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
Agricool raises another $28 million to grow fruits in containers
French startup Agricool is raising another $28 million round of funding (€25 million). The company is working on containers to grow fruits and vegetables in urban areas, starting with strawberries. B…
00:05:23 |
Tue 04 Dec 2018
WiARframe wants to make building AR experiences easy
Augmented reality has been a buzzword for years, but for the most part, it has remained a novelty. WiARframe, which is competing in our Startup Battlefield competition today at Disrupt Berlin, believ…
00:04:25 |
Tue 04 Dec 2018
Lyft’s pink-wheeled shareable bikes will be available to rent soon
Lyft has finally given us a glimpse of its forthcoming line of shareable bikes, which the ridesharing company says will be available to rent within its mobile app in select cities “soon.” The news co…
00:03:20 |
Fri 30 Nov 2018
Spin Analytics automates credit risk modeling for banks
Meet Spin Analytics, a startup that wants to leverage artificial intelligence to automatically write credit risk modeling regulation reports. The company is participating in Startup Battlefield at Te…
00:03:28 |
Thu 29 Nov 2018
Australian scheduling software company Deputy brings in $81M amid rapid growth
After eight years of bootstrapping, Deputy sought scale. So the workforce management platform turned to venture capital, quickly raising a $25 million Series A in early 2017. Today, Deputy is announc…
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Thu 29 Nov 2018
Meet ‘Bitski’, the single sign-on wallet crypto desperately needs
The mainstream will never adopt blockchain-powered decentralized apps (dApps) if it’s a struggle to log in. They’re either forced to manage complex security keys themselves, or rely on a clunky walle…
00:08:29 |
Wed 28 Nov 2018
Amazon exec Dave Stephenson tapped to lead Airbnb to the public markets
Airbnb has completed a much-needed hire ahead of its rumored 2019 initial public offering. Thehospitality giant has brought on Dave Stephenson, a long-time Amazon vice president and former president…
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Tue 27 Nov 2018
Banuba raises $7M to supercharge any app or device with the ability to really see you
Banuba raises $7M to supercharge any app or device with the ability to really see you Walking into the office of Viktor Prokopenya – which overlooks a central London park – you would perhaps be forgi…
00:11:11 |
Tue 27 Nov 2018
Cloud communications platform Agora closes $70M Series C to create new developer tools
Part of Agora’s team. The cloud communications startup has offices in Santa Clara and Shanghai. Agora, a developer of cloud communication APIs, will create products for new markets and verticals afte…
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Mon 26 Nov 2018
Move over Le Creuset? A new cookware startup founded by and for millennials is getting down to business
Move over Le Creuset? A new cookware startup founded by and for millennials is getting down to business Sometimes, it’s hard to imagine a product or industry that a new e-commerce startup hasn’t trie…
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Fri 23 Nov 2018
October lets 11 public companies borrow money on its platform
French crowd-lending platform October (formerly known as Lendix), wants to educate more people about new ways to borrow money. That’s why the company is launching a project called Grandir Ensemble (g…
00:03:17 |
Thu 22 Nov 2018
CVCompiler is an robot that fixes your resume to make you more competitive
CVCompiler is an robot that fixes your resume to make you more competitive Machine learning is everywhere now, including recruiting. Take CVCompiler, a new product by Andrew Stetsenko and Alexandra D…
00:03:17 |
Thu 22 Nov 2018
Berlin-based Wind Mobility raises $22M for its e-scooter rental service
Wind Mobility, a Berlin-based mobility startup that offers “dockless” e-scooter (and electric bicycle) rentals, has raised $22 million in seed funding, throwing its hat into the European competitor t…
00:04:29 |
Wed 21 Nov 2018
iHeartMedia to acquire radio adtech company Jelli
Radio giant iHeartMedia announced today that it’s reached an agreement to acquire Jelli, a company bringing programmatic ad-buying to radio broadcasters. In fact, iHeartMedia was already working wit…
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Wed 21 Nov 2018
Genies brings lifelike avatars to other apps with $10M from celebrities
Genies is emerging as the top competitor to Snapchat’s wildly popular Bitmoji as Facebook, Apple, and Google have been slow to get serious about personalized avatars. Over one million people have cu…
00:06:36 |
Tue 20 Nov 2018
Shyft raises $6.5M to help retail and service workers swap shifts
Anyone that has experience in the service or retail industry knows swapping shifts can be a logistical nightmare that leaves employees in trouble with management or stuck working during a friend’s bi…
00:03:24 |
Tue 20 Nov 2018
Plastiq raises $27M at 2X+ value to let you pay for anything on credit
“I wasn’t asking to pay in Bitcoin!” Plastiq CEO and co-founder Eliot Buchanan recalls with a laugh. “I went to pay part of my tuition at Harvard and I was told that they didn’t (and never would) acc…
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Mon 19 Nov 2018
Standard Cognition raises $40M to replace retailers’ cashiers with cameras
The Amazon Go store requires hundreds of cameras to detect who’s picking up what items. Standard Cognition needs just 27 to go after the $27 trillion market of equipping regular shops with autonomous…
00:08:09 |
Mon 19 Nov 2018
Bunch scores $3.8M to turn mobile games into video chat LAN parties
The best parts of gaming are the jokes and trash talk with friends. Whether it was four-player Goldeneye or linking up PCs for Quake battles in the basement, the social element keeps video games exci…
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Fri 16 Nov 2018
Lies, damn lies, and HQ2
There are few things certain in our world except for the uplifting tendencies of technology. I’ve spent the past few years trying to prove this to myself, at least, by interviewing hundreds of thinke…
00:10:20 |
Thu 15 Nov 2018
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