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4:21

VMware acquires CloudHealth Technologies for...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2018/08/28

VMware is hosting its VMworld customer conference in Las Vegas this week, and to get things going it announced that its acquiring Boston-based CloudHealth Technologies. They did not disclose the terms of the deal, but Reuters is reporting the price is $500 million. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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11:27

Rebuilding employee philanthropy from the bottom up

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2018/08/27

In tech circles, it would be easy to assume that the world of high-impact charitable giving is a rich man’s game where deals are inked at exclusive black tie galas over fancy hors d’oeuvre.Both Mark Zuckerberg and Marc Benioff have donated to SF hospitals that now bear their names. Gordon Moore has given away $5B – including $600M to Caltech – which was the largest donation to a university at the time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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4:34

Housing startup Bungalow raises $14 million Series A...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2018/08/24

Moving to a new city can be tough for a number of reasons, but what’s arguably hardest about moving is a competitive and expensive housing market, and lack of a pre-existing social support network. That’s the problem startup Bungalow is trying to solve. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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4:20

Nylas scores $16M Series B to expand email API tool

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2018/08/24

Nylas, a startup that helps developers integrate email content into applications via an API, announced a $16 million Series B today led by Spark Capital. Other investors joining in included Slack Fund, Industry Ventures, and ScaleUp along with existing investors 8VC, Great Oaks Capital, Rubicon Capital and John Chambers’ personal fund. Today’s investment brings the total raised to $30 million. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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4:27

Foundries.io promises standardized open source IoT...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2018/08/23

IoT devices currently lack a standard way of applying security. It leaves consumers, whether business or individuals, left to wonder if their devices are secure and up-to-date. Foundries.io, a company that launched today, wants to change that by offering a standard way to secure devices and deliver updates over the air. “Our mission is solving the problem of IoT and embedded space where there is no standardized core platform like Android for phones,” Foundries. Learn more about your ad choices

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4:18

Talla builds a smarter customer knowledge base

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2018/08/22

Talla is taking aim at the customer service industry with its latest release, an AI-infused knowledge base. Today, the company released version 2.0 of the Talla Intelligent Knowledge Base. The company also announced that Paula Long, most recently CEO at Data Gravity, has joined the company as SVP of engineering. This tool combines customer content with automation, chatbots and machine learning. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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3:51

Semmle, startup that makes code searchable, hauls in...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2018/08/22

Semmle, a startup that originally spun out of research at Oxford, announced a $21 million Series B investment today led by Accel Partners. It marked the second time Accel has led an investment in the company. Other investors include Work-Bench, Capital One, Credit Suisse, Google, Microsoft, NASA and Nasdaq Trust. Today’s investment brings the total to $31 million. Semmle has warranted this kind of interest by taking a unique approach to finding vulnerabilities in code. Learn more about your ad

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8:27

Titan launches its mobile ‘not a hedge fund’

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2018/08/21

What Robinhood did to democratize buying individual stocks, Titan wants to do for investing in a managed portfolio. Instead of being restricted to rich accredited investors willing to pour $5,000 or even $500,000 into a traditional hedge fund that charges 2 percent fees and 20 percent of profits, Titan lets anyone invest as little as $1,000 for just a 1 percent fee while keeping all the profits. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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5:50

Incentivai launches to simulate how hackers break...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2018/08/20

Cryptocurrency projects can crash and burn if developers don’t predict how humans will abuse their blockchains. Once a decentralized digital economy is released into the wild and the coins start to fly, it’s tough to implement fixes to the smart contracts that govern them. That’s why Incentivai is coming out of stealth today with its artificial intelligence simulations that test not just for security holes, but for how greedy or illogical humans can crater a blockchain community. Learn more about

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4:36

Klarity uses AI to strip drudgery from contract review

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2018/08/20

Klarity, a member of the Y Combiner 2018 Summer class, wants to automate much of the contract review process by applying artificial intelligence, specifically natural language processing. Company co-founder and CEO Andrew Antos has experienced the pain of contract reviews first hand. After graduating from Harvard Law, he landed a job spending 16 hours a day reviewing contract language, a process he called mind-numbing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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4:36

