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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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4:18

India’s budget hotel startup Oyo enters co-working...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/07/16

India’s Oyo has expanded its hotel chain business to over 80 countries and entered co-living spaces segment in recent years. The firm, which has raised about $1 billion in the last two quarters from several big names including Airbnb, has now identified a new business to target: co-working spaces. The Gurgaon-headquartered firm on Tuesday announced Oyo Workspaces that is already operational across 10 cities in India with over 20 centres. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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5:01

Brave Care, backed by Y Combinator, is an urgent care...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/07/16

Brave Care is an urgent care facility for pediatric care that costs, on average, about 80% less than a pediatric ER visit. Darius Monsef and his co-founder came up with the idea shortly after a fateful week for the Monsef family, during which their four-year-old dove off a bike ramp and their one-year-old started having breathing problems. For both visits, he went to a pediatric urgent care facility where his kids were thoughtfully and patiently treated by Dr. Corey A. Fish. Learn more about your ad

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3:53

Sage Plus for Experts gives travel experts a central...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/07/15

Sage is giving reviewers, chefs and other experts and publishers a central place to share all their content. To do this, the startup has created a new product called Sage Plus for Experts, which isn’t open to the public yet, but is accepting signups from those aforementioned travel experts — the kinds of experts who can share content around things to do, food, drinks, experiences and shopping. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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9:49

With so much late-stage money available, why are tech...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/07/15

Ajay Chopra Contributor Ajay Chopra co-founded Pinnacle Systems in his living room and grew it to a multi-billion dollar public company before becoming a venture capitalist with Trinity Ventures. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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4:30

This new autonomous startup has designed its delivery...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/07/12

This new autonomous startup has designed its delivery robot to conquer winter Refraction, a new autonomous delivery robot company that came out of stealth Wednesday at TC Sessions: Mobility, sees opportunity in areas most AV startups are avoiding: regions with the worst weather. The company, founded by University of Michigan professors Matthew Johnson-Roberson and Ram Vasudevan, calls its REV-1 delivery robot the “Goldilocks of autonomous vehicles. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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4:12

3 reasons startups should exhibit at Disrupt SF 2019

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/07/12

Early-stage startup founders, you’re searching for opportunities to take your company to greater heights, amirite? Then allow me to direct your attention to Disrupt San Francisco 2019, TechCrunch’s flagship event that takes place October 2-4. More specifically to Startup Alley, the exhibition floor where opportunity thrives. Grab that opportunity by the scruff and buy a Startup Alley Exhibitor Package. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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5:07

N26 launches its challenger bank in the U.S.

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/07/11

European fintech startup N26 is now accepting customers in the U.S. The company is launching a bank account with a debit card that should provide a better experience compared to traditional retail banks. If you’re familiar with N26, the product that is going live today won’t surprise you much. Customers in the U.S. can download a mobile app and create a bank account from their phone in just a few minutes. It’s a true bank account with ACH payments, routing and account numbers. Learn more about your

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5:03

Bankrupt Maker Faire revives, reduced to Make Community

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/07/11

Maker Faire and Maker Media are getting a second chance after suddenly going bankrupt, but they’ll return in a weakened capacity. Sadly, their flagship crafting festivals remain in jeopardy, and it’s unclear how long the reformed company can survive. Maker Media suddenly laid off all 22 employees and shut down last month, as first reported by TechCrunch. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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4:28

Hardware startups: Pitch to the world’s top investors...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/07/10

Early-stage hardware startupfounders, it’s your turn to step into the spotlight and launch your innovative inventions to the world’s top investors. We’re inviting you to apply to compete in our hardware-focused pitch competition,Hardware Battlefield at TC Shenzhenon November 11-12. You might even walk away with $25,000 and a whole new business trajectory. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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3:10

Fresh tickets to our 14th Annual TechCrunch Summer Party

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/07/10

Our 14th Annual TechCrunch Summer Party is a mere two weeks away, and we’re serving up a fresh new batch of tickets to this popular Silicon Valley tradition. Jump on this opportunity, folks, because our previous releases sold out in a flash — and these babies won’t last long, either. Buy your ticket today. Our summer soiree takes place on July 25 at Park Chalet, San Francisco’s coastal beer garden. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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5:52

