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TechCrunch Startup News

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5:29

Cooks Venture raises $4 million from Golden West Food...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/01/29

Cooks Venture, the agtech company looking to revolutionize the chicken industry, has today announced the close of a $4 million funding round led by Golden West Food Group. Cooks Venture has been working in stealth for many years, but launched onto the scene in 2018 with a plan to reshape agriculture from the ground up. And the key to that strategy? Chickens. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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2:52

N26 reaches 5 million customers including 250,000 in...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/01/28

Challenger bank N26 has reached 5 million customers. In 2019 alone, N26 managed to add over 2.5 million customers. And the company’s growth rate seems to be accelerating as N26 reached 3.5 million customers in June 2019. That represents an addition of 1 million customers during the first half of 2019 and an addition of 1.5 million customers during the second half of 2019. One reason why N26 is growing at a faster pace is that the company is still expanding to new market. Learn more about your ad

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3:20

Bird confirms acquisition of Berlin scooter...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/01/28

If you didn’t see this coming, then clearly you didn’t have your eyes on the road. Bird, the LA-founded e-scooter giant, has confirmed that it is acquiring European competitor Circ, the micromobilty company founded by Lukasz Gadowski of Delivery Hero fame. The deal, for which terms remain undisclosed, was first reported by the FT late last week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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3:31

Memphis Meats raised $161 million from SoftBank...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/01/27

Memphis Meats, a developer of technologies to manufacture meat, seafood and poultry from animal cells, has raised $161 million in financing from investors including Softbank Group, Norwest and Temasek, the investment fund backed by the government of Singapore. The investment brings the company’s total financing to $180 million. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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3:54

Layoffs reach 23andMe after hitting Mozilla and the...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/01/24

Layoffs in the technology and venture-backed worlds continued today, as 23andMe confirmed to CNBC that it laid off around 100 people, or about 14% of its formerly 700-person staff. The cuts would be notable by themselves, but given how many other reductions have recently been announced, they indicate that a rolling round of belt-tightening amongst well-funded private companies continues. Mozilla, for example, cut 70 staffers earlier this year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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4:49

Substack builds multi-author support into its hybrid...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/01/23

Substack announced today that it has built support for multiple authors into its service. The company provides a publishing tool that blends blogs and email newsletters into a single entity, with a focus on subscription monetization. The day’s updates also include a number of publisher-friendly tools, like shared access and homepage features closer to those of traditional websites than the linear timeline style that Substack has focused on so far. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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4:14

Corporate relocation startup Shyft raises $15M

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/01/22

Shyft is announcing that it has raised $15 million in Series A funding to make the moving process less painful — specifically in the situations where your employer is paying for the move. There other startups are looking to offer concierge-type services for regular moving — I used a service called Moved last year and liked it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:48

Baraja’s unique and ingenious take on lidar shines in...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/01/21

It seems like every company making lidar has a new and clever approach, but Baraja takes the cake. Its method is not only elegant and powerful, but fundamentally avoids many issues that nag other lidar technologies. But it’ll need more than smart tech to make headway in this complex and evolving industry. To understand how lidar works in general, consult my handy introduction to the topic. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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4:15

As Alphabet crests the $1T mark, SaaS stocks reach...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/01/20

Continuing our irregular surveys of the public markets, two things happened this week that are worth our time. First, a third domestic technology company — Alphabet — passed the $1 trillion market capitalization threshold. And, second, software as a service (SaaS) stocks reached record highs on the public markets after retreating over last summer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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6:04

VCs are just tired

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/01/17

I was in SF last week and met with more than a dozen VCs over the course of two days. This was post the holidays, post their visits to the ski chalets in Tahoe and the island beaches, and in the smack dab of one of the most important fundraise periods of the year — the mid-to-late January to April stretch when all the backlog of startups from Q4 initiate their fundraises for the new year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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6:07

Sophie Alcorn, Rebecca Lynn, MG Siegler and Garry Tan...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/01/16

