TechCrunch Startup News
Listen to select TechCrunch articles on startups coverage—who's raising, who's exiting, who's changing the world.
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- 2018 - 2025
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
Cisco is buying Duo Security for $2.35B in cash
Cisco today announced its intent to buy Ann Arbor, MI-based security firm, Duo Security. Under the terms of the agreement, Cisco is paying $2.35 billion in cash and assumed equity awards for Duo. Du…
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Fri 03 Aug 2018
Skyline AI raises $18M Series A for its machine learning-based real estate investment tech
Skyline AI founders Iri Amirav, Or Hiltch, Guy Zipori and Amir Leitersdorf A mere four months after coming out of stealth mode with $3 million in seed funding, real estate investment startup Skyline …
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Thu 02 Aug 2018
Fashionably AI
This summer’s wedding season required me to buy a new suit. I vowed to be adventurous and buy a color I normally never would have considered. Alas, I opted for a little more movie-theater usher and a…
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Thu 02 Aug 2018
A pickaxe for the AI gold rush, Labelbox sells training data software
Every artificial intelligence startup or corporate R&D lab has to reinvent the wheel when it comes to how humans annotate training data to teach algorithms what to look for. Whether it’s doctors asse…
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Wed 01 Aug 2018
Tractable is applying AI to accident and disaster appraisal
“Happy to spend 10 minutes on our vision and the journey we’re on, but then, really, 15 minutes on what we’ve got today, what it is we’ve achieved, what it is our AI does,” says Tractable co-founder …
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Tue 31 Jul 2018
Fabric offers an alternative to Facebook sharing with a private timeline of personal moments
Fabric, a personal journaling app that emerged from Y Combinator’s 2016 batch of startups, is relaunching itself as a Facebook alternative. The app is giving itself a makeover in the wake of Facebook…
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Tue 31 Jul 2018
Facebook’s debacle, $100M rounds and Slack links up with Atlassian
Hello and welcome back toEquity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This was one hell of a week. Happily, we had our own Connie Loizos, Mat…
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Mon 30 Jul 2018
MentalHappy helps companies send custom care packages to employees going through a rough time
For many people, their workplaces become like a second family. More companies are recognizing this with better benefits such as longer family leave and wellness programs. But when an employee needs t…
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Fri 27 Jul 2018
Outlier raises $6.2 M Series A to change how companies use data
Traditionally, companies have gathered data from a variety of sources, then used spreadsheets and dashboards to try and make sense of it all. Outlier wants to change that and deliver a handful of ins…
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Fri 27 Jul 2018
Zbiotics says it’s bioengineered a hangover cure
Y Combinator backedZbioticshas spend two years developing what they’re billing as theworld’s first genetically engineered probiotic. The startup’s initial product isn’t exactly world-changing but it…
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Thu 26 Jul 2018
ClassPass works up $85 million Series D funding
ClassPass today announced the close of an $85 million Series D financing round led by Temasek, the same firm that led the startup’s Series C financing. L Catterton, a private equity firm that has als…
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Thu 26 Jul 2018
HoneyLove looks to reinvent shapewear
Betsie Larkin spent the first ten years of her professional career as an EDM artist. She released two solo albums, toured five continents and worked with the likes of Armin van Buuren and Ferry Corst…
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Wed 25 Jul 2018
YC-backed Send Reality makes 3D virtual walkthroughs for residential listings
The fields of computer vision and VR are difficult. But a new company, Send Reality, is entering the race. The Y Combinator-backed company is looking to offer full 3D-modeling for virtual walkthrough…
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Wed 25 Jul 2018
Doughbies’ cookie crumbles in a cautionary tale of venture scale
Doughbies should have been a bakery, not a venture-backed startup. Founded in the frothy days of 2013 and funded with $670,000 by investors including 500 Startups, Doughbies built a same-day cookie …
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Tue 24 Jul 2018
While tech waffles on going public, biotech IPOs boom
For people who make investment decisions based on revenues and projected earnings, biotech IPOs are kind of a non-starter. Not only are new market entrants universally unprofitable, most have zero re…
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Tue 24 Jul 2018
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