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
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…
00:03:13 |
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, …
00:03:15 |
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…
00:02:50 |
Mon 10 Sep 2018
Deep-linking startup Branch is raising more than $100M at a unicorn valuation
Branch, the deep-linking startup backed by Andy Rubin’s Playground Ventures, will enter the unicorn club with an upcoming funding round. The four-year-old company, which helps brands create links bet…
00:03:16 |
Mon 10 Sep 2018
Vtrus launches drones to inspect and protect your warehouses and factories
Knowing what’s going on in your warehouses and facilities is of course critical to many industries, but regular inspections take time, money, and personnel. Why not use drones? Vtrus uses computer vi…
00:06:29 |
Fri 07 Sep 2018
PoLTE lets you track devices using LTE signal
Meet PoLTE, a Dallas-based startup that wants to make location-tracking more efficient. Thanks to PoLTE’s software solution, logistics and shipment companies can much more easily track packages and g…
00:03:59 |
Fri 07 Sep 2018
Ashton Kutcher hates cars, loves scooters
Ashton Kutcher and Effie Epstein discussed their investment strategy at TechCrunch Disrupt SF. With their VC fund Sound Ventures, they invested in Bird. While they are conflicted on this topic, Kutc…
00:02:24 |
Thu 06 Sep 2018
Unity CEO says half of all games are built on Unity
Unity CEO John Riccitiello came to TechCrunch Disrupt SF to give everyone an update on the world’s most popular game engine. You might not be aware that most of the games you’re playing, especially …
00:04:07 |
Thu 06 Sep 2018
Here are the six startups participating in Betaworks LiveCamp
Betaworks this morning revealed this list of six startups participating in its fourth Camp accelerator program. Launched in 2016, the program brings together a collection of young companies united u…
00:03:18 |
Wed 05 Sep 2018
Uber’s chief diversity officer is coming to TechCrunch Disrupt 2018
At TechCrunch Disrupt 2018, Uber’s Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer Bo Young Lee will be joining us to talk about the ride-sharing company’s efforts to put detoxify its corporate culture and pr…
00:03:39 |
Tue 04 Sep 2018
Spotinst, excess cloud capacity management service, snares $35M Series B
Spotinst, the startup that helps companies purchase and manage excess cloud infrastructure capacity, announced a hefty $35 million Series B today led by Highland Capital. Existing investors Leaders F…
00:04:22 |
Thu 30 Aug 2018
Datree gets $3M seed round to build DevOps policy engine in GitHub
Datree, an early-stage startup based in Israel, wants to help companies create a set of policies for their applications, and apply them in GitHub before a commit goes live. Today, it announced $3 mil…
00:03:37 |
Thu 30 Aug 2018
Cleo Capital sets $10M target to fund female entrepreneurs
Sarah Kunst has filed to raise $10 million for her debut venture capital fund, Cleo Capital. According to Axios, the firm will give cash to female entrepreneurs who will act as scouts. Scouts look fo…
00:04:25 |
Wed 29 Aug 2018
Very Good Security makes data ‘unhackable’ with $8.5M from Andreessen
“You can’t hack what isn’t there,” Very Good Security co-founder Mahmoud Abdelkader tells me. His startup assumes the liability of storing sensitive data for other companies, substituting dummy credi…
00:07:08 |
Wed 29 Aug 2018
VMware acquires CloudHealth Technologies for multi-cloud management
VMware is hosting its VMworld customer conference in Las Vegas this week, and to get things going it announced that its acquiring Boston-based CloudHealth Technologies. They did not disclose the term…
00:04:21 |
Tue 28 Aug 2018
Rebuilding employee philanthropy from the bottom up
In tech circles, it would be easy to assume that the world of high-impact charitable giving is a rich man’s game where deals are inked at exclusive black tie galas over fancy hors d’oeuvre.Both Mark …
00:11:27 |
Mon 27 Aug 2018
Housing startup Bungalow raises $14 million Series A round led by Khosla Ventures
Moving to a new city can be tough for a number of reasons, but what’s arguably hardest about moving is a competitive and expensive housing market, and lack of a pre-existing social support network. T…
00:04:34 |
Fri 24 Aug 2018
Nylas scores $16M Series B to expand email API tool
Nylas, a startup that helps developers integrate email content into applications via an API, announced a $16 million Series B today led by Spark Capital. Other investors joining in included Slack Fun…
00:04:20 |
Fri 24 Aug 2018
Foundries.io promises standardized open source IoT device security
IoT devices currently lack a standard way of applying security. It leaves consumers, whether business or individuals, left to wonder if their devices are secure and up-to-date. Foundries.io, a compan…
00:04:27 |
Thu 23 Aug 2018
Talla builds a smarter customer knowledge base
Talla is taking aim at the customer service industry with its latest release, an AI-infused knowledge base. Today, the company released version 2.0 of the Talla Intelligent Knowledge Base. The compa…
00:04:18 |
Wed 22 Aug 2018
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