Glitch is bringing remix culture back to the web with...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/07/09

Building apps and tools on the web shouldn’t just be for the technically inclined. In the early days of the web, it was easy to make your MySpace account, for example, unique to your personal aesthetic. Glitch is doing that for the modern era. Glitch, formerly known as Fog Greek Software, is an online community where people can upload projects and enable others to remix them. Dash likens coding on Glitch to working together inside Google Docs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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11:49

A 23-year-old B2B company has shown how keen India is...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/07/08

Away from the limelight of the press and the frenzy of fundraising, a tech startup in India has achieved a feat that few of its peers have managed: going public. IndiaMART, the country’s largest online platform for selling products directly to businesses, raised nearly $70 million in a rare tech IPO for India this week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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3:07

Karamel is an app to find activities for your kids

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/07/08

Karamel is an app to find activities for your kids French startup Karamel wants to help you find things to do for your kids. The company is launching a mobile app that lets you find and book kid-friendly activities around you. The startup also just raised a $450,000 round (€400,000) from Kima Ventures, Roxanne Varza and Thibaud Elzière. Varza participates in the Atomico Angel Programme, which means that Atomico handed out $100,000 to invest in multiple early-stage companies. Learn more about your ad

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9:46

Why you should naturalize — now, not later

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/07/05

It’s no secret that America thrives on tech-savvy immigrants who put down permanent roots: Three in five of the country’s biggest tech companies —Apple, Facebook, and Google among them — were founded by first- or second-generation immigrants. Those giants combined boast a market cap of over $4 trillion and employ nearly two million workers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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5:19

HQ Trivia lays off ~20% as it preps subscriptions

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/07/05

HQ Trivia is struggling after a mutiny failed to oust its CEO. Downloads per month are down 92% versus last June according to Sensor Tower. And now four sources confirm that HQ laid off staff members this week. One said about 20% of staff was let go, and another said six to seven employees were departing. That aligns with Digiday reporter Kerry Flynn’s tweet that 7 employees were let go bringing HQ to under 30 (shrinking from 35 to 28 staffers would be a 20% drop). Learn more about your ad choices

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4:31

Pod Foods gets VC backing to reinvent grocery...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/07/04

Larissa Russell and Fiona Lee founded a cookie startup called Green Pea Cookie in 2014. The cookies were 100% natural, vegan and “handcrafted with love.” The company failed but not because the cookies weren’t selling. The business couldn’t keep up with the antiquated wholesale food distribution system’s steep costs. Two incumbent players, United Natural Foods Inc. and KeHE Distributors, essentially controlled its only pathway to grocery stores across the country. Learn more about your ad choices

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5:32

Fast Forward raises new war chest to fight Silicon...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/07/03

San Francisco is a city of extremes, with multi-billion dollar glass-cladded obelisks piercing the SoMa sky while thousands of the city’s long-term residents fail to find even the basic rudiments of housing and other social services. The tech industry has created the world’s greatest inequality machine, solving every one of our problems except the ones like housing affordability, education access, and healthcare availability that might lead to greater agency and equality. Learn more about your ad

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3:08

TikTok is being investigated in the U.K. for how it...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/07/03

TikTok is being investigated in the U.K. for how it handles children’s data and safety TikTok is being investigated in the U.K. for how it handles the safety and personal data of underage users. According to the Guardian, information commissioner Elizabeth Denham told a parliamentary committee that the probe started in February, after the U.S. Federal Trade Commission levied a $5.7 million fine against TikTok for breaking children’s privacy law. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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5:02

AR headsets promise new enterprise productivity, but...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/07/02

Just as the bluetooth headset ushered in an era of hands-free calling, AR startups are trying to convince manufacturing startups that AR headsets will bring new efficiencies with hands-free computing. As Magic Leap and Microsoft have dropped hundreds of millions trying to spend their way into new tech modalities for enterprise customers, smaller players are relying on less ground-breaking hardware and hoping that easy-to-use software can drive new customers into their arms. Learn more about your ad

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8:11

Tara.ai, which uses machine learning to spec out and...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/07/01

Artificial intelligence has become an increasingly important component of how a lot of technology works; now it’s also being applied to how technologists themselves work. Today, one of the startups building such a tool has raised some capital, Tara. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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