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ClassPass, finally a unicorn, raises $285 million in new fundingClassPass launched in 2013 to give people an easier way to work out.
The company partners with boutique fitness studios, letting users search through that inventory and book a class all from their smartphone.Since launch, ClassPass has implemented several different business models, trying to find the right unit economics.
More recently, the company has introduced variable pricing — instead of users paying a monthly fee for three, five or 10 classes per month, they could use their virtual ClassPass currency to sign up for classes and pay based on the demand around those classes.2.
Sonos sues Google over alleged patent infringement on smart speaker techThe lawsuit specifically calls out Google for five alleged patent violations, including technologies that allow their speakers to wirelessly communicate and synchronize with each other.
Sonos also claims that Amazon is infringing on its IP, but that the company can only afford to take on one tech titan.3.
App Store customer spending hit record $1.42B from Christmas Eve through New Year’s EveApple this morning released a year-end retrospective of its Services business, which includes the App Store, Apple Music, iCloud and, new in 2019, Apple Arcade, Apple TV+, Apple News+ and Apple Card.
To date, App Store developers have earned more than $155 billion, Apple says — and a quarter of those earnings came in the last year alone.4.
Here’s everything Google announced at CES 2020Just about everything Google is showing off at CES 2020 is focused around the company’s voice-powered AI helper, Google Assistant, with new features like webpage reading, scheduled actions, sticky notes and speed dial.5.
What to expect in digital media in 2020As we start 2020, the media and entertainment sectors are in flux.
New technologies are enabling new types of content, streaming platforms in multiple content categories are spending billions in their fight for market share and the interplay between social platforms and media is a central topic of global political debate.
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Getaround is latest SoftBank portfolio company to announce layoffsThe Information, which first reported the news, pegs the layoffs at 150 employees, amounting to around a quarter of the company.
In the report, CEO Sam Zaid seemed to lay at least some of the blame for the layoffs on the effects of SoftBank’s recent struggles.7.
Ben Horowitz will explain how to create and sustain culture at TC Early Stage SFIn addition to authoring multiple books with practical advice for entrepreneurs, Horowitz sits on the boards of 14 portfolio companies, including Okta, Lyft, Foursquare, Genius, Medium and Databricks.
So there should be plenty to learn from him at TC Early Stage come April 28 in San Francisco.
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Grubhub said to explore sale in boon to Uber, DoorDash and others
Virtual Incision Corporation raises $20 million for its abdominal surgery robot
Daily Crunch: ClassPass becomes a unicorn
AvePoint lands $200M investment to expand market for Microsoft cloud governance tools
ClassPass, finally a unicorn, raises $285 million in new funding
Midnite raises $2.5M for its esports betting platform
Huami and Studio take on Peloton with the Amazfit HomeStudio treadmill
Roofstock, which makes it easier to buy a home as an investment property, just raised $50 million in new funding
Los Angeles-based Luxury Presence raised $5.4 million for its real estate marketing services
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Perch, now called Orchard, raises $36M to simplify home buying and selling
Quantum Machines launches its Quantum Orchestration Platform
Cloudflare acquires stealthy startup S2 Systems, announces Cloudflare for Teams
Union Square Ventures leads legal tech startup Juro?s $5M Series A
Study associates frequency, quality of monthly reports with startup success
The Guild, which turns apartments into short-term rentals, has nabbed $25 million in Series B funding
As NIO and Tesla rally, Chinese EV company Lixiang said to file for US IPO
FPV Robotics debuts Waver drone to inspect infrastructure on land, on water and in the air
Weber?s new Smart Grilling Hub uses June tech to make everyone a grillmaster
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BigID bags another $50M round as data privacy laws proliferate
CES awards cannabis company then bans it from mentioning cannabis when exhibiting
This startup just raised $7 million, led by Google, to authenticate people based on their typing style
2020 will be a challenging year for challenger banks
Startups Weekly: Oyo has issues + A farewell
Alphabet-backed primary care startup One Medical files to go public
Pachama launches to support global reforestation through carbon markets
Finding the right reporter to cover your startup
Online mortgage broker Trussle loses founding CEO
As Indian startups raise record capital, losses are widening
How two-year-old Loft nabbed $175M led by Andreessen Horowitz
Exhibit your startup at TC Sessions: Mobility 2020
Apply to present your startup at TechCrunch?s CES Pitch Night
Kicking off 2020 with 4 new members of the $100M ARR club
Lowkey.gg is an esports tournament platform for adult gamers
Trifo raises $15M, announces new robot vacuum
Airbnb?s New Year?s Eve guest volume shows its falling growth rate
Counting down Boston?s biggest venture rounds from 2019
InsightFinder gets a $2M seed to automate outage prevention
Shipfix raises $4.5M seed for its dry cargo shipping platform
In the shadow of Amazon and Microsoft, Seattle startups are having a moment
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Seed investors favor enterprise over consumer for first time this decade
2019 Africa Roundup: Jumia IPOs, China goes digital, Nigeria becomes fintech capital
Grab and Singtel team up to apply for a digital full bank license in Singapore
Indian tech startups raised a record $14.5B in 2019
2020 will be a big year for online childcare ? here are 7 startups to watch
