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TechCrunch Startup News

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4:11

ZenGo wants to become the crypto wallet for the masses

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/04/17

KZen is about to release ZenGo, a mobile app to manage your cryptocurrencies securely and more easily. There are already countless crypto wallets out there, but the startup thinks they’re all either too complicated or too insecure. If you own cryptocurrencies, chances are they’re sitting on an exchange, such as Coinbase or Binance. If somebody manages to log in to your account, nothing is stopping them from sending those assets to other wallets and stealing everything. Learn more about your ad

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2:44

Airbnb officially owns HotelTonight

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/04/16

Airbnb has completed its acquisition of the last-minute hotel booking application, HotelTonight, the company announced on Monday. The deal is Airbnb’s largest M&A transaction yet and will accelerate the home-sharing giant’s growth as it gears up for an initial public offering. Airbnb reportedly began talks to acquire HotelTonight months ago and finally confirmed its intent to acquire the business in early March. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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4:56

YC alum Keeper raises $1.6M to help gig workers pay...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/04/16

Every year around this time, Uber drivers, Wag dog walkers, Bird scooter chargers, social media influencers and other gig economy workers face the unsightly challenge of paying their taxes. Companies like Uber and Lyft classify their drivers as independent contractors, which means you aren’t given any benefits and the company doesn’t withhold any of your taxes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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3:40

Armis nabs $65M Series C as IoT security biz grows in...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/04/15

Armis is helping companies protect IoT devices on the network without using an agent, and it’s apparently a problem that is resonating with the market, as the startup reports 700 percent growth in the last year. That caught the attention of investors, who awarded them with a $65 million Series C investment to help keep accelerating that growth. Sequoia Capital led the round with help from new investors Insight Venture Partners and Intermountain Ventures. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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5:33

WTF is Baillie Gifford?

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/04/12

The SoftBank Vision Fund has been screaming from the venture headlines the last few months, driven by eye-popping rounds (and valuations!) into some of the most notable startups around the world. Yet, SoftBank isn’t the only player rapidly buying up the cap tables of top startups. Indeed, another firm, more than a century old, has been fighting for that late-stage equity crown. Baillie Gifford . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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4:16

Public health startup Cityblock raises $65M Series B

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/04/12

Redpoint Ventures has led a $65 million Series B in Cityblock, a healthcare company focused on providing improved care to low-income neighborhoods. The business launched roughly 18 months ago out of Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs, an urban innovation incubator known for projects like mobility data startup Coord, which itself raised a $5 million round in October. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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6:16

Online used car startup Shift adds another $40M,...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/04/11

Online used car startup Shift Technologies has tacked on another $40 million in equity funding, hired a new COO with Amazon and Enjoy roots and scaled up its engineering staff — all in the past several months — as the company aims to double its revenue this year. The recent activity, along with what executives have told TechCrunch is a diligent focus on unit economics, is all directed toward a larger objective to take the company public sometime in 2021. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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5:15

Klaviyo raises $150M Series B after building company...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/04/10

Klaviyo, a Boston-based email marketing firm founded in 2012, went about building its email marketing business the old fashioned way. First it built a profitable company, then it went looking for funding to accelerate the growth. Today, it announced a massive $150 million Series B with the entire sum coming from Summit Partners. The company had raised just $8.5 million before today’s announcement. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:33

New privacy assistant Jumbo fixes your Facebook &...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/04/10

Jumbo could be a nightmare for the tech giants, but a savior for the victims of their shady privacy practices. Jumbo saves you hours as well as embarrassment by automatically adjusting 30 Facebook privacy settings to give you more protection, and by deleting your old tweets after saving them to your phone. It can even erase your Google Search and Amazon Alexa history, with clean up features for Instagram and Tinder in the works. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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13:05

Scaling a nonprofit, startup style

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/04/09

It’s been a year since All Raise emerged with the support of dozens of venture capital’s most powerful women. The 34 founding members had a lofty goal: Double the capital going to female founders in five years and double the representation of female VCs in 10 years. After a few experiments, some trial and error and the first-of-its-kind Women Who Venture Summit, All Raise cemented its reputation as a force for change in Silicon Valley. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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5:29

