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TechCrunch Startup News

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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3:46

CommonGround raises $19M to rethink online communication

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/12/30

CommonGround, a startup developing technology for what its founders describe as “4D collaboration,” is announcing that it has raised $19 million in funding. This isn’t the first time Amir Bassan-Eskenazi and Ran Oz have launched a startup together — they also founded video networking company BigBand Networks, which won two technology-related Emmy Awards, went public […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:27

Skyroot successfully test fires India’s first...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/12/30

Rocket launch startup Skyroot is closing out 2020 with a key milestone in the development program for their Vikram-I launch vehicle: A successful test firing of a solid rocket propulsion stage that serves as a demonstrator of the same tech to be used in the production Vikram. This is the first time that a private […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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5:08

Estonian proptech Rendin raises €1.2M seed for its...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/12/29

Rendin, an Estonian proptech startup that wants to improve the home rental experience, including offering a no-deposit feature, has raised €1.2 million in seed funding. Backing the round is Tera Ventures, Iron Wolf Capital, Truesight Ventures, Atomico’s Angel Programme, and Startup Wise Guys. Launched in Estonia in March this year and currently expanding to Poland, […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:35

Chinese online education app Zuoyebang raises $1.6...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/12/28

The rivalry between China’s top online learning apps has become even more intense this year because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The latest company to score a significant funding round is Zuoyebang, which announced today (link in Chinese) that it has raised a $1.6 billion Series E+ from investors including Alibaba Group. Other participants included returning […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:49

Bandit ML helps e-commerce businesses present the...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/12/28

Bandit MLÂ aims to optimize and automate the process of presenting the right offer to the right customer. The startup was part of the summer 2020 class at accelerator Y Combinator . It also raised a $1.32 million seed round in September from YC, Haystack Fund, Webb Investment Network, Liquid 2 Ventures, Jigsaw Ventures, Basecamp Fund, […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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