Startups Weekly: 2019?s dead startups
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Report: ClassPass is hunting for unicorn status in a new funding round
The year of the French unicorns
Latin America Roundup: XP?s chart-topping IPO, Wildlife becomes a unicorn, SoftBank backs Konfio
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Pyka and its autonomous, electric crop-spraying drone land $11M seed round
Public investors loved SaaS stocks in 2019, and startups should be thankful
Rivian adds $1.3 billion in funding for its electric utility and adventure vehicles
Mastercard acquires security assessment startup, RiskRecon
Eddy Travels closes pre-seed round led by Techstars to scale its AI travel assistant
India?s HomeLane raises $30M to expand its one-stop shop for interior design
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TikTok?s national security scrutiny tightens as U.S. Navy reportedly bans popular social app
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Hardware IPOs continue to struggle
F5 acquires Shape Security for $1B
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Coral raises $4.3M to build an at-home manicure machine
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Ripple raises $200 million to improve global payments
Burst adds a super high-tech dental floss to its dental care offerings
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St. Louis-based Summersalt raises $17.3 million for its direct-to-consumer clothing line
SoftBank Vision Fund invests $275M in India?s Lenskart
Curve, the ?over-the-top? banking platform, launches ?Curve Send? for P2P payments in 25 currencies
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HaptX grabs $12 million to build a glove crammed with sensors
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Levelset raises $30 million to improve money management for contractors in construction
Leapfin raises $4.5M to help companies track revenue while keeping its own profitability in view
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Snackpass snags $21M to let you earn friends free takeout
Osano, a risk and compliance startup, raises $5M in Series A
Xilis believes cultivating micro-tumors may hold the key to more effective cancer treatments
Blacklane is on the road to building a profitable on-demand transportation platform
Mental health startup eQuoo joins UK?s NHS app library, closes in on seed round
Huel brings its nutrition bars to the US
Helsinki?s Speechly raises ?2M seed for its ?natural language understanding? API
Paige raises $45M more to map the pathology of cancer using AI
Philadelphia?s Jenzy has a tool to size kids? feet and a marketplace to buy them the right shoes
Political ?fixer? Bradley Tusk closes second fund on $70M
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Huckleberry raises $18M to put small business insurance online
Drone delivery startup Manna boosts seed funding ahead of launch in Ireland
Social ad company Smartly.io sells a majority stake to Providence Equity Partners
Jumpstart nabs $8.5M led by Sequoia for a recruitment platform that aims to increase diversity
#ANGELS founding partner raises $25M for debut fund Moxxie Ventures
SAP spinout Sapphire Ventures raises $1.4B for new investments
Can a wearable improve memory Humm raises $2.6 million so consumers can find out
Blindlee is Chatroulette for dating with a safety screen
Nigeria?s Rensource raises $20M to power African markets by solar
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Trialjectory uses self-reported clinical data to match cancer patients with clinical trials
Hugging Face raises $15 million to build the definitive natural language processing library
Uber doubles down on micromobility
EF?s Matt Wichrowski is joining Berlin enterprise and ?deeptech? seed firm Fly Ventures as partner
Oto snags $5.3M seed to use AI to understand voice intonation
Skyryse shows off end-to-end autonomous flight technology with helicopter demonstration
Pepper, founded by five Snap alums, has raised $5.6 million to help startups analyze their spend
San DiegoTrust Will raises $6 million for online estate planning
Anyscale, from the creators of the Ray distributed computing project, launches with $20.6M led by a16z
Automated web app testing startup ProdPerfect raises $13M Series A led by Anthos Capital
HackerRank acquires Mimir, an online platform for computer science courses
Satori Cyber raises $5.25M to help businesses protect their data flows
New media investment firm Attention Capital acquires Girlboss
Indian B2B food tech startup HungerBox raises $12M from Paytm and others
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Terradepth raises $8 million to build a fleet of autonomous deep-ocean data robots
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Arbe raises $32 million to bring its high-resolution radar to autonomous vehicles
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Building robotic safety inspectors nabs Gecko Robotics $40 million
Solve, the startup creating an interactive ‘Law Order& for social media, raises $20 million
Licious raises $30M to grow its meat and seafood e-commerce platform in India
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Chicago?s Sprout Social prices IPO mid-range at $17 per share, raising $150M
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Bluespace.ai, a startup focused on AV technology for mass transit, gets $3.5 million in seed funding
Sleek raises $5M to help companies incorporate and operate in Singapore and Hong Kong
Reliance Industries acquires a majority stake in SaaS startup NowFloats for $20M
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DataRobot is acquiring Paxata to add data prep to machine learning platform
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Robinhood lets you invest as little as 1 cent in any stock
Conductor execs buy their company back from WeWork
Atom Finance?s free Bloomberg Terminal rival raises $12M
GetYourGuide widens its horizons, will expand its Originals short tours into day trips and more
Glovo?s Sacha Michaud: ?I think there will be consolidation?
