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TechCrunch Startup News

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4:27

Cocoon’s social app for close friends gets VC backing...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/11/27

You may have heard the pitch before, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram aren’t homes for your real friends anymore because they’re too big, too commercial and too influencer-y, the result is that your most important relationships have been relegated to the lowest common denominator tool on your phones: your texting app. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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2:55

Weekend Fund raises $10M for second early-stage fund

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/11/26

Product Hunt founder Ryan Hoover has raised another $10 million to invest in nascent upstarts viaWeekend Fund. The news represents the firm’s second fundraise after a $3 million debut angel fund that closed in 2017. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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3:09

Artiphon launches a Kickstarter campaign for its new...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/11/26

Artiphon, the startup that previously raised more than $1 million on Kickstarter for a device called the Instrument 1, has launched a new campaign for its latest invention, Orba. Co-founder and CEO Mike Butera said the Instrument 1 and Orba share “the same DNA,” namely his vision to help music-making become more accessible to everyone, regardless of training or experience. “I want beginners to feel like pros, but also for pros to feel like beginners again,” Butera told me. Learn more about your ad

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4:57

Max Q: NASA signs up new Moon delivery companies

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/11/25

Sign up here to receive Max Q weekly in your inbox, starting December 15. There were lot of highlights in the space industry this past week (even though a rocket launch that was supposed to happened is now pushed to Monday). The biggest news for commercial space might just be that NASA signed on five new companies to its list of approved vendors for lunar payload delivery services, bringing the total group to 14. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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3:23

Here’s the first look inside Orbex’s Scotland rocket...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/11/25

European private launch startup Orbex is getting ready to start actually launching payloads aboard its own rockets, and it’s pulling back the curtains to give a look at the factory it’s using to build its launch vehicles. The UK-based company is building its rockets from a facility in Scotland, and this virtual tour gives an idea of what they’re doing to make the first rocket field by renewable, clean-burning fuel a reality. Orbex Prime’s Stage 2 vehicle. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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7:44

Give InKind’s smarter giving platform brings in...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/11/22

Helping out a friend in need online can be surprisingly difficult. While giving cash is easy enough, that’s often not what people need most — so Give InKind aims to be the platform where you can do a lot more than write a check. The idea is such a natural one that the company tripled its goal for a pre-seed round, raising $1.5 million from Seattle investors. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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6:35

Splice teaches AI to sell Similar Sounds as users double

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/11/22

Splice is blowing up like a hit song. The audio sample marketplace has doubled revenue and user count in a year, and now reaches 3 million musicians. 70% of those visit weekly to hunt down the freshest and trendiest sounds that give their tracks that special something, and many pay $7.99 for unlimited access. But words can’t always describe music. Searching by genre and subjective tags can take forever and leave artists frustrated when the sounds they find they don’t resonate right. Learn more

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4:18

Bandit opens a ‘mobile-only’ coffee shop in New York

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/11/21

If you wander into the Bandit coffee shop in Midtown New York, you won’t be able to just walk up to the counter and order something. Instead, you’ll need to download a mobile app. I experienced it for myself yesterday afternoon, when I — along with several other customers — pulled my phone out, downloaded the Bandit app, then used the app to create a profile, order and pay. A couple minutes later, a barista called me up to the counter and handed me my (pretty good) coffee. Learn more about your ad

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6:24

Brava, a smart oven maker with big names attached,...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/11/21

Brava had a lot of things working in its favor as startups go. It was founded in 2015 by serial executive John Pleasants, whose past stints have included as co-president of Disney Interactive Media Group, COO of Electronic Arts, and CEO of Ticketmaster. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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4:24

Bunch, the Discord for mobile games, raises $3.85M...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/11/20

