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TechCrunch Startup News

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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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5:16

Index nabs $2.6M seed to create BI dashboards without...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/10/21

Index founders, Xavier Pladevall and Eduardo Portet, have been friends since they were small children in the Dominican Republic. Both came to college in the U.S., and last year the two decided to launch a startup to help non-technical users build business intelligence dashboards without coding. Today they get to keep building on that dream […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:55

Beam is building a web browser that gathers knowledge...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/10/21

Remember Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer? Those applications from the 1990s used emphatic metaphors in their names to talk about a simple task — browsing the web. Today, nobody would say that Google Chrome is a web explorer. Browsing the web has become an effortless — and often mindless —Â task. You grab your phone or […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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5:08

Trilo lets merchants offer rewards to customers...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/10/20

Open banking enables bank-to-bank payments, meaning that (in theory) merchants should be able to accept payments without having to hand over fees to Visa or Mastercard or other payment providers, such as Stripe. The challenge, however, isn’t just implementing open-banking based payments as a checkout option — there are are already a host of open […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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5:46

PearPop lets TikTok celebrities monetize by sharing...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/10/20

PearPop a new Los Angeles-based company, is on its way to racking up nearly 25,000 users in less than a month, and has already landed seed funding from the firm Rocket One Capital. The company’s premise is simple. Allow fans to bid for shared screen time with their favorite TikTok celebrities, and it’s one that’s […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:03

Singapore tech-based real estate agency Propseller...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/10/19

Propseller, a Singapore-based real estate agency that combines a tech platform with in-house agents to close transactions more quickly, announced today it has raised $1.2 million in seed funding. The round included investment from Iterative; Hustle Fund; XA Network; Rapzo Capital; Lazada co-founder Stein Jakabo; and Dot Property founder Ben Neve. Propseller also said “three […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:59

Datto sets initial IPO price range, indicating a...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/10/19

It was just a few weeks ago that Datto, what TechCrunch called a “backup and disaster recovery firm,” filed to go public. This week the firm set an initial range for its debut. The Vista Equity Partners -backed company was picked up by the private equity firm back in 2017. Vista is back in the […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:38

Vivun announces $18M Series A to keep growing...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/10/16

Vivun’s co-founder and CEO, Matt Darrow used to run pre-sales at Zuora and he saw that pre-sales team members had a lot of insight into customers. He believed if he could capture that insight, it would turn into valuable data to be shared across the company. He launched Vivun to build upon that idea in […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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