Yubo raises $12.3 million for its social app for teens
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Gtmhub raises $9M from CRV after posting 400% ARR growth in the last year
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Childcare benefits startup Kinside launches with $4 million from investors including Initialized Capital
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Arthur announces $3.3M seed to monitor machine learning model performance
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Albo raises $19M Series A to scale Mexico?s largest neobank
Hyperproof wants to make it easier to comply with GDPR and other regulations
Refocusing on relocation, Jobbatical launches new offices in Spain and Germany
Price insurance platform Stable protects farmers from price volatility
Clideo promises an easy way to make shoppable videos
Nodle crowdsources IoT connectivity
Larry Page?s secret war on the flu
Inovat modernizes tax reimbursement for streamlined international shopping
Hawa Dawa monitors air quality block-by-block to help cities make decisions
Accel and Index back Tines, as the cybersecurity startup adds another $11M to its Series A
Wefox, the Berlin-based insurtech, raises $110M Series B extension
Electric vehicle startup Nio lays off 141 employees at its North American headquarters
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Airbnb invests as Zeus corporate housing raises $55M at $205M
US VC investment in female founders hits all-time high
Instacart shoppers plan a series of actions in protest of company?s wage practices
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Singapore?s Neuron Mobility raises $18.5M to bring its electric scooters to more international markets
French e-grocery app Jow raises $7M additional funding
By Miles, the UK pay-by-mile car insurance app, adds ?connected car? policy for Tesla drivers
RaySecur, a mailroom security startup, raises $3M in seed funding
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Closing the race and gender funding gap
Reelgood raises $6.75 million for its universal streaming guide
Style Theory, a fashion rental startup in Southeast Asia, raises $15 million led by SoftBank Ventures Asia
Used-car marketplace Vroom nabs $254M to take its growth up a gear
New tweet generator mocks venture capitalists
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Einride to launch commercial pilot of driverless electric pods with Coca-Cola European Partners
Airbnb officially bans all open-invite parties and events
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Uniform Teeth raises $10 million for its teeth-straightening operations
Figma launches Auto Layout
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Volvo invests in autonomous vehicle operating system startup Apex.AI though its VC arm
Apostrophe raises $6 million to let you see a dermatologist from your phone
300M-user Imgur launches Melee, a gaming meme app
Setting politics aside, Sequoia raises $3.4 billion for US and China investments
Fronted, from former Bud, Monzo and Apple employees, wants to make life easier for renters
Postscript raises $4.5M to help Shopify shops stay connected with customers over SMS
SoftBank pours $100M into Mexico?s Konfio
Alfred Lin, the Sequoia VC and former Zappos COO, thinks this retail startup could be a generation-defining brand
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Rapyd, which offers fintech-as-a-service via a single API, adds $20M more to its coffers at a $1.2B valuation
Orbion partners with US Department of Defense on small satellite propulsion tech
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Podcorn connects advertisers with podcasters and manages sponsored messages in podcasts
Uberflip acquires SnapApp for smarter content targeting
Salv, the anti-money laundering startup founded by ex-TransferWise employees, picks up $2M seed
Mobility startup Damon Motors enters e-moto arena with EV debut
Credit startup Migo expands to Brazil on $20M raise and Africa growth
Xometry acquires European on-demand manufacturing marketplace Shift
Penta, the German business banking challenger, partners with SumUp to target offline businesses
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Atomico partner Tom Wehmeier reviews ?The State of European Tech? 2019 report
Kredivo?s parent firm FinAccel raises $90M to expand its credit lending platform in Southeast Asia
Fulcrum, which provides freelance placement opportunities for technical projects, raises $1 million
Diversity-focused VC fund Harlem Capital debuts with $40M
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Accel closes new $550M fund for India
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Zebra Fuel, the startup that brought fuel directly to your vehicle, is ?no longer? delivering in London
Foodvisor raises $4.5 million to track what you eat using AI
Bunq launches metal card and plants a tree for every ?100 spent
Revolut supports direct debits in the UK
Fabricnew app helps parents with the hard stuff, including wills, life insurance shared finances
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Former Facebookers take on Facebook
Cocoon?s social app for close friends gets VC backing to chase Path?s dream
Leading robotics VCs talk about where they?re investing
NYSE proposes big change to direct listings
Gorgias raises $14M to help e-commerce companies deliver faster (and more lucrative) customer service
Instagram founders join $30M raise for Loom work video messenger
Coralogix announces $10M Series A to bring more intelligence to logging
Vivun snags $3M seed round to bring order to pre-sales
Leavy.co, the app for millennials who want to rent out their room while travelling, discloses $14M funding
Omni storage rentals fails, shutters, sells engineers to Coinbase
Weekend Fund raises $10M for second early-stage fund
Devialet partners with Huawei for new speaker
Co-founder ?couples therapy? helps avoid company-killing pitfalls
Artiphon launches a Kickstarter campaign for its new musical device Orba
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Anti-money laundering software startup TookiTaki raises $11.7 million in additional Series A funding
Detectify raises additional ?21M for its ethical hacker network
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VTEX, an e-commerce platform used by Walmart, raises $140M led by SoftBank?s LatAm fund
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Bellman wants to simplify property management for residential buildings
OutVoice officially launches its freelancer payment tools
Camp Grounded Digital Detox returns after founder?s death
Keywee introduces a new Loyalty Score to help publishers reach the most valuable readers
Linear takes $4.2M led by Sequoia to build a better bug tracker and more
Splice teaches AI to sell Similar Sounds as users double
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MontyCloud raises $2.85 million for its cloud management platform
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Celonis, a leader in big data process mining for enterprises, nabs $290M on a $2.5B valuation
Route?s app auto-tracks all your packages, raises $12M
Wonderbly launches Wonderbly Studios to let other brands use its personalisation API for printed books
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Bandit opens a ?mobile-only? coffee shop in New York
VEnvirotech transforms organic waste into bioplastics
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Circ, the Berlin-based e-scooter company, makes layoffs following ?operational learnings?
