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4:01

Box acquires Butter.ai to make search smarter

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2018/07/11

Box announced today that it has acquired Butter.ai, a startup that helps customers search for content intelligently in the cloud. The terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the Butter.AI team will be joining Box. Butter.AI was started by two ex-Evernote employees, Jack Hirsch and Adam Walz. The company was partly funded by Evernote founder and former CEO Phil Libin’s Turtle Studios. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:35

Shoe startups aren’t dragging their feet

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2018/07/09

Joanna Glasner Contributor More posts by this contributor Hydrate, intoxicate, caffeinate, repeat: Meet the startups pouring the future VCs serve up a large helping of cash to startups disrupting food Good thing Carrie Bradshaw, the shoe-loving heroine of Sex and the City, wasn’t a footwear venture capitalist. The high-heeled, high-priced and hard-to-walk-in pairs beloved by the TV icon are pretty much the least fundable concept in the shoe startup space lately. Learn more about

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3:07

Joseph Lubin, Amanda Gutterman and Sam Cassatt from...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2018/07/09

There is perhaps no firm that has done as much to promote the adoption of Ethereum as the dominant cryptocurrency platform for actual product development as Consensys. Founded by Ethereum Foundation co-founder Joe Lubin, Consensys has emerged as an investor, accelerator, educator and product developer in its own right in little more than three years that it has been in existence. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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3:15

YC-backed Buttermilk brings easy-to-prepare Indian...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2018/07/06

When Mitra Raman went off to college, all she wanted was a bowl of her mother’s homemade rasam. The daughter of Indian immigrants, Raman grew up eating traditional South Indian cuisine almost every day, but didn’t quite know how to make it just like mom when she left home. On her next visit back home, she told her mom she missed her cooking. And, being a mom, Mrs. Raman simply packed all the ingredients for rasam in a plastic bag and told her daughter to heat up some water and add it in. Learn more

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4:31

Airbnb tests earlier payouts for hosts

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2018/07/04

Airbnb is testing a new payments feature for hosts, letting them get partially paid out at the time of booking. This feature isn’t rolling out to everyone just yet, as Airbnb says that this is just a preliminary test to gauge interest. Invited hosts simply opt-in to payout splitting to check out the feature. Here’s how it works: Normally, Airbnb hosts are paid 24 hours after their guest’s scheduled check-in time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:59

Hydrate, intoxicate, caffeinate, repeat: Meet the...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2018/07/03

Joanna Glasner Contributor More posts by this contributor VCs serve up a large helping of cash to startups disrupting food US startups off to a strong M&A run in 2018 These days, it seems like everyone with extra cash has some kind of pricey drinking habit. It might be fine wine, craft beer or cocktails. Or it could come in the form of coconut water, cold-pressed juice or the latest frothy caffeinated concoction. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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4:26

Original Stitch’s new Bodygram will measure your body

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2018/07/03

After years of teasing, Original Stitch has officially launched their Bodygram service and will be rolling it out this summer. The system can scan your body based on front and side photos and will create custom shirts with your own precise measurements. “Bodygram gives you full body measurements as accurate as taken by professional tailors from just two photos on your phone. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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5:21

Facebook is buying UK’s Bloombury AI to ramp up...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2018/07/02

Perhaps rightly, there has long been a perception that Google-owned Deepmind has been the most aggressive in hoovering up a lot of the U.K.’s best talent in artificial intelligence, but now Facebook appears to be turning its eye to the country. TechCrunch understands that the social network behemoth is acquiring London-based Bloomsbury AI, a startup that has built natural language processing (NLP) technology to help machines answer questions based on information gleaned from documents. Learn more

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3:59

Leena AI builds HR chat bots to answer policy...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2018/07/02

Say you have a job with a large company and you want to know how much vacation time you have left, or how to add your new baby to your healthcare. This usually involves emailing or calling HR and waiting for an answer, or it could even involve crossing multiple systems to get what you need. Leena AI, a member of the Y Combinator Summer 2018 class, wants to change that by building HR bots to answer question for employees instantly. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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5:32

Instead of points, Bumped gives equity in the...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2018/06/29

What does brand loyalty even mean anymore? App downloads, points, stars, and other complex reward systems have not just spawned their own media empires trying to decipher them, they have failed at their most basic objective: building a stronger bond between a brand and its consumers. Bumped wants to reinvent the loyalty space by giving consumers shares of the companies they shop at. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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4:20

