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
Supersonic aircraft startup Exosonic is shutting down
Exosonic, a startup developing supersonic commercial air travel and UAV tech, is winding down after five years of operation. In an update posted to its website, Exosonic said it was unable to find th…
00:03:17 |
Mon 11 Nov 2024
Glint Solar grabs $8M to help accelerate solar energy adoption across Europe
Solar energy is booming, which is good news for Glint Solar. The Norwegian software-as-a-service startup has built a platform that’s helping energy giants and large solar developers such as E.ON, Rec…
00:06:49 |
Fri 08 Nov 2024
Ulysses is using robots to restore seagrass populations
Seagrass punches above its weight. The marine plant only occupies 0.1% of the ocean floor but can be credited with supporting marine ecosystems of plants and fish, filtering ocean water and capturing…
00:05:35 |
Fri 08 Nov 2024
Nodal connects hopeful parents with surrogates as reproductive freedom hangs in limbo
Many people who want to have children can’t, or shouldn’t, carry a pregnancy for a variety of reasons. Gestational surrogacy can be a great option for those individuals — if they can endure the lengt…
00:05:19 |
Thu 07 Nov 2024
Research Grid raises $6.4M to automate clinical trial admin
Amber Hill spent 14 years as a medical researcher. She didn’t mind the work, but there was one thing she consistently hated: administrative tasks.
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00:05:37 |
Thu 07 Nov 2024
Alan unveils AI health assistant for its 680,000 health insurance members
French tech startup Alan held a press conference this morning to announce three product updates. While it is better known as a health insurance company, the startup has always been trying to offer mo…
00:04:47 |
Wed 06 Nov 2024
Datadog challenger Dash0 aims to dash observability bill shock
The end of zero-interest rates has driven companies to look for savings wherever they can, but one area continues to be a major budget drain. Observability — collecting and understanding data and sys…
00:04:16 |
Wed 06 Nov 2024
CareYaya is enabling affordable home care by connecting healthcare students with elders
CareYaya, a platform that matches people who need caregivers with healthcare students, is working to disrupt the caregiving industry. The startup, which exhibited as part of the Battlefield 200 at Te…
00:03:19 |
Tue 05 Nov 2024
CoffeeSpace is a Hinge-like app that wants to help you find your co-founder
CoffeeSpace is on a mission to help people find partners for their startup ideas online. The startup, which exhibited as part of the Startup Battlefield 200 at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024, has launched a…
00:02:40 |
Tue 05 Nov 2024
Former Caribou founder launches Further, a fintech that’s focused on helping people buy homes
Buying a home has always been complicated. You have to figure out how much money to put down and how that down payment will affect a monthly mortgage bill.
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Mon 04 Nov 2024
Buddy.ai is using AI and gaming to help children learn English as a second language
In 2014, Ivan Crewkov moved his family from Serbia to the U.S. as his startup, Cubic.AI, was preparing to launch a Kickstarter campaign for its smart speaker. A week before the campaign was supposed …
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Mon 04 Nov 2024
Hummingbirds, a platform that connects local creators with brand campaigns in their area, raises $5.4M
Hummingbirds is a female-founded startup that connects hyperlocal content creators with locally-based brands that reward them for sharing products with their small and highly engaged communities via …
00:05:00 |
Fri 01 Nov 2024
MealMe, the startup integrating food ordering tech into apps, picks up $8M
MealMe, a unified API that embeds food and retail ordering into consumer apps and websites, announced on Thursday that it secured $8 million in Series A funding. The newly raised capital brings the t…
00:03:12 |
Fri 01 Nov 2024
Gecko Materials wants to sell you the next Velcro
A new startup setting out to combat the scourge of deepfakes and spoofed evidence in the age of AI is showing off its wares on the Startup Battlefield stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 this week.
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00:05:28 |
Thu 31 Oct 2024
Luna wants to help young girls navigate their health and well-being
Meet Luna, a health and well-being app for teen girls that is designed to help them navigate teenhood. The app lets teens ask questions about their health and wellness and get responses from experts.…
00:05:42 |
Thu 31 Oct 2024
Infraspeak raises $19.5M to bring collaboration to facilities management
It might not be the sexiest of subjects, but facilities management is central to any business that has a physical premises — the bigger that footprint becomes, the more complex it gets.
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00:06:12 |
Wed 30 Oct 2024
Emidat is building a tool to clean up construction by automating environmental reporting
Fixing the climate crisis is a vast, world-sized puzzle. But one particularly large piece of this ginormous conundrum is construction and real estate — which collectively amount for around 40% of glo…
00:14:56 |
Wed 30 Oct 2024
Read AI raises $50M to integrate its bot with Slack, email, and more
There are plenty of startups now that have AI bots that will listen to your meetings, transcribe them, make notes, and create insights. That means companies in this area must differentiate themselves…
00:03:56 |
Tue 29 Oct 2024
Vinted hits $5.4B valuation amid wave of secondary share sales in Europe
Lithuania’s Vinted has secured a new valuation of €5 billion (around $5.4 billion at current exchange rates), after the second-hand fashion marketplace closed a secondary share sale worth €340 millio…
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Tue 29 Oct 2024
General Catalyst raises $8B in fresh funds to back startups globally
U.S. venture capital giant General Catalyst has announced a fresh $8 billion in funds as it looks to ramp up its investments in multi-sector early-stage startups globally, with a specific focus on th…
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Mon 28 Oct 2024
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