Kleiner Perkins joins $25.5M funding led by Blockchain Capital for Bison Trails
Cheq raises another $16M to fight ad fraud
With echoes of Theranos, Truvian Sciences revives the dream of low-cost, accessible blood tests
Front announces Front Calendar to integrate scheduling with shared inboxes
Vouch raises $45M led by YC Continuity for business insurance that targets startups
WHILL brings its autonomous wheelchairs to North American airports
Inhabitr raises $4 million to let you rent furniture
Email app Spark receives update with new design
Tuesday Company acquires VoteWithMe as tech for politics looks to consolidate ahead of 2020
Brava, a smart oven maker with big names attached, just sold to an industrial equipment company
Gravitational nabs $25M Series A to ease cloud deployment with Kubernetes
Samasource raises $14.8M for global AI data biz driven from Africa
Starburst raises $22M to modernize data analytics with Presto
Remrise raises $8.2M to deliver tailored, plant-based sleep solutions
Vayyar nabs $109M for its ?4D? radar tech, which detects and tracks images while preserving privacy
Robinhood launches? UK waiting list
Lucence raises $20 million Series A for its non-invasive cancer screening technology
Luna is a new kind of space company helping biotech find its footing in microgravity
Clumio raises $135M Series C for its backup as a service platform
Give InKind?s smarter giving platform brings in surprise $1.5 million in pre-seed funding
Robotics startup Picnic, known for its automated pizza assembly system, raises $5 million
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SocialRank sells biz to Trufan, pivots to a mobile LinkedIn
Eden office management platform raises $25 million Series B
Angell is a smart bike with an integrated display
Perlego raises $9M Series A for its textbook subscription service
Playbuzz becomes Ex.co and expands its content marketing platform
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Luko raises $22 million to improve home insurance
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Weber?s new SmokeFire pellet grill uses June technology for smart cooking
SmartNews raises $92M at a $1.2B valuation
Ohi raises $2.75M to power same-day delivery for brands that aren?t Amazon
Bolt Bikes launches e-bike subscription platform for gig delivery workers in US, UK
Fertility startup Mojo wants to take the trial and error out of IVF
Elavon to acquire Sage Pay, a gateway that competes with Stripe, PayPal and Adyen, for $300M
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Heetch adds $4 million to its Series B round
Opera?s Africa fintech startup OPay gains $120M from Chinese investors
Three of Apple and Google?s former star chip designers launch NUVIA with $53M in series A funding
More layoffs at pivoting London ed tech startup pi-top
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VoltServer adds a data layer to electricity distribution in a move that could help smart grid rollout
Homeis adds community tools for Mexican immigrants
Recycling robots raise millions from top venture firms to rescue an industry in turmoil
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Backed by Serena Williams and Usain Bolt, Let?s Do This raises $15M from EQT
Punchh lands $40M to give physical retailers Amazon-style analytics
Fourteen years after launching, 1Password takes a $200M Series A
Moveworks snags $75M Series B to resolve help desk tickets with AI
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Eigen nabs $37M to help banks and others parse huge documents using natural language and ?small data?
Yodel.io is a digital receptionist for SMBs taking calls
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Social network for motherhood Peanut raises $5M, expands to include women trying to conceive
Indonesia?s Travelio raises $18M to help tenants rent apartments
Freshworks raises $150M Series H on $3.5B valuation
Techstars launches a virtual space tech accelerator with USAF, the Netherlands and Norway
Brave launches version 1.0 of its privacy-focused browser
JetPack Aviation raises $2M to build the prototype of its flying motorcycle
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Convoy raises $400 million to expand its on-demand trucking platform
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Plum, the ?AI? money management app, raises $3M more and comes to Android
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Chinese EV startup XPeng Motors raises $400 million, takes on Xiaomi as strategic investor
Work collaboration startup Notion Labs cozies up to Silicon Valley?s top accelerators
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Whoop, the sports tech and analytics company that makes discreet wearables, raises $55M
Uploadcare raises $1.7M for its CDN platform
Loop Returns picks up $10 million in Series A led by FirstMark Capital
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Nigeria?s Interswitch confirms $1B valuation after Visa investment
A16Z-backed Shift.org announces veterans hiring pipeline partnership with Better.com
OLX Group invests up to $400M in used car marketplace Frontier Car Group at $700M valuation
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Voi raises another $85M for its European e-scooter service
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Alpaca nabs $6M for stocks API so anyone can build a Robinhood
African logistics startup Lori Systems raises Series A led by Chinese investors
Badoo?s Andrey Andreev sells his stake in Bumble owner MagicLab to Blackstone, valuing the dating apps at $3B
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Sinclair leads $10.3M investment in rideshare advertising startup Octopus
