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5:01

Austin in January: Cash rich and maturing

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/02/04

Mary Ann Azevedo Contributor Share on Twitter Mary Ann Azevedo covers startups and tech at Crunchbase News. 2019 has been good to the Austin startup scene so far. Combined, Austin startups have raised $240.3 million in January. That’s not much less than the nearly $300 million raised inall of Q4 2018. And since the beginning of the year, the Texas capital has seen a number of double-digit funding rounds and a nearly quarter of a billion dollaracquisition. Learn more about your ad

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4:17

Timescale announces $15M investment and new...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/02/04

It’s a big day for Timescale, makers of the open source time series database, TimescaleDB. The company announced a $15 million investment and a new enterprise version of the product. The investment is technically an extension of the $12.4 million Series A it raised last January, which it’s referring to as A1. Today’s round is led by Icon Ventures with existing investors Benchmark, NEA and Two Sigma Ventures also participating. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:44

Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s artist-collaboration platform...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/02/01

In the early 2000s, actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt was frustrated with the roles he was being offered. Instead of starring in critically acclaimed indies, he was typecast as “the funny kid on TV” due to roles like Tommy from “3rd Rock from the Sun.” So like anyone who matured alongside the internet, he created a website where he could ideate, produce and share his work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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5:46

Step targets teens and parents with a no-fees mobile...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/02/01

A new mobile banking startup called Step wants to help bring teenagers and other young adults into the cashless era. Today, cash is used less often, as more consumers shop online and send money to one another through payment apps like Venmo. But teenagers in particular are still heavily burdened with cash — even though they, too, want to spend their money on things that require a payment card, like Amazon.com purchases or mobile gaming, for example. That’s where Step comes in. Learn more about your

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4:21

Cosmic JS wants to simplify web development, so you...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/01/31

If you are a web developer, you know how complex many of the traditional web content management systems have been. One of the big problems has been managing the underlying infrastructure for the system. Cosmic JS, a member of the Winter 2019 Y Combinator class, wants to simplify that by taking care of the infrastructure part for you, while providing a flexible front end for content creators. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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6:23

Amex blocks Curve as the fintech startup vows to...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/01/30

Well, that was short-lived: Just 36 hours after Curve, the London fintech that lets you consolidate all of your bank cards into a single Curve card, re-instated support for Amex, the feature has once again been unceremoniously blocked by American Express. This time, however, the context feels very different from 2016 when the startup was barely off the ground, with Curve telling customers in an email this morning that it intends to “fight Amex’s decision with our full might”. Learn more about your

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4:04

YC-backed Oxygen raises seed to bring digital banking...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/01/30

Few things are easy in our financial system if you don’t have regular employment. It’s hard to prove (regular) income, which makes applying for a credit card or personal loan much more difficult and time-consuming. That’s particularly tough, since freelancer income is variable, and these sort of income smoothing tools can be critical to make ends meet. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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4:51

The new Parsley Health Center in NYC doesn’t feel...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/01/29

Parsley Health has just opened up a new, fully redesigned space on Fifth Avenue in New York City, marking the first true Parsley Health Center. Since launch, the startup has been operating out of clinics in New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles. But TechCrunch got the chance to check out Parsley’s new Fifth Ave location, which marks the company’s first space designed from the ground up as Parsley Health. Founded by Dr. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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5:27

Sequoia-backed NEXT gets $97M as investment in...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/01/28

Despite its “unsexy” reputation, the logistics industry is attracting massive investment from venture capitalists. With a fresh $97 million in Series C funding, NEXT joins a fleet of heavily funded logistics platforms, including Flexport, Huochebang and Convoy. The company, which connects shippers and carriers through an online marketplace, raised the capital fromBrookfield Ventures, with participation from Sequoia Capital and logistics solutions provider GLP. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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3:34

Verizon’s unlimited data carrier Visible starts...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/01/25

When Verizon stealthily launched a new startup called Visible last year, it operated under a bring-your-own-device model — to sign up, you needed to already have an unlocked iPhone, and Visible would send you a new SIM card. Today, however, Visible is announcing that it’s partnering with Affirm and Apple to sell iPhones with 0 percent APR financing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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9:21

