x

75% of people globally want unbiased news (Pew Research) but are concerned they're not getting that.

Get balanced coverage with Symby. See how stories are covered across diverse outlets and spot when one side covers a story the other skips.

PODCAST

TechCrunch Startup News

Listen to select TechCrunch articles on startups coverage—who"s raising, who"s exiting, who"s changing the world.

technology tech news

All Episodes

4:27

GitLab raises $195M in secondary funding on $6B...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2021/01/18

GitLab has confirmed with TechCrunch that it raised a $195 million secondary round on a $6 billion valuation. CNBC broke the story earlier today. The company’s impressive valuation comes after its most recent 2019 Series E in which it raised $268 million on a 2.75 billion valuation, an increase of $3.25 billion in under 18 […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

en

4:22

Medium acquires social book reading app Glose

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2021/01/15

Medium is acquiring Paris-based startup Glose for an undisclosed amount. Glose has been building an iOS, Android and web app that lets you buy, download and read books on your devices. The company has turned reading into a multiplayer experience as you can build a bookshelf, share notes with your followers and start conversations in […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

en

3:22

X1 Card raises $12 million for its credit card with...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2021/01/15

X1 Card is raising a $12 million funding round. The company is building a credit card that sets limits based on your current and future income, not your credit score. Spark Capital is leading the round with Jared Leto, Aaron Levie, Jeremy Stoppelman, Max Levchin and Ali Rowghani also participating. American Express veteran Ash Gupta […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

en

2:57

Gemini is launching a credit card with bitcoin rewards

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2021/01/14

Cryptocurrency exchange company Gemini is acquiring Blockrize and announcing a new product today based on Blockrize’s work. Later this year, the company is launching a credit card that works like a regular credit card — but you earn bitcoin rewards based on your purchases. The credit card will work on the Visa network and will […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

en

3:35

Iziwork raises $43 million for its temporary work...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2021/01/14

French startup Iziwork has raised a $43 million funding round. Cathay Innovation and Bpifrance’s Large Venture fund are participating in this funding round. The company has been building a platform focused on improving temporary employment. While it’s a relatively large funding round, the startup is quite young. It was founded in September 2018 and it […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

en

17:02

Equal access to capital and entrepreneurship is the...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2021/01/13

Joseph Heller Contributor Joseph Heller is a small businesses expert and the CEO of Supplied, a wholesale platform for small businesses and brands that makes it easier for boutique owners to access high-quality, affordable items. Context is always important. In the grand scheme of things, I have privilege: I was born a male, in the […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

en

4:11

Cockroach Labs scores $160M Series E on $2B valuation

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2021/01/13

Cockroach Labs, makers of CockroachDB, have been on a fundraising roll for the last couple of years. Today the company announced a $160 million Series E on a fat $2 billion valuation. The round comes just eight months after the startup raised an $86.6 million Series D. The latest investment was led by Altimeter Capital […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

en

3:33

Zipmex, which aspires to build the Asia Pacific...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2021/01/12

Zipmex, a digital assets exchange headquartered in Singapore, announced today it has raised $6 million in funding led by Jump Capital. The startup, which plans to become a digital assets bank, says the round exceeded its initial target of $4 million. Along with earlier funding, it brings the total Zipmex has raised so far to […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

en

3:20

Revolut applies for UK banking license

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2021/01/12

It’s hard to believe that fintech startup Revolut doesn’t have a proper banking license in its home country. But this is about to change as the company has applied for a banking license in the U.K. Up next, the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) are going to look at the […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

en

3:08

Chris Krebs and Alex Stamos have started a cyber...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2021/01/11

