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TechCrunch Startup News

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3:49

Blissfully grabs $3.5 million seed investment to help...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2018/08/10

Blissfully, a New York City startup that helps companies understand their SaaS usage inside their organizations, announced it has received a $3.5 million seed round. The investment was led by by Hummer Winblad Venture Partners. Hubspot, Founder Collective, and several unnamed pre-seed investors also participated. They got a $1.5 million pre-seed investment, bringing the total so far to $5 million, according the company. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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4:53

Blippar is using AR to help customers find their way...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2018/08/10

Blippar is using AR to help customers find their way indoors Remember the scene in Minority Report where Tom Cruz walks through the mall and thousands of holographic ads pop up around him? That reality may not be as far off as we thought. Blippar, the augmented reality startup that launched back in 2011, is today announcing the launch of a new product that would let retailers, airports, commercial real estate owners, etc. place augmented reality content across their space. Learn more about your ad

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4:19

Evolute debuts enterprise container migration and...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2018/08/09

Evolute, a 3-year old startup out of Mountain View, officially launched the Evolute platform today with the goal of helping large organizations migrate applications to containers and manage those containers at scale. Evolute founder and CEO Kristopher Francisco says he wants to give all Fortune 500 companies access to the same technology that big companies like Apple and Google enjoy because of their size and scale. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:26

Soundcloud on the blockchain? Audius raises $5.5M to...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2018/08/09

Audius wants to cut the middlemen out music streaming so artists get paid their fair share. Coming out of stealth today led by serial entrepreneur and DJ Ranidu Lankage, Audius is building a blockchain-based alternative to Spotify or SoundCloud. Users will pay for Audius tokens or earn them by listening to ads. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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4:53

Don’t fear the big company ‘kill zones’

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2018/08/08

Ed Byrne Contributor Share on Twitter Ed Byrne is an entrepreneur, investor and co-founder of Scaleworks. Do you worry about the so-called “kill zones” of big tech companies? The Economistthinks you should. The theory basically suggests that if your product or service is anyway threatening or accretive to one of these incumbents, they will either force-buy your company or clone it and destroy your market. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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3:10

Researchers teach an AI how to dribble

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2018/08/08

While this animated fellow looks like something out of NBA 2K18, it’s really an AI that’s learning how to dribble in real time. The AI starts out fumbling the ball a bit and by cycle 95 it is able to do some real Harlem Globetrotters stuff. In short, what you’re watching is a human-like avatar learning a very specialized human movement. To do this researchers at Carnegie Mellon and DeepMotion, Inc. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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6:57

Boston-area startups are on pace to overtake NYC...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2018/08/07

Joanna Glasner Contributor More posts by this contributor Home run exits happen stealthily for biotech While tech waffles on going public, biotech IPOs boom Boston has regained its longstanding place as the second-largest U.S. startup funding hub. After years of trailing New York City in total annual venture investment, Massachusetts is taking the lead in 2018. Venture investment in the Boston metro area hit $5. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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3:42

Epic Games sidesteps the Play Store with Fortnite for...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2018/08/06

Epic Games continues to spread the love… to consumers, at least. Following the launches of Fortnite Battle Royale on iOS earlier this year and Fortnite for the Nintendo Switch earlier this summer, Epic Games is now confirming that the Android version of the game will be available exclusively through the Fortnite website. Users can visit Fortnite.com and download the Fortnite Launcher, which will then allow them to load Fortnite Battle Royale onto their devices. Learn more about your ad choices

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2:26

Google Maps is no longer #flatearth

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2018/08/06

Go to Google Maps and zoom out. Halfway out, the map’s perspective changes from a traditional flat map view to an interactive globe. Zoom all the way out and the Earth is presented as a globe with landmasses of the appropriate size. Greenland is no longer the size of Africa and all is right with the world. On flat maps, it’s impossible to represent land mass size on a relative scale. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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3:33

Cisco is buying Duo Security for $2.35B in cash

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2018/08/03

Cisco today announced its intent to buy Ann Arbor, MI-based security firm, Duo Security. Under the terms of the agreement, Cisco is paying $2.35 billion in cash and assumed equity awards for Duo. Duo Security was founded in 2010 by Dug Song and Jonathan Oberheide and went on to raise $121.M through several rounds of funding. The company has 700 employees with offices throughout the United States and in London, though the company has remained headquartered in Ann Arbor, MI. Learn more about your ad

