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
Screenable’s app turns any iPhone into a starter phone for kids
A new app called Screenable will help parents introduce their children to technology by turning an iPhone or iPad into a starter phone. The app is designed to grow over time with a child, as it offer…
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Mon 28 Oct 2024
Supply chain startup Interos lands new customers, cash
Each year, supply chain disruptions cost the global economy trillions of dollars. In a recent McKinsey poll, nine in ten businesses said they had encountered logistics challenges over the past 12 mon…
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Fri 25 Oct 2024
Cash collection startup Upflow also wants to handle B2B payments
Upflow, a French startup we’ve been covering for quite a while, originally focused on managing outstanding invoices. The company is now announcing a shift in its strategy to become a B2B payment plat…
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Fri 25 Oct 2024
Interface.ai raises $30M to help banks field customer requests
Interface.ai, a customer automation platform for banks and other financial institutions, today announced that it closed a $30 million funding round led by Avataar Venture Partners. $20 million of the…
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Thu 24 Oct 2024
Cement startup Furno lands $20M grant to build low-carbon micro-kilns in Chicago
Furno’s micro-kilns promise to reduce pollution and eliminate transportation costs.
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00:04:19 |
Thu 24 Oct 2024
CrewAI uses third-party models to automate business tasks
Back in 2022, João Moura was directing AI engineering efforts at Clearbit, a startup creating a unified hub for business intelligence tools. There, Moura was responsible for leading the development o…
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Wed 23 Oct 2024
Socket lands a fresh $40M to scan software for security flaws
The software supply chain, which comprises the components and processes used to develop software, has become precarious. According to one recent survey, 88% of companies believe poor software supply …
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Wed 23 Oct 2024
Shobizzy, a networking app for the TV industry, aims to open new doors for freelancers
With the current unemployment crisis in Hollywood, many TV and film crew members are concerned about finding their next job. This is particularly the case for freelancers, who often face unstable wor…
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Tue 22 Oct 2024
Uprise wants to help small businesses make better financial decisions
Small business creation has been on the rise in the U.S. since the pandemic. There are a lot of tech tools designed to help these companies with things like payroll or setting up retirement benefits …
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Tue 22 Oct 2024
Byju’s founder says his edtech startup, once worth $22B, is now ‘worth zero’
Byju Raveendran, the founder of the embattled edtech group Byju’s, acknowledged on Thursday afternoon that he made mistakes, mistimed the market, and that his startup, once valued at $22 billion, is …
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Mon 21 Oct 2024
With $11.9 million in funding, Dottxt tells AI models how to answer
As we’ve reported before, enterprise CIOs are taking generative AI slow. One reason for that is AI doesn’t fit into existing software engineering workflows, because it literally doesn’t speak the sam…
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Mon 21 Oct 2024
How Paladin’s drones helped Asheville during Hurricane Helene
When Hurricane Helene hit Asheville, North Carolina in September, the city’s police department reached out to public safety drone startup Paladin for help. The startup’s 30-member team jumped into ac…
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Fri 18 Oct 2024
ODD taps $27M for diamond chips to clear radioactive debris at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant
Back in 2011, the world held its breath after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan suffered a failure of its cooling systems, in the wake of the country getting hit by a 9.0 magnitude earthqu…
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Fri 18 Oct 2024
Support automation firm Capacity grows with new cash and acquisitions
David Karandish has been busy. Capacity, his support automation company, was planning a $5 million “bridge round” to help the company reach the break-even point. But TVC Capital, Toloka.vc, and the v…
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Thu 17 Oct 2024
Storio is helping other businesses unlock more value from solar energy
Meet Storio, a French startup that’s focused on providing smart energy storage for commercial and industrial customers. Founded in 2023, the startup raised a €5 million seed round earlier this year (…
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Thu 17 Oct 2024
Data center tech is exploding but adoption won’t be easy for startups
The data center industry is expanding rapidly to keep up with the flywheel growth of AI. While these data centers are necessary AI infrastructure, they store an AI company’s compute, they are expensi…
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Wed 16 Oct 2024
Table Space eyes $2.5B valuation in India IPO
Table Space is targeting a valuation of $2.5 billion or higher for an India IPO planned planned for 2025.
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Wed 16 Oct 2024
Peanut, a social network for women, adds a pregnancy tracking tool
Peanut, a social networking app for women, is launching a new feature to help users track their pregnancies. The new Peanut Track tool leverages seven years of data from questions asked on the social…
00:03:37 |
Tue 15 Oct 2024
This three-person robotics startup is working with designer Yves Béhar to bring humanoids home
It’s hard to know where to focus when speaking to Christoph Kohstall. The contents of his packed Palo Alto garage compete for attention. To his immediate right stands a tower of electrical components…
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Tue 15 Oct 2024
MiLaboratories gets $10M for a platform play to accelerate genomic research
Advances in DNA sequencing and the vast amounts of genomic data being produced by next-generation sequencing (NGS) technology have created a startup opportunity to build software for biologists so th…
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Mon 14 Oct 2024
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