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
Parsable secures $40M investment to bring digital to industrial workers
As we increasingly hear about automation, artificial intelligence and robots taking away industrial jobs, Parsable, a San Francisco-based startup sees a different reality, one with millions of worker…
00:04:12 |
Fri 18 May 2018
Boosted Boards founders launch heavy-duty scooter renter Skip
All electric scooters are not created equal. I’ve found ones from Spin, Bird, and Lime to often be broken, shaky, or out of battery. But now the founders of Boosted Boards, which makes the steadiest…
00:12:35 |
Fri 18 May 2018
The SEC creates an educational “token” to stop scammers
“Travel is expensive, but we are at the cusp of a revolution that will democratize travel and leisure for everyone,” reads the breathless white paper for HoweyCoins. “The Internet was the first part …
00:04:52 |
Thu 17 May 2018
Coinbase’s first investment, Compound, earns you interest on crypto
Compound wants to let you borrow cryptocurrency, or lend it and earn an interest rate.Most cryptocurrency is shoved in a wallet or metaphorically hidden under a mattress, failing to generate interest…
00:08:31 |
Thu 17 May 2018
BrainQ raises $5.3M to treat neurological disorders with the help of AI
BrainQ, an Israel-based startup that aims to help stroke victims and those with spinal cord injuries treat their injuries with the help of a personalized electromagnetic treatment protocol, today ann…
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Wed 16 May 2018
Lerer Hippeau raises a new $122M fund, plus $60M for follow-on investments
Lerer Hippeau has raised two new funds — $122 million for a sixth fund devoted to seed stage investments, as well as $60 million for a “Select Fund” focused on later-stage deals. Managing Partner Eri…
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Wed 16 May 2018
Xage introduces fingerprinting to protect industrial IoT devices
As old-school industries like oil and gas increasingly network entities like oil platforms, they become more vulnerable to hacking attacks that were impossible when they were stand-alone. That requir…
00:05:04 |
Tue 15 May 2018
Monzo, the U.K. challenger bank, now lets you pay ‘Nearby Friends’
Monzo, one of a plethora of U.K. fintech startups aiming to re-invent current account banking, has launched a new feature that makes it even more frictionless to transfer money to friends. Dubbed ‘Ne…
00:03:55 |
Fri 11 May 2018
Fantasmo is a decentralized map for robots and augmented reality
“Whether forAR or robots, anytime you have software interacting with the world, itneeds a 3D model of the globe.We think that map will look a lot more like the decentralized internet than a version o…
00:05:27 |
Thu 10 May 2018
On Fridays, HQ Trivia will let you see your friends’ answers during the game
HQ, the live trivia game that is now seeing up to 2 million players per game, is introducing some new social features, including answer sharing with friends. The company has been testing this featur…
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Thu 10 May 2018
Brazil’s tech startups begin to expand globally
Startups in Brazil, Latin America’s largest entrepreneurial ecosystem, are no longer solely focused on Brazil as their only frontier to conquer. Based on conversations with founders and in tracking t…
00:08:18 |
Wed 09 May 2018
Gamalon scores $20 M led by Intel Capital
Gamalon wants to change the game when it comes to understanding text-based customer communications. Instead of using neural networks to learn about vast corpuses of information, the startup takes a d…
00:04:08 |
Wed 09 May 2018
The formula behind San Francisco’s startup success
Why has San Francisco’s startup scene generated so many hugely valuable companies over the past decade? That’s the question we asked over the past few weeks while analyzing San Francisco startup fund…
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Mon 07 May 2018
ICO services: Lots of barnacles but no whales
Nearly every aspect of the current ICO market is pay-for-play or otherwise tainted. I do not paint the industry with such a broad brush lightly but this sort of chicanery hasn’t existed since the he…
00:05:59 |
Thu 03 May 2018
Sling TV expands cloud DVR service to a bunch of new devices
Sling TV expands cloud DVR service to a bunch of new devices Dish’s Sling TV service is expanding its Cloud DVR to a wide variety of new devices. Chrome browser, Chromecast, Xbox One, LG Smart TVs, a…
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Thu 03 May 2018
SoFi founder Mike Cagney is back with a new startup and $50 million in funding, too
SoFi founder Mike Cagney is back with a new startup and $50 million in funding, too Mike Cagney, who was ousted last summer from the lending company he founded, is back with a new startup and a whole…
00:04:21 |
Wed 02 May 2018
Hustle rallies $30M for grassroots texting tool Republicans can’t use
Hustle 20X’d its annual revenue run rate in 15 months by denying clients that contradict its political views. It’s a curious, controversial, yet successful strategy for the startup whose app lets ac…
00:08:22 |
Wed 02 May 2018
There’s something called Bacoin now
To paraphrase a saying popularized by countless dorm room stoners: “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you use the hype around decentralized crypto economies to …
00:03:26 |
Tue 01 May 2018
From dorm room to Starbucks, Rip Van Wafels is bringing Euro-inspired snack to the masses
Rip Pruisken waffled in college (we got that pun safely out of the way for now). He was a student in the Ivy League at Brown University, and had focused on academics for much of his life. His parent…
00:06:05 |
Mon 30 Apr 2018
Aloe Bud is the adorable self-care app you’ve been waiting for
The buzz or chime of a push notification on your phone is, at best, a distraction, and at worst, a source of stress and anxiety. A new app called Aloe Bud wants to make those push notifications into …
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Mon 30 Apr 2018
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