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2:21

Opendoor appoints CFO, CPO

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/10/15

Opendoor has named Gautam Gupta its chief financial officer and chief business offer, critical roles as the business continues to alter the way in which homes are bought and sold. Uber’s former head of finance, Gupta joined the $3.8 billion home-selling platform as its chief operating officer in 2017. The company, which has raised more than $4 billion in debt and equity funding to date, is announcing several new hires this morning. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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5:37

The budding industry of cannabis tech

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/10/14

Brian Kateman Contributor Share on Twitter Brian Kateman is president and co-founder of the Reducetarian Foundation. More posts by this contributor Fish replacement may be the next big wave in alternative protein development From food and drink to health and wellness and beyond, there’s one plant we can’t seem to get enough of: cannabis. It seems like every consumer product nowadays is taking part in reefer madness. Home cooks are taking edibles to new heights. Learn more about

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5:50

To beat Amazon Go, Standard Cognition buys...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/10/11

Valued at $535 million, autonomous retail startup Standard Cognition has emerged as a soon-to-be tech giant and the best hope for merchants to compete with Amazon Go. Cashierless checkout is poised to transform brick-and-mortar commerce, and shop owners fear having to battle Amazon’s technology alone or partner with it, exposing data it could use against them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:44

Get guaranteed rent for your home from new startup...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/10/10

Missing out on a month’s rent because you can’t find a tenant is a huge loss. Searching for someone to fill a home takes work, while property managers are incentivized to price your place too high leading to costly vacancies. But new startup Doorstead wants to take on the risk and the work for you. It acts as a property manager for single-family homes but guarantees you rent at a specific rate starting in a certain number of days, even if it can’t fill the house or apartment. Learn more about your

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4:09

Why we’re still waiting on the Postmates S-1

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/10/09

In a wide-ranging conversation at TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco last week, Postmates co-founder and chief executive officer Bastian Lehmann made light of the company’s lack of IPO documents. The San Francisco-based on-demand delivery business was expected to publicly file its IPO prospectus in September in preparation for a fall exit, sources familiar with the matter told TechCrunch this summer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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19:44

Sequoia shares wisdom with Disrupt SF Battlefield...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/10/08

Editor’s note: James Buckhouse is design partner at Sequoia. Last Tuesday, the teams competing in Startup Battlefield at Disrupt SF, as well as founders chosen as Top Picks in Startup Alley, visited Sequoia Capital’s office in San Francisco for a discussion with partners Jess Lee, Roelof Botha, Mike Vernal, Alfred Lin and James Buckhouse. The following is a partial transcript of the session, which was moderated by Buckhouse. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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3:02

Greyparrot uses computer vision to improve waste...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/10/07

Meet Greyparrot, a London-based startup that wants to improve waste management. The company uses computer vision to make sorting more efficient at different stages of the waste chain. And Greyparrot has been selected as a wildcard for the Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt SF. The company has been using machine learning with images of different types of waste to train a model that detects glass, paper, cardboard, newspapers, cans and different types of plastics (black trays, PET, HDPE). Learn

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8:27

First mover advantage: Does it matter in startup...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/10/04

Russ Heddleston Contributor Share on Twitter Russ is the cofounder and CEO of DocSend. He was previously a product manager at Facebook, where he arrived via the acquisition of his startup Pursuit.com, and has held roles at Dropbox, Greystripe, and Trulia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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6:24

A startup factory? $1.2B-exit team launches $65M...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/10/03

Think Jack Dorsey’s jobs are tough? Well, Tom Chavez is running six startups. He thinks building businesses can be boiled down to science, so today he’s unveiling his laboratory for founding, funding and operating companies. He and his team have already proven they can do it themselves after selling their startups Rapt to Microsoft and Krux to Salesforce for a combined $1.2 billion. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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6:43

Upstart banking company Dave is now worth $1 billion,...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/10/02

Two years after the Los Angeles-based fintech startup Dave launched with a suite of money management tools to save consumers from overdraft fees, the company is now worth $1 billion thanks to a nascent banking practice that had investors lining up. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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9:11

Kickstarter darling EcoFlow Delta battery generator...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/10/01

The EcoFlow Delta is a new battery generator available on Kickstarter with incredible features claimed. Most are true, some are not. Devices like the Delta offer incredible battery storage capacity. Designed for more than just recharging phones and tablets, these can run refrigerators, pumps, power tools and medical equipment. They’re great for emergencies, camping and general use where power is not available. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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5:52

Startups Weekly: Alpha Medical wants to rebuild...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/09/30

Hello and welcome back to Startups Weekly, a weekend newsletter that dives into the week’s noteworthy news pertaining to startups and venture capital. Before I jump into today’s topic, let’s catch up a bit. I’ve been on a bit of startup profile kick as of late. Last week, I wrote a little bit about Landline, a bus network backed by Upfront Ventures. Before that, I profiled an e-commerce startup called Part & Parcel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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4:25

Battlefield vets StrongSalt (formerly OverNest)...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/09/30

StrongSalt, then known as OverNest, appeared at the TechCrunch Disrupt NYC Battlefield in 2016, and announced product for searching encrypted code, which remains unusual to this day. Today, the company announced a $3 million seed round led by Valley Capital Partners. StrongSalt founder and CEO Ed Yu, says encryption remains a difficult proposition, and that when you look at the majority of breaches, encryption wasn’t used. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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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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