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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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4:12

Bella is a new challenger bank with a text-based...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/11/19

Meet Bella, a new challenger bank launching on November 30th. The company is trying to differentiate itself with two distinctive features. First, you can interact with the app using keywords and text commands. Second, Bella is trying to build a community that helps each other to differentiate its product from soulless monolithic banking services. Let’s […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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6:31

Why are telehealth companies treating healthcare like...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/11/18

If we are to realize telehealth’s full potential, we must first reckon with the fact that there are serious flaws in the predominant way it is delivered today — flaws that endanger patients themselves. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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7:58

Airbnb files to go public

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/11/18

Airbnb filed to go public today, bringing the well-known unicorn one step closer to being a public company. The financial results show a company on the rebound, but smaller than it was. Its more granular financial results also make clear how hard the pandemic was on the travel-reliant unicorn. Regarding Airbnb’s worth, investors will have […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:30

Cooper raises $2M to build a professional network...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/11/17

In a period of social distancing, making new professional connections feels harder than ever. So Amsterdam-based Cooper is building a network that’s all about making and receiving introductions. “Everything that happens in the network is based on on the foundation of introductions,” CEO Robert Gaal told me. “You should never get an unwanted message, and […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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6:09

Deep Vision announces its low-latency AI processor...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/11/17

Deep Vision, a new AI startup that is building an AI inferencing chip for edge computing solutions, is coming out of stealth today. The six-year-old company’s new ARA-1 processors promise to strike the right balance between low latency, energy efficiency and compute power for use in anything from sensors to cameras and full-fledged edge servers. […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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5:32

DoorDash files to go public

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/11/16

After filing earlier this year, DoorDash dropped its public S-1 filing this morning, bringing clarity to its numbers and moving it closer to a public debut that should happen before the end of the year. The company is one of several startups that we expect to see IPOs from before the year ends, despite some […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:20

Getaround tops up $25M debt financing to its $140M...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/11/16

Silicon Valley peer-to-peer car rental startup Getaround has secured a $25 million loan from Horizon Technology Finance Corporation. The financing announcement comes one month after Getaround raised $140 million from investors, including SoftBank Vision Fund, Menlo Ventures, Reid Hoffman and Mark Pincus’ Reinvent Capital. Getaround’s raise signals that the company is looking for new ways […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:14

JumpCloud raises $75M Series E as cloud directory...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/11/13

JumpCloud, the cloud directory service that debuted at TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield in 2013, announced a $75 million Series E today. The round was led by BlackRock with participation from existing investor General Atlantic. The company wasn’t willing to discuss the current valuation, but has now raised over $166 million, according to Crunchbase data. Changes in […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:25

Bootstrapped Clearfind wants to cut your software...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/11/12

Software is eating the world, and that grub can be costly. As the market for enterprise tools and software continues to balloon, organizations are spending more and more on that software across an increasingly complicated and rapidly evolving landscape. That’s where Clearfind comes in. Clearfind was founded (and bootstrapped) by James Layfield and Jocelyn Simon. […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:20

Mozart Data lands $4M seed to provide out-of-the-box...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/11/12

Mozart Data founders Peter Fishman and Dan Silberman have been friends for over 20 years, working at various startups, and even launching a hot sauce company together along the way. As technologists, they saw companies building a data stack over and over. They decided to provide one for them and Mozart Data was born. The […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:58

Molotov launches free ad-supported streaming service...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/11/11

French startup Molotov provides a TV streaming service in France that replaces the traditional set-top box. You can access live TV, subscribe to premium channels, watch content after they air and record content in the cloud. Today, the company is launching a different service, its own ad-supported on-demand streaming service — or AVOD service for […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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5:15

With $29M in funding, Isovalent launches its...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/11/11

Isovalent, a startup that aims to bring networking into the cloud-native era, today announced that it has raised a $29 million Series A round led by Andreesen Horowitz and Google. In addition, the company today officially launched its Cilium platform (which was in stealth until now) to help enterprises connect, observe and secure their applications. […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:36

E-scooter startup Tier raises $250 million round led...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/11/10

Berlin-based micro-mobility startup Tier has raised a significant Series C round of $250 million. SoftBank Vision Fund 2 is leading the round, which proves that the Vision Fund team is still focused on high-risk, high-potential bets. As a reminder, SoftBank has invested in many late-stage funding rounds through its Vision Fund team. Portfolio companies include […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:31

Indian logistics startup Xpressbees raises $110 million

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/11/10

Xpressbees, an Indian logistics firm that works with several e-commerce firms in the country, said on Monday it has raised $110 million in a new financing round as online shopping booms in the world’s second largest internet market. The Pune-headquartered startup’s Series E financing round was led by private equity firms Investcorp, Norwest Venture Partners […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:39

Positive vaccine news punishes pandemic-boosted...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/11/09

Stock markets worldwide are soaring on news that a vaccine candidate is 90% effective at preventing COVID-19, and could start coming to market in a matter of months. This is upending the stock market, sending futures shares shooting higher in pre-market trading. But while the euphoria is helping sectors that have taken punishment during COVID-19, […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:12

French startups can apply to the Next40 and French...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/11/09

Last year, the French government and the government-backed initiative La French Tech unveiled an index of French startups so that it would be easier to identify them. The 40 top-performing startups get the label Next40, and the top 120 startups are grouped into the French Tech 120 — it’s a play on words with the […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:11

Challenger bank Starling is out raising a new £200M...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/11/06

Starling founder Anne Boden recently told TechCrunch that the U.K. challenger bank is on track to be profitable by Christmas, but this doesn’t mean it isn’t out raising additional capital already. According to well-placed sources, Starling has hired Rothschild with the aim of raising a new £200 million round. The draw is its expected profitability, […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:00

Rocket Lab will try to recover the booster of its...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/11/06

Rocket Lab is set to complete a crucial test for its rocket reusability program during its next mission, which is currently set to take place sometime in mid-November, with a launch widow that opens on November 16. This is a bit of a surprise, because the launch company said that it would be doing this […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:39

Singapore-based digital business assistant Osome...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/11/05

Osome, a Singapore-headquartered business assistant app that digitizes accounting and compliance tasks, has raised $3 million. An extension of Osome’s seed round, the new funding was led by XA Network and AltaIR Capital. The startup currently has about 4,500 SME clients across Singapore, Hong Kong and the United Kingdom, founder and chief executive officer Victor […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:34

Email creation startup Stensul raises $16M

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/11/05

Stensul, a startup aiming to streamline the process of building marketing emails, has raised $16 million in Series B funding. When the companyÂ raised its $7 million Series A two years ago, founder and CEO Noah Dinkin told me about how it spun out of his previous startup, FanBridge. And while there are many products focused […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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