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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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7:04

YC-backed Upsolve is automating bankruptcy for everyone

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/01/17

The popular image of a Chapter 7 bankruptcy might be a large company like Enron failing, or maybe some lazy drifter trying to shirk their financial responsibilities. The reality is anything but those sorts of images. Today in America, the most common reason for bankruptcy is to discharge egregious sums of medical debt [1], which might have been incurred in a short stint in a hospital emergency room. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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4:19

For $5,800 per year, Chief helps women reach the C-suite

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/01/16

For decades, women in business have lacked the resources necessary to navigate to or sustain executive roles. Finally, venture-funded projects have emerged to fill this gap. The latest is Chief, a private network for New York-based women in senior roles intech, retail, enterprise, finance, media and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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4:05

Opendoor competitor Knock raises $400M

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/01/16

Home trade-in platform Knock has brought in a $400 million investment to accelerate a national expansion and double its 100-person headcount. Foundry Group has led the Series B funding round in New York-based Knock, with participation from Company Ventures and existing investors RRE Ventures, Corazon Capital, WTI and FJ Labs .Knock co-founder and chief executive officer Sean Black declined to disclose the startup’s valuation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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5:55

Startups Weekly: Will Trump ruin the unicorn IPOs of...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/01/14

The government shutdown entered its 21st day on Friday, upping concerns of potentially long-lasting impacts on the U.S. stock market. Private market investors around the country applauded when Uberfinallyfiled documents with the SEC to go public. Others were giddy to hear Lyft, Pinterest, Postmates and Slack (via a direct listing, according to the latest reports) were likely to IPO in 2019, too. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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2:23

Elon Musk shows off the assembled Starship test rocket

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/01/14

After weeks teasing renderings and production photos, Elon Musk finally showed off the finished Starship test rocket last night. Starship test flight rocket just finished assembly at the @SpaceX Texas launch site. This is an actual picture, not a rendering. pic.twitter.com/k1HkueoXaz — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 11, 2019 As you can well see, the Starship test rocket has a stainless steel skin, which had a few people scratching their heads. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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7:03

Meet Caper, the AI self-checkout shopping cart

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/01/11

The Amazon boogie-man has every retailer scrambling for ways to fight back. But the cost and effort to install cameras all over the ceiling or into every shelf could block stores from entering the autonomous shopping era. Caper Labs wants to make eliminating checkout lines as easy as replacing their shopping carts while offering a more familiar experience for customers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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6:27

Uber’s IPO may not be as eye-popping as we expected

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/01/11

Uber is expected to raise $10 billion later this year in one of the largest U.S. initial public offerings in history. The float will value the ride-hailing giant somewhere between $76 billion — the valuation it garnered with its last private financing — and $120 billion — a sky-high figure assigned by Wall Street bankers that’s had even early Uber investors scratching their heads. A new report from The Information pegs Uber’s initial market cap at $90 billion. Learn more about your ad choices

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3:39

Daily Crunch: Well Facebook, you did it again

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/01/10

The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe here: 1. Facebook is the new crapware Well Facebook, you did it again. Fresh off its latest privacy scandal, the troubled social media giant has inked a deal with Android to pre-install its app on an undisclosed number of phones and make the software permanent. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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4:00

Daily Crunch: The age of quantum computing is here

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/01/09

The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe here: 1.IBM unveils its first commercial quantum computer The 20-qubit system combines the quantum and classical computing parts it takes to use a machine like this for research and business applications into a single package. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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5:41

Hire faster, work happier: Startups target employment...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/01/08

Joanna Glasner Contributor More posts by this contributor Robot couriers scoop up early-stage cash Bots replacing office workers drive big valuations If you have a job today, there’s a good chance you personally reached out to your employer and interviewed with other humans to get it. Now that you’ve been there a while, it’s also likely the workday feels more like a long slog than the fulfilling career move you had envisioned. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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4:08

Daily Crunch: Nvidia breaks with tradition at CES 2019

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/01/08

The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe here: 1. Nvidia launches the $349 GeForce RTX 2060 Nvidia broke with tradition and put a new focus on gaming at CES. Last night the company unveiled the RTX 2060, a $349 low-end version of its new Turing-based desktop graphics cards. The RTX 2060 will be available on Jan. 15. 2. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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4:40

Startups Weekly: VCs celebrate the new year the only...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/01/07

Venture capitalists swore in the new year the only way they know how… by submitting SEC paperwork for new funds! insert party hat/confetti emoji here. As many of us brainstormed our New Year’s resolutions and let our hangovers wear off, several firms began this week what for some is a long and arduousprocess of raising a VC fund and for others is as simple as a few phone calls to LPs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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3:18

Moesif raises $3.5M seed round to provide insight...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/01/07

Today, many companies provide developer access to their services via APIs.Moesif, a San Francisco startup, wants to help these companies gain insight into their customer’s API usage patterns. Today, the company announced a $3.5 million seed round. The investment was led by Merus Capital with participation by Heavybit, Fresco Capital and Zach Coelius, who sold his startup, Cruise Automation, to General Motors for $1 billion in 2016. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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5:27

NYSE operator’s crypto project Bakkt brings in $182M

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2019/01/02

The Intercontinental Exchange’s (ICE) cryptocurrency projectBakkt celebrated New Year’s Eve with the announcement of a $182.5 million equity round from a slew of notable institutional investors. ICE, the operator of several global exchanges, including the New York Stock Exchange, established Bakkt to build a trading platform that enables consumers and institutions to buy, sell, store and spend digital assets. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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4:05

Samsara banks $100M at a $3.6B valuation for its...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2018/12/31

Sensor data platform Samsara confirmed this morning that it had closed a new round of funding from existing investors Andreessen Horowitz and General Catalyst that values the startup at $3.6 billion. The news was first reported by Cheddar, which spotted a filing with the state of Delaware on December 21 disclosing Samsara’s intent to raise a $100 million round at more than double the valuation it garnered upon its $50 million Series Dthis March. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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