After an abrupt shutdown, Munchery’s small business...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/01/25

Munchery’s vendors claim the food delivery startup took advantage of them in its final hours, knowingly allowing them to continue making deliveries it couldn’t pay for. Earlier this week, Munchery surprised customers with an email announcing it wouldcease operations, effective immediately. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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5:36

How we’re finding the best lawyers for early-stage...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/01/24

We’re nearing 1,000 submissions from startup founders and leaders in Silicon Valley and across the world about the best early-stage tech lawyers to work with. As we’ve sorted through survey responses and begun scheduling interviews with the first qualified nominees, we’ve gotten a bunch of questions. We love questions. First of all, why are we creating a living list of great tech startup lawyers?Lawyers don’t create startups, but they can help great startups succeed. Learn more about your ad

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5:35

The Pill Club raises $51M as VCs find new...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/01/24

Through telemedicine and direct-to-consumer sales platforms, startups are streamlining the historically arduous process of accessing contraception. The latest effort to secure a significant financing round is The Pill Club, an online birth control prescription and delivery service. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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6:19

Roger Dickey ditches $32M-funded Gigster to start...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/01/23

Most founders don’t walk away from their startup after raising $32 million and reaching 1000 clients. But Roger Dickey’s heart is in consumer tech, and his company Gigster had pivoted to doing outsourced app development for enterprises instead of scrappy entrepreneurs. So today Dickey announced that he’d left his role as Gigster CEO, with former VMware VP Christopher Keane who’d sold it his startup WaveMaker coming in to lead Gigster in October. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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3:20

UK startup veteran and investor Wendy Tan White joins...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/01/22

Wendy Tan White, a veteran of the U.K. startup scene — including founding SaaS website builder Moonfruit, which exited to Yell Group for $37 million — is joining Alphabet X (formerly Google X), TechCrunch has learned. According to sources, Tan White was approached by Google late last year, as she weighed up a number of other options, including raising a VC fund of her own dedicated to “deep tech”. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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6:03

Following a record year, Illinois startups kick off...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/01/21

Jason Rowley Contributor Jason Rowley is a venture capital and technology reporter for Crunchbase News. More posts by this contributor SoftBank’s Vision Fund inches closer to $100B The top 10 cities for $100M VC rounds in 2018 so far Illinois’s startup market in 2018 was very strong, and it’s not slowing down as we settle into 2019. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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4:20

Alation announces $50M Series C investment as data...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/01/21

Alation, a startup that helps crawl a company’s databases in order to build a data search catalogue, announced a $50 million Series C investment today. The round was led by Sapphire Ventures and Salesforce Ventures. Existing investors Costanoa Ventures, DCVC (Data Collective), Harmony Partners and Icon Venturesalso participated. Today’s investment brings the total raised to $82 million, according to Crunchbase data. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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3:09

Slack’s product chief is out ahead of direct listing

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/01/18

Slack is losing its chief product officer April Underwood ahead of a direct listing expected in 2019. Tamar Yehoshua, a long-time Google vice president, has been tapped to fill Underwood’s shoes as Slack’s new product chief. Underwood joined Slack, the provider of workplace communication tools, in 2015 as its head of platform after a five-year stint as Twitter’s director of product. She was promoted to the chief product role about 10 months ago. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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9:14

Squad is the new screensharing chat app everyone will...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/01/18

Squad could be the next teen sensation because it makes it easy to do nothing… together. Spending time with friends in the modern age often means just being on your phones next to each other, occasionally showing off something funny you found. Squad lets you do this even while apart, and that way of punctuating video chat might make it the teen girl “third place” like Fortnite is for adolescent boys. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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3:45

Techstars will build and launch startups with new...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/01/17

Similar to Y Combinator, early-stage technology startup accelerator Techstars has spent much of the last decade supporting and seeding innovative projects, including Plated, ClassPass, SendGrid and PillPack. Now, it wants to take its service a step further. Today, Techstars is announcing the launch of Techstars Studio, a new venture that will have the accelerator developing and launching venture-scale businesses with the support of several corporate partners. Learn more about your ad choices

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