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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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4:07

Throw out your diary, Jour is a new app for guided...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/05/24

Since Jour, a new app for private and portable journaling, dropped on the App Store two months ago, it’s racked up 80,000 users. No paid marketing or public announcements. Just organic interest in discovering a better way of journaling than pen to paper. “We can reinvent and redesign what we call journaling and the journal,” Jour co-founder and chief executive officer Maxime Germain told TechCrunch. “If we do it right, it will go mainstream. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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2:55

Modsy scores $37M to virtually redesign your home

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/05/24

Modsy has raised some new cash as the computer vision startup looks to get physical and build more of the furniture it recommends. The startup announced that they have closed $37 million in Series C funding led by TCV. They’ve now raised north of $70 million to date. The service combines computer vision tech with human designer know how to let users design the trendy home of their dreams. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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9:21

Future launches $150/mo exercise app where real...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/05/23

The only way to beat laziness is with guilt, and so that’s what Future sells. It assigns you an actual human trainer who builds personalized workout plans and message you throughout the day to make sure you’re doing them. It even gives you an Apple Watch to track your activity and ensure you’re not lying. Future actually got me to the gym where my coach kicked my ass remotely with a 30 minute lifting routine I’d never have stuck to by myself. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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3:56

DuckDuckGo founder Gabriel Weinberg is coming to Disrupt

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/05/23

2019 is the year Facebook announced a ‘pivot to privacy’. At the same time, Google is trying to claim that privacy means letting it exclusively store and data-mine everything you do online. So what better time to sit down at Disrupt for a chat about what privacy really means with DuckDuckGo founder and CEO Gabriel Weinberg? We’re delighted to announce that Weinberg is joining us at Disrupt SF (October 2-4). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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5:30

Quadric.io raises $15M to build a plug-and-play...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/05/22

Quadric.io, a startup founded by some of the folks behind the once-secretive bitcoin mining operation “21E6,”has raised $15 million in a Series A round that will fund the development of a supercomputer designed for autonomous systems. The round was led by automotive Tier 1 supplier DENSO and its semiconductor products arm NSITEXE, which will also be one of Quadric.io’s customers for future electronic systems in all levels of autonomous driving solutions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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3:12

Identity platform Auth0 raises $103M, pushing its...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/05/21

Auth0, a 2013-founded identity and authentication platform, has pushed into unicorn territory with a $1 billion valuation after raising $103 million in its latest Series E round. The round was led by Sapphire Ventures, with participation from K9 Ventures, Telstra Ventures and several others. In all, Auth0 total funding tops $210 million to date. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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3:28

Robin picks up $20 million Series B to optimize the...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/05/21

Robin Powered, a startup looking to help offices run better, has today announced the close of a $20 million Series B funding. The round was led by Tola Capital, with existing investors Accomplice and FirstMark participating in the round, along with a new strategic Allegion Ventures. Robin started as part of an agency called One Mighty Roar, where Robin Powered cofounder Sam Dunn and his two cofounders built out RFID and beacon tech for clients’ live events. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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5:05

Credder offers Rotten Tomatoes-style ratings for the...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/05/20

In an age of online misinformation and clickbait, how do you know whether a publication is trustworthy? Startup Credder is trying to solve this problem with reviews from both journalists and regular readers. These reviews are then aggregated into an overall credibility score (or rather, scores, sincethe journalist and reader ratings are calculated separately). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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3:11

Fastly pops in public offering showing that there’s...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/05/20

Shares of Fastly, the service that’s used by websites to ensure that they can load faster, have popped in its first hours of trading on the New York Stock Exchange. The company, which priced its public offering at around $16 — the top of the estimated range for its public offering — have risen more than 50% since their debut on public markets to trade at $25.01. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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4:21

Mobile ticketing company TodayTix raises $73M in new...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/05/17

TodayTix, a mobile ticketing company that makes it easy and relatively affordable to go to Broadway shows and other live performances, is announcing a new $73 million round of funding led by private equity firm Great Hill Partners. The company was founded in 2013, and it served initially as the mobile equivalent of New York’s TKTS booths for discounted, last-minute theater tickets. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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3:28