Growing up, Selcuk Atli spent a good deal of his free time playing video games with his friends. And when I say with his friends, I mean actually with them. They’re called LAN parties, where everyone brings over their consoles and the group gets to play together virtually and in real life, all at the same time. Atli, a grown man now, still loves games, but misses the memories made during LAN parties. That’s how Bunch was born. Bunch is a lot like Discord, but for mobile games. Learn more about

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5:12

Ohi raises $2.75M to power same-day delivery for...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/11/20

The world has gotten so much faster. Amazon has made two-day shipping the standard and same- or next-day shipping commonplace. And that doesn’t even include the collection of on-demand players that can get us everything from groceries to alcohol to services like concierge storage and in-home cleaning with the press of a button. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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3:20

Playbuzz becomes Ex.co and expands its content...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/11/19

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3:51

SmartNews raises $92M at a $1.2B valuation – TechCrunch

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/11/18

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4:47

Nigeria’s Interswitch confirms $1B valuation after...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/11/18

Nigerian digital payments firm Interswitch confirmed today it has reached unicorn status after Visa acquired a minority equity stake in the firm. “The investment makes Interswitch one of the most valuable African fintech businesses with a valuation of $1 billion,” Interswitch said in a release to TechCrunch. The Visa investment could create the first of two market distinctions for Interswitch — as it shouldn’t change the Lagos-based company’s plans to go public. Learn more about your ad choices

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4:34

Less than 72 hours left to buy early-bird passes to...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/11/15

Pull your heads out of the trenches, startup fans. You have just 72 hours to save up to €500 with early-bird pricing on passes to Disrupt Berlin 2019. When the clock strikes11:59 p.m. (CEST) on Friday, 15 November, the early bird is no more. Three days will fly by in a flash, so don’t wait. Take 10 minutes now, buy your early-bird passand save today. Disrupt Berlin offers two programming-packed days of opportunity and education. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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3:22

Freshworks raises $150M Series H on $3.5B valuation

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/11/15

Freshworks, a company that makes a variety of business software tools, from CRM to help-desk software, announced a $150 million Series H investment today from Sequoia Capital, CapitalG (formerly Google Capital) and Accel on a hefty $3.5 billion valuation. The late-stage startup has raised almost $400 million, according to Crunchbase data. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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4:09

Yodel.io is a digital receptionist for SMBs taking calls

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/11/14

Yodel.io, an Austria-founded startup that’s developed a “digital receptionist” to help SMBs and other small teams handle in and outbound phone-calls, has picked up $1 million in “pre-seed” funding. It brings total funding to just over $1.8 million. Backing this round is EXF Alpha, the fund of the European Super Angels Club, and various other unnamed European angel investors. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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5:06

These sneakers vibrate

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/11/14

Sometimes it seems like you can hear a song all the way in your toes. With these new sneakers, you actually can. Meet the new EP 01 sneakers out of DropLabs. Yes, you read that right. We’re talking about sneakers. Invented by a man named Ross Seiler, and led by former Beats by Dre CEO Susan Paley, DropLabs aims to take audio to a whole new level by syncing music, movies and other audio to shoes that vibrate the soles of your feet. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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3:04

The Garage is a new blockchain-focused incubator...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/11/13

Meet The Garage, a new incubator in Paris that is all about blockchain projects. Co-founded by Cyril Paglino from Starchain Capital, Fabrice Le Fessant from Dune Network and Oussama Ammar from The Family, the company will support blockchain startups, help big companies launch blockchain projects and educate engineers about blockchain development. The Garage is a sort of puzzle made out of multiple pieces. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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5:32

Lawyers hate timekeeping — Ping raises $13M to fix it...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/11/13

Counting billable time in six-minute increments is the most annoying part of being a lawyer. It’s a distracting waste. It leads law firms to conservatively under-bill. And it leaves lawyers stuck manually filling out timesheets after a long day when they want to go home to their families. Life is already short, as Ping CEO and co-founder Ryan Alshak knows too well. The former lawyer spent years caring for his mother as she battled a brain tumor before her passing. Learn more about your ad choices

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