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TechCrunch Startup News

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2:39

Bird launches platform to let entrepreneurs manage...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/03/08

Bird launches platform to let entrepreneurs manage their own fleet of scooters Bird is launching its new program, Bird Platform, in New Zealand, Canada and Latin America in the coming weeks. First up is New Zealand, where Bird has partnered with a local entrepreneur to manage a fleet of Bird electric scooters. Residents of New Zealand will start to see Bird scooters on the streets next week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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9:09

WellSaid aims to make natural-sounding synthetic...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/03/08

Many things are better said than read, but the best voice tech out there seems to be reserved for virtual assistants, not screen readers or automatically generated audiobooks. WellSaid wants to enable any creator to use quality synthetic speech instead of a human voice — perhaps even a synthetic version of themselves. There’s been a series of major advances in voice synthesis over the last couple years as neural network technology improves on the old highly manual approach. Learn more about your ad

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3:24

Clari platform aims to unify go-to-market operations...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/03/07

Clari started out as a company that wanted to give sales teams more information about their sales process than could be found in the CRM database. Today, the company announced a much broader platform, one that can provide insight across sales, marketing and customer service to give a more unified view of a company’s go-to-market operations, all enhanced by AI. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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2:47

Red Cat wants to track drone flight data on the...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/03/07

Red Cat, a startup that wants to store drone flight data on the blockchain to guarantee immutability, announced the second Beta of its drone data platform today. Jeff Thompson, CEO of Red Cat says in 2017 he was looking at what was holding back the commercial drone business and the need for a black-box kind of system became apparent to him. The so-called black box is really a flight recorder that tracks data about a flight. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:01

The Silicon Valley exodus continues

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/03/06

For a long time, it was the norm for founders to haul their hardware to the 3000 block of Sand Hill Road, where the venture capitalists of “Silicon Valley” would be awaiting their pitches. Today, many of the investors that touted the exclusivity of “The Valley” have moved north to San Francisco, where they have better access to top entrepreneurs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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3:10

Eargo raises $52M for virtually invisible,...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/03/06

Eargo wants to become the ultimate consumer hearing brand. The company’s small and virtually invisible direct-to-consumer hearing aids, which come in an AirPods-style chargeable case, are designed to help destigmatize hearing loss. One month after revealing its newest product — the Eargo Neo ($2,550), which can be customized remotely via the case’s Bluetooth connectivity — the startup has closed a $52 million Series D, bringing its total raised to date to $135 million. Learn more about your ad

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6:07

Jupiter raises $23 million to tell businesses and...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/03/05

Jupiter raises $23 million to tell businesses and governments how climate change will destroy them Whether it’s by flood, fire or the fury of a storm, climate-related catastrophes are now impacting most cities and towns across the country. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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3:12

Glossier launches its first spin-off brand, a line of...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/03/05

Glossier, known for its line of understated makeup products and a cult-following of millennial Instagrammers, is getting colorful with the launch of its first spin-off brand, Glossier Play. The company — led by founder and chief executive officer Emily Weiss, who built the nearly $400 million business from a makeup blog called Into The Gloss — has raised a total of $92 million in venture capital funding from top-tier consumer investors Forerunner Ventures, Index Ventures and IVP. Learn more about

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3:07

Ceros raises $14M for its interactive content platform

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/03/04

Cerosallows marketers to create animated, interactive content — but don’t call it a content marketing company. “We think content is just a dry, bland, over-leveraged, oversaturated space,” said founder and CEO Simon Berg. “The goal is not to hack the system, the goal is to make a great experience for your customers.” That’s why he describes Ceros as a platform for creating experiences. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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3:20

Cherry lets startup employees choose their own office...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/03/01

Forget the office ping pong table,Cherry, a startup in Y Combinator’s latest batch, wants to let employees take company perks into their own hands. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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3:04

Sequoia-backed Medallia files to raise $70M at a...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/03/01

