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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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5:20

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

TechCrunch Startup News ·

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...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

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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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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