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
Donde Search picks up $6 million to help fashion retailers with visual search
Donde Search has just closed a $6 million Series A investment led by Matrix Partners, with participation from previous investors such as senior leaders from AliExpress, Google and Waze. Donde first l…
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Thu 14 Feb 2019
Tim Cook-backed shower startup Nebia shows off a warmer, water-saving shower head
I’m not in the habit of getting naked during meetings at startup offices, but this time it felt appropriate. Nebia, a shower startup that has attracted investments from the likes of Apple CEO Tim Coo…
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Thu 14 Feb 2019
DoorDash subsidizes driver wages with tips
It’s true that DoorDash offsets the amount it pays its drivers with customer tip, according to an FAQ page on its own site. “For each delivery, you will always receive at least $1 from DoorDash plus…
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Wed 13 Feb 2019
Glide helps you build mobile apps from a spreadsheet without coding
The founders of Glide, a member of the Y Combinator Winter 2019 class, had a notion that building mobile apps in the enterprise was too hard. They decided to simplify the process by starting with a s…
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Wed 13 Feb 2019
Startups Weekly: Spotify gets acquisitive and Instacart screws up
Did anyone else listen to season one of StartUp, Alex Blumberg’s OG Gimlet podcast? I did, and I felt like a proud mom this week reading stories of the major, first-of-its-kindSpotify acquisition of …
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Tue 12 Feb 2019
Startup names may have passed peak weirdness
Joanna Glasner Contributor More posts by this contributor Where seed and early-stage funding is growing, contracting or holding steady Hire faster, work happier: Startups target e…
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Tue 12 Feb 2019
Facebook picks up retail computer vision outfit GrokStyle
If you’ve ever seen a lamp or chair that you liked and wished you could just take a picture and find it online, well, GrokStyle let you do that — and now the company has been snatched up by Facebook …
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Mon 11 Feb 2019
Airbnb hires a global head of transportation
Airbnb made it easier for travelers to find a place to crash. Now it wants to make it easier for them to get around. The $31 billion home-sharing giant has hired Fred Reid as its first-ever global h…
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Mon 11 Feb 2019
Gametime lets you buy tickets for games and concerts that have already started
Ticketing app Gametime is taking its last-minute approach about as far as it can go, with the launch of a new feature called LastCall. This allows users to purchase tickets through Gametime until 90…
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Fri 08 Feb 2019
Thriva expands its range of test-at-home kits to add female hormone and cortisol stress tests
UK home health analysis kit startup Thriva is adding three more products to its range later this month: A saliva-based cortisol stress test and two female hormone kits. The Seedcamp-backedUK startup …
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Fri 08 Feb 2019
Self-driving truck startup Ike raises $52 million
Ike, the autonomous trucking startup founded by veterans of Apple, Google and Uber Advanced Technologies Group’s self-driving truck program, has raised $52 million in a Series A funding round led by …
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Thu 07 Feb 2019
Bird CEO on scooter startup copycats, unit economics, safety and seasonality
Bird’s electric scooters were on full display at the Upfront Summit in Malibu last week, a two-day event that brings togetherthe likes of Hollywood, Silicon Valley and Washington, DC’s elite. Not onl…
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Wed 06 Feb 2019
Bots are cheap and effective. One startup trolls them into going away
Bots are ruining the internet. When they’re not pummeling a website with usernames and passwords from a long list of stolen credentials, they’re scraping the price of hotels or train tickets and odds…
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Wed 06 Feb 2019
Aurora Solar’s computer-generated installation maps pull in a $20M Series A
Solar installations are becoming a no-brainer for anyone with a roof in much of the country. But getting an estimate on how much it would cost and how much juice it would generate can be complicated …
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Tue 05 Feb 2019
Austin in January: Cash rich and maturing
Mary Ann Azevedo Contributor Share on Twitter Mary Ann Azevedo covers startups and tech at Crunchbase News. 2019 has been good to the Austin startup scene so far. Combined, Austin startup…
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Mon 04 Feb 2019
Timescale announces $15M investment and new enterprise version of TimescaleDB
It’s a big day for Timescale, makers of the open source time series database, TimescaleDB. The company announced a $15 million investment and a new enterprise version of the product. The investment i…
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Mon 04 Feb 2019
Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s artist-collaboration platform HitRecord raises $6.4M
In the early 2000s, actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt was frustrated with the roles he was being offered. Instead of starring in critically acclaimed indies, he was typecast as “the funny kid on TV” due to …
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Fri 01 Feb 2019
Step targets teens and parents with a no-fees mobile bank account and Visa card
A new mobile banking startup called Step wants to help bring teenagers and other young adults into the cashless era. Today, cash is used less often, as more consumers shop online and send money to on…
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Fri 01 Feb 2019
Cosmic JS wants to simplify web development, so you can focus on content
If you are a web developer, you know how complex many of the traditional web content management systems have been. One of the big problems has been managing the underlying infrastructure for the syst…
00:04:21 |
Thu 31 Jan 2019
Amex blocks Curve as the fintech startup vows to fight “anti-competitive” decision
Well, that was short-lived: Just 36 hours after Curve, the London fintech that lets you consolidate all of your bank cards into a single Curve card, re-instated support for Amex, the feature has once…
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Wed 30 Jan 2019
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