Customer experience management platform Medallia has filed to raise up to $70 million in Series F funding, according to regulatory documents obtained by the Prime Unicorn Index. The new shares were priced at $15 apiece, valuing the nearly two-decades-old business at $1.7 billion. We’ve reached out to Medallia for comment. Medallia is expected to finally transition to the public markets in 2019, a year chock-full of high-profile unicorn IPOs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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2:49

Search marketing company Botify raises $20M

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/02/28

Botify, a search engine optimization company that works with customers like Expedia and Nike, announced today that it has raised $20 million in Series B funding. Co-founder and CEO Adrien Menard said that the opportunity in SEO is “even bigger now than in the past,” and that the problem ismuch broader problem than many realize. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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6:43

The Shadow Ghost turns cloud gaming into a seamless...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/02/28

French startup Blade, the company behind Shadow, is launching a new set-top box to access its cloud gaming service — the Shadow Ghost. I’ve been playing with the device for a couple of weeks and here’s my review. The Shadow Ghost is a tiny little box that doesn’t do much. The true magic happens in a data center near your home. When you sign up to Shadow, you don’t even have to get a box. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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4:30

For a monthly subscription fee, this startup will...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/02/27

For a monthly subscription fee, this startup will send out customized gifts to current and prospective clients at scale In today’s noisy, fast-paced world, finding a way to let clients and potential customers know that they are top of mind can be a major challenge for companies. Enter Sendoso, a 2.5-year-old, San Francisco-based online-to-offline startup that promises to source, store and ship anything a business ever needs to send — and track its return on investment, to boot. Learn more about your

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5:52

Gradient Ventures, Google’s AI fund, leads $7M...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/02/27

Google’s Gradient Ventures, the search giant’s dedicated AI fund, is casting its eye to Asia after it led a $7 million Series A round for Elsa, a startup that operates an app for English language learners. The deal is Gradient’s first in Asia, and it includes participation from existing investors Monk’s Hill Ventures and SOSV. Elsa has now raised $12 million to date. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:39

Ubiquitilink advance means every phone is now a...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/02/26

Last month I wrote about Ubiquitilink, which promised, through undisclosed means, it was on the verge of providing a sort of global satellite-based roaming service. But how, I asked? (Wait, they told me.) Turns out our phones are capable of a lot more than we think: they can reach satellites acting as cell towers in orbit just fine, and the company just proved it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:10

Airbnb, Automattic and Pinterest top rank of most...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/02/25

Jason Rowley Contributor Jason Rowley is a venture capital and technology reporter for Crunchbase News. More posts by this contributor Companies raising supergiant VC aren’t getting any younger Coastal startups don’t have a monopoly on raising big at early-stage It takes a lot more than a good idea and the right timing to build a billion-dollar company. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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4:33

DoorDash raises $400M round, now valued at $7.1B

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/02/25

Delivery company DoorDash is announcing that it has raised $400 million in Series F financing. Earlier this month, The Wall Street Journal reported that the company was looking to raise $500 million at a valuation of $6 billion or more. In fact, DoorDash now says the funding came at a $7.1 billion valuation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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3:12

wearTRBL lets you express yourself with a connected...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/02/22

When I interviewed Parrot founder and CEO Henri Seydoux at TechCrunch Disrupt back in 2016, he surprised everyone when he said he was working on a new kind of T-shirt —nobody knew for sure whether he was joking or not. But the connected T-shirt is real, and it’s called wearTRBL. While the project started as a Parrot subsidiary, the company was spun off in July 2018. Seydoux is still credited as co-founder and Olivier Levy acts as co-founder and CEO. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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12:30

EF raises $115M new fund, aiming to create another...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/02/20

Entrepreneur First (EF), the London-headquartered “talent investor” that recruits and backs individuals pre-team and pre-idea to enable them to found startups, has raised a new fund of its own to continue scaling globally. The $115 million first close was led by a number of leading (mostly unnamed) institutional investors across the U.S., Europe and Asia, including new anchor LP Trusted Insight. A number of well-known European entrepreneurs also invested. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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