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TechCrunch Startup News

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5:14

Owl Ventures’ new pair of funds gives edtech a $585...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/09/01

Edtech just keeps on booming. Today, Owl Ventures, a San Francisco-based education technology fund whose portfolio includes Byju’s, Labster, Masterclass and Quizlet, announced that it has closed a pair of investment vehicles totaling $585 million. Owl Ventures IV is a $415 million investment vehicle which will be used to invest in edtech startups Series A […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:45

Steno raises $3.5 million led by First Round to...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/09/01

The global legal services industry was worth $849 billion dollars in 2017 and is expected to become a trillion dollar industry by the end of next year. Little wonder that Steno, an L.A.-based startup, wants a piece. Like most legal services outfits, what it offers are ways for law practices to run more smoothly, including […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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9:19

Banks aren’t as stupid as enterprise AI and fintech...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/08/31

The right question is almost never whether to buy software or build it internally. Instead, banks have often worked to walk the difficult but smarter path right down the middle. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:15

Register for our last pitch-off next week on September 2

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/08/31

It’s time again to start warming up your pitching arm. Our next Pitchers & Pitches session takes place next week on September 2. Register today! Pitchers & Pitches sessions combine critique and competition with a focus on helping early-stage startup founders create an iron-clad, 60-second pitch. Here’s how it works. Everyone is welcome to attend, […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:27

Fondeadora is a Mexican challenger bank that just...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/08/28

Meet Fondeadora, a fintech startup based in Mexico City that wants to build a full-stack neobank. The company just raised a $14 million Series A round led by Gradient Ventures, Google’s AI-focused venture fund. Founded in 2018, the company already manages 150,000 accounts and is adding $20 million in deposits every month. Mexico represents a […]Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:09

Property tech startup Habi raises $10M to drive...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/08/28

When Brynne McNulty Rojas moved to Bogotá, Columbia four years ago, she encountered a fragmented real estate industry that lacked a central database for consumers to find or compare homes. Rojas was struck by the magnitude of the problem; she was also inspired by the opportunity. Rojas and business partner Sebastian Noguera homed in on […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:49

Narrative raises $8.5M as it launches a new data...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/08/27

Narrative has raised $8.5 million in Series A funding and is launching a new product designed to further simplify the process of buying and selling data. I’ve already written about the company’s existing marketplace and software for managing data transactions. With the new Data Streams Marketplace, the process should be simpler than ever — not […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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7:31

Course Hero, a profitable edtech unicorn, raises rare...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/08/27

Like any successful founder, Andrew Grauer had bright, long-term ambitions for Course Hero from the moment he launched it in 2006. He started the business to create a place where students could ask questions and get answers similar to Chegg, which launched 15 months before Course Hero . But as he slowly built it, he […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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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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