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8:54

Raising VC in Silicon Valley as a female POC

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/12/09

Nathan Beckord Contributor Share on Twitter Nathan Beckord is CEO of Foundersuite.com, a software platform for raising capital and managing investors that has helped entrepreneurs raise over $2 billion since 2016. He is also the host of Foundersuite’s How I Raised It podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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2:38

New tweet generator mocks venture capitalists

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/12/09

“Airbnb’s unit economics are quite legendary — the S-1 is going to be MOST disrupted FASTEST in the next 3 YEARS? Caps for effect.” Who Tweeted that? Initialized Capital’s Garry Tan? Homebrew’s Hunter Walk? Y Combinator co-founder Paul Graham? Or perhaps one of the dozens of other venture capitalists active on Twitter . No, it was Parrot.VC, a new Twitter account and website dedicated to making light of VC Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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3:10

Uberflip acquires SnapApp for smarter content targeting

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/12/06

Uberflip is acquiring SnapApp, bringing together two startups that promise help marketers use their content more effectively. President and Chief Marketing Officer Randy Frisch argued that Uberflip focuses on content experience, not content marketing. In other words, it’s not selling productivity and workflow tools for marketers to write blog posts and and create videos. Instead, it helps them present their existing content in a smarter and more personalized way. Learn more about your ad choices

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3:09

Uniform Teeth raises $10 million for its...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/12/06

Uniform Teeth, the teeth straightening startup that helped me figure out I needed a root canal, has just raised a $10 million round of funding led by Canaan Ventures. This brings Uniform Teeth’s total funding to $14 million. With the new funding, Uniform Teeth plans to open up two more locations, one in Seattle and one in Chicago early next year. Uniform Teeth currently operates two locations in San Francisco. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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5:15

Delphia wants to turn your data into investment...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/12/05

A lot of companies talk about the value of your data, and about helping you get more control over the information you share, but Toronto-based Delphia is unique in aiming to build a viable, sustainable and scalable way to take a person’s data and turn that into real monetary gain. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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4:54

Accel closes new $550M fund for India

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/12/04

Accel, one of the world’s most influential venture capitalist firms, is becoming more bullish on India. The Silicon Valley-headquartered firm, which largely focuses on early stage investments, said today it has closed $550 million for its sixth venture fund in India. This is a significant amount of capital for Accel’s efforts in India, where it began investing 15 years ago and has infused roughly $1 billion through all of its previous funds combined. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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4:40

Postscript raises $4.5M to help Shopify shops stay...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/12/04

Back in February, we wrote that Postscript “wants to be the Mailchimp for SMS.” Now they’ve raised $4.5 million to help get it done. This round was led by Accomplice, and backed by Kayak co-founder Paul English, Wufoo co-founder Kevin Hale, Klaviyo co-founder Andrew Bialecki, Drift co-founder Elias Torres, Front co-founder Mathilde Collin and Podium co-founders Eric Rea and Dennis Steele. The Postscript team is currently made up of 14 people. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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3:14

Score Cyber Monday savings on TechCrunch Sessions...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/12/03

Have we got a Cyber Monday deal for you. TC Sessions: Robotics+AI (March 3) and TC Sessions: Mobility (May 14) are coming back to California in 2020 with early bird tickets starting at $275 and $250 respectively. But if you buy your pass today, you’ll save an extra 15 percent on each event. How sweet is that? Don’t delay, startuppers. Buy your pass to TC Sessions: Robotics & AI and/or TC Sessions: Mobility before this one-day deal expires promptly tonight at 11:59 pm PT. Learn more about your ad

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5:16

Startups Weekly: Chinese investors double down on...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/12/02

Hello and welcome back to Startups Weekly, a weekend newsletter that dives into the week’s noteworthy startups and venture capital news. Before I jump into today’s topic, let’s catch up a bit. Last week, I wrote about Airbnb’s issues. Before that, I noted Uber’s new “money” team. Remember, you can send me tips, suggestions and feedback to kate.clark@techcrunch.com or on Twitter@KateClarkTweets. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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4:11

NYSE proposes big change to direct listings

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/12/02

The New York Stock Exchange filed paperwork this morning with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to allow companies to raise capital as part of a direct listing. Direct listings are a way for companies to go public by selling existing shares held by insiders, employees and investors directly to the market, rather than the traditional method of issuing new shares. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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3:42

Zebra Fuel, the startup that brought fuel directly to...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/11/29

Zebra Fuel, the startup that brought fuel directly to your vehicle, is ‘no longer’ delivering in London Zebra Fuel, the London-based startup that delivered fuel directly to your vehicle — backed by Robin and Saul Klein’s LocalGlobe, Brent Hoberman’s Firstminute Capital and Zoopla founder Alex Chesterman — has told customers it is “no longer” delivering fuel in London. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:37

Here’s what happens when you decide to sell your startup

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/11/28

Joe Procopio Contributor Share on Twitter Joe is a multi-exit, multi-failure entrepreneur. Joe is currently building Spiffy, and previously sold Automated Insights, sold ExitEvent, and built Intrepid Media. Find more about Joe at joeprocopio.com or @jproco on Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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4:04

Vivun snags $3M seed round to bring order to pre-sales

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/11/27

Vivun, a startup that wants to help companies keep better track of pre-sales data announced a $3 million seed round today led by Unusual Ventures, the venture firm run by Harness CEO Jyoti Bansal. Vivun founder and CEO Matt Darrow says that pre-sales team works more closely with the customer than anyone else, delivering demos and proof of concepts, and generally helping sales get over the finish line. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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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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