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
- 3555
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
Unmortgage, the ‘part own, part rental’ housing startup, loses founder and CEO
Unmortgage founder and CEO Rayhan Rafiq-Omar (centre) has departed the companny Unmortgage, the London-based startup that wants to let people buy as little as five percent of a home and rent the rest…
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Mon 10 Jun 2019
Thumbtack is raising up to $120M on a flat valuation
Thumbtack, one of the first players in what is now known as the gig economy, has hit the fundraising circuit once again. The online services marketplace that matches customers with nearby professiona…
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Fri 07 Jun 2019
The Ticket Fairy is tech’s best hope against Ticketmaster
Ticketmaster’s dominance has led to ridiculous service fees, scalpers galore, and exclusive contracts that exploit venues and artists. The moronic approval of venue operator and artist management gi…
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Fri 07 Jun 2019
VCs bet $12M on Troops, a Slackbot for sales teams
Slack wants to be the new operating system for teams, something it has made clear on more than one occasion, including in its recent S-1 filing. To accomplish that goal, it put together an in-house …
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Thu 06 Jun 2019
AntiToxin sells safetytech to clean up poisoned platforms
The big social networks and video games have failed to prioritize user well-being over their own growth. As a result, society is losing the battle against bullying, predators, hate speech, misinforma…
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Wed 05 Jun 2019
Dilution: The good, the bad and the ugly
Bernard Moon Contributor Bernard Moon is co-founder and partner at SparkLabs Group, a network of accelerators and venture capital funds.
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Wed 05 Jun 2019
Cookware startup Great Jones launches Potline, a text service for recipes and advice
Great Jones, a startup selling pots, pans and even an oven directly to consumers, is introducing a new way to get help in the kitchen. Potline is a free text message service where anyone can ask for …
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Tue 04 Jun 2019
Fitness startup Mirror nears $300M valuation with fresh funding
Today, Peloton is a bonafide success. The company, which sells $2,245 internet-connected exercise bikes, boasts a $4 billion valuation and a cult following. That hasn’t always been the case. For year…
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Tue 04 Jun 2019
Startups net more than capital with NBA players as investors
Mary Ann Azevedo Contributor Share on Twitter Mary Ann Azevedo covers startups and tech at Crunchbase News. More posts by this contributor It’s not so obvious that this VC firm is…
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Mon 03 Jun 2019
Machine learning startup Weights & Biases raises $15M
Weights & Biases, a startup building development tools for machine learning, has raised $15 million in its second round of funding. The company was started by CrowdFlower founders Lukas Biewald and …
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Mon 03 Jun 2019
Logz.io lands $52M to keep growing open source-based logging tools
Logz.io announced a $52 million Series D investment today. The round was led by General Catalyst. Other investors participating in the round included OpenView Ventures, 83North, Giza Venture Capital,…
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Fri 31 May 2019
Firefly raises $30M to bring more ads to Ubers, Lyfts and taxis
Firefly, a startup that allows ridehail drivers to make money from advertising, has raised $30 million in Series A funding. The company is about to launch in New York City, where it’s also acquiring …
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Fri 31 May 2019
Pillar launches with $5.5M from Kleiner Perkins and others to tackle your student loan debt
A new startup aims to help you get your student loans under control. Today, an app called Pillar, backed by $5.5 million in seed funding led by Kleiner Perkins, is launching a simpler way for consume…
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Thu 30 May 2019
Soda Says, a curated consumer electronics retail platform, launches in the U.S.
Soda Says, a curated consumer electronics retail platform, launches in the U.S. Grace Gould has spent her life thinking about the intersection of retail and tech. She started out in Apple Retail, and…
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Thu 30 May 2019
VCs give failed AR startup Meta a do-over with new CEO, corporate entity
AR startup Meta’s original investors might have been screwed by the company’s collapse and fire sale, but a pair of VC firms are giving the brand another shot with a new corporate entity and CEO that…
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Wed 29 May 2019
Which public US universities graduate the most funded founders?
Joanna Glasner Contributor More posts by this contributor Big revenues, huge valuations and major losses: charting the era of the unicorn IPO Some reassuring data for those worrie…
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Tue 28 May 2019
As the term ‘unicorn’ goes broke from overuse, what’s actually rare?
Alex Wilhelm Contributor Alex Wilhelm is the editor-in-chief of Crunchbase News and co-host of Equity, TechCrunch's venture capital-focused podcast. More posts by this contributor Eq…
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Tue 28 May 2019
Lime’s founding CEO steps down as his co-founder takes control
In an all-hands meeting this afternoon, the scooter and bike-sharing phenom Lime announced co-founder and chief executive officer Toby Sun would transition out of the C-suite to focus on company cul…
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Mon 27 May 2019
Throw out your diary, Jour is a new app for guided journaling
Since Jour, a new app for private and portable journaling, dropped on the App Store two months ago, it’s racked up 80,000 users. No paid marketing or public announcements. Just organic interest in di…
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Fri 24 May 2019
Modsy scores $37M to virtually redesign your home
Modsy has raised some new cash as the computer vision startup looks to get physical and build more of the furniture it recommends. The startup announced that they have closed $37 million in Series C …
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Fri 24 May 2019
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