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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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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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