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
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
Speech recognition triggers fun AR stickers in Panda’s video app
Panda has built the next silly social feature Snapchat and Instagram will want to steal. Today the startup launches its video messaging app that fills the screen with augmented reality effects based…
00:05:52 |
Fri 08 Jun 2018
The Uberization of telcos
For the past decade, telecommunications companies around the globe have been grappling with falling average revenues per user equaling stagnant growth rates. While particularly mobile operators have …
00:09:46 |
Wed 06 Jun 2018
Microsoft has acquired GitHub for $7.5B in Microsoft stock
After a week of rumors, Microsoft today confirmed that it has acquired GitHub, the popular Git-based code sharing and collaboration service. The price of the acquisition was $7.5 billion in Microsof…
00:07:26 |
Tue 05 Jun 2018
Scaling startups are setting up secondary hubs in these cities
America’s mayors have spent the past nine months tripping over each other to curry favor with Amazon.com in its high-profile search for a second headquarters. More quietly, however, a similar story h…
00:07:54 |
Mon 04 Jun 2018
Bitcoin exchange abandons Poland even as the government invites it to a working group
In a delightful bit of irony BitBay, a Central European exchange, has shut down operations in Poland even as it received an invitation by the Polish government to participate in a national blockchain…
00:02:24 |
Mon 04 Jun 2018
Weights & Biases raises $5M to build development tools for machine learning
Machine learning is one of those buzzwords that nearly every tech company likes to throw around nowadays — but according to Lukas Biewald, it represents a genuinely new approach to programming. “Soft…
00:04:10 |
Fri 01 Jun 2018
To become a public company, start operating like one early on
After their long post-financial-crisis slump, European tech IPOs are starting to rebound. Tech companies raised more money on European public markets between 2015-17 (€5.3 billion) than in the previo…
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Fri 01 Jun 2018
Diamond dynasty DeBeers stoops to conquer with new line of man-made diamond jewelry
They first launched nearly a decade ago with names like Diamond Foundry, Brilliant Earth, Mia Donnaand Pure Grown Diamonds, with millions of dollars in financing and a mission to reshape the diamond …
00:05:47 |
Thu 31 May 2018
Here’s where it’s cheaper to take an Uber than to own a car
Here’s where it’s cheaper to take an Uber than to own a car Ride-sharing companies have long touted the cost benefits of their platforms. Well, depending on the city, it can be cheaper on a weekly ba…
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Thu 31 May 2018
Snapchat preps Snapkit platform to bring camera, login to other apps
Snapchat is secretly planning the launch of its first full-fledged developer platform, currently called Snapkit. The platform’s prototypes indicate it will let other apps offer a ‘login with Snapchat…
00:07:17 |
Wed 30 May 2018
The well-funded startups driven to own the autonomous vehicle stack
At some point in the future, while riding along in a car, a kid may ask their parent about a distant time in the past when people used steering wheels and pedals to control an automobile. Of course, …
00:10:27 |
Mon 28 May 2018
Announcing the 15 companies competing in Startup Battlefield Europe
TechCrunch scoured all of Europe to find the most innovative and disruptive early-stage startups to launch at TechCrunch Startup Battlefield Europe 2018 at VivaTech. And today starting at 9:05 am CET…
00:04:10 |
Mon 28 May 2018
Meet the five finalists at Startup Battlefield Europe
Fifteen companies just got off the stage at TechCrunch’s Startup Battlefield Europe at VivaTech in Paris. The TechCrunch team has taken feedback from our expert judges and narrowed the group down to …
00:03:03 |
Fri 25 May 2018
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