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TechCrunch Startup News

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5:01

Materialize scores $40 million investment for SQL...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/11/30

Materialize, the SQL streaming database startup built on top of the open source Timely Dataflow project, announced a $32 million Series B investment today led by Kleiner Perkins with participation from Lightspeed Ventures. While it was at it, the company also announced a previously unannounced $8 million Series A from last year that had been […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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6:16

There’s no ‘hacker house’ geared toward undergraduate...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/11/30

Hacker houses are making a comeback for entrepreneurs as remote work drags on. While founders are adapting to quarantine in style, a group of college women in their 20s aren’t waiting until they are done with undergraduate to plunge into the lifestyle themselves. Started by college juniors Coco Sack and Kendall Titus, Womxn Ignite is […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:34

Cast.ai nabs $7.7M seed to remove barriers between...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/11/27

When you launch an application in the public cloud, you usually put everything on one provider, but what if you could choose the components based on cost and technology and have your database one place and your storage another? That’s what Cast.ai says that it can provide, and today it announced a healthy $7.7 million […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:44

WeGift, the ‘incentive marketing’ platform, collects...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/11/26

WeGift, the London-based startup that has built an “incentive marketing” platform that lets businesses easily issue e-gift cards and other digital rewards to customers, has raised $8 million in new funding. Dubbed a Series A extension, the round is led by AlbionVC. Existing investors including Stride.vc, SAP.iO fund and Unilever Ventures also followed on. Following […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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2:40

Coinbase disables margin trading following guidance...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/11/25

Just a few months after launching margin trading on Coinbase Pro, the company is disabling the feature. Margin trading lets you trade on leverage. But it works both ways — margin trading lets you multiply your gains and your losses. Starting on November 25, 2pm PT, users won’t be able to place new margin trades. […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:34

Dija, a new delivery startup from former Deliveroo...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/11/25

Dija, a new U.K. based startup founded by senior former Deliveroo employees, is closing in on $20 million funding, TechCrunch has learned. According to multiple sources, the round, which has yet to close, is being led by Blossom Capital, the early stage venture capital firm founded by ex-Index and LocalGlobe VC Ophelia Brown. It’s not […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:38

N26 launches mid-tier subscription plan for €4.90 per...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/11/24

Challenger bank N26 is adding a third subscription product called N26 Smart. N26 Smart is designed to be a mid-tier subscription plan with advanced banking features but without a travel insurance package. In Europe, in addition to the free plan, N26 already provides two subscription tiers called N26 You and N26 Metal. N26 You costs […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:10

Serenade snags $2.1M seed round to turn speech into code

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/11/24

Several years ago Serenade co-founder Matt Wiethoff was a developer at Quora when he was diagnosed with a severe repetitive stress injury to his hand and couldn’t code. He and co-founder Tommy MacWilliam decided to use AI to create a tool that let him speak the code instead and Serenade was born. Today, the company […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:55

Onit acquires legal startup McCarthyFinch to inject...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/11/23

Onit, a workflow software company based in Houston with a legal component, announced this week that it has acquired 2018 TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield alum McCarthyFinch.Â Onit intends to use the startup’s AI skills to beef up its legal workflow software offerings. The companies did not share the purchase price. After evaluating a number of companies […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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6:01

Wish files to go public with 100M monthly actives,...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/11/23

This morning Wish, a well-known mobile ecommerce startup, filed to go public. It joins Affirm, Airbnb, and Roblox in filing this week as many well-known and valuable private companies look to debut before the year ends and the holidays start. Wish’s S-1 (which is filed under its corporate name ContextLogic) is of particular interest given […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:02

FireEye acquires Respond Software for $186M,...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/11/20

The security sector is ever frothy and acquisitive. Just last week Palo Alto Networks grabbed Expanse for $800 million. Today it was FireEye’s turn snagging Respond Software, a company that helps customers investigate and understand security incidents, while reducing the need for highly trained and scarce security analysts. The deal has closed, according to the […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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7:08

Lime touts a 2020 turnaround and 2021 profitability

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/11/20

Micromobility company Lime says it has moved beyond the financial hardship caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, reaching a milestone that seemed unthinkable earlier this year. In short, the company is now largely profitable. Lime said it was both operating cash flow positive and free cash flow positive in the third quarter — a first — […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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5:04

ZenBusiness snags $55M Series B for its incorporation...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/11/19

Starting a small company used to be simple. Get some space on Main Street, put out a shingle, and begin plying your trade. Then the regulatory state came, and so did the internet. Now, entrepreneurs have to apply for licenses — sometimes multiple licenses in multiple states — and also handle all the intricacies of […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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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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