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TechCrunch Startup News

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3:46

Social gaming platform Rec Room scores $20 million...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/12/18

Against Gravity, the startup behind the social gaming platform Rec Room, has scored some new funding as it brings its once VR-centric platform to every major gaming platform out there. The startup has closed a $20 million Series C led by Madrona Venture Group . Existing investors including First Round Capital, Index, Sequoia and DAG […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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7:06

Ramp raises $30M as the battle to own corporate spend...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/12/18

Corporate spend management startup Ramp has raised $30 million more in a new round, it announced today. TechCrunch covered Ramp’s launch earlier this year, when it also detailed that it had raised around $23 million up to that point. The startup raised its latest round in August of 2020, with conversations about the deal kicking […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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6:24

Lydia raises another $86 million to build European...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/12/17

French fintech startup Lydia has extended its Series B round. Accel is leading the extension with all major existing shareholders also participating. Lydia first raised $45 million in January 2020 — Tencent led that investment. The startup is now raising another $86 million, which means that Lydia has raised $131 million in total as part […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:01

The team behind Jumpcut and SnappyTV is building a...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/12/17

Mike Folgner has had his share of success building video editing tools, having sold Jumpcut.com to Yahoo and SnappyTV to Twitter. But as he explained in a new Medium post, he still sees “unfinished business” in the video industry. “Today, most major productivity software categories have made the leap from desktop software to the web,” […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:24

Revolut launches mid-tier subscription plan

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/12/16

Fintech startup Revolut is tweaking its subscription plans with a new mid-tier offering called Revolut — it costs £2.99 per month. Like N26 Smart and Monzo Plus, the new plan is a pandemic-proof package that doesn’t focus as much on travel. For the past couple of years, challenger banks and alternatives to traditional bank accounts […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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6:24

Social stock trading services Public raises $65M...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/12/16

Less than a year after it raised a $15 million Series B, Public, a social-focused free stock trading service, has raised a $65 million Series C. The startup is not the only company to raise successive rounds this year. Welcome has managed the feat, along with Skyflow and others. Public’s Series C, therefore, fits into […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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2:53

Dott to expand beyond e-scooters with bike-sharing...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/12/15

Dott is better known for its electric scooter service that is available in a few cities across Europe. But the company is working on electric bikes and wants to launch a bike-sharing service in London and Paris in March 2021. Dott currently doesn’t operate in London. So it looks like it’ll be the company’s 16th […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:01

iCIMS acquires video recruiting startup Altru for $60M

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/12/15

Enterprise recruiting company iCIMS is announcing that it has acquired Altru. iCIMS declined to comment on the terms of the deal, but a source with knowledge of the companies told us that the price is a combination of cash and stock, totaling around $60 million. Founded in 2000, iCIMS offers a “talent cloud” used by […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:50

Reddit acquires Dubsmash

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/12/14

Reddit announced that it has acquired short video platform Dubsmash. The deal’s terms were undisclosed. Dubsmash will retain its own platform and brand, and Reddit will integrate its video creation tools. Its co-founders, Suchit Dash, Jonas Drüppel and Tim Specht, will join Reddit. According to Crunchbase data, the app has raised $20.2 million from investors […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:00

In&motion raises $12 million for its wearable airbag...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/12/14

French startup In&motion has raised a $12 million (€10 million) funding round led by Upfront Ventures with 360 Capital also participating. The company has been working on wearable airbag systems for motorbikes. Integrated in a vest, the airbag is completely autonomous and can detect crashes in 60 milliseconds. The company has worked on a device […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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5:17

Fairmarkit lands $30M Series B to modernize procurement

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/12/11

As the pandemic has raged on, it has shined a spotlight on the importance of procurement, especially in certain sectors. Fairmarkit, a Boston startup, is working to bring a modern digital procurement system to the enterprise. Today, the company announced a $30 million Series B. GGV Capital and Insight Partners led the round with help […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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5:59

Boast.ai raises $23M to help businesses get their R&D...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/12/11

Nobody likes dealing with taxes — until the system works in your favor. In many countries, startups can receive tax credits for their R&D work and related employee cost, but as with all things bureaucracy, that’s often a slow and onerous task. Boast.ai aims to make this process far easier, by using a mix of […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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5:39

Candu raises $5M to help software companies onboard...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/12/10

This morning Candu, a software startup that provides no-code web tools for SaaS apps, announced a $5 million funding round. TechCrunch caught up with founder Jonathan Anderson and lead investor Villi Iltchev, a partner at Two Sigma Ventures, to chat about the deal. First thing: This round, a bit like Scotch, has aged. It’s from […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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2:49

Lemonade launches its renters insurance in France

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/12/10

Lemonade is launching its renters insurance in France. This is the company’s third European launch after the Netherlands and Germany. Originally from the U.S., Lemonade is now a public company with a current market capitalization close to $4 billion. Lemonade will compete directly with a local competitor called Luko. Both companies share a lot of […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:42

Former Salesforce chief scientist announces new...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/12/09

Richard Socher, former chief scientist at Salesforce, who helped build the Einstein artificial intelligence platform, is taking on a new challenge — and it’s a doozy. Socher wants to fix consumer search and today he announced you.com, a new search engine to take on the mighty Google. “We are building you.com. You can already go […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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5:16

Can AI help you binge books? BingeBooks is a new...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/12/09

The pandemic has been terrible for many industries, but the book industry has gotten a rare reprieve in an otherwise dismal past decade. Locked in homes and forced to socially distance from others, us humans have more time on our hands and more need to connect to characters than ever before. That surge in interest […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:56

Getsafe, the European digital-first insurance...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/12/08

Getsafe, the digital-first insurance startup that initially launched with an app for home contents insurance, has closed $30 million in Series B funding. Swiss Re, the reinsurer giant, led the round. Existing investors, including Earlybird and CommerzVentures, also participated. Getsafe has raised a total of $53 million to date since being founded in May 2015. […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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5:17

Jeli.io announces $4M seed to build incident analysis...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/12/08

When one of AWS’s east coast data centers went down at the end of last month, it had an impact on countless companies relying on its services including Roku, Adobe and Shipt. When the incident was resolved, the company had to analyze what happened. For most companies, that involves manually pulling together information from various […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:21

Zephr raises $8M to help news publishers grow...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/12/07

Zephr has raised $8 million in a new funding round led by Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments (owned by media giant Bertelsmann). The London-headquarted startup’s customers already include publishers like McClatchy, News Corp Australia, Dennis Publishing and PEI Media. CEO James Henderson told me via email that rather than creating “a monolithic product that tries to […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:26

Stripe announces embedded business banking service...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/12/07

Fintech startup Stripe has announced an ambitious new product today called Stripe Treasury. The company is partnering with banks to offer a banking-as-a-service API. In other words, Stripe clients will be able to provide bank accounts to their customers — the service is invite-only for now. This is part of a bigger trend called embedded […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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