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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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5:09

DeepSource announce $2.6M seed round to automate...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/06/17

DeepSource, a member of the Winter 2020 Y Combinator cohort, announced a $2.6 million seed investment today. The company is building a solution to help developers automate static code analysis to find certain errors before going through human code review. 645 Ventures led the round with help from Y Combinator, FundersClub, Pioneer Fund, Liquid 2 […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:10

Reebelo, a Singapore-based site for refurbished...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/06/16

Reebelo, a Singapore-based marketplace for refurbished electronics, announced it has raised a seed round of $1.25 million led by June Fund, with participation from Antler. The new funding will be used for hiring, especially marketing and operations positions for customer service as the company scales. Reebelo currently operates in Singapore, but plans to expand across […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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6:46

Free money for startups? It’s possible with...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/06/16

Startups need money. State and local governments need startups and the employment growth they offer. It should be obvious that the two groups can work together and make each other happy. Unfortunately, nothing could be further from the truth. Each year, governments spend tens of billions of dollars on economic development incentives designed to attract […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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24:01

So you want to talk about race in tech with Ijeoma Oluo

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/06/15

“A lot of people denigrate the value of talking about race and racism in technological spaces,” said Ijeoma Oluo, author of So You Want to Talk About Race, which has surged to the top of the New York Times best sellers list in paperback nonfiction, two and a half years after its initial January 2018 […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:19

Uber shares tumble 5% as reports indicate it will...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/06/15

Reports this morning indicate that Uber, the American ride-hailing giant with a global footprint, will lose out on its attempt to buy Grubhub, an American food ordering and delivery service. Uber competes with Grubhub domestically with its Uber Eats service; a tie-up between the two could have given Uber suffocating market share in the United […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:25

API platform Postman delivers $150M Series B on $2B...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/06/12

APIs provide a way to build connections to a set of disparate applications and data sources, and can help simplify a lot of the complex integration issues companies face. Postman has built an enterprise API platform and today it got rewarded with a $150 million Series C investment on a whopping $2 billion valuation — […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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5:43

This startup just raised $12 million from top VCs to...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/06/12

Companies increasingly recognize that one of the greatest stresses for their employees is financial wellness. Even at innovative tech startups, people typically bump up against the limits of how much they know about wealth management pretty fast. But providing financial education to a workforce, which has become increasingly common, is largely useless as most employees […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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5:25

Conversa Health raises $12M Series B for its digital...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/06/11

It’s no surprise that the coronavirus pandemic is accelerating the digital health space and so it’s also no surprise that a lot of the startups in this area are currently getting funded. Conversa Health, a Portland, Oregon-based startup that provides a virtual care and communication platform for personalized healthcare, is among these startups. The company […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:55

Vendr raises $4M from David Sacks’s Craft Ventures to...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/06/11

When TechCrunch last checked in with the Y Combinator-backed Vendr in October, the company had just raised $2 million, and was crowing about its profitability. Profitable seed-stage companies aren’t super common, so the startup stood out. Today Vendr is back with more news, namely that it has raised $4 million more, this time led by […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:54

Flatfile scores $7.6M seed investment to simplify...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/06/10

One of the huge challenges companies like enterprise SaaS vendors face with new customers is getting customer data into their service. It’s a problem that Flatfile founders faced first hand in their jobs, and they decided to solve it. Today, the company announced a healthy $7.6 million seed investment to expand on that vision. The […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:35

Yugabyte lands $30M Series B as open source database...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/06/10

It’s been a big period of positive change for Yugabyte, makers of the open source, cloud native YugabyteDB database. Just last month they brought on former Pivotal CEO Bill Cook as CEO, and today the company announced it has closed a $30 million Series B. 8VC and strategic investor WiPro led the round with participation […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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16:17

Acceleprise announces 26 SaaS startups from its trio...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/06/09

The TechCrunch crew has worked to keep tabs on this year’s startup accelerator classes. Conventional wisdom in startup land states that great companies are founded during more trying economic times. Well, a recession was declared yesterday by the National Bureau of Economic Research. We should, therefore, see some breakout startups in the next few years. […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:15

Portobel turns food producers into direct-to-consumer...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/06/09

A startup called Portobel is working to help food producers shift their businesses so that they can support direct-to-consumer deliveries. Portobel is backed by Heroic Ventures and led by Ranjith Kumaran, founder or co-founder of file-sharing company Hightail (acquired by OpenText) andÂ loyalty startup PunchTab (acquired by Walmart Labs). Kumaran told me that he and his […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:33

France refines its plan to support startups

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/06/08

A few days ago, the French government detailed different measures as part of its support plan for startups. France already announced a $4.3 billion (€4 billion) plan back in March. The new announcements are more about refining and adding some additional measures. The French government wanted to act quickly when it made its initial announcement […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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6:15

Zigazoo launches to be a ‘TikTok’ for kids, surpasses...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/06/08

Like many parents, Zigazoo founder Zak Ringelstein worries about his children’s screen time. His worries only grew when COVID-19 led to school shutdowns and kids came home to a world of remote learning. Now, as lockdowns extend, Ringelstein is learning to embrace screen time as a way to sneak education and entertainment into his kids’ […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:32

Searchable.ai nabs additional $4M seed to continue...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/06/05

Searchable.ai is an early-stage startup in the alpha phase of testing its initial product, but it has an idea compelling enough to attract investment, even during a pandemic. Today the company announced an additional $4 million in seed capital to continue building its AI-driven search solution. Susquehanna International Group and Omicron Media co-led the round […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:16

Cowboy releases updated e-bike with new carbon belt

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/06/05

Electric-bike maker Cowboy has released a new iteration of its bike, the Cowboy 3. It’s a relatively small update that should make the experience better for newcomers. The first orders will be delivered at the end of July and the Cowboy 3 is now slightly more expensive at €2,290 or £1,990 ($2,500). The bike still […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:49

NetApp to acquire Spot (formerly Spotinst) to gain...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/06/04

When Spotinst rebranded to Spot in March, it seemed big changes were afoot for the startup, which originally helped companies find and manage cheap infrastructure known as spot instances (hence its original name). We had no idea how big at the time. Today, NetApp announced plans to acquire the startup. The companies did not share […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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7:23

What the last 2 months of fundraising tells us about...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/06/04

There is just as much capital ready to deploy, and just as much investor interest, as there was earlier this year, but founders are still adjusting to new market conditions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:34

Lili raises $10M for its freelancer banking app

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/06/03

Lili, a startup building banking products to meet the needs of freelance workers, is announcing that it has raised $10 million in seed funding. The startup takes its name from its founders, CEO Lilac Bar David and CTO Liran Zelkha, who previously foundedÂ Israeli challenger bank Pepper. Bar David told me that while many neobanks have […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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