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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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4:00

Don’t tweet about $ASS

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2021/05/21

I am not a smart man. Earlier today I tweeted about $ASS, a cryptocurrency named after a dog. In this case, Australian Shepherds. And after doing that obviously stupid thing, my Twitter feed became chock-full of ass-related imagery, memes, and $ASS coin stans breathing on me. It’s all very annoying as I run Tweetdeck on […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:19

Upstream, a Miami-based professional networking...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2021/05/20

If you’re reading this, there’s a pretty good chance you have a LinkedIn profile with your digital resume and hundreds — if not thousands — of professional connections. But how many of those people do you actually know well, and, more importantly, do you ever connect with them and meet others from their networks? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:27

Startup studio eFounders reaches portfolio valuation...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2021/05/20

European startup studio eFounders has now been around for 10 years. And because a birthday sounds like a good opportunity to share some metrics, the portfolio companies have reached a valuation of $2 billion together —Â only 18 months after reaching $1 billion. eFounders says it is focused on building the future of work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:41

Beta Technologies adds $368 million in Series A...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2021/05/19

Electric aviation startup Beta Technologies closed a $368 million Series A funding round on Tuesday, with investments from Amazon’s Climate Pledge Fund. The new capital is the second round of funding announced by the company this year, after the company raised $143 million in private capital in March. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:11

Finary wants to create the wealth management...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2021/05/19

Meet Finary, a new French startup that wants to change how you manage your savings, investments, mortgage, real estate assets and cryptocurrencies. The company lets you aggregate all your accounts across various banks and financial institutions so that you can track your wealth comprehensively over time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:27

Cortex snags $2.25M seed to build services catalog...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2021/05/18

One thing is clear in the cloud native world. Developers use a lot of services to create applications, and while service meshes define how these services work together, just getting a grip on the services a team uses is usually tracked manually in spreadsheets. That’s where Cortex, a new startup, comes in. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:25

Fresh out of YC, Houm raises $8M to improve the home...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2021/05/18

As a longtime real estate developer based in Chile, Benjamin Labra was able to spot gaps in the buying and renting markets in Latin America. To meet demands, he started Houm, an all-in-one platform that helps homeowners rent and sell their properties in the region. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:12

Cisco strikes again grabbing threat assessment tool...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2021/05/17

Cisco has been busy on the acquisition front this week, and today the company announced it was buying threat assessment platform Kenna Security, the third company it has purchased this week. The two companies did not disclose the purchase price. With Kenna, Cisco gets a startup that uses machine learning to sort through the massive […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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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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