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5:25

Unicorns aren’t profitable, and Wall Street doesn’t care

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/03/28

In Silicon Valley, investors don’t expect their portfolio companies to be profitable. “Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies,” a bible for founders, instead calls for heavy spending on growth to scale in an Amazon -like fashion. As for Wall Street, it’s shown an affinity for stock in Jeff Bezos’ business, despite the many years it spent navigating a path to profitability, as well as other money-losing endeavors. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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7:36

Startups Weekly: A much-needed unicorn IPO update

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/03/27

As I’m sure everyone reading this knows, female-founded businesses receive just over 2 percent of venture capital on an annual basis. Most of those checks are written to early-stage startups. It’s extremely difficult for female founders to garner late-stage support, let alone cash $100 million checks. Maybe that’s finally changing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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3:52

Lyft’s IPO is hot, YC demo day, two new unicorns, and...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/03/26

Hello and welcome back toEquity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week Kate Clark and Alex Wilhelm took us through an IPO, a big round, 943 startup pitches, two new unicorns, and some scooter news. A very 2019 mix, really. Up first we took a peek at the latest from the Lyft IPO saga. Recall that Lyft is beating Uber to the public markets, and we can report that it’s having a good time doing so. Learn more about your ad choices

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3:35

Robotics process automation startup UiPath raising...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/03/22

UiPath, a robotics process automation platform targeting IT businesses, is raising more than $400 million in Series D funding from venture capital investors at a valuation north of $7 billion, sources have confirmed to TechCrunch following a report from Business Insider. We’ve reached out to the company for comment. UiPath, founded in 2005, has raised $409 million to date, meaning the new round of capital will double the total capital invested in the startup, as well as its valuation. Learn more

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5:29

Morphin instantly Deepfakes your face into GIFs

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/03/22

Want to star in your favorite memes and movie scenes? Upload a selfie to Morphin, choose your favorite GIF, and your face is grafted in to create a personalized copy you can share anywhere. Become Tony Stark as he suits up like Iron Man. Drop the mic like Obama, dance like Drake, or slap your mug on Fortnite characters. Now after three years in a stealth developing image mapping technology, Morphin is ready to launch its put-you-in-a-GIF maker. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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2:52

Lyft’s imminent IPO could value the company at $23B

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/03/21

Ride-hailing firm Lyft will make its Nasdaq debut as early as next week at a valuation of up to $23 billion, The Wall Street Journal reports. The business will reportedly price its shares at between $62 and $68 apiece, raising roughly $2 billion in the process. With a $600 million financing, Lyft was valued at $15.1 billion in June. Lyft filed paperwork in December for an initial public offering, mere hours before its competitor Uber did the same. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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4:09

Custom framing startup Framebridge is opening two...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/03/21

For a long while, you couldn’t swing a bag of cats around without hitting a retailer looking to create a digital presence. Now, the inverse is growing in popularity, with many digital-first retail brands looking to set up a brick-and-mortar shop. The latest is Framebridge, a custom framing startup that has raised more than $67 million. The company is launching two new retail stores in the D.C. area, one downtown and one in Bethesda. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:16

Patreon ups its revenue cut, but grandfathers in old...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/03/20

Patreon couldn’t survive charging all creators just a 5 percent rake on the monthly subscriptions they earn from fans while building commerce tools like CRMs and merchandise to try to stay ahead of Twitch, YouTube and Google. But it also didn’t want to screw all its loyal early creators. So today, Patreon is overhauling its pricing. Any creator can still get a 5 percent rate, but just for a Lite version without bonus tools or different fan tiers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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3:49

YC-backed Basement is a social network for close...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/03/19

The past few years have been a bit of a dark age for budding social media startups. Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Snap and messenger apps took up all the time of their users, leaving little room for yet another social media platform. But the tide is shifting. Privacy scandals have shaken some users’ faith giants like Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, and users have grown fatigued by the constant onslaught of #content. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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5:22

Meet eFounders’ next batch of startups that want to...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/03/19

Meet eFounders’ next batch of startups that want to redefine the future of work European startup studio eFounders has been relentlessly building new startups over the past few years. In 2019, the company plans to launch Bonjour, a demo tool for sales teams, Chilli, a recommandation service to help small and medium companies leverage modern software-as-a-service products, and Swan, a banking API to generate banking services on demand. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:41