Partnering with Visa, emerging market lender Branch...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/04/09

The San Francisco-based startup Branch International, which makes small personal loans in emerging markets, has raised $170 million and announceda partnership with Visa to offer virtual, pre-paid debit cards to Branch client networks in Africa, South-Asia and Latin America. Branch — which has 150 employees in San Francisco, Lagos, Nairobi, Mexico City and Mumbai — makes loans starting at $2 to individuals in emerging and frontier markets. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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3:17

The Wing poaches Snap’s comms director

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/04/08

Women-focused co-working space The Wing has hired Rachel Racusen as vice president of communications. Racusen has been the director of communications at Snap, the developer of Snapchat, since late 2016. Racusen’s exit represents the latest in a series of departures at the “camera company.” Earlier this year, the company’s chief financial officer Tim Stone stepped down. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:17

Torch take $10M to teach empathy to executives

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/04/05

When everyone always tells you ‘yes’, you can become a monster. Leaders especially need honest feedback to grow. “If you look at rich people like Donald Trump and you neglect them, you get more Donald Trumps” says Torch co-founder and CEO Cameron Yarbrough about our gruff president. His app wants to make executive coaching (a polite word for therapy) part of even the busiest executive’s schedule. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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6:13

Clearbanc plans to disrupt venture capital with ‘The...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/04/04

Raising venture capital isn’t easy; for some, it’s impossible. Clearbanc offers startups a fundraising alternative — despite itself being well-capitalized by VCs — and is today launching a new campaign to back 2,000 businesses with $1 billion in non-dilutive capital by the end of 2019. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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6:22

How France’s new digital minister plans to regulate tech

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/04/04

What happens when you’re working behind the scene with French President Emmanuel Macron and you suddenly become a minister? This is what’s happening to Cédric O this week who was appointed Minister for the Digital Economy on Sunday. I was the first journalist to interview him after his appointment. While Cédric O has been talking with the French tech ecosystem for years, he usually stays away from cameras and microphones. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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3:15

Lyft’s stock has a blue Monday as shares slide after...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/04/03

Today, investors took off their rose-colored glasses (and pink-colored mustaches) and looked at Lyft’s shares with fresh eyes after Friday’s ebullient debut. And — judging by the company’s share price at the end of the day — what they saw wasn’t exactly to their liking. Lyft’s shares suffered a pretty blue Monday in trading on the Nasdaq stock exchange today, closing down $9.28 (or 11.85 percent). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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4:26

FireHydrant lands $1.5M seed investment to bring...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/04/03

FireHydrant, a NYC startup wants to help companies recover from IT disasters more quickly, and understand why they happened with the goal of preventing similar future scenarios from happening again. Today, the fledgling startup announced a $1.5 million seed investment from Work-Bench, a New York City venture capital firm that invests in early stage enterprise startups. In addition to the funding, the company announced it was opening registration for its FireHydrant incident management

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4:49

Online catering marketplace ezCater gets another...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/04/02

In 2007, Stefania Mallett and Briscoe Rodgers conceived of ezCater, an online marketplace for business catering, and began building the company in Mallet’s Boston home, mostly at her kitchen table. Recently, sitting at that same table, Mallett negotiated with Brad Twohig of Lightspeed Venture Partners the final terms of a $150 million Series D-1 at a $1.25 billion valuation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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4:59

Jio Health combines online and offline healthcare in...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/04/02

The internet is often lauded for the potential to increase the impact of a range of primary services in emerging markets, including education, commerce, banking and healthcare. While many of those platforms are now being built, a few are finding that a hybrid approach combining online and offline is advantageous. That’s exactly what Jio Health, a “full stack” (forgive the phrase) healthcare startup is bringing to consumers in Southeast Asia, starting in Vietnam. Learn more about your ad choices

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