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4:08

Skyline AI raises $18M Series A for its machine...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2018/08/02

Skyline AI founders Iri Amirav, Or Hiltch, Guy Zipori and Amir Leitersdorf A mere four months after coming out of stealth mode with $3 million in seed funding, real estate investment startup Skyline AI announced that it has raised an $18 million Series A. The round was led by Sequoia Capital, a returning investor, and TLV Partners, with participation from JLL Spark, a division of real estate investment management firm JLL. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:40

Fashionably AI

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2018/08/02

This summer’s wedding season required me to buy a new suit. I vowed to be adventurous and buy a color I normally never would have considered. Alas, I opted for a little more movie-theater usher and a little less Jidenna. Had I known about it at the time, I probably would have used Eison Triple Thread, a company that specializes in creating made-to-order suits. Working with someone to create a suit can be a hard enough task. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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9:03

A pickaxe for the AI gold rush, Labelbox sells...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2018/08/01

Every artificial intelligence startup or corporate R&D lab has to reinvent the wheel when it comes to how humans annotate training data to teach algorithms what to look for. Whether it’s doctors assessing the size of cancer from a scan or drivers circling street signs in self-driving car footage, all this labeling has to happen somewhere. Often that means wasting six months and as much as a million dollars just developing a training data system. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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9:14

Tractable is applying AI to accident and disaster...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2018/07/31

“Happy to spend 10 minutes on our vision and the journey we’re on, but then, really, 15 minutes on what we’ve got today, what it is we’ve achieved, what it is our AI does,” says Tractable co-founder and CEO Alexandre Dalyac when I video called him a couple of weeks ago. “You can probably speed up all of that,” I quip back. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:26

Fabric offers an alternative to Facebook sharing with...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2018/07/31

Fabric, a personal journaling app that emerged from Y Combinator’s 2016 batch of startups, is relaunching itself as a Facebook alternative. The app is giving itself a makeover in the wake of Facebook’s closure of the Moves location tracker, by offering its own tool to record your activities, photos, memories and other moments shared with friends and family. But unlike on Facebook, everything in Fabric is private by default and data isn’t shared with marketers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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3:07

Facebook’s debacle, $100M rounds and Slack links up...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2018/07/30

Hello and welcome back toEquity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This was one hell of a week. Happily, we had our own Connie Loizos, Matthew Lynley, and Alex Wilhelm on hand, along with InitializedCapital’s Alexis Ohanian to pick over the mix. First up we had zero choice but to talk about Facebook. The social company’s epic repricing in the middle of the week blotted out the news sun. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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7:41

MentalHappy helps companies send custom care packages...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2018/07/27

For many people, their workplaces become like a second family. More companies are recognizing this with better benefits such as longer family leave and wellness programs. But when an employee needs to take a break or is going through a hard time, they can feel alienated–sometimes enough to seek a new job. MentalHappy wants to help them stay connected to their companies with care packages, called Cheerboxes, designed for people experiencing a major life event. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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4:07

Outlier raises $6.2 M Series A to change how...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2018/07/27

Traditionally, companies have gathered data from a variety of sources, then used spreadsheets and dashboards to try and make sense of it all. Outlier wants to change that and deliver a handful of insights that matter most for your job, company and industry right to your inbox. Today the company announced a $6.2 million Series A to further develop that vision. The round was led by Ridge Ventures with assistance from 11.2 Capital, First Round Capital, Homebrew, Susa Ventures and SV Angel. Learn more

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12:35

Zbiotics says it’s bioengineered a hangover cure

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2018/07/26

Y Combinator backedZbioticshas spend two years developing what they’re billing as theworld’s first genetically engineered probiotic. The startup’s initial product isn’t exactly world-changing but it might just save your day — given they’ve invented an elixir of ‘next day’ life: Aka a hangover cure. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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5:07

ClassPass works up $85 million Series D funding

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2018/07/26

ClassPass today announced the close of an $85 million Series D financing round led by Temasek, the same firm that led the startup’s Series C financing. L Catterton, a private equity firm that has also invested in the likes of Peloton, Equinox, and Pure Barre, also participated in the round. As part of the deal, L Catterton’s Michael Farello will join the ClassPass board. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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