TechCrunch Startup News
Listen to select TechCrunch articles on startups coverage—who's raising, who's exiting, who's changing the world.
- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 4 minutes
- Episodes
- 3555
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
Rent the Runway just opened its largest brick-and-mortar store yet
Who would have thought Rent the Runway would emerge as a competitor to The Wing and all traditional brick-and-mortar retail? Its newest store, complete with co-working space, shows it’s more than jus…
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Thu 09 May 2019
Serverless monitoring startup Espagon expands to cover broader microservices
When Espagon launched last Fall, the Israeli startup had an idea to monitor serverless, architectures, specifically AWS Lambda. But the company didn’t want to confine itself to monitoring a narrow cl…
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Wed 08 May 2019
Shape Security’s latest product protects smaller businesses from credential stuffing
Shape Security has been helping big companies stay safe from fraudulent activities like password reuse and bot traffic on their publicly facing websites and apps. The company now wants to help smalle…
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Wed 08 May 2019
Sendbird snags additional $50M for messaging API tool, as it extends Series B to $102M
Sendbird, a startup that enables developers to add messaging to their apps with a couple of lines of code, announced a secondary Series B investment of $50 million today. This additional funding come…
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Mon 06 May 2019
SeatGeek names former Tumblr and NYT exec Brian Murphy as CTO
Ticketing startup SeatGeek has a new CTO. Brian Murphy previously held the same position at Tumblr (which, like TechCrunch, is owned by Verizon Media) and has also served as vice president of enginee…
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Mon 06 May 2019
Sean Parker’s Brigade/Causes acquired by govtech app Countable
Causes grew to a jawdropping 186 million users as one of the first ten Facebook platform apps. Started by Facebook co-founder Sean Parker, it was meant to turn a generation into activists and philan…
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Fri 03 May 2019
Unshackled Ventures has $20M to invest exclusively in immigrant founders
Unshackled Ventures isn’t like other venture capital funds. The firm invests in immigrant founders and helps them secure visas so they can ditch their corporate job and launch the startup of their dr…
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Fri 03 May 2019
Plum, the money management chatbot, raises another $4.5M and lands on iOS
Plum, the money management chatbot, raises another $4.5M and lands on iOS Plum, the chatbot-based app that helps you manage your money, is disclosing $4.5 million in further funding. The round, which…
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Thu 02 May 2019
Early-stage US VC Joyance to scout for health and wellness startups in Europe
Early-stage US VC Joyance to scout for health and wellness startups in Europe Good news for European startups with a health or wellness bent. Joyance Partners, a $20M US VC firm that invests in early…
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Thu 02 May 2019
Golden unveils a Wikipedia alternative focused on emerging tech and startups
Jude Gomila, who previously sold his mobile advertising company Heyzap to RNTS Media, is taking on a new challenge — building a “knowledge base” that can fill in Wikipedia’s blind spots, particularly…
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Wed 01 May 2019
Altice USA buys digital news network Cheddar for $200M
Cable television provider Altice USA has confirmed plans to pay $200 million for the millennial-focused, digitally-native news network Cheddar in all-cash, or all-cheddar, rather, deal. The price tag…
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Wed 01 May 2019
Caribou Biosciences CEO, Rachel Haurwitz will talk CRISPR’s present and future applications at DisruptSF
Seven years ago, Rachel Haurwitz finished her last day as a student in the University of California laboratory where she helped conduct some of the pioneering research on the gene editing technology …
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Tue 30 Apr 2019
Some reassuring data for those worried unicorns are wrecking the Bay Area
Joanna Glasner Contributor More posts by this contributor A record $2.5B went to US insurance startup deals last year, and big insurers are in all the way Space tech rockets highe…
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Tue 30 Apr 2019
FutureLearn takes $65M from Seek Group for 50% stake in UK online degree platform
Edtech and recruitment continue to converge. London-based online degree platform, FutureLearn, is taking £50 million (~$64.6M) from Australian-based online job matching group, Seek, in exchange for a…
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Mon 29 Apr 2019
Movie subscription service Sinemia is ending US operations
Over the past few months, Sinemia has gone from promising MoviePass competitor to the source of frustration for moviegoers across the country. After rumors surfaced earlier this week that it would b…
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Mon 29 Apr 2019
Wheely raises $15 million for its luxury ride-hailing app
London-based startup Wheely has raised a $15 million Series B round led by Concentric with Oleg Tscheltzoff, Misha Sokolov and other investors also participating. The company wants to build an Uber c…
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Fri 26 Apr 2019
Chive Media’s out-of-home TV spinoff Atmosphere raises $10M
When Chive Media Group spun out its out-of-home TV business last year, co-founder and CEO Leo Resig said the structure should help the new company, called Atmosphere, raise venture capital. Looks lik…
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Fri 26 Apr 2019
Postmates has launched in 1,000 new cities since December
Postmates is expanding like crazy ahead of an initial public offering expected later this year. The food delivery business has launched in 1,000 new cities since December, the company announced toda…
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Thu 25 Apr 2019
Are women better gamers than men? This startup’s AI-driven research says yes
Are women better gamers than men? This startup’s AI-driven research says yes Last year the Gosu.ai startup, which has developed an AI assistant to help gamers play smarter and improve their skills, r…
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Thu 25 Apr 2019
Blueshift announces $15M Series B to expand AI-fueled cross-channel marketing tool
Blueshift is startup founded by tech industry veterans, who saw first-hand how difficult cross-channel marketing was. They decided to launch a company and build a cross-channel marketing platform fro…
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Wed 24 Apr 2019
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