Reonomy, a massive database of commercial property intel, raises $60M
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LogRocket lands $15M Series B, announces new tool to track customer metrics
Nightfall emerges from stealth with $20M for a cloud-native data loss prevention platform
Kepler achieves a world-first for satellite broadband with 100Mbps connection to the Arctic
Wrench?s on-demand vehicle repair and maintenance service picks up $20 million
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Real estate fintech platform Immo Investment Technologies raises ?11M Series A
Google Pay comes to Curve, the banking platform that consolidates all your cards into one
Solar-based ISP startup Tizeti launches 4G LTE network in Nigeria
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Wardrobe picks up $1.5 million for a new fashion rental marketplace
Professional network for women Elpha raises seed funding
Neural Magic gets $15M seed to run machine learning models on commodity CPUs
Investment platform eToro acquires crypto portfolio tracker app Delta
Cyber-skills platform Immersive Labs raises $40M in North America expansion
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FirstVet, the video veterinarian service, raises ?18.5M for international expansion
GoCardless partners with TransferWise to bring low-cost currency conversion to recurring payments
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Coveo raises US$172M at $1B+ valuation for AI-based enterprise search and personalization
Senegal?s NIMA Codes to launch address app in 15 African countries
Amperity acquires Custora to improve its customer data platform
Scanwell Health launches smartphone tests for UTIs in partnership with Lemonaid Health
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Medopad raises $25M led by Bayer to develop biomarkers tracked via apps and wearables
Gradeup raises $7M to expand its online exam preparation platform to smaller Indian cities and towns
Uber?s losses top $1 billion, trumping better than expected revenues
Workday to acquire online procurement platform Scout RFP for $540M
Goldman Sachs leads $50M round for credit card platform Deserve
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Venture capitalists ?like and subscribe? to influencers
Volterra announces $50M investment to manage apps in hybrid environment
Robocorp announces $5.6M seed to bring open-source option to RPA
Founder of language learning platform Babbel steps down as co-CEO to focus on board role
New York?s ERA invests in esports org Gen.G
Sumo Logic acquires JASK to fill security operations gap
A startup just launched red wine to the International Space Station to age for 12 months
Los Angeles-based Boulevard has raised $11 million for its software to manage salons and spas
Brazilian mobile phone insurance technology startup Pitzi is now worth over $100 million
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Curve, the ?over-the-top? banking platform, adds support for Samsung Pay
Max Q: SpaceX and Boeing gear up for commercial crew mission tests
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Los Angeles-based BuildOps, subcontracting software for real estate, raises $5.8 million
This startup is making customized sexual harassment training that it says employees won?t hate (or forget)
Backed by Will Smith and FabFitFun, OurPlace brings cookware and dinnerware direct to consumers
After signing a big food additive deal, cell-based protein company Geltor is looking for at least $50M
Sam Altman?s bet against Slack
EHang, maker of autonomous flying shuttles, files for $100 million IPO
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Accusonus raises $3.3M to use AI to help content creators repair the audio in their videos
Forecast raises $5.5M for its ?AI-powered? project management software
Japanese instant-credit provider Paidy raises $143 million from investors including PayPal Ventures
Small satellite startup Kepler opens sign-ups for its IoT developer kits
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Trulia founder Pete Flint backs real estate startup Modus
Crunchbase raises $30M more to double down on its ambition to be a ?LinkedIn for company data?
Namogoo raises $40M to stop unauthorized ad injections and ?customer journey hijacking?
Fem tech startup Inne takes the wraps off a hormone tracker and $8.8M in funding
Freetrade, the UK challenger stockbroker, completes $15M Series A
Bosun Tijani talks strategy as CEO of Africa?s new largest tech hub
Deadspin writers quit after being ordered to stick to sports
Latin America Roundup: Uber acquires Cornershop, SoftBank invests in Buser and Olist
Forerunner Ventures? newest bet is Curated, a marketplace that matches pros with people buying high-ticket items
Muy raises $15M to grow its new cloud kitchen concept
IoT security startup Particle raises $40M in Series C
Stampli raises $25 million in Series B to bring AI to invoice management
Duality, a security startup co-founded by the creator of homomorphic encryption, raises $16M
New startup Capital wants to reintroduce founders to venture debt
Video news startup Brut raises $40M, officially launches in the US
Field management software startup Workiz raises $5 million Series A
Prosus Ventures leads $40M investment in Indian logistics startup ElasticRun
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ShareGrid acquires UK peer-to-peer film and camera rental community BorrowFox
As Juul announces mass layoffs, a new lawsuit alleges it shipped a million contaminated pods
Slack investor Index Ventures backs Slack competitor Quill
Tencent leads $111M investment in India?s video streaming service MX Player
This former Uber exec wants to design and furnish your next apartment
