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3:20

HoneyLove looks to reinvent shapewear

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2018/07/25

Betsie Larkin spent the first ten years of her professional career as an EDM artist. She released two solo albums, toured five continents and worked with the likes of Armin van Buuren and Ferry Corsten. But after being constantly frustrated by shapewear she wore under her stage outfits, she felt compelled to try her hand at a new industry. That’s how HoneyLove was born. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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3:46

YC-backed Send Reality makes 3D virtual walkthroughs...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2018/07/25

The fields of computer vision and VR are difficult. But a new company, Send Reality, is entering the race. The Y Combinator-backed company is looking to offer full 3D-modeling for virtual walkthroughs of real estate listings. Founder and CEO Andrew Chen said he was the kid back in middle school and high school that spent hours walking around the streets of Paris, NYC and SF on Google Streetview. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:03

Doughbies’ cookie crumbles in a cautionary tale of...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2018/07/24

Doughbies should have been a bakery, not a venture-backed startup. Founded in the frothy days of 2013 and funded with $670,000 by investors including 500 Startups, Doughbies built a same-day cookie delivery service. But it was never destined to be capable of delivering the returns required by the VC model that depends on massive successes to cover the majority of bets that fail. The startup became the butt of jokes about how anything could get funding. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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7:10

While tech waffles on going public, biotech IPOs boom

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2018/07/24

For people who make investment decisions based on revenues and projected earnings, biotech IPOs are kind of a non-starter. Not only are new market entrants universally unprofitable, most have zero revenue. Going public is mostly a means to raise money for clinical trials, with red ink expected for years to come. That pattern may be one reason the venture capital press,Crunchbase Newsincluded, tends to devote a disproportionately small portion of coverage to biotech IPOs. Learn more about your ad

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10:13

What should competitive Fortnite look like?

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2018/07/23

Last weekend, Epic Games put forth its first true effort at official competitive Fortnite Battle Royale. It was a disaster. The private hosts used for the tournament were about as laggy as could be, with pro players getting eliminated simply because they couldn’t move. This tournament was for a total prize of $250K. That’s big money, and big frustration for pro players who were essentially eliminated by the whims of the server gods. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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6:07

Even raises $40m to transform the working class to...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2018/07/23

The working class of the United States doesn’t get many breaks these days. It’s not just a function of low pay and long hours, but also the incredible uncertainty of income and expenses that makes surviving week-to-week so challenging. One in five Americans have a negative net wealth, even in an economy where the unemployment rate is the lowest in almost two decades. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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2:49

Sinemia drops prices for its movie ticket...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2018/07/20

Sinemia drops prices for its movie ticket subscriptions, which now start a $3.99 per month MoviePass competitor Sinemia is lowering prices on the already low-cost movie ticket subscription plans that it introduced earlier this year. Its monthly prices are being cut by $1 across-the-board. The cheapest plan now costs $3.99 per month, which gets you one standard movie ticket for that month. The priciest one, which covers three tickets (and includes 3D, 4D and IMAX screens), now costs $13.99 per

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3:43

PureSec exits stealth to secure serverless code

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2018/07/20

PureSec, a startup out of Israel emerged from stealth today to provide a way to make serverless computing more secure. Serverless computing reduces programming to writing functions, so that when a certain event happens, it triggers an automated action. The cloud vendor takes care of the underlying infrastructure and developers just write the code. It may sound like Shangri La for tech, but in reality there are still security concerns. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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5:30

Y Combinator to give $10K to 100 grads of its online...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2018/07/19

Y Combinator wants to lure more companies into the funnel for its accelerator whiledemocratizing free access to startup knowledge. It’s simultaneously moving up and down market to conquer the acceleration space, with both its recent Series A program for more mature startups, and $1 million in grants for high potential founders extra-early stage online course. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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3:27

Kik launches beta product after $100 million ICO

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2018/07/19

Kik made waves last year after a successful $100 million ICO. Now the company has released its first beta product related to its Kin token. Called Kinit, it’s a simple wallet that enables users to earn, store, and spend its tokens. “Kinit is a fun, easy way to earn Kin, a new cryptocurrency made for your digital life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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5:09

Ocean Solutions Accelerator names its first wave of...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2018/07/18

