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4:29

Leena AI nabs $8M Series as it expands from chatbots...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/11/04

When we covered Leena AI as a member of the Y Combinator Summer 2018 cohort, the young startup was firmly focused on building HR chatbots, but in the intervening years it has expanded the vision to a broader HR policy platform. Today, the company announced an $8 million Series A led by Greycroft with help […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:51

Indonesian logistics platform Logisly raises $6...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/11/04

Indonesia’s logistics industry is very fragmented, with several large providers operating alongside thousands of smaller companies. This means shippers often have to work with a variety of carriers, driving up costs and making supply chains harder to manage. Logisly, a Jakarta-based startup that describes itself as a “B2B tech-enabled logistics platform,” announced today it has […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:46

TVision raises $16M to measure viewer attention on...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/11/03

TVision is building what its team hopes will become the standard for measuring streaming viewership — and to accelerate those efforts, it’s raised $16 million in new funding. The New York City startup started out by measuring traditional TV viewing, using webcams to determine whether viewers were actually paying attention to the ads. More recently, […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:26

NerdWallet acquires small business loan marketplace...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/11/03

Financial guidance company NerdWallet announced at the end of last week that it has acquired Fundera. New York City-based Fundera was co-founded in 2013 by Jared Hecht, who previously co-founded GroupMe. It created a marketplace where small businesses could find loans, subsequently expanding into other areas like legal services, while also (like NerdWallet) offering free […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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6:39

Warren gets $1.4 million to help local cloud...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/11/02

Started as a side project by its founders, Warren is now helping regional cloud infrastructure service providers compete against Amazon, Microsoft, IBM, Google and other tech giants. Based in Tallinn, Estonia, Warren’s self-service distributed cloud platform is gaining traction in Southeast Asia, one of the world’s fastest-growing cloud service markets, and Europe. It recently closed […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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5:04

Daimler invests in lidar company Luminar in push to...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/11/02

Daimler’s trucks division has invested in lidar developer Luminar as part of a broader partnership to produce autonomous trucks capable of navigating highways without a human driver behind the wheel. The deal, which comes just days after Daimler and Waymo announced plans to work together to build an autonomous version of the Freightliner Cascadia truck, […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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2:57

One-click housing startup Atmos raises another $4M...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/10/30

Atmos wants to make designing a house as simple as a single click. Well, that vision is now getting a double click from VCs. The company, which we profiled back in July, announced today that it raised another $4 million, this time from Evan Moore at Khosla Ventures, real estate strategic investors like David Gerster […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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5:25

Donut launches Watercooler, an easy way to socialize...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/10/30

If you miss hanging out with your coworkers but don’t want to spend a single second more on Zoom, the latest product fromÂ Donut might be the answer. The startup is launching its new Watercooler product today while also announcing that it has raised $12 million in total funding, led by Accel and with participation from […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:46

Upgrade adds rewards program to its credit card

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/10/29

Fintech startup Upgrade has been quite successful with its two flagship products —Â a low-cost credit card and personal loans. The company is making its credit card more attractive by adding rewards. Upgrade Card consumers will earn 1.5% cash back on all purchases made with the card — there’s no specific category, no partner retailer, no […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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5:14

Anima’s latest update draws on the popularity of...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/10/29

Anima, the company that turns design prototypes into code, has today announced the launch of Anima 4.0, which will allow designers to create prototypes in Figma that are translated into components in React with the click of a button. The company was founded by Or Arbel (cofounder of Yo!), Avishay Cohen (who led R&D at […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:49

Rockset announces $40M Series B as data analytics...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/10/28

Rockset, a cloud-native analytics company, announced a $40 million Series B investment today led by Sequoia with help from Greylock, the same two firms that financed its Series A. The startup has now raised a total of $61.5 million, according to the company. As co-founder and CEO Venkat Venkataramani told me at the time of […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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6:20

Let’s move beyond 2020 and start thinking about the...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/10/28

Seasonality is critical for the media. End-of-year wrap-ups, best books for the summer, things to do this weekend — they’re all methods to note not only the passage of time, but also to begin to set the tone for what is about to come. Everyone covered the end of the 2010s with aplomb, a decade […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:13

Ant Group could raise as much as $34.5B in IPO in...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/10/27

The long-anticipated IPO of Alibaba-affiliated Chinese fintech giant Ant Group could raise tens of billions of dollars in a dual-listing on both the Shanghai and Hong Kong exchanges. Shares for the company formerly known as Ant Financial are expected to price at around HK$80, or roughly 68 to 69 Chinese Yuan. The company is selling […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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5:50

This startup wants to fix the broken structure of...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/10/27

Internships are an opportunity for students to experiment with new career paths and land a full-time offer ahead of graduation. For companies, the weeks-long programs help recruit and train job-ready hires. While the stakes are high, the coronavirus-spurred office closures and market volatility made a number of tech companies slim down or cancel their internship […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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6:17

Linktree raises $10.7M for its lightweight,...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/10/26

Simple, link-centric user profiles might seem might not seem like a particularly ambitious idea, but it’s been big enough for Linktree. The Melbourne startup says that 8 million users — whether they’re celebrities like Selena Gomez and Dua Lipa or brands like HBO and Red Bull — have created profiles on the platform, with those […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:30

Nordic challenger bank Lunar raises €40M Series C,...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/10/26

Lunar, the Nordic challenger bank that started out life as a personal finance manager app (PFM) but acquired a full banking license in 2019, has raised €40 million in Series C funding from existing investors. The injection of capital follows a €20 million Series B disclosed in April this year and comes on the back […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:40

RepTrak partners with Onclusive to combine reputation...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/10/23

RepTrak and Onclusive are announcing a partnership that Onclusive CEO Dan Beltramo said will combine corporate reputation tracking and PR analytics for the first time. RepTrak, founded in 2004, helps businesses measure their reputations (and their competitors’ reputations) through a database of more than 1 million company ratings collected every year. Meanwhile, Onclusive (formerly known […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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6:43

Respect the hustle, not the stupidity

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/10/23

Yes, the media f’ing gorged on the Quibi story yesterday. We did, they did, everyone did. And really, truly, how could anyone not? Nearly $2 billion came in (with $350 million heading back), a star-studded lineup of executives and production teams, an absolutely massive advertising campaign, and a PR strategy that all but begged the […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:22

Freelancer banking startup Lili raises $15M

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/10/22

It’s only been a few months since Lili announced its $10 million seed round, and it’s already raised more funding — namely, a $15 million Series A. The startup, founded by CEO Lilac Bar David and CTO Liran Zelkha, is creating a bank account and associated products designed for freelancers, with features like early access […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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8:41

This serial founder is taking on Carta with cap table...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/10/22

Yin Wu has cofounded several companies since graduating from Stanford in 2011, including a computer vision company called Double Labs that sold to Microsoft, where she stayed on for a couple of years as a software engineer. In fact, it was only after that sale she she says she “actually understood all of the nuances […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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