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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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4:36

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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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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