TechCrunch Startup News
Listen to select TechCrunch articles on startups coverage—who's raising, who's exiting, who's changing the world.
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- every day
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- Episodes
- 3555
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
Humanz brings its influencer marketing platform to the U.S.
Humanz, a marketing platform for content creators and brands, has entered the U.S. market, the company announced on Thursday. Having launched in Israel in 2017, Humanz has gained strong traction in …
00:04:38 |
Mon 16 Sep 2024
Nuro pivots to license self-driving tech to carmakers, mobility companies
After multiple rounds of layoffs in 2022 and 2023, Nuro is pivoting its business strategy to focus more on the startup’s core autonomous driving technology instead of owning and operating a fleet of …
00:05:12 |
Fri 13 Sep 2024
Tune.FM wants to take on Spotify by using crypto to pay artists up to 100x more per stream
Tune.FM is a decentralized music streaming service where users pay for each song they stream using Tune.FM's crypto token JAM.
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00:05:23 |
Fri 13 Sep 2024
Paymob, started by three college friends, lands another $22 million and is profitable in Egypt
Paymob has evolved into an omnichannel gateway offering over 50 methods for offline and online payments to more than 350,000+ merchants.
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00:06:56 |
Thu 12 Sep 2024
Atomico backs Tem to help businesses buy renewable energy directly from sources
Tem wants to do for utilities what neobanks have done for the financial sector: disrupt an industry using tech, streamline it, and cut out the middlemen.
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00:06:46 |
Thu 12 Sep 2024
Qualifyze swallows $54M to improve pharmaceutical supply chains
In the world of pharmaceuticals, companies aim to operate under GMP guidelines — a set of production and manufacturing measures to assure standards for medicinal products. But too often, the reality …
00:05:48 |
Wed 11 Sep 2024
Neurode wants to treat and track ADHD symptoms through a wearable headband
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) affects more than 366 million adults globally, according to a 2020 study, but beyond medicating with stimulants like Adderall and Ritalin, there are fe…
00:04:39 |
Wed 11 Sep 2024
Sunamp’s thermal battery uses a chemical found in salt-and-vinegar potato chips
The startup has devised a durable way to store solar power as heat that can then be used for household heating or hot water.
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00:03:42 |
Tue 10 Sep 2024
The coolest startup in the Bay Area is a baseball team called the Oakland Ballers
This year, the B’s made their debut in the Pioneer League, a professional baseball organization that’s partnered with the MLB, but unlike the minor leagues, it’s not tied to any existing MLB teams.
L…
00:09:10 |
Tue 10 Sep 2024
All Hands AI raises $5M to build open source agents for developers
As with many open source startups, All Hands AI expects to monetize its service by offering paid, closed-source enterprise features.
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00:05:53 |
Mon 09 Sep 2024
Driverless car-sharing startup Vay steers toward B2B services
The new business-to-business division is a bet on what co-founder and CEO Thomas von der Ohe thinks is the future of mobility.
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00:04:47 |
Mon 09 Sep 2024
Reonic raises €13 million to help small installers of green tech like heat pumps and solar panels
European regulators are pushing hard for greener energy. The REPowerEU plan calls for 10 million additional heat pumps to be added by 2027, and solar panels are also on the rise. But most installatio…
00:04:17 |
Fri 06 Sep 2024
As remote working keeps rolling, Oyster raises $59M Series D at $1.2B valuation
No one is putting the remote working genie back in the bottle. Which is good news for Oyster, a payroll and HR platform that specializes in distributed workforces – or “global employment” as its mark…
00:06:05 |
Fri 06 Sep 2024
You.com ‘refocuses’ from AI search to deeper productivity agents with new $50M round
If you build an AI search product, you compete with Google. But Google has a lot easier time answering queries with a single, simple answer, such as “how many is a dozen?” than it does answering comp…
00:06:22 |
Thu 05 Sep 2024
Dutch clean energy investor SET Ventures lands new €200 million fund, which will go toward digital tech
New climate tech VC firms have emerged in recent years, but existing ones are also raising larger funds. Founded in 2007, Dutch firm SET Ventures is one of the latter.
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00:04:30 |
Thu 05 Sep 2024
‘Hospital at home’ startup Doccla raises $46 million for its European expansion
Hospitals around the world regularly face bed shortages — an issue that can get exacerbated to breaking point when a health scare or other large-scale disaster occurs. A startup called Doccla is brin…
00:04:05 |
Wed 04 Sep 2024
Laptop-leasing startup Fleet wants to become the IT companion for small companies
Fleet is launching several software services on top of its hardware-as-a-service proposition, from device management to cybersecurity and insurance.
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00:04:28 |
Wed 04 Sep 2024
Generative AI coding startup Magic lands $320M investment from Eric Schmidt, Atlassian and others
Magic, an AI startup developing models to generate code and automate a range of software development tasks, says that it’s raised a large tranche of cash from investors including ex-Google CEO Eric S…
00:06:35 |
Tue 03 Sep 2024
‘Emotion AI’ may be the next trend for business software, and that could be problematic
As businesses experiment with embedding AI everywhere, one area starting to gain more attention is Emotion AI.
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00:05:14 |
Tue 03 Sep 2024
Atlassian acquires Rewatch as it gets into AI meeting bots
Atlassian plans to integrate Rewatch into its recently launched Rovo AI platform so that transcripts become searchable within the overall business context.
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00:04:54 |
Mon 02 Sep 2024
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