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
Package Free picks up $4.5 million to scale sustainable CPG products
The climate crisis continues to be just that… a crisis. And it’s spurring people across the country (and globe) to take action, particularly when it comes to their own lifestyle. Lauren Singer is one…
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Fri 27 Sep 2019
Summer wants to vanquish student loans for borrowers, and now has $10M to do it
$1.5 trillion. That’s the amount of outstanding student loan debt held by American citizens according to the New York Fed. It is an astronomical sum, and has led to much hand-wringing about whether t…
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Thu 26 Sep 2019
Fivetran hauls in $44M Series B as data pipeline business booms
Fivetran, a startup that helps companies move data from disparate repositories to data warehouses, announced $44 million Series B financing today, less than a year after collecting a $15 million Seri…
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Wed 25 Sep 2019
TechCrunch Disrupt offers plenty of options for attendees with an eye on the enterprise
We might have just completed a full-day program devoted completely to enterprise at TechCrunch Sessions: Enterprise last week, but it doesn’t mean we plan to sell that subject short at TechCrunch Dis…
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Tue 24 Sep 2019
Quilt Data launches from stealth with free portal to access petabytes of public data
Quilt Data‘s founders, Kevin Moore and Aneesh Karve, have been hard at work for the last four years building a platform to search for data quickly across vast repositories on AWS S3 storage. The idea…
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Mon 23 Sep 2019
Stephen Curry Brings SC30 Inc. to Disrupt SF
Startup founders are hard-pressed to find the right investors — not only to fund their businesses but to help their businesses grow. These days, investors represent a variety of backgrounds and indus…
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Fri 20 Sep 2019
Fieldwire just raised $33.5 million more to give PlanGrid and its new owner Autodesk a run for their money
Fieldwire just raised $33.5 million more to give PlanGrid and its new owner Autodesk a run for their money Fieldwire, which makes task management software for construction teams on commercial project…
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Thu 19 Sep 2019
GitLab hauls in $268M Series E on 2.768B valuation
GitLab is a company that doesn’t pull any punches or try to be coy. It actually has had a page on its website for sometime stating it intends to go public on November 18, 2020. You don’t see that lev…
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Wed 18 Sep 2019
FOSSA scores $8.5 million Series A to help enterprise manage open source licenses
As more enterprise developers make use of open source, it becomes increasingly important for companies to make sure that they are complying with licensing requirements. They also need to ensure the o…
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Tue 17 Sep 2019
Another high-flying, heavily-funded AR headset startup is shutting down
While Apple and Microsoft strain to sell augmented reality as the next major computing platform, many of the startups aiming to beat them to the punch are crashing and burning. Daqri, which built ent…
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Mon 16 Sep 2019
Hatebase catalogues the world’s hate speech in real time so you don’t have to
Policing hate speech is something nearly every online communication platform struggles with. Because to police it, you must detect it; and to detect it, you must understand it. Hatebase is a company …
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Thu 12 Sep 2019
Smart grocery cart startup Caper bags $10 million
Caper wants to deliver a major update to the self checkout aisle without keeping its dreaded catchphrases, i.e. “Unknown item in the bagging area,” “Please place the item in the bag.” The New York st…
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Wed 11 Sep 2019
Workout app Fitplan adds Alex Rodriguez as a trainer… and an investor
Former New York Yankees all star Alex Rodriguez is racking up quite an impressive batting average in his new career as an investor and has added Fitplan to his roster of portfolio companies. The Los …
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Tue 10 Sep 2019
Pagerduty’s Jennifer Tejada and Box’s Aaron Levie will talk IPOs at TC Disrupt SF
Pagerduty‘s CEO Jennifer Tejada and Box co-founder and CEO Aaron Levie both guided their companies to successful IPOs, with Box going public in 2015 and Pagerduty listing its stocks only a few month…
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Mon 09 Sep 2019
Newly renamed Superside raises $3.5M for its outsourced design platform
Superside, a startup aiming to create a premium alternative to the existing crowdsourced design platforms, is announcing that it has raised $3.5 million in new funding. It’s also adding new features …
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Fri 06 Sep 2019
Just 3 days left: buy super early bird passes to Disrupt Berlin 2019
Hey European startup fans, Disrupt Berlin 2019 takes place on 11-12 December, but our super early-bird ticket pricing won’t last nearly that long. You have just three days left to save up to €600. Pa…
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Thu 05 Sep 2019
Joseph Gordon-Levitt is coming to Disrupt SF 2019
Joseph Gordon-Levitt is perhaps best known for his acting across films like 10 Things I Hate About You, 500 Days of Summer, and Snowden. But times weren’t always peachy for Gordon-Levitt as a creativ…
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Wed 04 Sep 2019
India’s Oyo acquires Copenhagen-based data science firm Danamica for $10M
India’s Oyo said on Monday it has acquired Copenhagen-based data science firm Danamica as the fast-growing lodging startup works to expand its business in Europe. Neither of the parties disclosed fin…
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Tue 03 Sep 2019
Juul introduces new POS standards to restrict sales to minors
Juul Labs, the e-cigarette behemoth partially owned by Altria, has today announced a new POS age-verification system that it will require all Juul retailers to comply with by May 2021. The Retail Acc…
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Mon 02 Sep 2019
Female founders: All Raise AMA applications @ Disrupt SF 2019 close tomorrow
The future is female and all you fierce female founders have one last shot at receiving 30 minutes of face time with some of the industry’s leading female funders. Say what now? We’re talking the All…
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Fri 30 Aug 2019
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