Decade in review: Trends in seed- and early-stage...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/03/18

We’ve decided to step back from the breaking news for a minute to conduct a review of seed and early-stage funding trends over the last decade for U.S.-based companies. I’m fairly certain we can all agree that the environment for startups has changed dramatically in the past 10 years, specifically in two major ways: The development of seed funding as its own class and; The expansion of growth stage investing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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4:37

London proptech startup Nested has laid off 20% of...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/03/18

Nested, the London-based “data-driven” estate agency that provides a cash advance to help you buy a new home before you’ve sold your old one, has laid off 20 percent of its workforce, TechCrunch has learned. According to sources, the more than 15 staff being let go were informed earlier today. The majority of departures are within Nested’s operations team, including sales, although I understand they also include a number of engineers and other product people. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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3:10

WeWork Labs is launching a food tech accelerator

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/03/15

WeWork Labs, the coworking giant’s startup program that relaunched just over a year ago, is announcing a new initiative focused on food and agriculture startups — WeWork Food Labs. Roee Adler, the global head of WeWork Labs, told me that there will be two main pieces to the Food Labs program. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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3:05

DoorDash claims drivers made an average of at least...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/03/14

On-demand food delivery startup DoorDash has been under fire as of late for its practices around paying drivers. In an email to drivers today, obtained by TechCrunch, DoorDash said drivers received an average of $17.50 or more per hour on a delivery in 2018. That figure, of course, does not take into account cost of mileage, payroll taxes for 1099 independent contractors and other expenses. Sage Wilson, an organizer at non-profit labor group Working Washington, explained to TechCrunch how that

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2:36

Truepill, the ‘AWS for pharmacies,’ gets $10M from...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/03/14

Venture capitalists’ latest on-demand delivery bet is in the pharmaceutical space. Truepill, an online pharmacy powering delivery for the likes of Hims, Nurx, LemonAID and other direct-to-consumer healthcare brands, has nabbed a $10 million Series A from early-stage VC fund Initialized Capital. The investment brings the Y Combinator graduate’s total raised to $13.4 million. Y Combinator, Sound Ventures, Tuesday Capital and others participated in the round. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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4:41

Goalsetter gives parents a way to teach their kids...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/03/13

When the bubble burst in the year 2000, Tanya Van Court lost over $1 million in stock and options over the course of a few minutes. Then and there she vowed to never let something like that happen to her children. Five years later, her daughter Gabrielle was born. At the time, she was a VP of Digital Product Dev at ESPN. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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4:12

The Dubler Studio Kit lets you use your voice to...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/03/12

The Dubler Studio Kit lets you use your voice to control synths, drum machines and other MIDI gear Vochlea Music, a U.K. startup and alumni of Abbey Road Red, the music tech incubator from Abbey Road Studios, is launching a crowdfunding campaign today for “Dubler Studio Kit,” a new device and app that turns your voice into a MIDI controller for synths, drum machines, DAWs and other music gear. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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4:40

Bottomless has a solution for lazy coffee addicts

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/03/12

If you’re like me, you let out a heavy sigh every month or so when you reach out and unexpectedly find an empty bag of coffee. Bottomless, one of the 200-plus startups in Y Combinator’s latest batch, has a solution for us caffeine addicts. For a $36 annual membership fee, a cost which co-founder Michael Mayer says isn’t set in stone, plus $11.29 per order depending on the blend, Bottomless will automatically restock your coffee supply before you run out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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6:04

Startups Weekly: What’s up with YC? Plus, mobility...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/03/11

Where to begin… Netflix darling Marie Kondo is hitting up Sand Hill Road in search of $40 million to fund an ecommerce platform, Y Combinator is giving $150,000 to a startup building a $380,000 flying motorcycle (because why not) and Jibo, the social robot, is calling it quits, speaking to owners directly of its imminent shutdown. It was a hectic week in unicorn land so, I’m just going to get right to the good stuff. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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16:31

Changes at YC, $1.5B more for ride hailing, and...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/03/11

Hello and welcome back toEquity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. We’re back to basics this week with Kate Clark at the helm, Alex Wilhelm in the sidecar, and a stack of venture capital news and happenings to get through. And to make everyone feel included, we kicked off the episode with a roll-call of new VC funds. Then, of course, we dug into the recent news out of Y Combinator . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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