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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- 4 minutes
- Episodes
- 3557
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
The FTC’s ban on noncompete clauses could be good for startups. But it also might be struck down.
The Federal Trade Commission voted 3-2 to ban the use of most noncompete agreements on Tuesday.
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00:04:42 |
Mon 29 Apr 2024
Playruo lets you try game demos from your web browser
It’s still unclear whether cloud gaming will ever become the next big thing.
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00:05:35 |
Fri 26 Apr 2024
Edonia grabs €2M to turn microalgae into less bitter-tasting ground meat alternative
The company produces plant-based ingredients from raw microalgae biomass, generated from spirulina or chlorella, that it claims is more nutritious than meat.
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00:05:03 |
Fri 26 Apr 2024
Madica, a program by Flourish Ventures, steps up pre-seed investing in Africa
Madica, an investment program launched by US-based investor Flourish Ventures to back pre-seed startups in Africa, plans to invest in up to 10 ventures by the end of the year, ramping up its funding …
00:03:59 |
Thu 25 Apr 2024
Parloa, a conversational AI platform for customer service, raises $66M
Conversational AI platform Parloa has nabbed $66 million in a Series B round of funding, a year after the German startup raised $21 million from a swathe of European investors to propel its internati…
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Thu 25 Apr 2024
Campus, a community college startup, receives $23M Series A extension led by Founders Fund
Although many students in the United States enter community colleges intending to transfer to four-year universities, only 16% of those students receive bachelor’s degrees within six years
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00:04:45 |
Wed 24 Apr 2024
Two widow founders launch DayNew, a social platform for people dealing with grief and trauma
After losing their husbands in devastating and unexpected ways, Karine Nissim and Eloise Bune D’Agostino discovered there were no suitable places where people could go to face all the challenges that…
00:05:37 |
Wed 24 Apr 2024
Webflow acquires Intellimize to add AI-powered webpage personalization
Webflow, a web design and hosting platform that’s raised over $330 million at a $4 billion valuation, is expanding into a new sector: marketing optimization.
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Tue 23 Apr 2024
Ecosia launches a cross-platform browser, starts an affiliate link program
Tree planting search engine Ecosia launched a new cross-platform browser today to increase its online footprint.
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00:03:30 |
Tue 23 Apr 2024
Langdock raises $3M with General Catalyst to help companies avoid vendor lock-in with LLMs
Plenty of large corporations want to join the AI revolution, but many feel it’s too early to be locked into one foundational model.
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00:03:19 |
Mon 22 Apr 2024
Magnus Metal wants to revamp the 4,000-year-old way metal parts are made
The startup is developing a technology it claims is as fast and energy efficient as 3D printing at a cost that can compete with sand casting.
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00:04:24 |
Mon 22 Apr 2024
Fintech startup Mercury, which is under regulatory scrutiny, expands into consumer banking
Business banking startup Mercury, founded in 2020, is now launching a consumer banking product.
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00:06:37 |
Fri 19 Apr 2024
Dark Space is building a rocket-powered boxing glove to push debris out of orbit
Paris-based Dark Space is taking on the dual problems of debris and conflict in orbit with their mobile platform designed to launch, attach to, and ultimately deorbit uncooperative objects in space. …
00:04:31 |
Fri 19 Apr 2024
Vorlon is trying to stop the next big API breach
Application programming interfaces, or APIs as they’re commonly known, are the bedrock of everything we do online.
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00:03:56 |
Thu 18 Apr 2024
GovDash aims to help businesses use AI to land government contracts
Tim Goltser and Curtis Mason have been building things together since high school, when the two were the co-captains of their school’s robotics team.
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00:05:13 |
Thu 18 Apr 2024
Finmid raises $24.7M to help SMBs access loans through platforms like Wolt
finmid is building an embedded finance product that targets that relationship between marketplaces and sellers, and raised a Series A round to further build out its product and enter new markets.
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00:05:16 |
Wed 17 Apr 2024
Quilt rides heat pump heat wave with hefty $33M Series A
Quilt promises its heat pump will be a sleeker design that can be installed in more places around a room than competitors’ offerings.
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00:04:53 |
Wed 17 Apr 2024
Lawhive raises $12M to expand its legaltech AI platform for small firms
UK-based legaltech company Lawhive, which offers an AI-based in-house ‘lawyer’ through a software-as-a-service platform targeted at small law firms, has raised £9.5 million ($11.9M) in a seed round t…
00:04:32 |
Tue 16 Apr 2024
Paraform raises $3.6M seed round to connect startups with recruiter networks
Layoffs usually drive attention and sympathy towards affected employees, but rarely does anyone talk about what happens to the recruiters who are sometimes also asked to leave when companies decide t…
00:04:26 |
Tue 16 Apr 2024
India’s Exponent Energy brings 15-minute charging to passenger three-wheelers
India is getting an electric three-wheeler passenger vehicle that charges from 0 to 100% in 15 minutes.
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00:07:06 |
Mon 15 Apr 2024
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