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
- 3560
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
Area 120, Google’s in-house incubator, severely impacted by Alphabet mass layoffs
Area 120, the Google in-house incubator responsible for products such as Checks, Tables, Stack and ThreadBite, has been significantly affected by broader layoffs at Google parent company Alphabet.
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Mon 23 Jan 2023
GoodOnes raises to help make sense of your mess of a camera roll
You know what it’s like — you’ve been on vacation and you’ve taken 28 million photos, and you just want to select the best 12 so you can make a calendar.
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Mon 23 Jan 2023
Indian food delivery giant Swiggy to cut 380 jobs
Swiggy plans to lay off 380 jobs as the Prosus Venture and SoftBank-backed Indian food delivery giant looks to navigate the market downturn that has forced firms to become leaner and more disciplined…
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Fri 20 Jan 2023
German teens went crazy for this ‘compliments’ app, and now VCs are backing its next phase
The teenage market for apps is a tough nut to crack and stay relevant in. Just ask Snapchat.
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00:07:04 |
Fri 20 Jan 2023
Kate is a new car maker focused on micro-cars for everyday use
Meet Kate, a French company that wants to create a tiny car that you can use for your daily commute and various errands.
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Thu 19 Jan 2023
P2P lending platform PeopleFund raises $20M Series C extension led by Bain Capital
PeopleFund, a South Korean marketplace that connects borrowers and investors to enable lending, has recently added $20 million to its $63.4 million Series C.
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Thu 19 Jan 2023
Good Meat approved to sell serum-free cultivated meat in Singapore
Good Meat announced today it has received regulatory approval from the Singapore Food Agency to use serum-free media for the production of its cultivated meat.
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Wed 18 Jan 2023
Luxury fashion meets blockchain on Syky, the Seven Seven Six-backed web3 platform
Syky will serve as an incubator, marketplace and social community for the next generation of fashion designers and consumers.Luxury fashion meets blockchain on Syky, the Seven Seven Six-backed web3 p…
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Wed 18 Jan 2023
CloseFactor raises $15.2M to automate repetitive sales processes
Several years ago, co-founders Leena Joshi, Ben Cheung and Erik Buchanan experienced frustration with the amount of manual work they were putting into collecting information about sales and marketing…
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Tue 17 Jan 2023
Nucleus aims to simplify the process of managing microservices
An increasing number of organizations are adopting microservices, the loosely-coupled, independently-deployable services that together make up an app.
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Tue 17 Jan 2023
Google-backed ShareChat cuts 20% workforce to ‘sustain through headwinds’
ShareChat, the Indian social media startup backed by Twitter, Google, Tiger Global and Temasek, has laid off 20% of its workforce — or over 400 employees — just a month after eliminating more than 10…
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Mon 16 Jan 2023
As it shifts focus from DIY computer kits, Kano spins out its creative software suite as a standalone business
Kano Computing (“Kano”), the venture-backed company best known for its DIY computer kits and software for teaching coding and STEM skills to kids, is spinning out its creative software suite and onl…
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Mon 16 Jan 2023
Sam Bankman-Fried launches Substack: ‘I didn’t steal funds, and I certainly didn’t stash billions away’
FTX founder and former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried launched his own Substack newsletter today, in a very unusual move for someone who was recently arrested and is facing eight counts of U.S. criminal charg…
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Fri 13 Jan 2023
Coho AI, which uses AI to help B2B SaaS companies boost revenue, raises $8.5M
Teams dedicated to boosting customer acquisition, retention and sales don’t necessarily have the time or tools to use data insights effectively.
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Fri 13 Jan 2023
Stripe’s internal valuation gets cut to $63 billion
Stripe, a richly-valued payments startup, has cut its internal valuation yet again, according to sources familiar with the manner.
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00:03:46 |
Thu 12 Jan 2023
Project Eaden’s fiber technology poised to spin threads into whole cuts of ‘meat’
Project Eaden produces edible plant-based protein fibers, similar to those already being used to create textiles, that mimic the texture and appearance of animal-based meats.
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Thu 12 Jan 2023
Data observability startup Metaplane lands investment from YC, others
The need for data observability, or the ability to understand, diagnose and orchestrate data health across various IT tools, continues to grow as organizations adopt more apps and services.
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Wed 11 Jan 2023
Qarnot creates green data centers by putting servers in central heating boilers
Running a data center means that you have to find innovative ways to manage heat from the servers.
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Wed 11 Jan 2023
Korean handmade goods marketplace Backpackr gears up to expand into Southeast Asia
About a decade ago, Donghwan Kim helped his cousin, a ceramist, look for sales channels, like flea markets, to sell his ceramics.
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00:04:13 |
Tue 10 Jan 2023
Nigerian agritech Releaf gets more capital as it launches new tech for food processing
Releaf, a Nigerian agritech startup that supplies ingredients (starting with the oil palm) to consumer goods manufacturers and their food factories, has received $3.3 million in an oversubscribed pre…
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Tue 10 Jan 2023
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