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TechCrunch Startup News

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5:02

SpecTrust raises millions to fight cybercrime with...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2021/05/17

Risk defense startup SpecTrust is emerging from stealth today with a $4.3 million seed raise and a public launch. Cyber Mentor Fund led the round, which also included participation from Rally Ventures, SignalFire, Dreamit Ventures and Legion Capital. SpecTrust aims to “fix the economics of fighting fraud” with a no-code platform that it says cuts […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:58

Alba Orbital’s mission to image the Earth every 15...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2021/05/14

Orbital imagery is in demand, and if you think having daily images of everywhere on Earth is going to be enough in a few years, you need a lesson in ambition. Alba Orbital is here to provide it with its intention to provide Earth observation at intervals of 15 minutes rather than hours or days […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:39

BluBracket nabs $12M Series A to expand source code...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2021/05/14

BluBracket, an early stage startup that focuses on keeping source code repositories secure, even in distributed environments, announced a $12 million Series A today. Evolution Equity Partners led the round with help from existing investors Unusual Ventures, Point72 Ventures, SignalFire and Firebolt Ventures. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:19

Legionfarm, pairing pro gamers with amateurs, raises...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2021/05/13

Legionfarm, the gaming platform that lets gamers play with pro players in their favorite games, has today announced the close of a $6 million Series A round. Investors in the round include SVB, Y Combinator, Scrum VC, Kevin Lin, Altair Capital, Ankur Nagpal and more. Legionfarm launched out of Y Combinator at the beginning of […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:02

Jamf snags zero trust security startup Wandera for $400M

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2021/05/13

Jamf, the enterprise Apple device management company, announced that it was acquiring Wandera, a zero trust security startup, for $400 million at the market close today. Today’s purchase is the largest in the company’s history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:37

Amplitude acquires Iteratively

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2021/05/12

Amplitude, the well-funded product intelligence startup that helps businesses use their data to predict which features will drive the best business outcomes for them, today announced that it has acquired Iteratively, a startup that helps businesses build trustworthy data pipelines. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:10

DataRobot expands platform and announces Zepl...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2021/05/12

DataRobot, the Boston-based automated machine learning startup, had a bushel of announcements this morning as it expanded its platform to give technical and non-technical users alike something new. It also announced it has acquired Zepl, giving it an advanced development environment where data scientists can bring their own code to DataRobot. The two companies did […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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5:01

Indy VC firm Sixty8 Capital launches $20M fund aimed...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2021/05/11

It is clear that Black, women, Latinx and LGBTQ+ startup founders face an uphill battle when it comes to getting a share of the VC investment pie in Silicon Valley. Perhaps that’s why Sixty8 Capital, a firm based in Indianapolis, Indiana, smack dab in the middle of the country, has chosen to launch a new […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:23

Serial fiction app Radish acquired by Kakao...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2021/05/11

Serialized fiction app Radish has been acquired by Kakao Entertainment in a transaction valued at $440 million. Kakao Entertainment is owned by Kakao, the South Korean internet giant whose services include its eponymous messaging platform. Radish founder Seungyoon Lee will hold onto his role as its chief executive officer, while also becoming Kakao Entertainment’s global […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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5:16

Tiger Global is betting that more schools are going...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2021/05/10

Income-share agreements, or ISAs, are a way to bring flexibility to the often steep financial costs of higher education. The financial model allows a student to learn at zero upfront cost, and then pay any costs through a percentage of future income over time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:55

BigBrain aims to bring live mobile trivia back to glory

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2021/05/10

If you ask Nik Bonaddio why he wanted to build a new mobile trivia app, his answer is simple. “In my life, I’ve got very few true passions: I love trivia and I love sports,” Bonaddio told me. “I’ve already started a sports company, so I’ve got to start a trivia company.” He isn’t kidding […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:53

Metafy adds $5.5M to its seed round as the market for...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2021/05/07

This morning Metafy, a distributed startup building a marketplace to match gamers with instructors, announced that it has closed an additional $5.5 million to its $3.15 million seed round. Call it a seed-2, seed-extension or merely a baby Series A; Forerunner Ventures, DCM and Seven Seven Six led the round as a trio. Metafy’s model […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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7:50

How 4 New Jersey pools turned into a startup that...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2021/05/06

As the oldest of 12 children, Bunim Laskin spent much of his teen years looking for ways to help keep his siblings entertained. Noticing that a neighbor’s pool was often empty, Laskin reached out to ask if his family could use her pool. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:59

Timescale grabs $40M Series B as it goes all in on...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2021/05/05

Timescale, makers of the open source TimescaleDB time series database, announced a $40 million Series B financing round today. The investment comes just over two years after it got a $15 million Series A. Redpoint Ventures led today’s round with help from existing investors Benchmark, New Enterprise Associates, Icon Ventures and Two Sigma Ventures. The […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:52

Fitness ring maker Oura raises $100M

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2021/05/05

It’s been a wild couple of years for Oura. Last year, in particular, proved to be a major driver for the wearable fitness manufacturer. With the pandemic bringing professional sports to a screeching halt in 2020, a number of major leagues have adopted the ring, including the NBA, WNBA, UFC and NASCAR. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:36

alt.bank, Brazil’s latest fintech targeting the...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2021/05/04

It looks like everyone and their mother is trying to reinvent the Brazilian banking system. Earlier this year we wrote about Nubank’s $400 million Series G, last month there was the PicPay IPO filingÂ and today, alt.bank, a Brazilian neobank, announced a $5.5 million Series A led by Union Square Ventures (USV). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:33

Hangry, an Indonesian cloud kitchen startup with...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2021/05/04

Hangry, an Indonesian cloud kitchen startup that wants to become a global food and beverage company, has raised a $13 million Series A. The round was led by returning investor Alpha JWC Ventures, and included participation from Atlas Pacific Capital, Salt Ventures and Heyokha Brothers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:29

Y Combinator-backed Uiflow wants to accelerate...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2021/05/03

TechCrunch recently caught up with recent Y Combinator graduate Uiflow, a startup that is building a no-code enterprise app creation service. If you are thinkingÂ wait, don’t a number of companies already do that?, the answer is yes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:22

Cloud gaming service Shadow taken over by OVHcloud...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2021/05/03

Blade, the French startup behind cloud gaming service Shadow, has been acquired by Octave Klaba’s fund following a commercial court order. Klaba is better known as the founder of OVHcloud, a French cloud hosting company. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:44

Firstbase raises $13M to make remote work suck less

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2021/04/30

The chance that I am ever willing to commute on a regular basis again in the future is zero. It’s too inefficient. And while workers and employers are somewhat split on where they stand on the question of remote toil, the COVID-19 pandemic has permanently shaken up the working world; we’re not going back to […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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