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
Luxury consignment e-tailer The RealReal to enter the unicorn club with new funding
The RealReal, an online retailer for authenticated luxury consignment, has authorized the sale of up to $70 million in new shares, per a Delaware stock authorization filing discovered by the Prime Un…
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Wed 24 Apr 2019
Vine reboot Byte begins beta testing
Twitter shut down Dom Hoffman’s app Vine, giving away the short-form video goldmine to China’s TikTok. Now a year and half since Hoffman announced he’d reimagine the app as V2 then scrapped that nam…
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Tue 23 Apr 2019
Down To Shop is a tongue-in-cheek mobile shopping network
Cyrus Summerlin and Max Hellerstin, who previously created the Push for Pizza app (which allowed users to order a pizza with the push of a button), are officially launching their new startup today,Do…
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Tue 23 Apr 2019
From lab-grown meat to fermented fungus, here’s what corporate food VCs are serving up
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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Mon 22 Apr 2019
Zoom, the profitable tech unicorn, prices IPO above range
Zoom, a relatively under-the-radar tech unicorn, has defied expectations with its initial public offering. The video conferencing business priced its IPO above its planned range on Wednesday, confir…
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Mon 22 Apr 2019
Birth control delivery startup Nurx taps Clover Health’s Varsha Rao as CEO
Varsha Rao, Airbnb’s former head of global operations and, most recently, the chief operating officer at Clover Health, has joined Nurx as its chief executive officer. Rao replaces Hans Gangeskar, N…
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Fri 19 Apr 2019
Lyric raises $160 million Series B led by Airbnb
Lyric, a platform for folks who struggle to decide between a hotel and an Airbnb, has today announced the close of a $160 million Series B financing led by none other than Airbnb . Other investors wh…
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Fri 19 Apr 2019
Pinterest prices IPO above range
Pinterest priced shares of its stock, “PINS,” above its anticipated range on Wednesday evening, CNBC reports. The company will sell 75 million shares of Class A common stock at $19 apiece in an offe…
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Thu 18 Apr 2019
Airbase launches with $7M Series A to simplify spending control systems
Airbase is a startup with a plan to change the way you think about accounting around spending. Instead of multiple workflows, it wants to create a simpler one involving, well, Airbase. It’s a bold mo…
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Thu 18 Apr 2019
Unicorns: A tale of two continents
Victor Basta Contributor Victor Basta is the founder of the boutique investment firm Magister Advisors. More posts by this contributor Venture investing in the US and Europe are tot…
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Wed 17 Apr 2019
ZenGo wants to become the crypto wallet for the masses
KZen is about to release ZenGo, a mobile app to manage your cryptocurrencies securely and more easily. There are already countless crypto wallets out there, but the startup thinks they’re all either …
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Wed 17 Apr 2019
Airbnb officially owns HotelTonight
Airbnb has completed its acquisition of the last-minute hotel booking application, HotelTonight, the company announced on Monday. The deal is Airbnb’s largest M&A transaction yet and will accelerat…
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Tue 16 Apr 2019
YC alum Keeper raises $1.6M to help gig workers pay taxes
Every year around this time, Uber drivers, Wag dog walkers, Bird scooter chargers, social media influencers and other gig economy workers face the unsightly challenge of paying their taxes. Compani…
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Tue 16 Apr 2019
Armis nabs $65M Series C as IoT security biz grows in leaps and bounds
Armis is helping companies protect IoT devices on the network without using an agent, and it’s apparently a problem that is resonating with the market, as the startup reports 700 percent growth in th…
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Mon 15 Apr 2019
WTF is Baillie Gifford?
The SoftBank Vision Fund has been screaming from the venture headlines the last few months, driven by eye-popping rounds (and valuations!) into some of the most notable startups around the world. Ye…
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Fri 12 Apr 2019
Public health startup Cityblock raises $65M Series B
Redpoint Ventures has led a $65 million Series B in Cityblock, a healthcare company focused on providing improved care to low-income neighborhoods. The business launched roughly 18 months ago out of …
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Fri 12 Apr 2019
Online used car startup Shift adds another $40M, snags COO in road to IPO
Online used car startup Shift Technologies has tacked on another $40 million in equity funding, hired a new COO with Amazon and Enjoy roots and scaled up its engineering staff — all in the past seve…
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Thu 11 Apr 2019
Klaviyo raises $150M Series B after building company the old fashioned way
Klaviyo, a Boston-based email marketing firm founded in 2012, went about building its email marketing business the old fashioned way. First it built a profitable company, then it went looking for fun…
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Wed 10 Apr 2019
New privacy assistant Jumbo fixes your Facebook & Twitter settings
Jumbo could be a nightmare for the tech giants, but a savior for the victims of their shady privacy practices. Jumbo saves you hours as well as embarrassment by automatically adjusting 30 Facebook pr…
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Wed 10 Apr 2019
Scaling a nonprofit, startup style
It’s been a year since All Raise emerged with the support of dozens of venture capital’s most powerful women. The 34 founding members had a lofty goal: Double the capital going to female founders in …
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Tue 09 Apr 2019
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