Early this year the Sustainable Oceans Alliance announced that it would be starting its own accelerator with a focus on conservation. The nonprofit has just announced the Ocean Solutions Accelerator’s first wave of startups: a particularly varied and international lineup that’s easy to root for. You may also remember that the SOA was one of the beneficiaries of the mysterious Pineapple Fund, administered by a mysterious cryptocurrency multimillionaire. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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5:21

Meetup CEO Scott Heiferman moves into Chairman role

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2018/07/18

Scott Heiferman, Meetup CEO and cofounder, is today moving into the Chairman role at the community-building startup. Meetup launched in 2003 with a simple goal: to give communities an easy way to meet up in real life. Since, the company has grown to 40 million members, with 320,000 Meetup groups and around 12,000 Meetups per day around the world. Late last year, WeWork acquired Meetup for a reported $200 million. According to WeWork, thousands of Meetups were already happening in WeWork

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3:43

Online learning platform Unacademy gets $21M Series C...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2018/07/17

Unacademy founders Roman Saini, Gaurav Munjal and Hemesh Singh Bangalore-based Unacademy will add more educators to its online learning platform, which claims to be India’s largest, after closing a $21 million Series C. The funding comes from Sequoia India, SAIF Partners and Nexus Venture Partners, with participation from Blume Ventures (all four firms are returning from Unacademy’s Series B last year). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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6:14

0x lets any app be the Craigslist of cryptocurrency

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2018/07/17

Centralized crypto exchanges like Coinbase are easy but expensive because they introduce a middleman. Not-for-profit project 0x allows any developer to quickly build their own decentralized cryptocurrency exchange and decide their own fees. It acts like Craigslist, connecting traders without ever holding the tokens itself. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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5:58

Furniture startups skip the showroom and go straight...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2018/07/16

Holden Page Contributor Share on Twitter Holden Page is an editor and journalist at Crunchbase News. Startups making delivery and transport easier than ever are a hit with venture capitalists, so it’s not a surprise that young tech companies delivering home staples — living room sets, dining room tables, couches and more — are raising big dollars. From 2010 through 2017, venture investors haveoutfittedU.S.-based furniture startups with a little over $1. Learn more about your ad choices

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3:49

Facial recognition startup Kairos acquires Emotion...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2018/07/16

Kairos, the face recognition technology used for brand marketing, has announced the acquisition of EmotionReader. EmotionReader is a Limerick, Ireland-based startup that uses algorithms to analyze facial expressions around video content. The startup allows brands and marketers to measure viewers emotional response to video, analyze viewer response via an analytics dashboard, and make different decisions around media spend based on viewer response. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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11:42

Is insurance a rich enough game to disrupt?

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2018/07/13

Martha Notaras Contributor Martha Notaras is a partner at XL Innovate. For the last decade, the largest technology companies have increasingly looked outside of tech to grow their operations. From automotive to retail to groceries, these companies use massive competitive advantages in the form of data, consumer relationships and software engineers to fundamentally change markets. Now, companies like Apple and Google and Amazon are eyeing innovation across the insurance landscape. Learn more

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3:38

Medical care scheduling startup Doctolib acquires...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2018/07/13

What do you do when you’ve raised nearly $100 million and you want to grow as quickly as possible? In Doctolib’s case, the startup is acquiring its main competitor MonDocteur. Together, the two companies work with tens of thousands of doctors and get tens of millions of unique visitors every month. Doctolib has developed an online scheduling platform for all sorts of doctors, from your physician next door to the hospital in the big city. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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9:19

Xara Cloud is an easy to use design tool to help...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2018/07/12

Xara Cloud is an easy to use design tool to help businesses create better looking content Xara is on a mission to help businesses create better looking content, and in turn save us all from having to consume visually unappealing marketing and comms material. The German startup has developed Xara Cloud, a design tool that resides in the cloud and attempts to bridge the gap between professional design and business content created by non-design professionals. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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4:18

Codefights becomes CodeSignal and launches a new...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2018/07/11

CodeFights started out as a competitive coding platform but has since morphed to focus more on interview prep and helping business recruit developers. To better reflect this focus, the service today announced that it is changing its name to CodeSignal. In addition to this, the company also today officially launched its Coding Score, a credit score-like ratings system for developers with scores that — just like today’s credit scores — range from 300 to 850. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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