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TechCrunch Startup News

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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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4:07

Fantasy startup Esports One raises $4M more

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/12/04

Esports One, a startup bringing the fantasy approach to esports, is announcing that it has raised an additional $4 million in funding. When I first wrote about Esports One in April, co-founder and COO Sharon Winter described it as the first “all-in-one fantasy platform” in the esports world, allowing you to research players, create fantasy […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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5:17

YC-backed Heru raises $1.7M to build software...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/12/04

Given the attention that TechCrunch pays to Y Combinator’s Demo Days, we also try to keep tabs on the same startups as they scale and raise more capital. Yesterday we covered YC Winter 2020 participant BuildBuddy, for example. Today we’re taking a look at Heru, a startup based in Mexico City that is announcing a […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:21

Wellory raises $4.5M for its ‘anti-diet’ nutrition app

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/12/03

Wellory, a startup that bills itself as taking an “anti-diet approach” to nutrition and wellness, is announcing that it has raised $4.2 million in funding. The round was led by Story Ventures, with participation from Harlem Capital, Tinder co-founders Sean Rad and Justin Mateen, Ground Up Ventures, NBA Player Wayne Ellington, Hannah Bronfman and others. […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:28

Eat Just to sell lab-grown meat in Singapore after...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/12/02

Eat Just will start offering lab-grown chicken meat in Singapore after gaining regulatory approval from the Singapore Food Agency (SFA). The cell-cultured chicken will eventually be produced under Eat Just’s new GOOD Meat brand through partnerships with local manufacturers and go on sale to restaurants before it is available to consumers. No chickens were killed […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:49

Loop Team wants to give remote workers an in-office feel

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/12/02

As we’ve moved to work from home during the pandemic, it’s been challenging for remote workers to feel connected. Loop Team, a new entrant into the enterprise communications space, thinks the way we are communicating needs improvement. That’s why the startup is releasing Loop Team today, a tool that is trying to use software to […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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5:22

Salut raises $1.25M for its virtual fitness service

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/12/01

This morning Salut, an app-based service that allows fitness trainers to host classes virtually, announced that it has raised $1.25 million in a new financing event. The round was led by Charles Hudson, an investor at Precursor Ventures. Founder Matthew DiPietro, formerly of Twitch, told TechCrunch that Salut soft-launched in mid-September, with a wider release […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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5:32

Vista acquires Gainsight for $1.1B, adding to its...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/12/01

Vista Equity Partners hasn’t been shy about scooping up enterprise companies over the years, and today it added to a growing portfolio with its purchase of Gainsight.Â The company’s software helps clients with customer success, meaning it helps create a positive customer experience when they interact with your brand, making them more likely to come […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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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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