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
Kik launches beta product after $100 million ICO
Kik made waves last year after a successful $100 million ICO. Now the company has released its first beta product related to its Kin token. Called Kinit, it’s a simple wallet that enables users to e…
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Thu 19 Jul 2018
Ocean Solutions Accelerator names its first wave of conservation startups
Early this year the Sustainable Oceans Alliance announced that it would be starting its own accelerator with a focus on conservation. The nonprofit has just announced the Ocean Solutions Accelerator’…
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Wed 18 Jul 2018
Meetup CEO Scott Heiferman moves into Chairman role
Scott Heiferman, Meetup CEO and cofounder, is today moving into the Chairman role at the community-building startup. Meetup launched in 2003 with a simple goal: to give communities an easy way to mee…
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Wed 18 Jul 2018
Online learning platform Unacademy gets $21M Series C from Sequoia India, SAIF and Nexus
Unacademy founders Roman Saini, Gaurav Munjal and Hemesh Singh Bangalore-based Unacademy will add more educators to its online learning platform, which claims to be India’s largest, after closing a $…
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Tue 17 Jul 2018
0x lets any app be the Craigslist of cryptocurrency
Centralized crypto exchanges like Coinbase are easy but expensive because they introduce a middleman. Not-for-profit project 0x allows any developer to quickly build their own decentralized cryptocur…
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Tue 17 Jul 2018
Furniture startups skip the showroom and go straight to your door
Holden Page Contributor Share on Twitter Holden Page is an editor and journalist at Crunchbase News. Startups making delivery and transport easier than ever are a hit with venture capitali…
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Mon 16 Jul 2018
Facial recognition startup Kairos acquires Emotion Reader
Kairos, the face recognition technology used for brand marketing, has announced the acquisition of EmotionReader. EmotionReader is a Limerick, Ireland-based startup that uses algorithms to analyze fa…
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Mon 16 Jul 2018
Is insurance a rich enough game to disrupt?
Martha Notaras Contributor Martha Notaras is a partner at XL Innovate. For the last decade, the largest technology companies have increasingly looked outside of tech to grow their operations…
00:11:42 |
Fri 13 Jul 2018
Medical care scheduling startup Doctolib acquires MonDocteur
What do you do when you’ve raised nearly $100 million and you want to grow as quickly as possible? In Doctolib’s case, the startup is acquiring its main competitor MonDocteur. Together, the two compa…
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Fri 13 Jul 2018
Xara Cloud is an easy to use design tool to help businesses create better looking content
Xara Cloud is an easy to use design tool to help businesses create better looking content Xara is on a mission to help businesses create better looking content, and in turn save us all from having to…
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Thu 12 Jul 2018
Codefights becomes CodeSignal and launches a new ratings system for developers
CodeFights started out as a competitive coding platform but has since morphed to focus more on interview prep and helping business recruit developers. To better reflect this focus, the service today …
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Wed 11 Jul 2018
Box acquires Butter.ai to make search smarter
Box announced today that it has acquired Butter.ai, a startup that helps customers search for content intelligently in the cloud. The terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the Butter.AI team wil…
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Wed 11 Jul 2018
Shoe startups aren’t dragging their feet
Joanna Glasner Contributor More posts by this contributor Hydrate, intoxicate, caffeinate, repeat: Meet the startups pouring the future VCs serve up a large helping of cash to sta…
00:07:35 |
Mon 09 Jul 2018
Joseph Lubin, Amanda Gutterman and Sam Cassatt from Consensys to speak at Disrupt SF
There is perhaps no firm that has done as much to promote the adoption of Ethereum as the dominant cryptocurrency platform for actual product development as Consensys. Founded by Ethereum Foundation …
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Mon 09 Jul 2018
YC-backed Buttermilk brings easy-to-prepare Indian meals to your doorstep
When Mitra Raman went off to college, all she wanted was a bowl of her mother’s homemade rasam. The daughter of Indian immigrants, Raman grew up eating traditional South Indian cuisine almost every d…
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Fri 06 Jul 2018
Airbnb tests earlier payouts for hosts
Airbnb is testing a new payments feature for hosts, letting them get partially paid out at the time of booking. This feature isn’t rolling out to everyone just yet, as Airbnb says that this is just …
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Wed 04 Jul 2018
Hydrate, intoxicate, caffeinate, repeat: Meet the startups pouring the future
Joanna Glasner Contributor More posts by this contributor VCs serve up a large helping of cash to startups disrupting food US startups off to a strong M&A run in 2018 These days, …
00:07:59 |
Tue 03 Jul 2018
Original Stitch’s new Bodygram will measure your body
After years of teasing, Original Stitch has officially launched their Bodygram service and will be rolling it out this summer. The system can scan your body based on front and side photos and will cr…
00:04:26 |
Tue 03 Jul 2018
Facebook is buying UK’s Bloombury AI to ramp up natural language tech in London
Perhaps rightly, there has long been a perception that Google-owned Deepmind has been the most aggressive in hoovering up a lot of the U.K.’s best talent in artificial intelligence, but now Facebook …
00:05:21 |
Mon 02 Jul 2018
Leena AI builds HR chat bots to answer policy questions automatically
Say you have a job with a large company and you want to know how much vacation time you have left, or how to add your new baby to your healthcare. This usually involves emailing or calling HR and wai…
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Mon 02 Jul 2018
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