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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

Package Free picks up $4.5 million to scale...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/09/27

The climate crisis continues to be just that… a crisis. And it’s spurring people across the country (and globe) to take action, particularly when it comes to their own lifestyle. Lauren Singer is one such person. After studying Environmental Science and Politics at NYU, she started a blog called Trash Is For Tossers to make a zero-waste lifestyle more accessible and comprehensible to everyone. But there’s still an issue. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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5:23

Summer wants to vanquish student loans for borrowers,...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/09/26

$1.5 trillion. That’s the amount of outstanding student loan debt held by American citizens according to the New York Fed. It is an astronomical sum, and has led to much hand-wringing about whether there is a coming bubble in U.S. higher education. What’s even worse than the scale of the debt load though is the fact that for millions of borrowers, they literally don’t have to pay some of those dollars. Thanks to the complexity of the loan system in the U.S. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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3:53

Fivetran hauls in $44M Series B as data pipeline...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/09/25

Fivetran, a startup that helps companies move data from disparate repositories to data warehouses, announced $44 million Series B financing today, less than a year after collecting a $15 million Series A round. Andreessen Horowitz (A16Z) led the round with participation from existing investors Matrix Partners and CEAS Investments. As part of the deal, Martin Casado from A16Z will join the Fivetran board. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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4:19

TechCrunch Disrupt offers plenty of options for...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/09/24

We might have just completed a full-day program devoted completely to enterprise at TechCrunch Sessions: Enterprise last week, but it doesn’t mean we plan to sell that subject short at TechCrunch Disrupt next month in San Francisco. In fact, we have something for everyone from startups to established public companies and everything in between along with investors and industry luminaries to discuss all-things enterprise. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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3:25

Quilt Data launches from stealth with free portal to...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/09/23

Quilt Data‘s founders, Kevin Moore and Aneesh Karve, have been hard at work for the last four years building a platform to search for data quickly across vast repositories on AWS S3 storage. The idea is to give data scientists a way to find data in S3 buckets, and then package that data in forms that a business can use. Today, the company launched out of stealth with a free data search portal that not only proves what they can do, but also provides valuable access to 3. Learn more about your ad

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3:06

Stephen Curry Brings SC30 Inc. to Disrupt SF

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/09/20

Startup founders are hard-pressed to find the right investors — not only to fund their businesses but to help their businesses grow. These days, investors represent a variety of backgrounds and industries — traditional venture capital, Hollywood even the NBA. When Golden State Warriors point guard and two-time MVP Stephen Curry isn’t playing basketball, he’s working with his business partner and former college basketball teammate Bryant Barr. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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4:46

Fieldwire just raised $33.5 million more to give...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/09/19

Fieldwire just raised $33.5 million more to give PlanGrid and its new owner Autodesk a run for their money Fieldwire, which makes task management software for construction teams on commercial projects so things don’t fall through the figurative (or literal) cracks, has raised $33.5 million in Series C funding. Menlo Ventures led the round, joined by Brick & Mortar Ventures, Hilti Group and Formation 8. It isn’t a huge amount of money. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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4:59

GitLab hauls in $268M Series E on 2.768B valuation

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/09/18

GitLab is a company that doesn’t pull any punches or try to be coy. It actually has had a page on its website for sometime stating it intends to go public on November 18, 2020. You don’t see that level of transparency from late-stage startups all that often. Today, the company announced a huge $268 million Series E on a tidy $2.768 billion valuation. Investors included Adage Capital Management, L.P, Alkeon Capital, Altimeter Capital, Blackrock, Inc. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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3:59

FOSSA scores $8.5 million Series A to help enterprise...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/09/17

As more enterprise developers make use of open source, it becomes increasingly important for companies to make sure that they are complying with licensing requirements. They also need to ensure the open sources bits are being updated over time for security purposes. That’s where FOSSA comes in, and today the company announced an $8.5 million Series A. The round was led by Bain Capital Ventures with help from Costanoa Ventures and Norwest Venture Partners. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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4:40

Another high-flying, heavily-funded AR headset...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/09/16

While Apple and Microsoft strain to sell augmented reality as the next major computing platform, many of the startups aiming to beat them to the punch are crashing and burning. Daqri, which built enterprise-grade AR headsets, has shuttered its HQ, laid off many of its employees and is selling off assets ahead of a shutdown, former employees and sources close to the company tell TechCrunch. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:31

