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4:21

Payments services company Finix adds $30 million to...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/08/26

Finix, a startup that provides payments-related services to other companies, announced it has extended its Series B financing with a $30 million investment led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and American Express Ventures. The fintech startup has now raised over $96 million in venture capital. According to CEO and co-founder Richie Serna, $90 million of that […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:31

Eden intros SaaS tools in a bid to become a more...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/08/26

Eden, the office management platform founded by Joe du Bey, is today announcing the launch of several new enterprise software features. The company, which offers a marketplace for office managers to procure services like office cleaning, repairs, etc., is looking to offer a more comprehensive platform. The software features include a COVID team safety tool […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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6:11

Visual collaboration startup MURAL raises huge $118M...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/08/25

This morning MURAL announced that it has raised $118 million in an outsized Series B. The visual collaboration startup provides a whiteboard-like digital environment that allows for users to cooperate and brainstorm. MURAL announced that it had raised $23 million earlier this year, though that investment closed in 2019. The $23 million round was a […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:36

Conan is coming to Disrupt 2020

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/08/25

In 2010, TV show host Conan O’Brien was abruptly asked to give up the time slot he’d been handed just six months earlier by his longtime employer NBC. Instead, he famously gave the network the figurative finger, taking his act to the basic cable network TBS later that same year and — embraced by legions […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:27

SugarCRM acquires Node to gain predictive customer...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/08/24

SugarCRM announced this morning it has acquired customer intelligence startup, Node. The companies did not reveal the purchase price, but the deal has closed. While Sugar gains a ton of AI expertise, it also adds a customer prediction element to the platform such as figuring out the customers most likely to convert or most likely […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:46

Overlooked teams up with college newspapers to build...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/08/24

George Sehremelis is building what he calls a “social news network,” with the aim of combatting the spread of misinformation and fake news online. “My goal has always been make an impact on the 2020 election,” Sehremelis told me — a tall order, particularly when the big social networks are struggling to solve these same […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:22

Cobalt.io grabs $29M Series B to continue building...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/08/21

The promise of SaaS has always been about taking tedious, expensive manual tasks and finding a way to build a platform to automate them. Cobalt.io is doing that with pentesting, the process of testing an application for security vulnerabilities before it goes out the door. Today, the startup announced a $29 million Series B led […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:09

DoorDash expands with on-demand grocery delivery

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/08/21

DoorDash is announcing that customers can now order groceries through the DoorDash app from partners including Smart & Final, Meijer and Fresh Thyme. Additional stores like Hy-vee and Gristedes/D’Agnostino are supposed to be added in the next few weeks. Through these partnerships, DoorDash says it has a delivery footprint covering 75 million Americans in markets […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:27

Airbnb has confidentially filed to go public

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/08/20

In a turn of fortune, Airbnb today announced that it has filed to go public, albeit confidentially. The move puts the home-sharing service on a path to a public offering sooner rather than later, and comes after reports that the company was prepping an IPO filing this month. Those same reports indicated that Airbnb could […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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5:04

Finmark wants to put sophisticated financial modeling...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/08/20

Finmark, a member of Summer 2020 Y Combinator cohort, is not your typical YC startup. In fact company co-founder Rami Essaid has already built Distil, a security startup and saw it through to exit when he sold the company to Imperva last year. As he pondered what to do next, he took a quick turn […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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11:51

Meet the startup that helped Microsoft build the...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/08/19

Microsoft’s new Flight Simulator is a technological marvel that sets a new standard for the genre. But to recreate a world that feels real and alive and contains billions of buildings all in the right spots, Microsoft and Asobo Studios relied on the work of multiple partners. One of those is the small Austrian startup […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:30

Movable Ink raises $30M as it expands its...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/08/19

Movable Ink, a company that helps businesses deliver more personalized and relevant email marketing, is announcing that it has raised $30 million in Series funding. The company will be 10 years old in October, and founder and CEO Vivek Sharma told me that it’s always been “capital efficient” — even with the new round, Movable […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:33

Attabotics raises a $50M Series C for its warehouse...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/08/18

The uptick in robotics funding continues this week with a big round for Calgary, Alberta’s Attabotics. The warehouse fulfillment startup announced a $50 million Series C, led — interestingly enough — by the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board, Canada’s largest pension plan. It’s a pretty hot moment for robotics and automation investing, as more industries […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:47

India’s OneCard credit card-maker FPL Technologies...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/08/18

A 20-month-old startup in India founded by a group of banking veterans that has built a mobile-first credit card and is improving the experience users have with credit cards has secured $10 million in a new financing round. Pune-based FPL Technologies’ $10 million Series A financing round was funded by Matrix Partners India, Sequoia Capital […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:15

AutoX launches its RoboTaxi service in Shanghai,...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/08/17

Autonomous vehicle startup AutoX announced the public launch of of its self-driving taxi service in Shanghai today. Called simply RoboTaxi, AutoX’s offering already faces competition from Didi, China’s largest ride-hailing platform, which launched its own robo-taxi pilot program in Shanghai at the end of June. AutoX’s RoboTaxis will first be available in Jiading District, starting […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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2:42

Root AI raises $7.2M seed round to deploy its...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/08/17

By all accounts, the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the adoption of robotics and automation by months, if not years. The reasons are fairly clear — robotics don’t call in sick, nor are they disease vectors in the same manner as their human counterparts. As food production and agriculture are looking to be among the biggest […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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5:16

Labster lands new cash to bring its virtual reality...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/08/14

You could Zoom call into your science class, or you could conduct a lab experiment in virtual reality. During the coronavirus pandemic, the latter has never felt more full of potential. The global need for learning solutions beyond Zoom is precisely why Labster, a Copenhagen-based startup that helps individuals engage in STEM lab scenarios using […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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5:03

Cube closes $5M Seed round to scale its financial...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/08/14

This morning Cube announced that it has closed a Seed round worth just over $5 million. The software startup, focused on financial planning and analysis (FP&A) work, raised $3.8 million of the total recently, with remaining $1.25 million having come in an earlier Pre-Seed round. Christina Ross, Cube’s CEO and founder, told TechCrunch that she […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:45

Gong raises another $200M on $2.2B valuation

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/08/13

For the third time since last February, Gong has raised a significant sum. In February, the company scored $40 million. In December, it grabbed another $65 million, and today it was $200 million on a $2.2 billion valuation. That’s a total of $305 million in less than 18 months. Coatue led today’s cash infusion with […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:15

Dog food startup Sundays launches its air-dried...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/08/13

Michael Waxman, co-founder and CEO of dog food startup Sundays, acknowledged that dog owners have no shortage of options when it comes to feeding their beloved pets — but he still thinks there’s room for something new. “There’s a sort of ‘Water everywhere, but not a drop to drink’ phenomenon,” Waxman said. “There are over […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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