BigID scores $30 million Series B months after...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2018/06/28

BigID announced a big $30 million Series B round today, which comes on the heels of closing their $14M A investment in January. It’s been a whirlwind year for the NYC data security startup as GDPR kicked in and companies came calling for their products. The round was led by Scale Venture Partners with participation from previous investors ClearSky Security, Comcast Ventures, Boldstart Ventures, Information Venture Partners and SAP.io. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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4:17

YC grad ZenProspect rebrands as Apollo, lands $7 M...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2018/06/27

ZenProspect, a startup that emerged from the Y Combinator Winter 2016 class to help companies use data and intelligence to increase sales, announced today that it was rebranding as Apollo. It also announced a $7 million Series A investment. The round was led by Nexus Venture Partners. Social Capital and Y Combinator also participated. Apparently Y Combinator liked what they saw enough to continue to invest in the company. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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4:28

Celonis scores $50 million Series B on $1B valuation

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2018/06/26

In the age of digital transformation, it’s important to understand your business processes and find improvements quickly, but it’s not always easy to do without bringing in expensive consultants to help. Celonis, a New York City enterprise startup, created a sophisticated software solution to help solve this problem, and today it announced a $50 million Series B investment from Accel and 83North on a $1 billion valuation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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20:17

Open source sustainability

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2018/06/26

Open source sustainability has been nothing short of an oxymoron. Engineers around the world pour their sweat and frankly, their hearts into these passion projects that undergird all software in the modern internet economy. In exchange, they ask for nothing in return except for recognition and help in keeping their projects alive and improving them. It’s an incredible movement of decentralized voluntarism and represents humanity at its best. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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22:31

Are scooter startups really worth billions?

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2018/06/25

It’s been hard to miss the scooter startup wars opening fresh, techno-fueled rifts in Valley society in recent months. Another flavor of ride-sharing steed which sprouted seemingly overnight to clutter up sidewalks — drawing rapid-fire ire from city regulators apparently far more forgiving of traffic congestion if it’s delivered in the traditional, car-shaped capsule. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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3:14

Sphero acquires a music education startup

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2018/06/25

It’s hard to say precisely how Sphero’s pivot to education is going in these early stages, but it recently got an infusion of funding and is already out acquiring new startups. The BB-8 maker announced this morning that it’s picked up Specdrumsâ€‹ — the fellow Boulder, Co-based startup is a Kickstarter success story that lets users create music with an app connected ring. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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3:18

Urban Airship raises another $25M

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2018/06/22

Urban Airship has raised $25 million in Series F funding. The company started out as a platform supporting push notifications, but has since expanded to include other marketing channels like email, SMS, mobile wallets and voice assistants. The goal is to be the platform managing messaging and unifying customer data across all these channels. Altogether, Urban Airship said it’s now delivered more than two trillion messages, doubling the number from a year ago. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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8:42

Why startups can’t afford to ignore customer retention

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2018/06/20

Venture-backed companies must walk the line between fast growth and efficient growth. Even as VCs value high-quality revenue, companies are still held to a minimum growth rate. We think of this threshold as the “Mendoza Line,” a baseball term we’ve adapted to track the minimum growth needed to get access to venture funding. Above this line, startups are generally attractive to investors and even have a good chance for a strong exit. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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5:17

Lyft’s app code reveals unlaunched bike or scooter...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2018/06/20

Lyft hasn’t acquired a bike-sharing startup or gotten a scooter permit yet, but it’s already preparing its app for them with a feature codenamed “last mile”. Code and screenshots dug out of Lyft’s Android app reveal a way to search a map for last mile vehicles, and scan a QR code or enter a pin to unlock them. These materials come to TechCrunch from Jane Manchun Wong, who’s recently established herself as a prolific app code investigator. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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4:30

SpeakSee makes it simple for a deaf person to join a...

TechCrunch Startup News ·

2018/06/19

There’s a great deal of activity in the fields of speech recognition and the “Internet of Things,” but one natural application of the two has gone relatively unpursued: helping the deaf and hard of hearing take part in everyday conversations. SpeakSee aims to do this (after crowdfunding, naturally) with a clever hardware design that minimizes setup friction and lets everyone communicate naturally. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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