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
- 3552
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
Klarity uses AI to strip drudgery from contract review
Klarity, a member of the Y Combiner 2018 Summer class, wants to automate much of the contract review process by applying artificial intelligence, specifically natural language processing. Company co-…
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Mon 20 Aug 2018
Credit Karma acquires mortgage platform Approved
Credit Karma, the service best known for providing free credit score monitoring and other financial advice(mostly to millennials), is getting into the mortgage business. The company today announced t…
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Fri 17 Aug 2018
Shelf Engine uses machine learning to stop food waste from eating into store margins
Shelf Engine’s team While running Molly’s, the Seattle-based ready meal wholesaler he founded, Stefan Kalb was upset about its 28 percent food wastage rate. Feeling that the amount was “astronomical,…
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Fri 17 Aug 2018
To fight the scourge of open offices, ROOM sells rooms
Noisy open offices don’t foster collaboration, they kill it, according to a Harvard study that found the less-private floor plan led to a 73 percent drop in face-to-face interaction between employees…
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Thu 16 Aug 2018
Owl raises $10 million for two-way car dashboard camera
Owl, the two-way dash cam founded by a team of ex-Apple and Dropcam executives, has secured a $10 million Series A1 round led by Canvas Ventures. This brings Owl’s total funding to $28 million. “We’v…
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Thu 16 Aug 2018
“Unhackable” BitFi crypto wallet has been hacked
The BitFi crypto wallet was supposed to be unhackable and none other than famous weirdo John McAfee claimed that the device – essentially an Android-based mini tablet – would withstand any attack. Sp…
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Wed 15 Aug 2018
HQ Trivia downloads spiral downward as it hits Apple TV
HQ Trivia’s app store ranking has continued to sink the past three months, but it’s hoping a new version on your television could revitalize growth. HQ today launched an Apple TV app that lets users …
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Wed 15 Aug 2018
Openbook is the latest dream of a digital life beyond Facebook
As tech’s social giants wrestle with antisocial demons that appear to be both an emergent property of their platform power, and a consequence of specific leadership and values failures (evident as th…
00:18:10 |
Tue 14 Aug 2018
Startups should read this checklist before they go ‘whale hunting’ for big partners
David Frankel Contributor David Frankel is a managing partner at Founder Collective. More posts by this contributor You earn a million dollars a year and can’t get funded? Dea…
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Tue 14 Aug 2018
Google isn’t sure how to spell “Fortnite Battle Royale”
The launch of Fortnite Battle Royale has left Google in a slight predicament. While Google is in no way hard up for cash, Fortnite Battle Royale for Android certainly represented the potential for a…
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Mon 13 Aug 2018
Federacy wants to put bug bounty programs in reach of every startup
Federacy, a member of the Y Combinator Summer 2018 class, has a mission to make bug bounty programs available to even the smallest startup. Traditionally, bug bounty programs from players like BugCro…
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Mon 13 Aug 2018
Blissfully grabs $3.5 million seed investment to help companies get their SaaS in gear
Blissfully, a New York City startup that helps companies understand their SaaS usage inside their organizations, announced it has received a $3.5 million seed round. The investment was led by by Humm…
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Fri 10 Aug 2018
Blippar is using AR to help customers find their way indoors
Blippar is using AR to help customers find their way indoors Remember the scene in Minority Report where Tom Cruz walks through the mall and thousands of holographic ads pop up around him? That reali…
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Fri 10 Aug 2018
Evolute debuts enterprise container migration and management platform
Evolute, a 3-year old startup out of Mountain View, officially launched the Evolute platform today with the goal of helping large organizations migrate applications to containers and manage those con…
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Thu 09 Aug 2018
Soundcloud on the blockchain? Audius raises $5.5M to decentralize music
Audius wants to cut the middlemen out music streaming so artists get paid their fair share. Coming out of stealth today led by serial entrepreneur and DJ Ranidu Lankage, Audius is building a blockcha…
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Thu 09 Aug 2018
Don’t fear the big company ‘kill zones’
Ed Byrne Contributor Share on Twitter Ed Byrne is an entrepreneur, investor and co-founder of Scaleworks. Do you worry about the so-called “kill zones” of big tech companies? The Economist…
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Wed 08 Aug 2018
Researchers teach an AI how to dribble
While this animated fellow looks like something out of NBA 2K18, it’s really an AI that’s learning how to dribble in real time. The AI starts out fumbling the ball a bit and by cycle 95 it is able to…
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Wed 08 Aug 2018
Boston-area startups are on pace to overtake NYC venture totals
Joanna Glasner Contributor More posts by this contributor Home run exits happen stealthily for biotech While tech waffles on going public, biotech IPOs boom Boston has regained it…
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Tue 07 Aug 2018
Epic Games sidesteps the Play Store with Fortnite for Android launch
Epic Games continues to spread the love… to consumers, at least. Following the launches of Fortnite Battle Royale on iOS earlier this year and Fortnite for the Nintendo Switch earlier this summer, Ep…
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Mon 06 Aug 2018
Google Maps is no longer #flatearth
Go to Google Maps and zoom out. Halfway out, the map’s perspective changes from a traditional flat map view to an interactive globe. Zoom all the way out and the Earth is presented as a globe with l…
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Mon 06 Aug 2018
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