been going pretty well on the business side of things. In fact, the company claims to be one of the fas…
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Wed 23 Oct 2019
YellowHeart allows musicians and concert organizers to take more control of resold tickets
YellowHeart is trying to solve a problem that should be familiar to anyone who’s ever tried to buy a ticket to a popular concert: Those tickets will often get snatched up by scalpers, who then resell…
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Tue 22 Oct 2019
Tilting Point acquires game monetization startup Gondola
Tilting Point announced yesterday that it has acquired Gondola, a company that aims to increase to improve game monetization by optimizing in-game offers and video ads. Tilting Point CEO Kevin Segal…
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Mon 21 Oct 2019
The Information will launch Ticker, a tech news app that costs $29 per year
Since it was founded by journalist Jessica Lessin in 2013, The Information has stood out in the tech news landscape for its focus on an ad-free, subscription-driven business model (a focus that seem…
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Fri 18 Oct 2019
&Open helps businesses distribute gifts to reward customer loyalty
&Open is a startup with an unusual name, and one that fills an unusual niche in the business world. It has built a gift giving platform, so that businesses can reward loyalty with a small token of ap…
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Thu 17 Oct 2019
Interior design startup Havenly raises $32 million
Interior design platform Havenly is raising $32 million in new funding to create its first private label brand as the startup aims to integrate its own products into its design recommendation engine.…
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Wed 16 Oct 2019
Opendoor appoints CFO, CPO
Opendoor has named Gautam Gupta its chief financial officer and chief business offer, critical roles as the business continues to alter the way in which homes are bought and sold. Uber’s former head …
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Tue 15 Oct 2019
The budding industry of cannabis tech
Brian Kateman Contributor Share on Twitter Brian Kateman is president and co-founder of the Reducetarian Foundation. More posts by this contributor Fish replacement may be the next…
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Mon 14 Oct 2019
To beat Amazon Go, Standard Cognition buys cashierless DeepMagic
Valued at $535 million, autonomous retail startup Standard Cognition has emerged as a soon-to-be tech giant and the best hope for merchants to compete with Amazon Go. Cashierless checkout is poised …
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Fri 11 Oct 2019
Get guaranteed rent for your home from new startup Doorstead
Missing out on a month’s rent because you can’t find a tenant is a huge loss. Searching for someone to fill a home takes work, while property managers are incentivized to price your place too high le…
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Thu 10 Oct 2019
Why we’re still waiting on the Postmates S-1
In a wide-ranging conversation at TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco last week, Postmates co-founder and chief executive officer Bastian Lehmann made light of the company’s lack of IPO documents. The S…
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Wed 09 Oct 2019
Sequoia shares wisdom with Disrupt SF Battlefield competitors and Startup Alley Top Picks
Editor’s note: James Buckhouse is design partner at Sequoia. Last Tuesday, the teams competing in Startup Battlefield at Disrupt SF, as well as founders chosen as Top Picks in Startup Alley, visited …
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Tue 08 Oct 2019
Greyparrot uses computer vision to improve waste management
Meet Greyparrot, a London-based startup that wants to improve waste management. The company uses computer vision to make sorting more efficient at different stages of the waste chain. And Greyparrot …
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Mon 07 Oct 2019
First mover advantage: Does it matter in startup fundraising?
Russ Heddleston Contributor Share on Twitter Russ is the cofounder and CEO of DocSend. He was previously a product manager at Facebook, where he arrived via the acquisition of his startup P…
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Fri 04 Oct 2019
A startup factory? $1.2B-exit team launches $65M super{set}
Think Jack Dorsey’s jobs are tough? Well, Tom Chavez is running six startups. He thinks building businesses can be boiled down to science, so today he’s unveiling his laboratory for founding, funding…
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Thu 03 Oct 2019
Upstart banking company Dave is now worth $1 billion, as Norwest puts in $50 million
Two years after the Los Angeles-based fintech startup Dave launched with a suite of money management tools to save consumers from overdraft fees, the company is now worth $1 billion thanks to a nasce…
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Wed 02 Oct 2019
Kickstarter darling EcoFlow Delta battery generator is not what it seems
The EcoFlow Delta is a new battery generator available on Kickstarter with incredible features claimed. Most are true, some are not. Devices like the Delta offer incredible battery storage capacity. …
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Tue 01 Oct 2019
Startups Weekly: Alpha Medical wants to rebuild women’s healthcare
Hello and welcome back to Startups Weekly, a weekend newsletter that dives into the week’s noteworthy news pertaining to startups and venture capital. Before I jump into today’s topic, let’s catch up…
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Mon 30 Sep 2019
Battlefield vets StrongSalt (formerly OverNest) announces $3M seed round
StrongSalt, then known as OverNest, appeared at the TechCrunch Disrupt NYC Battlefield in 2016, and announced product for searching encrypted code, which remains unusual to this day. Today, the compa…
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Mon 30 Sep 2019
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