Walmart and Green Dot to jointly establish a new fintech accelerator, Tailfin Labs
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Fountain, a platform for recruiting gig and hourly workers, raises $23M
LA-based gaming studio Scopely raises $200M at a $1.7B valuation
Datameer announces $40M investment as it pivots away from Hadoop roots
WeFarm rakes in $13M to grow its marketplace and network for independent farmers
CampusReel uses GenZ?s obsession with video to help them choose a college
Webiny announces $347K seed to build open-source serverless CMS
Become scores $12.5M Series A for its business lending marketplace
Using 3D imaging, ManiMe sells custom-fit stick-on nails
Shadow announces new plans for its cloud gaming platform
Quip wants to help you floss
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TrueLayer, the open banking API provider, discloses investment and partnership with Visa
Market research platform Milieu Insight raises $2.4 million to launch in more Southeast Asian countries
ByteDance denies it will go public in Hong Kong next quarter
Tiqets, a platform for booking museums and other attractions, raises $60M led by Airbnb
Choco raises $33.5M to bring restaurants and suppliers a modern ingredient ordering platform
Providing emergency and security services to employees, Base Operations raises $1M
Morpheus Space?s modular, scalable satellite propulsion could be a game-changer for orbital industry
IDnow pulls in $40M growth equity for its identity verification platform
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Kandji announces $3.375M seed for sophisticated Apple MDM solution
Stealthy search startup Searchable.ai snags $2M seed
Billionaire clothing dynasty heiress launches Everybody Everyone to make fashion sustainable
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Duffel raises $30M led by Index Ventures to disintermediate legacy travel platforms
Kenya?s Twiga Foods eyes West Africa after $30M raise led by Goldman
Zamna raises $5M to automate airport security checks between agencies using blockchain
Koyo raises $4.9M in equity and debt to use open banking to offer loans to people with ?thin? credit files
Welcome to the Jungle raises $22.3 million to make recruitment easier
Meet Utah?s next unicorn
Startups Weekly: SoftBank is screwing up
Meet Bespoke Financial, a lender for cannabis companies backed by Snoop Dogg?s Casa Verde Capital
Growth is out, profitability is in
Workplace learning platform HowNow scores $3M funding
Lotame unveils Cartographer, its new approach to tracking user identity
GameClub offers mobile gaming?s greatest hits for $5 per month
YC grad Taskade raises $5M to take on Notion with a more collaborative productivity platform
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine explains how startups can help with Artemis Moon missions
Fair, the SoftBank-backed car subscription startup, lays off 40% of staff, sacks CFO
SoftBank says it has now invested $18.5 billion in WeWork, ?more than the GDP? of Bolivia, which has 11.5 million people
Swiftmile will become the ?gas station? for electric bikes and scooters in Austin
Modern Animal raises $13.5 million to make going to the vet suck less
Looking to become the central hub for logistics management, Shipwell raises $35 million
Newly launched pet health startup Gallant wants you to bank your dog?s stem cells for $990
Mobile banking app Current raises $20M Series B, tops half a million users
Randori Recon acts like a hacker to reveal your weaknesses
Helping banks refine sales pitches and customer service, Minneapolis-based Total Expert raises $52 million
Real estate broker HelloOffice expands to Los Angeles after closing on $6.5 million
Verve, an events platform based around influencers, raises $60M and rebrands as Pollen
Grafana Labs nabs $24M Series A for open source-based data analytics stack
Very Good Security raises $35M in Series B in ?zero data? push
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Cybersecurity automation startup Tines scores $4.1M Series A led by Blossom Capital
Naspers Foundry is open for South African startup pitches, CEO says
Amazon acquires Health Navigator for Amazon Care, its pilot employee healthcare program
Revolut launches publicly in Singapore, signs deal with Mastercard
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Koan, launched by a co-founder of Jive Software, has raised $3 million in seed funding
Truebill raises $15M to build a comprehensive platform for personal finance
Legged lunar rover startup Spacebit taps Latin American partners for Moon mission
Vendr, already profitable, raises $2M to replace your enterprise sales team
Substance abuse affects about 15% of American employees, Path wants to ensure they get help
Small rocket launch startup Firefly teams up with Aerojet Rocketdyne
Sick of your ISP Wander is rolling out in LA with a $25-per-month, wireless high-speed service
A bike lover?s take on the Cowboy e-bike
Sense Photonics brings its fancy new flash lidar to market
Demodesk scores $2.3M seed for sales-focused online meetings
Plug and Play launches an accelerator to develop technologies addressing plastic waste
Combining StitchFix and Instagram, FlipFit ushers in the next phase of social retail
Digital signage startup Raydiant raises $7M
Indian startups have raised a record $11.3B this year
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Fabric raises $110 million Series B to expand its network of automated fulfillment centers in the US
Drift CEO shares insights from 20+ years of startup experience
LabGenius raises $10M to use AI for protein drug discovery
Electric vehicle charging software EV Connect raises $12 million
Venture capital firm Redpoint hires a ?head of founder experience?
