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
Jupiter raises $23 million to tell businesses and governments how climate change will destroy them
Jupiter raises $23 million to tell businesses and governments how climate change will destroy them Whether it’s by flood, fire or the fury of a storm, climate-related catastrophes are now impacting m…
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Tue 05 Mar 2019
Glossier launches its first spin-off brand, a line of Instagram-friendly ‘dialed-up’ beauty extras
Glossier, known for its line of understated makeup products and a cult-following of millennial Instagrammers, is getting colorful with the launch of its first spin-off brand, Glossier Play. The comp…
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Tue 05 Mar 2019
Ceros raises $14M for its interactive content platform
Cerosallows marketers to create animated, interactive content — but don’t call it a content marketing company. “We think content is just a dry, bland, over-leveraged, oversaturated space,” said found…
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Mon 04 Mar 2019
Cherry lets startup employees choose their own office perks
Forget the office ping pong table,Cherry, a startup in Y Combinator’s latest batch, wants to let employees take company perks into their own hands.
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Fri 01 Mar 2019
Sequoia-backed Medallia files to raise $70M at a $1.7B valuation, documents show
Customer experience management platform Medallia has filed to raise up to $70 million in Series F funding, according to regulatory documents obtained by the Prime Unicorn Index. The new shares were …
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Fri 01 Mar 2019
Search marketing company Botify raises $20M
Botify, a search engine optimization company that works with customers like Expedia and Nike, announced today that it has raised $20 million in Series B funding. Co-founder and CEO Adrien Menard sai…
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Thu 28 Feb 2019
The Shadow Ghost turns cloud gaming into a seamless experience
French startup Blade, the company behind Shadow, is launching a new set-top box to access its cloud gaming service — the Shadow Ghost. I’ve been playing with the device for a couple of weeks and here…
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Thu 28 Feb 2019
For a monthly subscription fee, this startup will send out customized gifts to current and prospective clients at scale
For a monthly subscription fee, this startup will send out customized gifts to current and prospective clients at scale In today’s noisy, fast-paced world, finding a way to let clients and potential …
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Wed 27 Feb 2019
Gradient Ventures, Google’s AI fund, leads $7M investment in English learning app Elsa
Google’s Gradient Ventures, the search giant’s dedicated AI fund, is casting its eye to Asia after it led a $7 million Series A round for Elsa, a startup that operates an app for English language le…
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Wed 27 Feb 2019
Ubiquitilink advance means every phone is now a satellite phone
Last month I wrote about Ubiquitilink, which promised, through undisclosed means, it was on the verge of providing a sort of global satellite-based roaming service. But how, I asked? (Wait, they told…
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Tue 26 Feb 2019
Airbnb, Automattic and Pinterest top rank of most acquisitive unicorns
Jason Rowley Contributor Jason Rowley is a venture capital and technology reporter for Crunchbase News. More posts by this contributor Companies raising supergiant VC aren’t getting…
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Mon 25 Feb 2019
DoorDash raises $400M round, now valued at $7.1B
Delivery company DoorDash is announcing that it has raised $400 million in Series F financing. Earlier this month, The Wall Street Journal reported that the company was looking to raise $500 million …
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Mon 25 Feb 2019
wearTRBL lets you express yourself with a connected T-shirt
When I interviewed Parrot founder and CEO Henri Seydoux at TechCrunch Disrupt back in 2016, he surprised everyone when he said he was working on a new kind of T-shirt —nobody knew for sure whether he…
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Fri 22 Feb 2019
EF raises $115M new fund, aiming to create another 300-plus startups in the next three years
Entrepreneur First (EF), the London-headquartered “talent investor” that recruits and backs individuals pre-team and pre-idea to enable them to found startups, has raised a new fund of its own to con…
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Wed 20 Feb 2019
SendBird snags $52M Series B to expand messaging API tool
SendBird, a San Francisco area startup, helps developers add messaging to their apps with a couple of lines of code. It’s an idea similar to Stripe for payments or Twilio for communications. Today, t…
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Tue 19 Feb 2019
Startups Weekly: Is Y Combinator’s latest cohort too big?
Greetings from Chittorgarh, one of my stops on a two-week excursion through Goa and Rajasthan, India. I’ve been a little too busy exploring, photographing cows and monkeys and eating a lot of delicio…
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Tue 19 Feb 2019
Alan raises another $45 million for its health insurance product
Paris-based startup Alan has raised a Series B round of funding of $45 million (€40 million). Index Ventures is once again leading the round, with partners of DST Global also participating. The compa…
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Mon 18 Feb 2019
3DEN raises $2M to create pay-as-you-go urban spaces
3DEN is building spaces for what it calls the “in-between moments” of your day. The name (pronounced “Eden”) comes from the idea of the “third place” — a space that’s neither home nor work. Founder a…
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Mon 18 Feb 2019
WeWork launches skills-based profiles as a value add for tenants
WeWork has made a big name for itself in a short period of time as a global co-working space. In fact, WeWork is now the largest private office tenant in all of Manhattan. But whether the real estate…
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Fri 15 Feb 2019
Why your startup may not be as great as everyone says
Gil Ben-Artzy Contributor Gil Ben-Artzy is a founding partner at UpWest Labs. One of the very first things we ask Israeli entrepreneurs who are hoping to break into the U.S. market is to tel…
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Fri 15 Feb 2019
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