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4:42

Tech stocks open lower ahead of another busy earnings...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/05/04

The optimism that confounded many in April may be slipping in May, as stocks fell during Friday’s trading session and are down again this morning. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite is off 0.55% this morning, putting it 13% off its record highs set this year, but also up 29% from its 52-week lows it set directly […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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7:50

Index and Credo lead a $2.75M seed in anti-fraud...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/05/04

Prague based Resistant AI has nabbed a $2.75M seed round. The security startup’s machine learning technology is designed to be deployed on top of AI systems used for financial decision making to protect customers in markets such as financial services and ecommerce from attacks such as targeted manipulation, adversarial machine learning and advanced fraud. The […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:45

Determined AI makes its machine learning...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/05/01

Machine learning has quickly gone from niche field to crucial component of innumerable software stacks, but that doesn’t mean it’s easy. The tools needed to create and manage it are enterprise-grade and often enterprise-only — but Determined AI aims to make them more accessible than ever by open-sourcing its entire AI infrastructure product. The company […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:42

Early stage investor The Fund expands beyond NYC with...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/05/01

The Fund, an early-stage investment firm with a memorably straightforward name, is looking beyond New York City as it starts investing its second fund. Founders Jenny Fielding (who’s also managing director at Techstars New York) and Scott Hartley (also co-founder and partner at Two Culture Capital) told me that in the past two years, they’ve […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:07

Biloba lets you chat with a doctor if you have...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/04/30

Meet Biloba, a French startup that wants to leverage tech to make it easier to keep your children healthy. The company recently launched a new mobile app that lets you chat with a doctor whenever you want between 8 AM and 8 PM. This way, if you have questions about your kids, you can get […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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6:06

Utah-based seed fund Kickstart closes fifth fund...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/04/30

Continuing our week’s coverage of new venture funds, this morning let’s dig into Kickstart’s latest capital pool. Kickstart Seed Fund, based in Utah’s Salt Lake City, has raised a $110 million Fund V it announced this morning, its largest to date. The firm’sÂ rise to investing prominence has largely coincided with Utah’s own emergence as a […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:07

Smart contact lens startup Mojo Vision raises $51M

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/04/29

Mojo Vision’s technology still felt early-stage when we met with them back at CES. But the demos we did see were enough to convince us that there really could be something to the California startup’s smart content lens technology. Clearly we weren’t alone in that. The company just announced that it has raised more than […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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6:58

Investors, startup founders in India pool $13M to...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/04/29

More than 150 investors and entrepreneurs in India are funding dozens of projects in a bid to help millions better combat the COVID-19 epidemic and help the nation’s booming startup ecosystem withstand the economic devastation it has caused. The investors said they have contributed 1 billion Indian rupees — or $13 million — of their […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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5:15

OMERS Ventures announces a new $750M fund for...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/04/28

OMERS Ventures, the venture capital arm of the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System (OMERS), has put together a new, $750 million fund to invest in both Europe and North America. The capital vehicle is larger than the group’s preceding European and North American funds combined. In 2019 OMERS Ventures announced a €300 million fund Europe-focused […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:44

Smart ring maker Motiv acquired by ‘digital identity’...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/04/28

We weren’t alone in being impressed by Motiv. The startup helped flip the script on wearables by essentially cramming a fitness tracker’s worth of technology into a ring. This week, San Francisco ‘digital identity’ startup Proxy that it’s acquiring the company. The company’s site is littered in buzzwords, but Proxy specializes in digital key cards […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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5:29

Manufacturing startup Divergent 3D reduces staff by...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/04/27

Divergent, the Los Angeles-based startup aiming to revolutionize vehicle manufacturing, has cut about one-third of its staff amid the COVID-19 pandemic that has upended startups and major corporations alike. The company, which employed about 160 people, laid off 57 workers, according to documents filed with the California Employment Development Department. Founder and CEO Kevin Czinger […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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11:16

If we let the US Postal Service die, we’ll be killing...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/04/27

If we continue to view the USPS as simply a balance sheet and optimize for profitability in a vacuum, we ultimately stand to lose far more than we gain. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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5:53

Opera Event closes $5M Series A for its...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/04/24

Today Opera Event, an influencer software service, announced that it closed a $5 million Series A. The Oakland-based startup raised the capital from new lead investor Antera, with prior investors Atlas Ventures, Everblue, and Konvoy Ventures coming along. According to Crunchbase data, Opera Event had raised at least $1.2 million before this new round. Opera […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:16

Atlanta’s SingleOps raises $6M for its outdoor-care...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/04/24

Today SingleOps, an Atlanta-based software startup, announced that it has raised $6 million in new capital. The startup’s service is built to support companies that deal with outdoor work like landscaping, tree care and lawn maintenance. It’s an example of the vertical SaaS trend that has come to the fore in recent years, with startups […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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6:17

Lambda School cuts staff and exec pay amid market...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/04/23

Online coding bootcamp Lambda School is the latest startup to announce layoffs, writing in a blog post that it’s made the “difficult decision” to cut 19 staff from roles across the company. The eight members of its executive team, including CEO and founder Austen Allred, are also taking a 15% pay cut, it said. Today […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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8:10

Human Capital is an engineering talent agency and a...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/04/23

Michael Ovitz didn’t invent the idea of a talent agency, but one might argue that he perfected it. He founded the CAA in 1975, and grew it into the world’s leading talent agency, serving as chairman for 20 years. Now, Ovitz is investing in a brand new type of talent agency called Human Capital. Human […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:52

Disruptor Beam relaunches as gaming...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/04/22

Disruptor Beam, the mobile gaming startup behind Star Trek Timelines, has a new name and a new business. It’s now calling itself Beamable, and it’s selling a set of tools to help game developers add commerce and social functionality to their titles. The company’s direction became clear earlier this year when it sold Timelines to […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:38

Confluent lands another big round with $250M Series E...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/04/22

The pandemic may feel all-encompassing at the moment, but Confluent announced a $250 million Series E today, showing that major investment continues in spite of the dire economic situation at the moment. Today’s round follows last year’s $125 million Series D. At that point the company was valued a mere $2.5 billion. Investors obviously see […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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6:04

NextView Ventures is launching a remote accelerator...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/04/21

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4:59

UK gov announces ‘Future Fund’, pledging £250M match...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/04/21

After mounting pressure from the U.K. tech startup ecosystem, and much debate, the British government today unveiled plans for a new “Future Fund” designed to ensure high-growth companies — namely, startups — across the U.K. receive enough investment to remain viable during the coronavirus crisis. Initially, the U.K. government is pledging a total of £250 […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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