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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- 3555
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
Partnering with Visa, emerging market lender Branch International raises $170 million
The San Francisco-based startup Branch International, which makes small personal loans in emerging markets, has raised $170 million and announceda partnership with Visa to offer virtual, pre-paid deb…
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Tue 09 Apr 2019
The Wing poaches Snap’s comms director
Women-focused co-working space The Wing has hired Rachel Racusen as vice president of communications. Racusen has been the director of communications at Snap, the developer of Snapchat, since late 2…
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Mon 08 Apr 2019
Torch take $10M to teach empathy to executives
When everyone always tells you ‘yes’, you can become a monster. Leaders especially need honest feedback to grow. “If you look at rich people like Donald Trump and you neglect them, you get more Donal…
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Fri 05 Apr 2019
Clearbanc plans to disrupt venture capital with ‘The 20-Min Term Sheet’
Raising venture capital isn’t easy; for some, it’s impossible. Clearbanc offers startups a fundraising alternative — despite itself being well-capitalized by VCs — and is today launching a new campai…
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Thu 04 Apr 2019
How France’s new digital minister plans to regulate tech
What happens when you’re working behind the scene with French President Emmanuel Macron and you suddenly become a minister? This is what’s happening to Cédric O this week who was appointed Minister f…
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Thu 04 Apr 2019
Lyft’s stock has a blue Monday as shares slide after public debut
Today, investors took off their rose-colored glasses (and pink-colored mustaches) and looked at Lyft’s shares with fresh eyes after Friday’s ebullient debut. And — judging by the company’s share pric…
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Wed 03 Apr 2019
FireHydrant lands $1.5M seed investment to bring order to IT disaster recovery
FireHydrant, a NYC startup wants to help companies recover from IT disasters more quickly, and understand why they happened with the goal of preventing similar future scenarios from happening again. …
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Wed 03 Apr 2019
Online catering marketplace ezCater gets another $150M at a $1.25B valuation
In 2007, Stefania Mallett and Briscoe Rodgers conceived of ezCater, an online marketplace for business catering, and began building the company in Mallet’s Boston home, mostly at her kitchen table. …
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Tue 02 Apr 2019
Jio Health combines online and offline healthcare in Southeast Asia, starting in Vietnam
The internet is often lauded for the potential to increase the impact of a range of primary services in emerging markets, including education, commerce, banking and healthcare. While many of those pl…
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Tue 02 Apr 2019
Snap CEO’s sister Caroline Spiegel starts a no-visuals porn site
If you took the photos and videos out of pornography, could it appeal to a new audience? Caroline Spiegel’s first startup Quinn aims to bring some imaginationto adult entertainment. Her older brother…
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Mon 01 Apr 2019
Ride-hailing, bike and scooter companies probably raised less money than you thought
Jason Rowley Contributor Jason Rowley is a venture capital and technology reporter for Crunchbase News. More posts by this contributor To get big faster, younger unicorns start buyi…
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Mon 01 Apr 2019
Lyft prices IPO at top of range
Lyft raised more than $2 billion Thursday afternoon after pricing its shares at $72 apiece, the top of the expected range of $70 to $72 per share, per reports. This gives Lyft a fully-diluted market …
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Fri 29 Mar 2019
Turns out The Correspondent isn’t opening a US newsroom after all
Dutch news organization The Correspondent surprised some of its supporters earlier this week, when co-founder and CEO Ernst Pfauth posted an update on Medium saying that the company would not be ope…
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Fri 29 Mar 2019
Goodly replaces lame office perks with student loan repayment
There are better employee perks than a ping-pong table. 70 percent of Americans graduate college with student loan debt. That’s 45 million people who owe $1.6 trillion. So when employers useGoodly to…
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Thu 28 Mar 2019
Unicorns aren’t profitable, and Wall Street doesn’t care
In Silicon Valley, investors don’t expect their portfolio companies to be profitable. “Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies,” a bible for founders, instead c…
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Thu 28 Mar 2019
Startups Weekly: A much-needed unicorn IPO update
As I’m sure everyone reading this knows, female-founded businesses receive just over 2 percent of venture capital on an annual basis. Most of those checks are written to early-stage startups. It’s ex…
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Wed 27 Mar 2019
Lyft’s IPO is hot, YC demo day, two new unicorns, and what’s Boy Brow?
Hello and welcome back toEquity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week Kate Clark and Alex Wilhelm took us through an IPO, a big ro…
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Tue 26 Mar 2019
Robotics process automation startup UiPath raising $400M at more than $7B valuation
UiPath, a robotics process automation platform targeting IT businesses, is raising more than $400 million in Series D funding from venture capital investors at a valuation north of $7 billion, sourc…
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Fri 22 Mar 2019
Morphin instantly Deepfakes your face into GIFs
Want to star in your favorite memes and movie scenes? Upload a selfie to Morphin, choose your favorite GIF, and your face is grafted in to create a personalized copy you can share anywhere. Become To…
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Fri 22 Mar 2019
Lyft’s imminent IPO could value the company at $23B
Ride-hailing firm Lyft will make its Nasdaq debut as early as next week at a valuation of up to $23 billion, The Wall Street Journal reports. The business will reportedly price its shares at between…
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Thu 21 Mar 2019
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