SoftBank reportedly ends WeWork ownership debacle with a potential $1.7 billion windfall for Adam Neumann
Databricks announces $400M round on $6.2B valuation as analytics platform continues to grow
Obvious Ventures makes CBD sporty with beam, which sells cannabis products to the GNC set
Squarespace acquires social media authoring startup Unfold
Medium says it will compensate writers based on reading time, not claps
Figma?s Community lets designers share and remix live files
Koio, the D2C luxury sneaker brand, raises $6 million
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Early-stage privacy startup DataGrail gets boost from Okta partnership
Aurora Insight emerges from stealth with $18M and a new take on measuring wireless spectrum
Todoist releases major update to simplify task management
Justin Drake from the Ethereum Foundation is coming to Disrupt Berlin
Sandbox VR raises millions more in celebrity party round
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Supermercato24 acquires Szopi, an on-demand grocery delivery service in Poland
Lilium releases new flight footage and details factory plans for 2025 launch
Luge Capital raises $85M to invest in Canadian fintech startups
Former Stitch Fix COO Julie Bornstein is rewriting the e-commerce playbook
Report: SoftBank is taking control of WeWork at an ~$8B valuation
Is there room for a US equivalent to China?s No. 1 news app
Superhuman founder seeks to raise debut venture fund
Microsoft acquires Mover to help with Microsoft 365 cloud migration
Shine Bathroom raises $750K for a smart home add-on that flushes away your toilet doldrums
YouTube founder secretly building sports fan game GreenPark
Moon?s browser extension lets you pay with bitcoin on Amazon
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Spiff pitches a way to automate sales commissions calculations
Commercetools raises $145M from Insight for Shopify-style e-commerce APIs for large enterprises
Gojek founder and CEO Nadiem Makarim resigns to join Indonesian cabinet; Soelistyo and Aluwi to be new co-CEOs
IPOs are the beginning, not the end
Startups Weekly: The unicorn from down under, an Uber TV show and All Raise?s expansion
Adam Neumann planned for his children and grandchildren to control WeWork
Tilting Point acquires game monetization startup Gondola
YellowHeart allows musicians and concert organizers to take more control of resold tickets
Three of the best tackle the thorny issue of Brexit for startups at Disrupt Berlin
Greylock GP Sarah Guo is as bullish on SaaS as ever
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Mobile game startup MadBox raises $16.5 million after 100 million downloads
Kenyan telco Safaricom?s Alpha incubator faces uncertain future
Airbnb?s WeWork problem
Getting press for your startup: the true role of communications
Atlassian acquires Code Barrel, makers of Automation for Jira
Zubale, founded in Mexico City by two HBS grads, just raised $4.4 million to put locals to work over their phones
The Information will launch Ticker, a tech news app that costs $29 per year
?Cloud kitchens? is an oxymoron
Sentons launches SurfaceWave, a processor and tech to create software-defined surfaces that supercharge touch and gesture
ArsenalBio emerges from stealth with $85 million and a dream team to fight cancer
Microsoft accessibility grants go out to companies aiming to improve tech for people with disabilities
Work management platform Asana launches new automation tools
Ekos announces $8M Series A to build software for craft breweries
Galileo Financial raises $77 million for its fintech services that were 19 years in the making
Pendo scores $100M Series E investment on $1 billion valuation
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TruTag raises $7.5 million Series C for tiny, edible barcodes that can be placed on pills, food and vaping systems
Winnow raises $12M Series B for its food waste solution for commercial kitchens
Edge computing startup Pensando comes out of stealth mode with a total of $278 million in funding
Rocket Lab successfully launches fifth Electron rocket this year
MyGate raises $56M to bring its security management service to more gated communities in India
Flowhub raises $23 million for its retail management software for cannabis dispensaries
ZeroDown, valued at $150M, plans to take on Zillow
Kabuto is building smart suitcases for geeks
Spearhead will give $1M to 15 founders to invest freely
Headless CMS company Strapi raises $4 million
8 tips for founders trying to raise their first round of venture capital
Interior design startup Havenly raises $32 million
Ex-Uber exec launches startup to autonomously reposition electric scooters and bikes
Brooklyn-based construction robotics startup Toggle gets $3M seed fund
Algolia finds $110M from Accel and Salesforce for its search-as-a-service, used by Slack, Twitch and 8K others
Newly rebranded Thimble raises $22M to bring flexible insurance to the gig economy
Level Home emerges from stealth with $71M from Walmart and Lennar and a new take on the smart lock
True Balance raises $23M to bring its payments app to more small cities and towns in India
South Korea-based Mathpresso, developer of tutoring app Qanda, raises $14.5 million Series B
Birdchief legal policy officer is leaving the company
WeWork pulls thousands of phone booths out of service over formaldehyde scare
Founder?s guide to the pre-IPO secondary market
DoorDash opens a shared kitchen in Redwood City
Opendoor appoints CFO, CPO
AI-based firefighter safety startup Prometeo wins IBM Call for Code Challenge
Foodvisor automatically tracks what you eat using deep learning
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Why each Libra member?s mutiny hurts Facebook
Startups Weekly: YC grad Revel?s plan to connect women over 50
Confirmed: Nike has picked up Russell Wilson?s Tally/TraceMe in a rare acquisition
Brad Feld: what founders need to know about recent changes in VC deal terms
Instacart shoppers are organizing a nationwide protest
Polte raises $12.5 million to track devices using LTE signal
Uber to acquire grocery delivery startup Cornershop
Club Factory raises $100M to expand its lifestyle e-commerce platform in India
Apester unveils a new Story Strip format for online publishers
Descartes Labs snaps up $20M more for its AI-based geospatial imagery analytics platform
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Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski to speak at Disrupt Berlin shortly after raising $460 million
Autonomous trucking startup Einride eyes US market with $25 million in new funding
Top VCs, founders share how to build a successful SaaS company
To beat Amazon Go, Standard Cognition buys cashierless DeepMagic
Lab-grown meat could be on store shelves by 2022, thanks to Future Meat Technologies
Nexkey raises $6M Series A round to make your company?s doors smarter
Getting more people to open your emails
Coinbase is launching Coinbase Pro mobile app
Tiger Global values people management tool Lattice at ~$200M
Parsley Health nabs $26 million Series B to launch telemedicine products
India?s Vahdam Teas raises $11M to grow its tea-commerce business in the US and Europe
Grammarly raises $90M at over $1B+ valuation for its AI-based grammar and writing tools
Clari snags $60M Series D on valuation of around $500M
Electric moped startup Revel raises $27.6 million as it eyes new markets
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New Vector scores $8.5M to plug more users into its open, decentralized messaging Matrix
GoCardless CEO Hiroki Takeuchi is coming to Disrupt Berlin
SmileDirectClub?s former CEO is back with a new dental startup called Tend
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MIT is reviewing its relationship with AI startup SenseTime, one of the Chinese tech firms blacklisted by the US
Southeast Asian real estate portal 99.co agrees to joint venture with iProperty, as their rival PropertyGuru prepares for IPO
Looking for a job selling weed EpicHint pitches training for cannabis dispensary ?budtenders?
