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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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4:30

Five years after creating Traefik application proxy,...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/09/23

Five years ago, Traefik Labs founder and CEO Emile Vauge was working on a project deploying thousands of microservices and he was lacking a cloud native application proxy that could handle this kind of scale. So like any good developer, he created one himself and Traefik was born. If you go back five years, the […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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7:06

Mailchimp launches new AI tools as it continues its...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/09/23

Mailchimp may have started out as an easy to use newsletter tool, but that was almost 20 years ago. Today’s company still does email, but at its core, it is now a marketing automation platform for small businesses that also offers a website builder, basic online stores, digital ad support and analytics to make sense […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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7:11

Pure Watercraft ramps up its electric outboard motors...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/09/22

Electric power only started making sense for land vehicles about ten years ago, but now the technology is ready to make the jump into the water. Pure Watercraft hopes that its electric outboard motor can replace a normal gas one for most boating needs under 50 HP — and it just raised $23.4M to hit […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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6:09

Ride-hailing was hit hard by COVID-19. Grab’s Russell...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/09/22

Ride-hailing services around the world have been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic, and Grab was no exception. The company is one of the most highly-valued tech startups in Southeast Asia, where it operates in eight countries. Its transport business suffered a sharp decline in March and April, as movement restriction orders were implemented. But […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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5:20

With $100M in funding, Playco is already a mobile...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/09/21

Playco is a new mobile gaming startup created by Game Closure co-founder Michael Carter and Zynga co-founder Justin Waldron, as well as game producers Takeshi Otsuka and Teddy Cross. Although the Tokyo-headquartered company is only announcing its existence today, it’s already a unicorn — it says it’s raised $100 million in Series A funding, at […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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5:31

Amid layoffs and allegations of fraud, the FBI has...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/09/21

The tagline from today’s announcement from the United States Attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York says it all: “Adam Rogas Allegedly Raised $123 Million from Investors Using Financial Statements that Showed Tens of Millions of Dollars of Revenue and Assets that Did Not Exist”. Rogas, the co-founder and former chief executive and […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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5:34

Ron Howard and Brian Grazer say that their...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/09/18

Impact Creative Systems (formerly Imagine Impact) is bringing a startup accelerator-style approach to finding fresh creative talent, and it announced this morning that, with funding from venture capital firm Benchmark,Â it’s spinning out from Imagine Entertainment — the production company founded by director Ron Howard and producer Brian Grazer. Right after the news broke, the accelerator’s […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:15

X1 Card is a credit card based on your income, not...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/09/18

There are many reasons why you could have a good or a bad credit score. But if you’re just entering the job market, you may end up with reliable income and a low limit on your credit card. X1 Card wants to solve that by setting limits based on your current and future income instead […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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6:56

The art of pivoting with Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins and...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/09/17

Building and growing a startup is hard, but pivoting said startup into something new and then achieving that same growth is even harder. But it’s not impossible. Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins, founder and CEO of PromisePay, and Jessica Matthews, founder and CEO of Uncharted Power, both have experiences doing this. At TechCrunch Disrupt, they shed some light […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:43

Jefa is a challenger bank for women without a bank...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/09/17

Meet Jefa, a startup that is building a challenger bank specifically designed for women in Latin America. The company is building a product that focuses on solving the problems that women face when opening a bank account and managing it. It is participating in the Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt. “There are 1.4 billion people […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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5:09

Quantum startup CEO suggests we are only five years...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/09/16

Today at TechCrunch Disrupt 2020, leaders from three quantum computing startups joined TechCrunch editor Frederic Lardinois to discuss the future of the technology. IonQ CEO and president Peter Chapman suggested we could be as little as five years away from a desktop quantum computer, but not everyone agreed on that optimistic timeline. “I think within […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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5:56

Data virtualization service Varada raises $12M

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/09/16

Varada, a Tel Aviv-based startup that focuses on making it easier for businesses to query data across services, today announced that it has raised a $12 million Series A round led by Israeli early-stage fund MizMaa Ventures, with participation by Gefen Capital. “If you look at the storage aspect for big data, there’s always innovation, […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:50

Bank-as-a-service startup Swan helps other companies...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/09/15

Meet Swan, a new French startup that wants to let other companies offer financial services by issuing cards, bank accounts and IBANs with just a few lines of codes. The company could be considered as a bank-as-a-service platform, like Treezor or solarisBank. Originally founded by startup studio eFounders, the startup just raised a $5.9M million […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:53

DaVinci Kitchen is building a robotic pasta-making kiosk

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/09/15

The robotics industry is having a major moment amid the uncertainty of the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s true that category has been an exciting target for investments for a number of years now, but labor issues and concerns over transmission have led many sectors to take a good, long look at automation. Meal preparation is a […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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6:34

Airtable raises $185M and launches new low-code and...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/09/14

The spreadsheet-centric database and no-code platform Airtable today announced that it has raised a $185 million Series D funding round, putting the company at a $2.585 billion post-money valuation. Thrive Capital led the round, with additional funding by existing investors Benchmark, Coatue, Caffeinated Capital and CRV, as well as new investor D1 Capital. With this, […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:42

Toucan raises $3M to teach you new languages as you...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/09/14

Toucan has developed a Chrome browser extension designed for anyone who wants to learn a new language but hasn’t found the motivation or the time. Once installed, the extension scans the text of any (English-language) website you’re visiting and will automatically translate some of the words into the language that you’re trying to learn. If […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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7:14

Carbon Health to launch 100 pop-up COVID-19 testing...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/09/11

Primary care health tech startup Carbon Health has added a new element to its “omnichannel” healthcare approach with the launch of a new pop-up clinic model that is already live in San Francisco, LA, Seattle, Brooklyn and Manhattan, with Detroit to follow soon – and that will be rolling out over the next weeks and […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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6:05

Diffblue launches a free community edition of its...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/09/11

Diffblue, a spin-out from Oxford University, uses machine learning to help developers automatically create unit tests for their Java code. Since few developers enjoy writing unit tests to ensure that their code works as expected, increased automation doesn’t just help developers focus on writing the code that actually makes a difference but also lead to […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:49

Sprinklr raises $200M on $2.7B valuation three years...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/09/10

Sprinklr has been busy the last few years acquiring a dozen companies, then rewriting their code base and incorporating them into the company’s customer experience platform. Today, the late-stage startup went back to the fund raising well for the first time in three years, and it was a doozy, raising $200 million on a $2.7 […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:47

Iron Ox raises $20 million for its robotic farms

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/09/10

Bay Area-based Iron Ox today announced a $20 million Series B. The funding, led by Pathbreaker Venture and family office firms, brings the robotics company’s total funding up to $45 million to date. A number of other investors also took part in the round, including Crosslink Capital, Amplify Partners, ENIAC Ventures, R7 Partners, Tuesday Ventures, […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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