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
- 3558
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
Zoom acquires Ireland-based employee communications platform Workvivo
Zoom today announced that it has acquired Workvivo, a six-year-old Irish startup focused on improving companies’ internal communications and culture. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed.
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Fri 14 Apr 2023
Thynk wants to upgrade hotel stays with a vertical software platform
Meet Thynk, a new company that wants to build the definite enterprise software solution for the hospitality industry.
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00:05:34 |
Fri 14 Apr 2023
Otterize raises $11.5M to help developers securely connect software services
Tomer Greenwald, Uri Sarid and Ori Shoshan, software developers by trade, found themselves building and configuring software authentication and authorization mechanisms repeatedly — each time with a …
00:04:57 |
Thu 13 Apr 2023
General Atlantic invests another $100 million in PhonePe
General Atlantic has poured another $100 million in PhonePe, three months after leading a $350 million investment in the Indian fintech startup that has so far raised $750 million in an ongoing finan…
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Thu 13 Apr 2023
Fintech startup Clear Street raises $270M at a $2B valuation
Clear Street, which says it is building “modern infrastructure” for capital markets, has raised $270 million in the second tranche of a Series B funding round at a $2 billion valuation.
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Wed 12 Apr 2023
Graneet raises $8.7 million for its vertical SaaS for construction companies
French startup Graneet is building an all-in-one software-as-a-service product focused on small construction companies.
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Wed 12 Apr 2023
In edtech, history matters: Reach Capital just closed its largest fund to date
Reach Capital, one of the first venture firms to focus exclusively on edtech, closed its last investment vehicle during an unprecedented boom within tech.
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Tue 11 Apr 2023
Gradient Ventures backs Axle’s ‘Plaid for insurance’ approach to data verification
Axle allows users to connect their insurance account to trusted companies in seconds and then automates insurance verification.
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00:03:38 |
Tue 11 Apr 2023
Honeycomb scores $50M investment as observability platform thrives
Honeycomb was founded in 2016 by two former Facebook engineers to create a new way of looking at application monitoring based on the internal tooling they had seen at Facebook.
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Mon 10 Apr 2023
Anthropic’s $5B, 4-year plan to take on OpenAI
AI research startup Anthropic aims to raise as much as $5 billion over the next two years to take on rival OpenAI and enter over a dozen major industries, according to company documents obtained by T…
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Mon 10 Apr 2023
Alternative seafood startup Aqua Cultured Foods reels in $5.5M
Aqua Cultured Foods is using proprietary mycoprotein (fungi) fermentation processes to create whole cuts of calamari, shrimp, scallops and filets of tuna and whitefish.
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Fri 07 Apr 2023
SetSail adds ChatGPT questioning capabilities on top of sales data
SetSail set out to build a new way to compensate sales people, where based on the data, companies could pay salespeople on where they were in the pipeline, not in just one big chunk when they landed …
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Fri 07 Apr 2023
Alga Biosciences wants to help climate change, one bovine burp at a time
Cows are a significant source of methane emissions, primarily due to their unique digestive system. Milk and beef cows are ruminants, which means they have a specialized stomach chamber (called the r…
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Thu 06 Apr 2023
Ensemble raises $100M debut fund to bet on startup teams — but not in the way you think
The firm uses an in-house data algorithm it hopes will help it find startups that have teams designed to scale — beyond just the founders.
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Thu 06 Apr 2023
New funding helps CarmaCare accelerate its ‘healthcare-for-your-car’ service
CarmaCare take over where traditional car insurance leaves off to provide an easier way to buy extended warranties for car repairs.
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00:04:23 |
Wed 05 Apr 2023
AirTree backs generative AI content creation and management platform Narrato
Generative AI is hot among venture capital firms now, with $4.5 billion invested in 2022. Narrato, a AI content creation and collaboration platform, announced today it has joined the ranks of other g…
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Wed 05 Apr 2023
Amazon wants to boost ten generative AI startups around the globe
Amazon’s first foray into the world of accelerator programs, designed to help early-stage startups build and launch, was focused on conversational AI back in 2016.
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Tue 04 Apr 2023
Tencent backs Singapore’s Horizon Quantum Computing in $18M round
Quantum computers have the potential to carry out highly complicated calculations in minutes that would have taken classical computers thousands of years to work out.
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00:04:48 |
Tue 04 Apr 2023
Artie sidesteps the app stores by putting high-quality games in your browser
When you play a game, how do you play it? Monopoly or Settlers of Catan around the dining table? Mario Kart on your Nintendo Switch? Assassin’s Creed on your Xbox? Among Us on your phone?
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Mon 03 Apr 2023
DataDome, which uses AI to protect against bot-based attacks, raises $42M
Online businesses are at risk of bad bot activity, certainly more now than they used to be.
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00:05:59 |
Mon 03 Apr 2023
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