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
Custom framing startup Framebridge is opening two retail stores
For a long while, you couldn’t swing a bag of cats around without hitting a retailer looking to create a digital presence. Now, the inverse is growing in popularity, with many digital-first retail br…
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Thu 21 Mar 2019
Patreon ups its revenue cut, but grandfathers in old creators
Patreon couldn’t survive charging all creators just a 5 percent rake on the monthly subscriptions they earn from fans while building commerce tools like CRMs and merchandise to try to stay ahead of …
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Wed 20 Mar 2019
YC-backed Basement is a social network for close friends only
The past few years have been a bit of a dark age for budding social media startups. Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Snap and messenger apps took up all the time of their users, leaving little room for…
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Tue 19 Mar 2019
Meet eFounders’ next batch of startups that want to redefine the future of work
Meet eFounders’ next batch of startups that want to redefine the future of work European startup studio eFounders has been relentlessly building new startups over the past few years. In 2019, the com…
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Tue 19 Mar 2019
Decade in review: Trends in seed- and early-stage funding
We’ve decided to step back from the breaking news for a minute to conduct a review of seed and early-stage funding trends over the last decade for U.S.-based companies. I’m fairly certain we can all …
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Mon 18 Mar 2019
London proptech startup Nested has laid off 20% of its workforce citing ‘Brexit uncertainty’
Nested, the London-based “data-driven” estate agency that provides a cash advance to help you buy a new home before you’ve sold your old one, has laid off 20 percent of its workforce, TechCrunch has …
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Mon 18 Mar 2019
WeWork Labs is launching a food tech accelerator
WeWork Labs, the coworking giant’s startup program that relaunched just over a year ago, is announcing a new initiative focused on food and agriculture startups — WeWork Food Labs. Roee Adler, the …
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Fri 15 Mar 2019
DoorDash claims drivers made an average of at least $17.50/hour on deliveries in 2018
On-demand food delivery startup DoorDash has been under fire as of late for its practices around paying drivers. In an email to drivers today, obtained by TechCrunch, DoorDash said drivers received …
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Thu 14 Mar 2019
Truepill, the ‘AWS for pharmacies,’ gets $10M from Initialized Capital
Venture capitalists’ latest on-demand delivery bet is in the pharmaceutical space. Truepill, an online pharmacy powering delivery for the likes of Hims, Nurx, LemonAID and other direct-to-consumer he…
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Thu 14 Mar 2019
Goalsetter gives parents a way to teach their kids how to save money
When the bubble burst in the year 2000, Tanya Van Court lost over $1 million in stock and options over the course of a few minutes. Then and there she vowed to never let something like that happen to…
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Wed 13 Mar 2019
The Dubler Studio Kit lets you use your voice to control synths, drum machines and other MIDI gear
The Dubler Studio Kit lets you use your voice to control synths, drum machines and other MIDI gear Vochlea Music, a U.K. startup and alumni of Abbey Road Red, the music tech incubator from Abbey Road…
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Tue 12 Mar 2019
Bottomless has a solution for lazy coffee addicts
If you’re like me, you let out a heavy sigh every month or so when you reach out and unexpectedly find an empty bag of coffee. Bottomless, one of the 200-plus startups in Y Combinator’s latest batch,…
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Tue 12 Mar 2019
Startups Weekly: What’s up with YC? Plus, mobility layoffs and Airbnb’s grand plans
Where to begin… Netflix darling Marie Kondo is hitting up Sand Hill Road in search of $40 million to fund an ecommerce platform, Y Combinator is giving $150,000 to a startup building a $380,000 flyi…
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Mon 11 Mar 2019
Changes at YC, $1.5B more for ride hailing, and Airbnb buys HotelTonight
Hello and welcome back toEquity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. We’re back to basics this week with Kate Clark at the helm, Alex Wilhe…
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Mon 11 Mar 2019
Bird launches platform to let entrepreneurs manage their own fleet of scooters
Bird launches platform to let entrepreneurs manage their own fleet of scooters Bird is launching its new program, Bird Platform, in New Zealand, Canada and Latin America in the coming weeks. First up…
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Fri 08 Mar 2019
WellSaid aims to make natural-sounding synthetic speech a credible alternative to real humans
Many things are better said than read, but the best voice tech out there seems to be reserved for virtual assistants, not screen readers or automatically generated audiobooks. WellSaid wants to enabl…
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Fri 08 Mar 2019
Clari platform aims to unify go-to-market operations data
Clari started out as a company that wanted to give sales teams more information about their sales process than could be found in the CRM database. Today, the company announced a much broader platform…
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Thu 07 Mar 2019
Red Cat wants to track drone flight data on the blockchain
Red Cat, a startup that wants to store drone flight data on the blockchain to guarantee immutability, announced the second Beta of its drone data platform today. Jeff Thompson, CEO of Red Cat says in…
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Thu 07 Mar 2019
The Silicon Valley exodus continues
For a long time, it was the norm for founders to haul their hardware to the 3000 block of Sand Hill Road, where the venture capitalists of “Silicon Valley” would be awaiting their pitches. Today, man…
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Wed 06 Mar 2019
Eargo raises $52M for virtually invisible, rechargeable hearing aids
Eargo wants to become the ultimate consumer hearing brand. The company’s small and virtually invisible direct-to-consumer hearing aids, which come in an AirPods-style chargeable case, are designed to…
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Wed 06 Mar 2019
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