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
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- Episodes
- 3555
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
Confirmed: ShopRunner acquires Spring, raises $40M
ShopRunner chief executive Sam Yagan conquered the online dating world. Can he conquer the e-commerceworld, too? Hot off the heels of its first profitable year, ShopRunner is announcing its first in…
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Fri 26 Oct 2018
Daily Crunch: Tesla is profitable again
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. Tesla…
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Fri 26 Oct 2018
Voting is a social experience
If your Instagram followers aren’t aware that you’ve voted, did you really even vote? In 2018, the act of voting is great social media fodder. People want their friends to know they’ve registered to …
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Thu 25 Oct 2018
Marieme Diop and Shikoh Gitau to speak at Startup Battlefield Africa
Startup Battlefield Africa is set for December 11 in Lagos and investor Marieme Diop and ICT expert Shikoh Gitau will be there to lend their perspective and expertise.The Lagos TechCrunch event is a …
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Wed 24 Oct 2018
iPharmacy Roman fights stigmas with premature ejaculation meds
There’s a war brewing to become the cloud pharmacy for men’s health. Roman, which launched last year offering erectile dysfunctional medication and recently added a ‘quit smoking’ kit, is taking on …
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Wed 24 Oct 2018
Tier, the Berlin-based scooter rental startup, raises €25M as European e-scooter market heats up
Tier, one of a number of electric scooter rental startups based in Berlin, has raised a chunky €25 million in Series A funding. Leading the round is VC fund Northzone, with participation from existin…
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Tue 23 Oct 2018
Lime is building its first scooter “lifestyle brand store” in LA
How can Lime differentiate its scooters and bikes from the piles of Birds and Spins filling Los Angeles sidewalks? Apparently with a physical storefront where it can convince customers of the wonder…
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Tue 23 Oct 2018
TrackR is rebranding to Adero as it looks beyond small devices to track lost items
WhenTrackR raised $50 million from investors that included Amazon a year ago, the Santa Baraba startup made a big splash in the growing market for small connected dongles that you could attach to “du…
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Mon 22 Oct 2018
Twilio shops, Uber and Lyft IPO scuttlebutt, and Instacart raises $600M
Hello and welcome back toEquity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week we had the Three Excellent Friends (Connie Loizos, Danny Chr…
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Mon 22 Oct 2018
Jane.VC, a new fund for female entrepreneurs, wants founders to cold email them
Want to pitch a venture capitalist? You’ll need a “warm introduction” first. At least that’s what most in the business will advise. Find a person, typically a man, who made the VC you’re interested i…
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Fri 19 Oct 2018
Embracing multimodality, Uber pioneers ride recommendations
For the first time, Uber will make contextual, personalized suggestions about the best way to get from point A to point B. The startup offers more than just cars now, and it’s starting to understand…
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Fri 19 Oct 2018
The new normal
When we first started writing about startups at TechCrunch the idea of a startup – a small business with global ambitions – was a pipe dream.
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Thu 18 Oct 2018
10 lessons from Marketo’s growth to a multi-billion-dollar exit
Doug Pepper Contributor Doug Pepper is a managing director at Shasta Ventures. More posts by this contributor A New Revolution Modernizes The Revenue Supply Chain With Adobe’s acquis…
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Wed 17 Oct 2018
Journal raises $1.5 million to bring Google-like search to your personal life
In today’s world of Slack, email and a gazillion other web apps and services, it’s become increasingly hard to search for information. Did your boss Slack you or email you that information about your…
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Wed 17 Oct 2018
Announcing the Disrupt Berlin Agenda
TechCrunch Disrupt is the world’s biggest and most impactful tech startup conference, and we can’t wait to bring the hype to Berlin. We’re very proud of the show we’ve put together and are thrilled t…
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Tue 16 Oct 2018
Readdle’s Denys Zhadanov to talk about bootstrapping at Disrupt Berlin
Readdle might not be a familiar name, but chances are you’ve been using some of their mobile apps. The Ukrainian company is a bootstrapped success story with 100 million downloads, 135 employees and …
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Tue 16 Oct 2018
AllTrails gets $75M to keep hikers happy
The app for hiking enthusiasts just secured a big round of capital that will help it map more trails worldwide. AllTrailshas raised $75 million, led by Spectrum Equity, which has taken a majority sta…
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Mon 15 Oct 2018
With $50M in fresh funding, Allbirds will open new stores in the US, UK and Asia
With $50M in fresh funding, Allbirds will open new stores in the US, UK and Asia The quintessential venture capitalist’s uniform consists of a pair of designer jeans, a Patagonia fleece vest and $95 …
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Mon 15 Oct 2018
Jennifer Garner’s baby food company Once Upon a Farm raises $20M Series B
CAVU Venture Partners has led the $20 million Series B for Once Upon a Farm, which sells organic, cold-pressed baby food in 8,500 grocery stores in the U.S. The Berkeley-based startup was originally…
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Fri 12 Oct 2018
YC-grad Papa raises $2.4M for its ‘grandkids-on-demand’ service
One of the latest additions to the on-demand economy is Papa, a mobile app that connects college students with adults over 60 in need of support and companionship. The recent graduate of Y Combinator…
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Fri 12 Oct 2018
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