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3:44

Google closes $2.6B Looker acquisition

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/02/14

When Google announced that it was acquiring data analytics startup Looker for $2.6 billion, it was a big deal on a couple of levels. It was a lot of money and it represented the first large deal under the leadership of Thomas Kurian. Today, the company announced that deal has officially closed and Looker is part of the Google Cloud Platform. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:11

Reset Button is approaching student debt from a new...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/02/13

Student loan debt in the U.S. totals $1.5 trillion, and more than 44 million Americans have outstanding student loan debt. According to research by Jason Iuliano, Villanova law professor, a million student loan debtors have filed for bankruptcy in the past five years. However, 99.9 percent of them did not include their student loan debt in their bankruptcy filing.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:37

Ever Loved’s funeral marketplace undercuts undertakers

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/02/13

Fifty percent of families are scared they can’t cover the cost of a funeral. They end up overpaying because no one wants to comparison shop amidst a tragedy. That’s why ex-Googler Alison Johnston’s startup Ever Loved built a free funeral crowdfunding tool. Now it’s addressing one of the most expensive parts of saying goodbye: burial. Today Ever Loved launches its online marketplace for caskets, urns, headstones and memorial jewelry. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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3:31

Impala raises $20 million to build the API of the...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/02/12

Impala has raised another round of funding just a few months after raising an $11 million Series A round. This time, the startup is raising a $20 million Series B round led by Lakestar. Latitude Ventures is also participating in the round. The company is building a service that works pretty much like Plaid, but for hotel rooms. The hotel industry relies on old school “property management systems” to manage rooms, room types, pricing, extras, taxes, etc. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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6:47

Carta debuts fund to invest in startups that tap into...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/02/11

This morning Carta, a startup that helps private companies manage equity, announced it has created an investing vehicle called Carta Ventures. The well-funded unicorn wants to invest in young startups that it sees building off of its data-driven perspective into the world of private companies, helping to foster an ecosystem around its core products and services. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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5:20

After $479M round on $12.4B valuation, Snowflake CEO...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/02/10

Snowflake, the cloud-based data warehouse company, doesn’t tend to do small rounds. On Friday night word leaked out about its latest mega round. This one was for $479 million on a $12.4 billion valuation. That’s triple the company’s previous $3.9 billion valuation from October 2018, and CEO Frank Slootman suggested that the company’s next finance event is likely an IPO. Dragoneer Investment led the round along with new investor Salesforce Ventures. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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5:39

Our.News fights misinformation with a ‘nutrition...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/02/10

A startup called Our.News is working to make its users smarter consumers of the news. In other words, it’s confronting some big, seemingly intractable problems. For one thing, there’s a tremendous amount of disinformation online — as Our.News founder and CEO Richard Zack put it, “Unfortunately, you have thousands of people all over the world who intentionally make it hard for people to know what’s true. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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3:41

Datree announces $8M Series A as it joins Y Combinator

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2020/02/07

Datree, the early stage startup building a DevOps policy engine on GitHub, announced an $8 million Series A today. It also announced it has joined the Y Combinator Winter 20 cohort. Blumberg and TLV Partners led the round with participation from Y Combinator . The company has now raised $11 million with the $3 million seed round announced in 2018. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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4:04

Deliverr lands $40M Series C to bring two-day...

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2020/02/06

Deliverr doesn’t own a warehouse or a delivery truck, but the startup is helping e-commerce companies not named Amazon achieve Amazon-like two-day shipping. The startup does it with intelligent algorithms, and today it announced a $40 million Series C investment. Activant Capital led the round. Other investors in the company include 8VC, GLP and Flexport founder and CEO Ryan Peterson. The company reports it has raised a total of $70 million. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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6:48

How Hoop hit #2 with its Tinder for Snapchat

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/02/06

Snapchat’s developer platform is blowing up as a gateway to teen social app users. Hoop is the latest Snap Kit blockbuster, rocketing to #2 on the overall App Store charts this month with its Tinder -esque swiping interface for discovering people and asking to message with them over Snapchat. Within a week of going viral, unfunded French startup Dazz saw Hoop score 2.5 million downloads. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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3:47

