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
YC-backed Oxygen raises seed to bring digital banking to freelancers
Few things are easy in our financial system if you don’t have regular employment. It’s hard to prove (regular) income, which makes applying for a credit card or personal loan much more difficult and …
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Wed 30 Jan 2019
The new Parsley Health Center in NYC doesn’t feel like a doctor’s office
Parsley Health has just opened up a new, fully redesigned space on Fifth Avenue in New York City, marking the first true Parsley Health Center. Since launch, the startup has been operating out of cl…
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Tue 29 Jan 2019
Sequoia-backed NEXT gets $97M as investment in logistics heats up
Despite its “unsexy” reputation, the logistics industry is attracting massive investment from venture capitalists. With a fresh $97 million in Series C funding, NEXT joins a fleet of heavily funded l…
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Mon 28 Jan 2019
Verizon’s unlimited data carrier Visible starts selling iPhones, announces Android compatibility
When Verizon stealthily launched a new startup called Visible last year, it operated under a bring-your-own-device model — to sign up, you needed to already have an unlocked iPhone, and Visible woul…
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Fri 25 Jan 2019
After an abrupt shutdown, Munchery’s small business vendors are the ones picking up the bill
Munchery’s vendors claim the food delivery startup took advantage of them in its final hours, knowingly allowing them to continue making deliveries it couldn’t pay for. Earlier this week, Munchery s…
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Fri 25 Jan 2019
How we’re finding the best lawyers for early-stage startups
We’re nearing 1,000 submissions from startup founders and leaders in Silicon Valley and across the world about the best early-stage tech lawyers to work with. As we’ve sorted through survey responses…
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Thu 24 Jan 2019
The Pill Club raises $51M as VCs find new opportunities in women’s health
Through telemedicine and direct-to-consumer sales platforms, startups are streamlining the historically arduous process of accessing contraception. The latest effort to secure a significant financing…
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Thu 24 Jan 2019
Roger Dickey ditches $32M-funded Gigster to start Untitled Labs
Most founders don’t walk away from their startup after raising $32 million and reaching 1000 clients. But Roger Dickey’s heart is in consumer tech, and his company Gigster had pivoted to doing outso…
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Wed 23 Jan 2019
UK startup veteran and investor Wendy Tan White joins Alphabet X as Vice President
Wendy Tan White, a veteran of the U.K. startup scene — including founding SaaS website builder Moonfruit, which exited to Yell Group for $37 million — is joining Alphabet X (formerly Google X), Tech…
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Tue 22 Jan 2019
Following a record year, Illinois startups kick off 2019 on a strong foot
Jason Rowley Contributor Jason Rowley is a venture capital and technology reporter for Crunchbase News. More posts by this contributor SoftBank’s Vision Fund inches closer to $100B …
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Mon 21 Jan 2019
Alation announces $50M Series C investment as data catalog biz takes off
Alation, a startup that helps crawl a company’s databases in order to build a data search catalogue, announced a $50 million Series C investment today. The round was led by Sapphire Ventures and Sale…
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Mon 21 Jan 2019
Slack’s product chief is out ahead of direct listing
Slack is losing its chief product officer April Underwood ahead of a direct listing expected in 2019. Tamar Yehoshua, a long-time Google vice president, has been tapped to fill Underwood’s shoes as…
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Fri 18 Jan 2019
Squad is the new screensharing chat app everyone will copy
Squad could be the next teen sensation because it makes it easy to do nothing… together. Spending time with friends in the modern age often means just being on your phones next to each other, occasi…
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Fri 18 Jan 2019
Techstars will build and launch startups with new venture studio
Similar to Y Combinator, early-stage technology startup accelerator Techstars has spent much of the last decade supporting and seeding innovative projects, including Plated, ClassPass, SendGrid and…
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Thu 17 Jan 2019
YC-backed Upsolve is automating bankruptcy for everyone
The popular image of a Chapter 7 bankruptcy might be a large company like Enron failing, or maybe some lazy drifter trying to shirk their financial responsibilities. The reality is anything but those…
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Thu 17 Jan 2019
For $5,800 per year, Chief helps women reach the C-suite
For decades, women in business have lacked the resources necessary to navigate to or sustain executive roles. Finally, venture-funded projects have emerged to fill this gap. The latest is Chief, a pr…
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Wed 16 Jan 2019
Opendoor competitor Knock raises $400M
Home trade-in platform Knock has brought in a $400 million investment to accelerate a national expansion and double its 100-person headcount. Foundry Group has led the Series B funding round in New Y…
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Wed 16 Jan 2019
Daily Crunch: Bing has a child porn problem
The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe here: 1. Micro…
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Tue 15 Jan 2019
Startups Weekly: Will Trump ruin the unicorn IPOs of our dreams?
The government shutdown entered its 21st day on Friday, upping concerns of potentially long-lasting impacts on the U.S. stock market. Private market investors around the country applauded when Uberfi…
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Mon 14 Jan 2019
Elon Musk shows off the assembled Starship test rocket
After weeks teasing renderings and production photos, Elon Musk finally showed off the finished Starship test rocket last night. Starship test flight rocket just finished assembly at the @SpaceX Tex…
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Mon 14 Jan 2019
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