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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- 3557
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
VoiceOps raises $9M to help companies coach their call center reps
At a time when the industry appears to bet that AI will replace most human jobs, starting with the tens of millions currently residing in call centers, one startup is working to use the same technolo…
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Thu 29 Aug 2019
Only 24 hours left to apply to Hardware Battlefield at TC Shenzhen
This post goes out to a special group of early-stage hardware startup founders — the procrastinators, the vacillators and the last-minute decision-makers. You have just 24 hours left to submit your a…
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Wed 28 Aug 2019
Style recommendation startup Stylitics raises $15M
Stylitics, a startup powering outfit-based shopping recommendations for online retailers, is announcing that it has raised $15 million in Series B funding. The company was initially known for ClosetS…
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Tue 27 Aug 2019
DoorDash reveals details of its new tipping model
DoorDash announced last month that it would be changing its controversial tipping model. Today it’s revealing the basics of how the new system will work.
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Mon 26 Aug 2019
Compete in Startup Battlefield at Disrupt Berlin 2019
Lasst die Spiele beginnen, startup founders — let the games begin! In case you haven’t heard, the application window for the Startup Battlefield at Disrupt Berlin 2019 is wide open and waiting for yo…
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Fri 23 Aug 2019
Andrew Ng’s AI companies expand to Medellin, Colombia
After his tenure as Chief Scientist at Baidu, Andrew Ng, the founder of the Google Brain project and former CEO of Coursera, set up a number of different proejcts that all focus on making AI more app…
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Thu 22 Aug 2019
The five technical challenges Cerebras overcame in building the first trillion transistor chip
Superlatives abound at Cerebras, the until-today stealthy next-generation silicon chip company looking to make training a deep learning model as quick as buying toothpaste from Amazon. Launching afte…
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Wed 21 Aug 2019
H20.ai announces $72.5M Series D led by Goldman Sachs
H20.ai‘s mission is to democratize AI by providing a set of tools that frees companies from relying on teams of data scientists. Today it got a bushel of money to help. The company announced a $72.5 …
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Wed 21 Aug 2019
Men’s personal care startup Huron raises $1M
Huron founder and CEO Matt Mullenax is hoping to build a big business around body wash. “For us, the broader mission is A+ personal care for guys everywhere — not just guys in New York or guys in the…
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Tue 20 Aug 2019
Twitter leads $100M round in top Indian regional social media platform ShareChat
Is there room for another social media platform? ShareChat, a four-year-old social network in India that serves tens of million of people in regional languages, just answered that question with a $1…
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Tue 20 Aug 2019
Binance launches Venus, which it calls an “independent, regional version” of Facebook’s Libra
Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, announced today that it will launch an open blockchain project called Venus to develop regional stablecoins pegged to fiat currencies (or tradit…
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Mon 19 Aug 2019
Flower delivery startup UrbanStems raises $12M to fund national expansion
UrbanStems is announcing that it has raised $12 million in Series B funding. CEO Seth Goldman told me the startup has already been using the money to expand nationally. He explained that UrbanStems …
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Mon 19 Aug 2019
Only 24 hours left to apply to Hardware Battlefield at TC Shenzhen
Holy hardware, startup founders! You have only 24 hours left to apply to the Hardware Battlefield at TC Shenzhenon November 11-12. This hardware-only pitch competition, cousin to TechCrunch’s world-r…
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Thu 15 Aug 2019
Ex-NSA chief Mike Rogers and Team8 founder Nadav Zafrir will be at Disrupt SF
What happens when two former spies meet the startup world? We’re about to find out. We’re pleased to announce former National Security Agency director Adm. Mike Rogers will be at Disrupt SF on Octobe…
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Thu 15 Aug 2019
Would you rent out your living room for a few hours? This startup is counting on it
Would you rent out your living room for a few hours? This startup is counting on it Recharge, a startup that tried convincing hotels to let its customers rent their rooms by the hour and even minute,…
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Wed 14 Aug 2019
Postmates to drop IPO filing next month
Postmates plans to make its IPO paperwork public in September, TechCrunch has learned. Despite previous reports indicating the on-demand delivery company is seeking an M&A exit, sources close to the…
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Tue 13 Aug 2019
BuzzFeed CTO joins men’s health startup Ro
Ro, a two-year-old startup known for its online pharmacy of men’s health products, has named BuzzFeed’s Todd Levy its chief technology officer. Levy first joined BuzzFeed in 2014 as the digital media…
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Tue 13 Aug 2019
Vector’s launch business in peril after ‘major change in financing’
Small satellite launch startup Vector has indefinitely shut down operations “in response a major change in financing,” the company confirmed. Co-founder and CEO Jim Cantrell has also been cut loose a…
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Mon 12 Aug 2019
Keith Rabois, BoxGroup back New York-based Brex competitor
Considering its unparalleled success, it was only a matter of time before a Brex copycat emerged. Ramp Financial, a new startup led by Capital One-acquired Paribus founders Eric Glyman and Karim Atiy…
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Mon 12 Aug 2019
Statespace picks up $2.5M to help gamers train
Gaming continues to grow in popularity, with esports revenue growing 23 percent from last year to top $1 billion in 2019. But the metrics by which talent is evaluated in gaming, and the methods by wh…
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Fri 09 Aug 2019
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