Construction startup Scaled Robotics raises a €2M...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/02/05

Industrial robots are expensive. But, then, so are construction mistakes. Being off by an inch here or there adds up quickly, and too often crews need to correctly costly errors. There’s a reason construction has become the next great target of the robotics and automation industries, with a number of startups vying to create solutions that can constantly monitor sites to detect mistakes before it’s too late. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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5:11

The Meta, a training platform for gamers, builds on...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/02/05

As esports grows and creates opportunities for gamers to level up to the pro or streamer level, there is still a huge barrier in the way. There is not a wealth of training options for gamers. If you can’t get better within the environment of the game itself, then you’ve peaked. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:18

Payments infra startup Finix closes $35M Series B led...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/02/04

This morning Finix, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) startup selling payments tech to other businesses, announced that it has raised a $35 million Series B. Sequoia led the round, which also saw participation from new investors Activant Capital and Inspired Capital. Finix did not disclose a new valuation as part of its round, and declined to share any growth metrics regarding its business. Instead, it offered a TAM figure and noted the number of countries in which it currently operates. Learn more

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5:02

Utah tech magnates create new Silicon Slopes Venture...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/02/04

Those looking outside of Silicon Valley as a potential hub for their startup might want to take a gander at Utah — at least that’s the kind of trend the new Silicon Slopes Venture Fund hopes to create. The newly formed fund, put together by Qualtrics co-founder Ryan Smith, Omniture and Domo founder Josh James and Stance co-founder turned Pelion Venture Partners’ Jeff Kearl, pledges to invest solely in Utah-based startups. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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4:27

OpsRamp raises $37.5M for its hybrid IT operations...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/02/03

OpsRamp, a service that helps IT teams discover, monitor, manage and — maybe most importantly — automate their hybrid environments, today announced that it has closed a $37.5 million funding round led by Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital, with participation from existing investor Sapphire Ventures and new investor Hewlett Packard Enterprise. OpsRamp last raised funding in 2017, when Sapphire led its $20 million Series A round. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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4:35

SoftBank wants its on-demand portfolio to stop losing...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/01/31

SoftBank wants its competing portfolio companies to stop losing so much money and, in some cases, to merge. That’s the news out from the Financial Times today, which reported that Uber and DoorDash discussed merging last year. The talks didn’t wind up in a deal. The two companies, each heavily backed by SoftBank and its formerly active Vision Fund, compete in the food delivery space at great expense. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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3:13

Publisher engagement startup Insticator bets on...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/01/31

Insticator, a startup helping publishers add elements like polls, quizzes and suggested story widgets to their content, has made its first acquisition — a commenting platform called Squawk-It. Insticator CEO Zack Dugow said his platform benefits online publishers by keeping audiences engaged and bringing in new ad revenue (which is split between Insticator and the publisher). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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2:54

Just released: Last round of tickets to 3rd Annual...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/01/30

If parties came with an alert system, this post would qualify as Def Con 4. Now hear this — we just released the final batch of tickets to our3rd Annual Winter Party at Galvanize, which heats up on February 7 in San Francisco. If you want to be there with more than 1,000 of Silicon Valley’s finest, act now with all due haste. Buy your ticket right here. Hang out with your crowd and enjoy cocktails, craft beer and tempting appetizers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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5:12

Perdoo adds free tier to its OKR service, adding a...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/01/30

Perdoo, a Berlin-based OKR-focused software startup, has decided to make its basic service free, potentially shaking up its growing, and somewhat crowded, market. “Objectives and Key Results,” a planning and management technique usually shortened to “OKRs,” is a hot space for software startups, with several raising in recent months. WorkBoard and Gtmhub, for example, each raised capital for their OKR products in the last two months. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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5:55

Teller raises $4M to take on Plaid in the U.S. by...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/01/29

Teller raises $4M to take on Plaid in the U.S. by providing API access to bank accounts “They’re idiots, they’re really naive,” is how Stevie Graham, the co-founder of fintech Teller, once described Open Banking Limited, the body charged with delivering open banking in the U.K. His view back in 2017 — which now looks somewhat prophetic — was that open banking wouldn’t be the competition driver it was hyped up to be. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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