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3:27

Bustle Digital Group shuts down The Outline as part...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/04/06

Bustle Digital Group, owner of a portfolio of digital media properties including Bustle itself, says it laid off two dozen staffers today. That includes eliminating the entire staff ofÂ The Outline, a culture site that it acquired a year ago. In a statement, a BDG spokesperson said the company will continue to host The Outline’s archives, […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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9:07

IRL pivots into virtual event calendar In Remote Life

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/04/03

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4:04

Activity-monitoring startup Zensors repurposes its...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/04/03

Computer vision techniques used for commercial purposes are turning out to be valuable tools for monitoring people's behavior during the present pandemic. Zensors, a startup that uses machine learning to track things like restaurant occupancy, lines, and so on, is making its platform available for free to airports and other places desperate to take systematic measures against infection. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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6:39

Hio wants to put networking events back on your...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/04/02

The Center for Disease Control (CDC) guidelines and the COVID-19 pandemic has surged event cancellations across the country. Tech workforces have found ways to stay productive: back-to-back Zoom calls, work-from-home happy hours and more Twitter threads than anyone asked for. But Jason Craparo, the founder of events platform Hio, wants to put organic, face-to-face networking […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:53

Take your shot: Apply to TC Top Picks at Disrupt SF 2020

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/04/02

TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco is known around the world as the place where the early-stage startup community gathers to learn and launch, connect and collaborate. We know COVID-19 has created challenges, but Disrupt SF is still on schedule (keep tabs on our updates here). Like startup founders everywhere, we quickly learn where, when and how […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:33

Dining and takeout startup Allset raises $8.25M as it...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/04/01

Even though this might seem to be the absolute worst time to try to round up funding for a restaurant-related startup, Allset is announcing that it’s raised an $8.25 million Series B. It was not, to be clear, an easy process. CEO Stas Matviyenko (who founded the company with COO Anna Polishchuk) admitted that when […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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2:59

Substack offers $100K in grants for independent writers

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/04/01

Substack is taking several steps to support the writers and publications using its newsletter platform. After all, just as writers and newsrooms are starting to build real businesses on Substack, the COVID-19 pandemic is dealing a huge financial blow to the media industry. In response, the startup says it will donate $100,000 in grants — […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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9:38

Not all entrepreneurs are 30-year-old guys

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/03/30

There is a serious flaw in how businesses are funded, and it's the same discussion we had twenty and thirty years ago about who was at the table in managing businesses. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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5:28

Jupe is a new startup aiming to address hospital room...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/03/30

We’re already entering into a healthcare crisis due to the global coronavirus pandemic, and creative solutions to address shortfalls in supplies, protective equipment and more are being developed to help where possible. A new startup, with a founding team including an emergency room doctor, a crisis response expert and a public health researcher is hoping […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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8:01

Tech giants should let startups defer cloud payments

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/03/27

Google, Amazon, and Microsoft are the landlords. Amidst the Coronavirus economic crisis, startups need a break from paying rent. They’re in a cash crunch. Revenue has stopped flowing in, capital markets like venture debt are hesitant, and startups and small-to-medium sized businessesf are at risk of either having to lay off huge numbers of employees […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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6:57

Stripe leads $20M Series A into Fast, which is...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/03/26

Early this morning, Fast, a startup building platform-agnostic login and checkout services, announced that Stripe has led a $20 million investment into its business. Prior investors Index Ventures and Susa Ventures took part in the round. Susa previously participated in the company’s late-2019 round that Index led. Coming in late March, the new capital is […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:39

Mammoth Media launches CatchUp, an app that...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/03/26

A new app called CatchUp might be useful for anyone who’s struggling to keep up with the latest headlines, podcasts and Netflix shows. CatchUp is the latest offering from Mammoth Media, the startup behind chat fiction app Yarn and social polling app Wishbone. Founder and CEO Benoit Vatere told me that the product started out […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:15

Swiss startup Creal is building display tech for the...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/03/25

After years of hype, the AR/VR space has certainly grown quieter as of late, but some investors are still coalescing behind a vision that the technologies could one day replace mobile if the technical kinks can be worked out. Creal is a Swiss startup that’s working on some fundamental display technologies that could make VR […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:53

Backed by Harry’s Labs, Cat Person launches its...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/03/25

Cat Person is a new startup trying to change the way you think of cat people — and hoping to sell that new type of cat owner a whole range of cat products. “We know what the stereotypes are, we just don’t think they’re true,” said CEO Jimmy Wu. “They’re incredibly outdated. We want to […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:22

Ceros launches MarkUp, a design collaboration tool...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/03/24

When designers need to collaborate with other teams, they can currently turn to products like InVision and Zeplin. But Ceros creative director Jack Dixon said there’s a “pretty interesting gap in the market” — once you move beyond prototypes and start working with websites that are either live or in staging, the process starts to […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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6:51

Streaming service fuboTV to merge with virtual...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/03/24

Over-the-top live TV streaming service fuboTV announced today it plans to merge with the virtual entertainment technology company, FaceBank Group. The proposed merger would retain the name fuboTV for the combined company, consisting of fuboTV’s direct-to-consumer live TV streaming platform and FaceBank’s technology IP in sports, movies, and live performances. FaceBank is not a household […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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5:05

YC startup Felix wants to replace antibiotics with...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/03/23

Right now the world is at war. But this is no ordinary war. It’s a fight with an organism so small we can only detect it through use of a microscope — and if we don’t stop it, it could kill millions of us in the next several decades. No, I’m not talking about COVID-19, […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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7:22

Hospital droid Diligent Robotics raises $10M to...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/03/23

28% of a nurse’s time is wasted on low-skilled tasks like fetching medical tools. We need them focused on the complex and compassionate work of treating patients, especially amid the coronavirus outbreak. Diligent Robotics wants to give them a helper droid that can run errands for them around the hospital. The startup’s bot Moxi is […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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11:23

Startups rethink what it means to be high-touch...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/03/20

Glossier NYC, in normal times, is typically visited by more than 2,000 people every day, with lines of people from all over the world curling out the door. And when you enter, it’s tempting to touch, well, everything. The walls are adorned with flowers, mirrors and giant versions of the makeup company’s flagship product: Boy […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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6:50

ReMarkable’s redesigned e-paper tablet is more...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/03/19

It's no secret I'm a fan of the reMarkable, a tablet with a paper-like display that's focused on text and sketching rather than rich media and games. The sequel to the original, announced today, looks to make a good thing even better. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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