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
Hardware startups: Pitch to the world’s top investors at Hardware Battlefield 2019
Early-stage hardware startupfounders, it’s your turn to step into the spotlight and launch your innovative inventions to the world’s top investors. We’re inviting you to apply to compete in our hardw…
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Wed 10 Jul 2019
Fresh tickets to our 14th Annual TechCrunch Summer Party
Our 14th Annual TechCrunch Summer Party is a mere two weeks away, and we’re serving up a fresh new batch of tickets to this popular Silicon Valley tradition. Jump on this opportunity, folks, because …
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Wed 10 Jul 2019
Glitch is bringing remix culture back to the web with a $30 million Series A round
Building apps and tools on the web shouldn’t just be for the technically inclined. In the early days of the web, it was easy to make your MySpace account, for example, unique to your personal aesthet…
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Tue 09 Jul 2019
A 23-year-old B2B company has shown how keen India is for tech IPOs
Away from the limelight of the press and the frenzy of fundraising, a tech startup in India has achieved a feat that few of its peers have managed: going public. IndiaMART, the country’s largest onli…
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Mon 08 Jul 2019
Karamel is an app to find activities for your kids
Karamel is an app to find activities for your kids French startup Karamel wants to help you find things to do for your kids. The company is launching a mobile app that lets you find and book kid-frie…
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Mon 08 Jul 2019
Why you should naturalize — now, not later
It’s no secret that America thrives on tech-savvy immigrants who put down permanent roots: Three in five of the country’s biggest tech companies —Apple, Facebook, and Google among them — were founded…
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Fri 05 Jul 2019
HQ Trivia lays off ~20% as it preps subscriptions
HQ Trivia is struggling after a mutiny failed to oust its CEO. Downloads per month are down 92% versus last June according to Sensor Tower. And now four sources confirm that HQ laid off staff members…
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Fri 05 Jul 2019
Pod Foods gets VC backing to reinvent grocery distribution
Larissa Russell and Fiona Lee founded a cookie startup called Green Pea Cookie in 2014. The cookies were 100% natural, vegan and “handcrafted with love.” The company failed but not because the cookie…
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Thu 04 Jul 2019
Fast Forward raises new war chest to fight Silicon Valley’s inequality machine
San Francisco is a city of extremes, with multi-billion dollar glass-cladded obelisks piercing the SoMa sky while thousands of the city’s long-term residents fail to find even the basic rudiments of …
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Wed 03 Jul 2019
TikTok is being investigated in the U.K. for how it handles children’s data and safety
TikTok is being investigated in the U.K. for how it handles children’s data and safety TikTok is being investigated in the U.K. for how it handles the safety and personal data of underage users. Acco…
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Wed 03 Jul 2019
AR headsets promise new enterprise productivity, but can the startups building them survive?
Just as the bluetooth headset ushered in an era of hands-free calling, AR startups are trying to convince manufacturing startups that AR headsets will bring new efficiencies with hands-free computing…
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Tue 02 Jul 2019
Tara.ai, which uses machine learning to spec out and manage engineering projects, nabs $10M
Artificial intelligence has become an increasingly important component of how a lot of technology works; now it’s also being applied to how technologists themselves work. Today, one of the startups b…
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Mon 01 Jul 2019
Google finance head joins Postmates board ahead of anticipated IPO
Google’s vice president of finance, has joined Postmates’ board of directors, the latest sign that the on-demand food delivery startup is prepping to take the company public. Postmates announced Fr…
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Mon 01 Jul 2019
DoorDash double downs on controversial pay model
There’s seemingly no end in sight for DoorDash’s compensation model where it subsidizes driver wages with customer tips. The mildly bright side, however, is that DoorDash is now providing more trans…
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Fri 28 Jun 2019
Wedding dress customizer Anomalie raises $13M as bridal stores crumble
David’s Bridal once owned 50% of the $36 billion wedding gown market before it filed for bankruptcy last year. Brides were growing sick of the lack of styles and sizes plus high prices at expensive b…
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Fri 28 Jun 2019
Station F launches a co-living space for 600 startup people
Startup campus Station F is expanding beyond its original building in Paris with a co-living space called Flatmates. 600 people will be able to rent a room in shared apartments. Compared to tradition…
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Thu 27 Jun 2019
New tickets available to the 14th Annual TechCrunch Summer Party
Could you use a little summer startup fun? We’re rolling out our next round of tickets to theTechCrunch Summer Party at Park Chalet, San Francisco’s coastal beer garden. If you want to join your star…
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Thu 27 Jun 2019
Millennials don’t want to get drunk. What do they want? Apéritifs.
Gen Z doesn’t want to get drunk. Millennials are tired of the obligatory after-work drinks. Haus, a new startup selling apéritifs online, has a solution for them. The company’s beverages have a lower…
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Wed 26 Jun 2019
Dirty Lemon parent Iris Nova will fund and distribute third-party beverages
Iris Nova, the Coca-Cola-backed startup that createsDirty Lemonbeverages, is announcing plans to spend $100 million over the next three to five years to expand its offerings. Founder and CEO Zak Norm…
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Wed 26 Jun 2019
SpaceRyde wants to make access to space more available and more affordable
Life can be tough for a small satellite operator – it may be relatively cheap and easy to build small sats (or CubeSats, as they’re sometimes called), but arranging transportation for those satellite…
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Tue 25 Jun 2019
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