One of the most valuable resources in the tech startup community is mentorship. Founders, tackling brand new challenges and adapting to a rapidly changing world, can sometimes feel like no one understands what they’re going through. But alas, the Early Stage SF event in April will most certainly prove them wrong. Early Stage will bring together seasoned operators and experts across a wide variety of topics that fall under the broad umbrellas of funding, marketing and operations. Learn more about

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3:56

Equinix is acquiring bare metal cloud provider Packet

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/01/15

Equinix announced today that is acquiring bare metal cloud provider Packet. The New York City startup that had raised over $36 million on a $100 million valuation, according to Pitchbook data. Equinix has a set of data centers and co-locations facilities around the world. Companies that may want to have more control over their hardware could use their services including space, power and cooling systems, instead of running their own data centers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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4:20

Meet MarsCat, a robot cat with lots of love to give...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/01/14

At CES 2020, one of the more well-represented gadget categories was definitely consumer robots – but none was more adorable than MarsCat, a new robo-pet from industrial robot startup Elephant Robotics. This robot pet is a fully autonomous companion that can respond to touch, voice and even play with toys, and it’s hard not to love the thing after spending even just a brief amount of time with it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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5:27

Casper files to go public, shows you can lose money...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/01/13

E-commerce phenom and D2C bright light Casper has filed to go public. The New York-based company that raised nearly $340 million while private, according to Crunchbase data, expects to trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol “CSPR.” Its S-1 filing includes a $100 million placeholder figure for its possible capital raise. The company will need the money, as it loses money and burns cash. Let’s explore just how a mattress company does that. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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2:50

Lime is laying off about 100 people and ceasing...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/01/10

Lime is hoping to achieve profitability this year by laying off about 14% of its workforce and ceasing operations in 12 markets, Axios first reported. “Financial independence is our goal for 2020, and we are confident that Lime will be the first next-generation mobility company to reach profitability,” Lime CEO Brad Bao said in a statement to TechCrunch. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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4:08

Cloudflare acquires stealthy startup S2 Systems,...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/01/09

Cloudflare announced that it has acquired S2 Systems, a browser isolation startup started by former Microsoft execs. The two companies did not reveal the acquisition price. Matthew Prince, co-founder and CEO at Cloudflare, says that this acquisition is part of a new suite of products called Cloudflare for Teams, which has been designed to protect an organization from threats on the internet. S2 developed a solution specifically to help prevent browser-based code attacks. Learn more about your ad

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5:10

Ben Horowitz will explain how to create and sustain...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/01/08

The hardest challenges to tackle are usually the most nebulous. Culture, for example, is hard to define, implement, cultivate and evolve… How do you structure culture within a business or organization? Are there steps to follow? Is there a manual? Interestingly enough, there is. What You Do Is Who You Are is the latest book from legendary investor, entrepreneur and founding partner at Andreesen Horowitz Ben Horowitz. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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5:47

As NIO and Tesla rally, Chinese EV company Lixiang...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/01/07

The recovery in value of several high-profile electric car companies could help move yet-private EV manufacturers out of the pit lane and onto the IPO track. On the heels of NIO’s shocking value appreciation after its recent earnings report, and Tesla’s own public market run, China-based Lixiang Automotive is reported to have filed privately for an IPO in the United States. Lixiang Automotive is a Beijing-based company that was founded in 2015, according to Crunchbase data. Learn more about your ad

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4:07

Exhibit your startup at TC Sessions: Mobility 2020

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2020/01/06

Mobility mavericks get ready to strut your stuff at TC Sessions: Mobility 2020 on May 14. Don’t miss our second annual day-long conference devoted to technologies that move people and parcels around the world in new, exciting ways. More than 1,000 of the industry’s mightiest minds, makers, innovators and investors will converge in San Jose for a mobile mind meld. That spells opportunity for early-stage mobility startup founders. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:26

In the shadow of Amazon and Microsoft, Seattle...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/12/31

Venture capital investment exploded across a number of geographies in 2019 despite the constant threat of an economic downturn. San Francisco, of course, remains the startup epicenter of the world, shutting out all other geographies when it comes to capital invested. Still, other regions continue to grow, raking in more capital this year than ever. In Utah, a new hotbed for startups, companies like Weave, Divvy and MX Technology raised a collective $370 million from private market investors. Learn

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