Former U.S. cybersecurity official Chris Krebs and former Facebook chief security officer Alex Stamos have founded a new cybersecurity consultancy firm, which already has its first client: SolarWinds . The two have been hired as consultants to help the Texas-based software maker recover from a devastating breach by suspected Russian hackers, which used the company’s […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

en

3:53

Roku acquires Quibi’s content

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2021/01/11

Quibi is dead, but its shows will live on. The Wall Street Journal reported last week that Roku was in talks to acquire the short-form video service’s content. And this morning, Roku announced that it has indeed reached a deal for the exclusive distribution rights to all of Quibi’s programs. Financial terms of the acquisition […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

en

4:20

Text marketing startup Voxie raises $6.7M

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2021/01/08

Like many startups, Atlanta-basedÂ Voxie was created to solve a problem that founder and CEO Bogdan Constantin faced himself. In Constantin’s case, this was at his previous tuxedo rental startup Menguin (ultimately acquired by Generation Tux), where he said he had to market a product with a six-to-nine month sales cycle, as customers were usually weighing […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

en

4:18

Lacework lands $525M investment as revenue grows 300%

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2021/01/08

As the pandemic took hold in 2020, companies accelerated their move to cloud services. Lacework, the cloud security startup, was in the right place at the right time as customers looked for ways to secure their cloud native workloads. The company reported that revenue grew 300% year over year for the second straight year. It […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

en

4:01

Too Good To Go raises $31 million to fight food waste

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2021/01/07

Too Good To Go, the startup that lets you buy food right before it goes to waste, is raising a $31.1 million round. blisce/ is leading the round and investing $15.4 million as part of today’s round. Existing investors and employees are also participating. While the company has been around for a while, this is […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

en

3:12

Virgin Orbit targets launch window opening January 10...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2021/01/07

Virgin Orbit is wasting no time in 2021 getting back to active flight testing: The company has a window for its next orbital demonstration launch attempt that opens on Sunday, January 10, and that continues throughout the rest of the month. This follows an attempt last year made in May, which ended before the LauncherOne […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

en

3:32

Sources: Hinge Health has raised $310M Series D at a...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2021/01/06

Hinge Health, the San Francisco-based company that offers a digital solution to treat chronic musculoskeletal (MSK) conditions — such as back and joint pain — has closed a $310 million in Series D funding, according to sources. The round is led by Coatue and Tiger Global, and values 2015-founded Hinge at $3 billion post-money, people […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

en

4:59

Kyte raises $9 million to deliver rental cars to your...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2021/01/06

More than two years ago, Ludwig Schoenack, Nikolaus Volk and Francesco Wiedemann looked at the bevy of scooter services, ride-hailing apps, public transit and car-sharing options available in most urban centers in the United States and saw a gap in the mobility market. Consumers who didn’t want to own a car, but needed one for […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

en

5:23

Divvy raises $165M as the spend management space...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2021/01/05

Today Divvy, a Utah-based startup that focuses on corporate spend management, announced that it has closed a $165 million round at a $1.6 billion valuation. The company said that the new capital was raised from Hanaco, Schonfeld, PayPal Ventures, and Whale Rock, along with a cadre of prior investors. The new investment is not Divvy’s […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

en

3:05

It’s not just you, Slack is struggling this morning

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2021/01/04

Slack did its best to ease the working world back into their jobs this morning by breaking, ensuring that everyone’s return to the grind would be as chaotic and unproductive as possible. Precisely when the downtime began is not clear, though problems amongst the TechCrunch staff began a little after ten o’clock in the morning. […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

en

3:29

Union Square Ventures and Learn Capital file...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2021/01/01

As 2020 comes to a long-awaited end, a series of filings indicate that venture capitalists are ending the year with fresh money. According to SEC paperwork, Learn Capital and USV have filed paperwork that shows the firms have raised new, multimillion-dollar funds. If you’ve been paying attention to news this past year, it’s clear that […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

en

3,830 results

Similar Podcasts

Lead With AI

Tamara Nall

Linux in the Ham Shack

Black Sparrow Media

Data Engineering Podcast

Tobias Macey

Eye On A.I.

Craig S. Smith

Reflections

Livewire Labs