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
Connyct, an exclusive social media app for college students, emerges amid potential TikTok ban
Do we really need another social media app for college students? With the looming TikTok ban in the U.S., a new app called Connyct seems to think so. Connyct closely resembles the popular short-form…
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Tue 10 Dec 2024
Fitness startup Ladder comes after Peloton for allegedly copying their app
Ladder, an Austin, Texas-based fitness startup that makes a popular strength-training app, is accusing Peloton of ripping off its work with the launch of Peloton’s new Stength+ app, which exited beta…
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Mon 09 Dec 2024
Planet A Foods nabs $30M to make tons more cocoa-free chocolate
Turning sunflower seeds into sustainable, cocoa-free chocolate has netted Munich-based B2B foodtech startup Planet A Foods (formerly QOA) a $30 million Series B funding round. Now, the Y Combinator a…
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Mon 09 Dec 2024
After selling his startup to IBM, this founder wants to bring ‘agentic memory’ to enterprise data
Not everyone agrees on what an “AI agent” actually is, but they are all still the rage. At a broad level, these so-called “agents” promise to go several steps beyond a mere chatbot, making decisions …
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Fri 06 Dec 2024
Twos to-do app adds a feature that automatically adds a suggested action against a task
The overarching promise of companies working on AI-powered productivity tools is to build solutions that would do a task for you. Some of the early demos that we have seen don’t really fare well in f…
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Fri 06 Dec 2024
This ex-Scale AI leader built a platform to automatically extracts insights from customer feedback
In this hyperconnected world we live in, it’s easier than ever to send feedback to the companies we patronize. But just because businesses offer more ways to get in touch doesn’t mean they’re poring …
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Thu 05 Dec 2024
Google’s Gradient backs Cake, a managed open-source AI infrastructure platform
A new company is emerging from stealth today with backing from Google’s AI-focused venture fund to help businesses compile their open-source AI infrastructure and reduce their engineering overheads. …
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Thu 05 Dec 2024
Yurts raises $40 million to be the DoD’s AI Chatbot
Yurts has raised a $40 million Series B led by XYZ Venture Capital to provide the DoD with gen AI.
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Wed 04 Dec 2024
Orakl Oncology combines data and biology to bring new drugs to cancer patients
Cancer incidence is on the rise, particularly among younger adults, but most new drug compounds fail to progress through clinical trials. According to French entrepreneur Fanny Jaulin (on the right i…
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Wed 04 Dec 2024
Joco almost died at launch. Now, it’s a lifeline for e-bike delivery riders — and a profitable business
On a September morning in 2024, two Jonathan Cohens — one from the Rockaways in Queens, the other from London — stood in an empty 15,000-square-foot parking garage near Hudson Yards in New York City.…
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Tue 03 Dec 2024
Why Olympic champion cyclist Sir Chris Hoy is backing Skarper to make any bike an e-bike
As one of the most decorated track cyclists of all time, Sir Chris Hoy might not seem an obvious candidate to back the burgeoning electric bike movement. The common refrain, after all, is that e-bike…
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Tue 03 Dec 2024
India, already an IPO bright spot, prepares for bigger surge in 2025
India has bucked the global trend in initial public offerings this year, establishing itself as a rare bright spot for tech listings while other major markets face continued headwinds. The world’s mo…
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Mon 02 Dec 2024
From pond scum to premium skincare?
Decarbonizing our economies in the race to fight climate change demands a wholesale overhauling of all sorts of production processes to make them as sustainable as possible. Greening chemicals, which…
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Mon 02 Dec 2024
Volta, a Shopify for B2B transactions, raises biggest pre-seed round of Italy
Volta, a new startup with a team split between two headquarters in Milan and Paris, has secured a €6 million pre-seed round ($6.3 million) to develop a new vertical software-as-a-service platform foc…
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Fri 29 Nov 2024
Scaling startups top priority, as EU reboots its top team
Europe must get much better at scaling startups. That’s the prognosis of the European Union’s president, Ursula von der Leyen, who’s on the cusp of taking up her second five-year term steering the bl…
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Fri 29 Nov 2024
Biolevate’s raises €6M to helps medical writers keep up with the pace of new drugs
Writing the documentation that must go alongside the development of new drugs is a highly labor-intensive process: not much software is used and there’s a shortage of expert writers. Paris-based Biol…
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Wed 27 Nov 2024
Cambridge materials science spin-out Molyon is on a mission to make next-gen batteries fly
Battery tech is pivotal as the world leans into electrification to power decarbonization in the race against climate change. But rising demand is putting more attention on the limits and drawbacks of…
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Wed 27 Nov 2024
Raspberry Pi releases the Pico 2 W, a $7 wireless-enabled microcontroller board
Meet the Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W, a tiny board designed around a microcontroller that lets you build hardware projects at scale. Raspberry Pi is once again using the RP2350, its own, well-documented mi…
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Tue 26 Nov 2024
Anthropic raises an additional $4B from Amazon, makes AWS its ‘primary’ training partner
Anthropic, OpenAI’s close rival, has raised an additional $4 billion from Amazon, and has agreed to make Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon’s cloud computing division, the primary place it’ll train it…
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Tue 26 Nov 2024
Battery unicorn Northvolt files for bankruptcy, upending Europe’s industrial plan
The company chose Chapter 11 in an effort to right its listing finances.
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Mon 25 Nov 2024
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