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
- 3548
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
Open source sustainability
Open source sustainability has been nothing short of an oxymoron. Engineers around the world pour their sweat and frankly, their hearts into these passion projects that undergird all software in the …
00:20:17 |
Tue 26 Jun 2018
Are scooter startups really worth billions?
It’s been hard to miss the scooter startup wars opening fresh, techno-fueled rifts in Valley society in recent months. Another flavor of ride-sharing steed which sprouted seemingly overnight to clutt…
00:22:31 |
Mon 25 Jun 2018
Sphero acquires a music education startup
It’s hard to say precisely how Sphero’s pivot to education is going in these early stages, but it recently got an infusion of funding and is already out acquiring new startups. The BB-8 maker announc…
00:03:14 |
Mon 25 Jun 2018
Urban Airship raises another $25M
Urban Airship has raised $25 million in Series F funding. The company started out as a platform supporting push notifications, but has since expanded to include other marketing channels like email, S…
00:03:18 |
Fri 22 Jun 2018
Why startups can’t afford to ignore customer retention
Venture-backed companies must walk the line between fast growth and efficient growth. Even as VCs value high-quality revenue, companies are still held to a minimum growth rate. We think of this thres…
00:08:42 |
Wed 20 Jun 2018
Lyft’s app code reveals unlaunched bike or scooter feature
Lyft hasn’t acquired a bike-sharing startup or gotten a scooter permit yet, but it’s already preparing its app for them with a feature codenamed “last mile”. Code and screenshots dug out of Lyft’s A…
00:05:17 |
Wed 20 Jun 2018
SpeakSee makes it simple for a deaf person to join a group conversation
There’s a great deal of activity in the fields of speech recognition and the “Internet of Things,” but one natural application of the two has gone relatively unpursued: helping the deaf and hard of h…
00:04:30 |
Tue 19 Jun 2018
The long Cocky-gate nightmare is over
I’ve been wanting to write about Cocky-gate for some time now but the story – a row between self-published authors that degenerated into ridiculousness – seems finally over and perhaps we can all get…
00:07:07 |
Tue 19 Jun 2018
VCs serve up a large helping of cash to startups disrupting food
Joanna Glasner Contributor More posts by this contributor Scaling startups are setting up secondary hubs in these cities Here is where CEOs of heavily funded startups went to scho…
00:06:43 |
Mon 18 Jun 2018
YC alum Modern Health, a startup focused on emotional wellbeing, gets $2.26M seed funding
Modern Health founders Alyson Friedensohn and Erica Johnson About one year ago, a note from a CEO thanking his employee for using sick days to take care of her mental health went viral. It was a remi…
00:04:48 |
Mon 18 Jun 2018
VR helps us remember
Researchers at the University of Maryland have found that people remember information better if it is presented in VR vs. on a two dimensional personal computer. This means VR education could be an …
00:05:04 |
Fri 15 Jun 2018
Meet Atoms, the minimalist startup shoes you’ll actually wear
Step aside, Allbirds. Atoms come in quarter sizes you can mix-and-match. Emerging from stealth today in a TechCrunch exclusive, this shoe startup’s obsession with satisfaction allowed it to replace m…
00:08:55 |
Fri 15 Jun 2018
This AR guppy feeds on the spectrum of human emotion
Indiecade always offers a nice respite from the wall of undulating human flesh and heat that is the rest of the E3 show floor. The loose confederation of independent developers often produces compell…
00:02:52 |
Thu 14 Jun 2018
N26 launches a revised metal card
Fintech startup N26 is updating its N26 Metal product and launching it tomorrow. You might remember that the company first announced its premium card at TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin in December 2017. S…
00:02:59 |
Thu 14 Jun 2018
Beware ‘founder-friendly’ VCs — 3 steps founders should take to protect their companies
In 2014, it seemed like pretty much anyone with a pulse and pitch deck was capable of raising huge amounts of capital from prestigious venture capital firms at sky-high valuations. Here we arefour ye…
00:08:18 |
Wed 13 Jun 2018
New technology can see your body through walls
MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory has created a system that can see your body through walls, recreating your poses when you walk, sit, or simply stand still. It uses RF w…
00:03:27 |
Tue 12 Jun 2018
By automating code compliance, UpCodes AI is “the spellcheck for buildings”
For many architects, the hardest part of their job starts after they finish designing a building, when the onerous process of code compliance begins. Written to ensure the safety and accessibility of…
00:07:50 |
Tue 12 Jun 2018
Workday acquires Rallyteam to fuel machine learning efforts
Sometimes you acquire a company for the assets and sometimes you do it for the talent. Today Workday announced it was buying Rallyteam, a San Francisco startup that helps companies keep talented empl…
00:03:27 |
Mon 11 Jun 2018
Self-driving robot delivery startup Starship Technologies raises $25 million
The robots are here and one company, Starship Technologies, has raised $25 million to bring even more to the mainstream. This latest round of funding includes a follow-on investment from Matrix Part…
00:03:12 |
Mon 11 Jun 2018
Devo scores $25 million and cool new name
Logtrust is now known as Devo in one of the cooler name changes I’ve seen in a long time. Whether they intended to pay homage to the late 70s band is not clear, but investors probably didn’t care, as…
00:03:19 |
Fri 08 Jun 2018
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