Fiverr files to go public, reports revenue of $75.5M...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/05/17

Freelance marketplace Fiverr has filed to go public on the New York Stock Exchange. The company, which is headquartered in Tel Aviv, is losing money — its net losses grew from $19.3 million in 2017 to $36.1 million in 2018. At the same time, revenue grew by nearly 45 percent, from $52.1 million to $75.5 million. “Our mission is to change how the world works together,” Fiverr says in the filing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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5:32

Xnor’s AI2GO serves up custom edge AI models with a...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/05/16

AI would be useful for tons of everyday tasks for small businesses and other operations — if people just knew how to build and deploy their own machine learning agent. Unfortunately, few do. Edge-based AI startup Xnor.ai aims to let non-experts put state of the art AI to work as easily as they might update their website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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4:27

Solo.io wants to bring order to service meshes with...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/05/16

As containers and microservices have proliferated, a new kind of tool called the service mesh has developed to help manage and understand interactions between services. While Kubernetes has emerged as the clear container orchestration tool of choice, there is much less certainty in the service mesh market. Solo.io announced a new open source tool called Service Mesh Hub today, designed to help companies manage multiple service meshes in a single interface. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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5:12

India’s ride-hailing firm Ola is now in the credit...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/05/15

A day after India’s largest wallet app Paytm entered the credit cards business, local ride-hailing giant is following suit. Ola has inked a deal with state-run SBI bank and Visa to issue as many as 10 million credit cards in next three and a half years, it said today. The move will help Visa and SBI bank acquire more customers in India, where most transactions are still bandied out over cash. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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5:56

Voi unveils ‘longer-lasting’ e-scooters designed to...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/05/15

Voi Technology, the “micro-mobility” startup that operates an e-scooter service on the streets of a growing number of European cities, has unveiled a range of new scooters and a first e-bike more suited to rentals. The company is also revealing plans to expand to another 150 cities and towns, having ratcheted up 2 million rides in eight months since launching. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:19

Mailchimp expands from email to full marketing...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/05/14

Mailchimp, a bootstrapped startup out of Atlanta, Ga., is known best as a popular tool for organizations to manage their customer-facing email activities — a profitable business that its CEO told TechCrunch has now grown to around 11 million active customers with a total audience of 4 billion (yes, 4 billion), and is on track for $700 million in revenue in 2019. (Note: Slack’s previous quarter was around $133 million, and it’s operating at a loss. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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14:42

As a founder, I mistook my work for self-worth

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/05/14

Dale Stephens Contributor Share on Twitter Dale Stephens was one of the first Thiel Fellows and ran an education company for six years. These days he works an executive coach, helping entrepreneurs and executives grow as fast as their companies. These days, most days are good days. My clients are founder and executives, I set my own schedule, and I live in a city I love. As an executive coach and advisor, I work with founders and CEOs of companies who have raised more than $100M. Learn

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13:44

India’s most popular services are becoming super apps

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/05/13

Truecaller, an app that helps users screen strangers and robocallers, will soon allow users in India, its largest market, to borrow up to a few hundred dollars in the nation. The crediting option will be the fourth feature the nine-year-old app adds to its service in the last two years. So far it has added to the service the ability to text, record phone calls and mobile payment features, some of which are only available to users in India. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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3:56

Saas Management startup Intello scores $2.5 million...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/05/13

Intello, the New York City-based Saas management platform, announced a $2.5 million extended seed round today, along with some product enhancements. The round was led by Resolute Ventures . Harrison Metal and Magnetico Ventures also participated along with various individual angel investors including Zane Lackey from Signal Sciences, Chris Smoak from Atrium and Zach Sherman from Timber. Today’s investment brings the total raised to $4 million, according the company. Learn more about your ad choices

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3:24

Razor startup Harry’s will be acquired by Edgewell...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/05/10

Razor startup Harry’s will be acquired by Edgewell Personal Care for $1.37B Edgewell Personal Care, which owns brands like Schick (razors), Banana Boat (sunscreen) and Wet Ones (moist wipes), is adding Harry’s to that list in a $1.37 billion acquisition. Founded in 2013, Harry’s is part of the current wave of brands using the internet to sell products directly to consumers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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