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
Tim Berners-Lee is on a mission to decentralize the web
“I’ve always believed the web is for everyone,” wrote Tim Berners-Lee, the well-known (and knighted) creator of the World Wide Web. “The web has evolved into an engine of inequity and division; swaye…
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Thu 11 Oct 2018
The Wing, a co-working space for women, opens its doors in San Francisco
Women-focused co-working space The Wing has made its way to California, opening its first of two planned locations in the state this morning. On Sansome Street in San Francisco’s Financial District, …
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Thu 11 Oct 2018
SoftBank is considering taking a majority stake in WeWork
SoftBank may soon own up to 50 percent of WeWork, a well-funded provider of co-working spaces headquartered in New York, according to a new report from The Wall Street Journal. SoftBank is reportedl…
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Wed 10 Oct 2018
Venture capital investment in US companies to hit $100B in 2018
So many new unicorns valued at $1 billion-plus, countless$100 million venture financings, an explosion of giant funds— it’s no surprise 2018 is shaping up to be a banner year for venture capital inve…
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Wed 10 Oct 2018
SoundCloud finally lets more musicians monetize four years later
SoundCloud moves painfully slow for a tech company, and no one feels that pain more than musicians who are popular on the site but don’t get paid. 10 years since SoundCloud first launched, and four …
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Tue 09 Oct 2018
Faraday Future investor Evergrande Health now says the troubled startup is trying to back out of deal
Faraday Future investor Evergrande Health now says the troubled startup is trying to back out of deal Evergrande Health, the investor that bailed out besieged electric vehicle startup Faraday Future …
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Tue 09 Oct 2018
RankScience closes $1.8M seed — and now only wants to replace human SEO staff if you don’t have any
RankScience closes $1.8M seed — and now only wants to replace human SEO staff if you don’t have any A couple of years ago YC-backed RankScience, which offers AI-enhanced SEO split-testing, put a few …
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Mon 08 Oct 2018
Flutterwave and Ventures Platform CEOs will join us at Startup Battlefield Africa
Flutterwave and Ventures Platform CEOs will join us at Startup Battlefield Africa Startup Battlefield is returning to Africa this December. TechCrunch will be hitting Lagos, Nigeria, bringing with it…
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Mon 08 Oct 2018
JFrog lands $165 M investment as valuation jumps over $1 billion
JFrog wants to change the way we deal with software updates. Instead of large numbered updates you have to manually download, it sees a future of continuous delivery where software is delivered as bi…
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Fri 05 Oct 2018
Product Hunt Radio: The evolution of Y Combinator, and counter-intuitive advice for founders
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Fri 05 Oct 2018
N26 is launching its bank in the U.K.
Nearly a year after German fintech startup N26 announced that it would launch its service in the U.K., the company is launching in the U.K. N26 is already quite popular in the Eurozone with over 1.5 …
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Thu 04 Oct 2018
KZen raises $4 million to bring sanity to crypto wallets
KZen, a company run by former TC editor Ouriel Ohayon, has raised $4 million in seed to build a “better wallet,” obviously the elusive Holy Grail in the crypto world. Benson Oak Ventures, Samsung Nex…
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Thu 04 Oct 2018
Subscription startup Bespoke Post is creating its own brands and products for men
Subscription startup Bespoke Post is creating its own brands and products for men Bespoke Post says it has more than 100,000 subscribers signed up to receive a monthly “box of awesome” (that’s what i…
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Wed 03 Oct 2018
Cover collects $16M to insure your gadgets, pets… anything
People procrastinate about buying insurance because it’s such a boring and complicated chore to compare policies. But Cover combines plans from 45 insurance companies into a single marketplace so it’…
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Wed 03 Oct 2018
Ettitude targets eco-conscious shoppers with its organic bedding
Ettitude, recently graduated from the ERA accelerator, is looking to ride the growing wave of e-commerce by offering eco-friendly sheets. The company offers bamboo lyocell sheets and pajamas, which f…
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Tue 02 Oct 2018
Why Blissfully decided to go all in on serverless
Serverless has become a big buzzword of late, and with good reason. It has the potential to completely alter how developers write code. They can simply write a series of event triggers, while letting…
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Tue 02 Oct 2018
Ne-Yo wants to make Silicon Valley more diverse one investment at a time
Dressed in a Naruto t-shirt and a hat emblazoned with the phrase “lone wolf,” Ne-Yo slouches over in a chair inside a Holberton Schoolclassroom. The Grammy-winningrecording artist is struggling to re…
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Mon 01 Oct 2018
Vinay Gupta to talk about Mattereum at Disrupt Berlin
Cryptocurrency speculation is over. That’s why I’m excited to announce that Vinay Gupta will join us at TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin to talk about cool use cases that could make blockchain projects usef…
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Mon 01 Oct 2018
The Infatuation raises $30M from Jeffrey Katzenberg’s WndrCo to bring Zagat into the digital age
WndrCo, the consumer tech investment and holding company founded by longtime Hollywood executive Jeffrey Katzenberg, has invested $30 million in The Infatuation, a restaurant discovery platform. The…
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Fri 28 Sep 2018
Rally Rd., the app that lets you invest in classic cars, raises $7M Series A
What happens when you bring together an entrepreneur, a product designer and an investment banker who all really love collector vehicles? You get Rally Rd., an app for buying and selling equity share…
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Fri 28 Sep 2018
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