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
- 3552
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
Data.world raises $12M to help Fortune 500 companies close the great data divide
Airbnb, Uber, Lyft, Warby Parker and a long list of other startups of the 21st century have appointed C-level employees to roles focused exclusively on data science. These digital-age companies have …
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Wed 26 Sep 2018
BlaBlaCar is on the path to profitability
French startup BlaBlaCar just released some interesting metrics. The company has reached profitability if you look at revenue between January 2018 and today. BlaBlaCar forecasts that 50 million peop…
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Tue 25 Sep 2018
Understanding Renaud Laplanche’s next Upgraded act
Renaud Laplanche spent ten years building LendingClub. In the process, he created an industry from scratch. Circumventing conventional banking channels for consumer credit began in 1996 when Chris L…
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Tue 25 Sep 2018
VCs say Silicon Valley isn’t the gold mine it used to be
In the days leading up to TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2018, The Economist published the cover story, ‘Why Startups Are Leaving Silicon Valley.’ The author outlined reasons why the Valley has “peaked.” Ven…
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Mon 24 Sep 2018
uBeam wireless power’s CEO Meredith Perry steps aside amidst B2B pivot
After repeatedly missing self-imposed deadlines for progress on its wireless charging-at-a-distance phone case, uBeam’s CEO Meredith Perry has decided to shift out of the CEO position and into a boa…
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Mon 24 Sep 2018
‘Brotopia’ inspired OODA Health to raise its $40.5M round only from firm’s with female partners
It’s never particularly easy to raise a round of venture capital — but I think most experienced founders will tell you its not quite as bad the second or third time around, when you’ve got some exper…
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Fri 21 Sep 2018
Cluep, a Canadian startup that raised just $500k, acquired for $40M
Everyone lovesa tale of a bootstrapped startup founder’s journey to an eight-figure exit. The team at Toronto-based Cluep have a good one. The founders of theadtech startup raised less than $500,000 …
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Fri 21 Sep 2018
Fresh out of Y Combinator, Leena AI scores $2M seed round
Leena AI, a recentY Combinator graduate focusing on HR chatbots to help employees answer questions like how much vacation time they have left, announced a $2 million seed round today from a variety o…
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Thu 20 Sep 2018
Mabl announces $20 million Series B to bring automated QA to enterprise customers
Mabl, a Boston-based startup from the folks who brought you Stackdriver, wants to change software testing using machine learning, and today it announced a $20 million Series B investment led by GV (f…
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Wed 19 Sep 2018
Uber fires up its own traffic estimates to fuel demand beyond cars
If the whole map is red and it’s a short ride, maybe you’d prefer taking an Uber JUMP Bike instead of an UberX. Or at least if you do end up stuck bumper-to-bumper, the warning could make you less l…
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Tue 18 Sep 2018
Boom’s chief test pilot on the thrill and challenge of going supersonic (again)
“There’s nothing like it out there,” says Commander Bill “Doc” Shoemaker (Ret.), chief test pilot for Boom Supersonic, the startup aiming to make a passenger airliner for transoceanic flights at spee…
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Tue 18 Sep 2018
Crypto’s second bubble, Juul has 60 days and three Chinese IPOs
Hello and welcome back toEquity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. After a long run of having guests climb aboard each week, we took a pau…
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Mon 17 Sep 2018
Lively raises $6.5M to bring its comfortable and inclusive lingerie to brick-and-mortar stores
Roy Raymond opened a little store called Victoria’s Secret, now one of the most popular lingerie businesses in the world, because he was embarrassed to buy lingerie for his wife in department stores.…
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Fri 14 Sep 2018
It’s the end of crypto as we know it and I feel fine
Watching the current price madness is scary. Bitcoin is falling and rising in $500 increments with regularity and Ethereum and its attendant ICOs are in a seeming freefall with a few “dead cat bounc…
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Fri 14 Sep 2018
Ready, Set, Raise is a new accelerator built for women by women
Women in tech are not only significantly under-funded by venture capitalists, but they also often lack access to the early-stage support granted to their male counterparts. To enroll in a startup acc…
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Thu 13 Sep 2018
Job Today gets a $16M top up as it preps for Brexit bump
Job Today gets a $16M top up as it preps for Brexit bump Accel-backed mobile-first jobs appJob Todayhas pulled in another $16M — an expansion to its November 2016 $20M Series B round. It raised a $10…
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Thu 13 Sep 2018
Paysend announces global account to compete with Revolut
Meet Paysend’s global account, a new way to hold, spend and send money in multiple currencies using a mobile app and a card. It looks a lot like Revolut’s basic features. But the company is trying to…
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Wed 12 Sep 2018
Global M&A activity is flat so far in 2018
Global M&A activity is flat so far in 2018 U.S. tech companies continue to be the most active acquirers in the world, says a new report from Crunchbase andMind the Bridge. The pair crunched data on 2…
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Wed 12 Sep 2018
Not hog dog? PixFood lets you shoot and identify food
What happens when you add AI to food? Surprisingly, you don’t get a hungry robot. Instead you get something like PixFood. PixFood lets you take pictures of food, identify available ingredients, and, …
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Tue 11 Sep 2018
Coinbase’s Brian Armstrong: ‘I’d love to run a public company’
Brian Armstrong, the CEO of cryptocurrency trading platform Coinbase, wants to take his company public — maybe on the blockchain. Onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2018, Armstrong dished on his ambiti…
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Mon 10 Sep 2018
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