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TechCrunch Startup News

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3:36

Adaptive Shield raises $4M for its SaaS security...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/08/12

Adaptive Shield, a Tel Aviv-based security startup, is coming out of stealth today and announcing its $4 million seed round led by Vertex Ventures Israel. The company’s platform helps businesses protect their SaaS applications by regularly scanning their various setting for security issues. The company’s co-founders met in the Israeli Defense Forces, where they were […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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12:00

Zin Boats reinvents the electric speedboat in a bid...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/08/12

The automotive industry is knee deep in the vast transition to electric, but one place where gas is still going strong is out on the water. Zin Boats wants to start what you might call a sea change by proving, as Tesla did before it, that an electric boat is not just better for the planet, it's better in almost every other way as well. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:07

Parsable scores $60M Series D as pandemic forces...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/08/11

It seems the pandemic has forced the business world to digitize faster, and the industrial sector is no different. Parsable, a San Francisco startup that is helping digitize industrial front line workers, announced a $60 million Series D today. Activate Capital and Glade Brook Capital Partners co-led the round. They got help from new investors […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:13

DoubleVerify says ad fraudsters are using public...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/08/11

The team at DoubleVerify, a company that helps advertisers eliminate fraud and ensure brand safety, said that it’s recently identified a new tactic used by ad fraudsters seeking to make money on internet-connected TVs. Senior Vice President of Product Management Roy Rosenfeld said that it’s harder for those fraudsters to create a legitimate-looking TV app […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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2:47

Sign up for the next Pitchers & Pitches competition...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/08/10

Here’s a shout out to all the early-stage founders attendingÂ Disrupt 2020. Don’t forget to register for our next Pitchers & Pitches — on August 13 — and get ready to hone your 60-second pitch to a razor’s edge. If you’re not in the know, our ongoing Pitchers and Pitches webinar series is a pitch-off-masterclass-mashup. It’s […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:11

Clean.io raises $5M to continue its battle against...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/08/10

Clean.io, a startup that helps digital publishers protect themselves from malicious ads, recently announced that it has raised $5 million in Series A funding. The Baltimore-based company isn’t the only organization promising to fight malvertising (such as ads that force visitors to redirect to another website). But as co-founder wrote Seth Demsey told me last […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:25

Crossbeam announces $25M Series B to keep growing...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/08/08

As sales teams partner with other companies, they go through a process called account mapping to find common customers and prospects. This is usually a highly manual activity tracked in spreadsheets. Crossbeam, a Philadelphia startup, has come up with a way to automate partnership data integration. Today the company announced a $25 million Series B […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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8:19

What Q2 fundraising data tells us about the rest of 2020

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/08/07

If the current level of interest represents the new normal for VCs, we expect it to only increase as we enter the fall. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:33

PandaDoc announces second Series B extension worth $30M

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/08/06

PandaDoc, the startup that provides a fully digital sales document workflow from proposal to electronic signature to collecting payment, announced a $30 million Series B extension today, making it the the second such extension the company has taken since taking its original $15 million Series B in 2017. The total for the three B investments […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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6:01

Krisp snags $5M A round as demand grows for its...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/08/06

Krisp’s smart noise suppression tech, which silences ambient sounds and isolates your voice for calls, arrived just in time. The company got out in front of the global shift to virtual presence, turning early niche traction has into real customers and attracting a shiny new $5 million series A funding round to expand and diversify […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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5:40

YC-backed Statiq wants to bootstrap India’s EV...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/08/05

Electric vehicles (EVs) are spreading throughout the world. While Tesla has drawn the most attention in the United States with its luxurious and cutting-edge cars, EVs are becoming a mainstay in markets far away from the environs of California. Take India for instance. In the local mobility market, two- and three-wheel vehicles are starting to […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:32

Intercom hires a CFO as it ramps towards an IPO

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/08/05

Today Intercom announced that it has hired a chief financial officer (CFO) as it ramps towards an IPO. The unicorn also promoted its COO to the CEO role earlier this year. The company’s recent CEO, Karen Peacock, told TechCrunch that her new CFO Dan Griggs was a strong candidate thanks to his experience helping take […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:08

EventGeek relaunches as Circa to help marketers...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/08/04

EventGeek was a Y Combinator-backed startup that offered tools to help large enterprises manage the logistics of their events. So with the COVID-19 pandemic essentially eliminating large-scale conferences, at least in-person, it’s not exactly surprising that the company had to reinvent itself. Today, EventGeek relaunched as Circa, with a new focus on virtual events. founder […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:16

Cisco acquires Modcam to make Meraki smart camera...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/08/03

As the Internet of Things, proliferates, security cameras are getting smarter. Today, these devices have machine learning capability that help the camera automatically identify what it’s looking at — for instance an animal or a human intruder? Today, Cisco announced that it’s acquired Swedish startup Modcam and making it part of its Meraki smart camera […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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13:50

Recruiting for diversity in VC

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/08/03

Dan Miller Contributor Share on Twitter Dan is a Partner at True Search where he leads the firm's Investment Professional practice, having worked with many top VC & PE firms in their senior hiring efforts. Like many industries with a high concentration of wealth — and the careers that help professionals accumulate it — investment […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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6:27

Are option grants promoting gender and racial inequity?

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/07/31

I want to believe that companies that promise racial and gender equity in compensation make it happen, but not all do. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:15

Point wants to provide credit card rewards with debit...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/07/31

Point, a new challenger bank in the U.S., is launching publicly today with an invite system. While Point is technically providing a bank account, the company focuses on rewards associated with a debit card. “I started Point as a solution about everything that is frustrating and complicated about credit cards. The incentives between credit card […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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5:35

Singapore-based Volopay wants to be the “Brex of...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/07/30

Small- to medium-sized companies that do a lot of international business have to deal with two big headaches: high foreign exchange fees and corporate expense tracking. Volopay, a Singapore-based financial tech startup with offices in Bangalore, wants to help by integrating prepaid multi-currency corporate cards, expense tracking and accounting tools into one free-to-use platform. Volopay […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:59

Explorium reels in $31M Series B as data discovery...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/07/30

In a world with growing amounts of data, finding the right set for a particular machine learning model can be a challenge. Explorium has created a platform to make that an easier task, and today the startup announced a $31 million Series B. The round was led by Zeev Venture with help from Dynamic Loop, […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:46

Y Combinator Demo Day to remain virtual and will be...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/07/29

After feedback from the investor and founder communities, Y Combinator is making a change to how it does Demo Days in a remote world. The accelerator announced today that it will keep its two-day Demo Day virtual, but instead of offering pre-recorded pitches on-demand, the entire program will be streamed live. In an e-mail, Y […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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