Hatebase catalogues the world’s hate speech in real...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/09/12

Policing hate speech is something nearly every online communication platform struggles with. Because to police it, you must detect it; and to detect it, you must understand it. Hatebase is a company that has made understanding hate speech its primary mission, and it provides that understanding as a service — an increasingly valuable one. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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4:13

Smart grocery cart startup Caper bags $10 million

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/09/11

Caper wants to deliver a major update to the self checkout aisle without keeping its dreaded catchphrases, i.e. “Unknown item in the bagging area,” “Please place the item in the bag.” The New York startup is tapping some of Silicon Valley’s more recognizable VC firms to fund their dreams for a shopping cart of the future that uses computer vision and other sensors to let shoppers quickly scan items as they drop them into their carts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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4:14

Workout app Fitplan adds Alex Rodriguez as a trainer…...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/09/10

Former New York Yankees all star Alex Rodriguez is racking up quite an impressive batting average in his new career as an investor and has added Fitplan to his roster of portfolio companies. The Los Angeles-based workout app launched by Landon Hamilton and Cam Speck has closed on $4.5 million led by A-Rod and Corazon Capital, and has added new celebrity athlete trainers — including Rodriguez — to cover the needs of would-be sports stars and interested amateurs alike. Learn more about your ad

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2:57

Pagerduty’s Jennifer Tejada and Box’s Aaron Levie...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/09/09

Pagerduty‘s CEO Jennifer Tejada and Box co-founder and CEO Aaron Levie both guided their companies to successful IPOs, with Box going public in 2015 and Pagerduty listing its stocks only a few months ago. Both of them will join us on the first day of TechCrunch Disrupt SF on October 2 to talk about their experiences in getting their companies to this point and managing the changes that come with being a public company. It took both companies about ten years to get to their IPOs. Learn more about

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3:39

Newly renamed Superside raises $3.5M for its...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/09/06

Superside, a startup aiming to create a premium alternative to the existing crowdsourced design platforms, is announcing that it has raised $3.5 million in new funding. It’s also adding new features like the ability to work on user interfaces, interaction design and motion graphics. Co-founder and CEO Fredrik Thomassen said this allows the company to offer “a full-service design solution.” You may have heard about Superside under its old name Konsus . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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4:18

Just 3 days left: buy super early bird passes to...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/09/05

Hey European startup fans, Disrupt Berlin 2019 takes place on 11-12 December, but our super early-bird ticket pricing won’t last nearly that long. You have just three days left to save up to €600. Pay close attention to the deadline and buy your Disrupt passes by 11:59 p.m. (CEST) on 6 September. You’ll save even more money if you act quickly enough and combine the super early bird price with our group discounts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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3:41

Joseph Gordon-Levitt is coming to Disrupt SF 2019

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/09/04

Joseph Gordon-Levitt is perhaps best known for his acting across films like 10 Things I Hate About You, 500 Days of Summer, and Snowden. But times weren’t always peachy for Gordon-Levitt as a creative. After leaving the movie business to go to college, he realized the limits of the industry on his potential as a creative. He decided he wanted to take his creativity into his own hands and launched a message board where he’d post films, songs, etc. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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4:04

India’s Oyo acquires Copenhagen-based data science...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/09/03

India’s Oyo said on Monday it has acquired Copenhagen-based data science firm Danamica as the fast-growing lodging startup works to expand its business in Europe. Neither of the parties disclosed financial terms of the deal, but a source familiar with the matter told TechCrunch that Oyo paid about $10 million to acquire the Danish firm. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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5:45

Juul introduces new POS standards to restrict sales...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/09/02

Juul Labs, the e-cigarette behemoth partially owned by Altria, has today announced a new POS age-verification system that it will require all Juul retailers to comply with by May 2021. The Retail Access Control Standards program, or RACS for short, raises the standard for age-restricted POS systems, automatically locking the POS each time a Juul product is scanned until a valid, adult ID is scanned. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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3:26

Female founders: All Raise AMA applications @ Disrupt...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/08/30

The future is female and all you fierce female founders have one last shot at receiving 30 minutes of face time with some of the industry’s leading female funders. Say what now? We’re talking the All Raise “ask me anything” (AMA) sessions at Disrupt SF 2019 — and applications close tomorrow, August 30. All Raise, a startup nonprofit focused on accelerating female founder success, will host a day-long AMA event on October 3 at Disrupt SF 2019. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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