Credit Karma acquires mortgage platform Approved

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2018/08/17

Credit Karma, the service best known for providing free credit score monitoring and other financial advice(mostly to millennials), is getting into the mortgage business. The company today announced that it has acquired Approved, a mortgage platform that brings modern technology to a process that even today often still involves faxing documents back and forth. The companies did not disclose the financial details of the transaction. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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6:45

Shelf Engine uses machine learning to stop food waste...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2018/08/17

Shelf Engine’s team While running Molly’s, the Seattle-based ready meal wholesaler he founded, Stefan Kalb was upset about its 28 percent food wastage rate. Feeling that the amount was “astronomical,” he began researching how to lower it — and was shocked to discovered Molly’s was actually outperforming the industry average. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:03

To fight the scourge of open offices, ROOM sells rooms

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2018/08/16

Noisy open offices don’t foster collaboration, they kill it, according to a Harvard study that found the less-private floor plan led to a 73 percent drop in face-to-face interaction between employees and a rise in emailing. The problem is plenty of young companies and big corporations have already bought into the open office fad. But a new startup called ROOM is building a prefabricated, self-assembled solution. It’s the Ikea of office phone booths. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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7:29

Owl raises $10 million for two-way car dashboard camera

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2018/08/16

Owl, the two-way dash cam founded by a team of ex-Apple and Dropcam executives, has secured a $10 million Series A1 round led by Canvas Ventures. This brings Owl’s total funding to $28 million. “We’ve seen a lot of pent-up demand for car security, and Owl is tapping into that demand with a product that’s easy to install and use,” Canvas Ventures General Partner Rebecca Lynn said in a statement. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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6:17

“Unhackable” BitFi crypto wallet has been hacked

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2018/08/15

The BitFi crypto wallet was supposed to be unhackable and none other than famous weirdo John McAfee claimed that the device – essentially an Android-based mini tablet – would withstand any attack. Spoiler alert: it couldn’t. First, a bit of background. The $120 device launched at the beginning of this month to much fanfare. It consisted of a device that McAfee claimed contained no software or storage and was instead a standalone wallet similar to the Trezor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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5:11

HQ Trivia downloads spiral downward as it hits Apple TV

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2018/08/15

HQ Trivia’s app store ranking has continued to sink the past three months, but it’s hoping a new version on your television could revitalize growth. HQ today launched an Apple TV app that lets users play the twice-daily live quiz game alongside iOS Android players. “Everything about the game is still the same – same questions, same time, same rules” says a spokesperson, except you’ll play with the Apple TV remote instead of their phone’s screen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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18:10

Openbook is the latest dream of a digital life beyond...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2018/08/14

As tech’s social giants wrestle with antisocial demons that appear to be both an emergent property of their platform power, and a consequence of specific leadership and values failures (evident as theypublicly failto enforce even the standards they claim to have), there are still people dreaming of a better way. Of social networking beyond outrage-fuelled adtech giants like Facebook and Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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11:49

Startups should read this checklist before they go...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2018/08/14

David Frankel Contributor David Frankel is a managing partner at Founder Collective. More posts by this contributor You earn a million dollars a year and can’t get funded? Dear auto entrepreneurs, please think outside the gearbox A top-four tech company recently approached the CEO of one of our B2B portfolio companies with a tremendous offer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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3:11

Google isn’t sure how to spell “Fortnite Battle Royale”

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2018/08/13

The launch of Fortnite Battle Royale has left Google in a slight predicament. While Google is in no way hard up for cash, Fortnite Battle Royale for Android certainly represented the potential for a relatively big revenue stream for an app. That is, until Epic Games decided it would launch Fortnite for Android from its own website, circumventing the Play Store. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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4:41

Federacy wants to put bug bounty programs in reach of...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2018/08/13

Federacy, a member of the Y Combinator Summer 2018 class, has a mission to make bug bounty programs available to even the smallest startup. Traditionally, bug bounty programs from players like BugCrowd and HackerOne have been geared toward larger organizations. While these certainly have their place, founders William and James Sulinski, who happen to be twins, felt there was a gap in the marketplace, where smaller organizations were being left out of what they considered to be a crucial

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