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
Deel acquires Hofy to build its own IT device management service
Both of Hofy's co-founders, Sami Bouremoum and Michael Ginzo, along with the rest of the startup's leadership team and 120 employees, are joining Deel to build Deel IT.
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Fri 19 Jul 2024
A company building Wordle for chess raises money from a16z Speedrun, Mark Pincus and Eric Wu
Echo Chunk, a company that is building Wordle-styled daily chess puzzle game Echo Chess, has raised $1.4 million in pre-seed from a16z Speedrun (Andreessen Horowitz’s early stage games accelerator), …
00:04:38 |
Fri 19 Jul 2024
Kandji raises another $100M for Apple device management as valuation rises to $850M
At a time when many startups have struggled to raise money and keep their heads above water, Kandji, an Apple device management platform, has been an exception.
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Thu 18 Jul 2024
Astor’s ‘community’ approach to financial advice aims to help women feel more confident about investing
Astor is a free personal finance platform for women that merges community and investing in an approachable way, came to be.
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Thu 18 Jul 2024
Toddle wants to ‘change how we build software’ with a collaborative visual web app builder
Danish startup Toddle has launched a no-code web app builder that's designed as a full-featured alternative to Javascript frameworks.
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Wed 17 Jul 2024
Adaptive builds automation tools to speed up construction payments
Adaptive is a platform that provides tools designed to simplify payments and accounting for general construction contractors.
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00:03:57 |
Wed 17 Jul 2024
How VanMoof’s new owners plan to win over its old customers
When VanMoof declared bankruptcy last year, it left around 5,000 customers who had pre-ordered e-bikes in the lurch. Now VanMoof is up and running under new management, and the company’s current owne…
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Tue 16 Jul 2024
Why Commonwealth Fusion Systems’ superconducting magnet sale is more than it seems
Fusion power may still be a few years away, but one startup is laying the groundwork for what it hopes will become a bustling sector of the economy.
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Tue 16 Jul 2024
A startup set out to fight climate change — it did it by helping plumbers
The founders of HERO Software didn’t start out to help small tradespeople in construction with a platform. They started out to fight the climate crisis. But in doing so, they stumbled on a way to hel…
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Mon 15 Jul 2024
Beeble AI raises $4.75M to launch a virtual production platform for indie filmmakers
Visual effects have emerged as essential in filmmaking and have transformed storytelling and creativity in the film industry with its diverse digital techniques. However, the high cost of VFX tools o…
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Fri 12 Jul 2024
Joby Aviation is betting on hydrogen-electric aircraft for regional flight
Joby Aviation is still a year away from commercially launching its electric air taxi designed for urban environments, but the startup is already looking towards its next chapter: Intercity flight, po…
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Fri 12 Jul 2024
Iceland is dodging the VC doldrums as Frumtak Ventures lands $87 million for its fourth fund
Iceland’s startup scene is punching above its weight. That’s perhaps in part because it kept the 2021 hype in check, but mostly because its tech ecosystem is coming of age. Iceland attracted the most…
00:04:26 |
Thu 11 Jul 2024
Deep tech startups with very technical CEOs raise larger rounds, research finds
SaaS founders trying to figure out what it takes to raise their next round can refer to Point Nine’s famous yearly SaaS Funding Napkin. (The term refers to “back of the napkin” plans or calculations.…
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Thu 11 Jul 2024
Nala to use $40M Series A to build B2B payments platform, scale remittance services
Nala, a remittance startup that is now widening its portfolio through a new B2B payments platform, has raised $40 million equity in a rare deal that becomes one of the largest Series A transactions i…
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Wed 10 Jul 2024
Byway is using AI to help travelers slow down and take the scenic route
Solo founder Cat Jones took the plunge on setting up a travel business right around the time the pandemic was hitting Europe in March 2020. Fast forward to summer 2024 and her curated package tour bu…
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Wed 10 Jul 2024
Investors chase wealthtech startups in India as affluent class grows
Investors are betting on Indian wealthtech startups as a growing middle class turns to diversify investments and startups challenge traditional financial advisors for high-net-worth clients. Premji I…
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Tue 09 Jul 2024
Quantum Rise grabs $15M seed for its AI-driven ‘Consulting 2.0’ startup
Quantum Rise, a Chicago-based startup which does AI-driven automation for companies like dunnhumby (a retail analytics platform for the the grocery industry), has raised a $15 million seed round from…
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Tue 09 Jul 2024
Amazon hires founders away from AI startup Adept
Adept, a startup developing AI-powered “agents” to complete various software-based tasks, has agreed to license its tech to Amazon as the startup’s co-founders and portions of its team join the ecomm…
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Mon 08 Jul 2024
Husband-and-wife former Olympians target $50M for new fund to invest in influencer-led consumer brands
Samyr Laine and Ayanna Alexander-Laine now put their grit and determination to work for founders wanting to launch and scale consumer brands.
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Mon 08 Jul 2024
News outlets are accusing Perplexity of plagiarism and unethical web scraping
In the age of generative AI, when chatbots can provide detailed answers to questions based on content pulled from the internet, the line between fair use and plagiarism, and between routine web scrap…
00:11:37 |
Fri 05 Jul 2024
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