Report: WeWork expected to cut 500 tech roles
Dig into the key issues in venture today with investor and Techstars co-founder Brad Feld
Startup says ?Sober is the new black?
The budding industry of cannabis tech
With $15M round and 100K tablets sold, reMarkable CEO wants to make tech ?more human?
Startup studio eFounders has a portfolio valuation of $1 billion
Robinhood revives checking with new debit card 2% interest
Forward Networks raises $35M to help enterprises map, track and predict their networks? behavior
Contentstack raises $31.5M Series A round for its headless CMS platform
German tech investor leads Series A for Germany?s first medical cannabis startup
This startup just raised $8 million to help busy doctors assess the cognitive health of 50 million seniors
Group Nine acquires PopSugar
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Laurel Bowden of VC firm 83North on the European deep tech and startup ecosystems
Daily Crunch: Render wins the Startup Battlefield
Get guaranteed rent for your home from new startup Doorstead
Checking in on the state of ISAs
Next Insurance raises $250M from Munich Re, becomes a unicorn
Berlin?s Tier Mobility scoops up $60M as its scooter-based transportation service passes 10M rides
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Week in Review: Tech?s trashiest merger
Report: WeWork co-founder Adam Neumann may have to unload property to pay off a giant loan
Why we?re still waiting on the Postmates S-1
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$35M-funded Omni rentals in acqui-hire talks with Coinbase
How ?the Internet broke America? with The New Yorker?s Andrew Marantz
Annual Extra Crunch members can receive $1,000 in AWS credits
As Sinai Ventures returns first fund, partner Jordan Fudge talks new LA focus
Stephen Curry invests in Guild Education
Alteryx acquires machine learning startup Feature Labs
Why San Francisco is still the gold mine for tech startups
AI Medical Service raises $42.9 Series B for AI-based software that checks endoscopy scans for signs of cancer
Tourlane co-founder Julian Stiefel to speak at TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin this December
Google-backed Dunzo raises $45M to expand its hyperlocal delivery startup in India
Startups ?are staying private way too long? says Salesforce founder Marc Benioff
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Greyparrot uses computer vision to improve waste management
StrattyX lets you buy and sell shares using automated rules
LifeCouple wants to improve your romantic relationship
Zola, the $650M wedding portal, taps the travel market with an expansion into honeymoons
WeWork expected to announce major layoffs
We?ll have self-flying cars before self-driving cars, Thrun says
Orbit Fab raises $3M to make orbital refueling easier, cheaper and more accessible
T4 wants to transform market research data with a combination of AI and humans
Civic Champs app gives nonprofits the tech tools to manage volunteers
Meet Vise AI, the startup reimagining portfolio management
Art on blockchain pioneer Verisart raises $2.5M for art and collectibles certification
Notarize and Guaranteed Rate partner on new product that allows homebuyers to complete the entire closing process online
Bird raises $275 million Series D round at a $2.5 billion valuation
First mover advantage: Does it matter in startup fundraising
Stock trading app Robinhood revamps its newsfeed with The Wall Street Journal and ad-free videos
India?s Fyle bags $4.5M to expand its expense management platform in the US, other international markets
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Africa Roundup: CcHub?s iHub acquisition, Andela?s $50M run rate and layoffs, Transsion?s IPO
Natalist founder Halle Tecco wants to get you pregnant
MyMilk Labs launches Mylee, a small sensor that analyzes breast milk at home
OmniVis could save lives by detecting cholera-infected water in minutes rather than days
Chris Dixon from a16z announces free crypto startup school at TechCrunch Disrupt
Will Smith just dropped $10K on a startup that pitched him on stage at Disrupt
Render announces object storage service at TechCrunch Disrupt
Brex wants to replace startup bank accounts with Brex Cash
Mutiny creates personalized plans for B2B marketing
Render challenges the cloud?s biggest vendors with cheaper, managed infrastructure
Lookout, Robinhood. E*Trade, Schwab, Ameritrade go zero-fee
Sendmi lets you allocate part of your paycheck for remittance
How Bongo, the ?Netflix of Bangladesh?, won the local video streaming market with just $10M
Actor and HitRecord founder Joseph Gordon-Levitt says we should all get off YouTube
How Lime, Scoot, JUMP and Spin plan to deploy adaptive scooters
Snaplogic raises $72M more for its enterprise data integration platform
India?s Udaan raises $585M to expand its B2B e-commerce platform
T2D3 Software Update: Embracing the Founder to CEO (F2C) Journey
Coinbase users will earn rewards on USDC holdings
A startup factory $1.2B-exit team launches $65M super
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Tiny acquires Meteor
Zuckerberg misunderstands the huge threat of TikTok
Startup aims to make filtered water an app-driven subscription service in the home
Drivy rebrands to Getaround six months after acquisition
Where top VCs are investing in edtech
China?s growing digital influence in Africa
Defining micromobility and where it?s going with business and mobility analyst Horace Dediu
Unagi is the iPhone of scooters you actually buy
Daily Crunch: WeWork delays its IPO
Streamlit launches open-source machine learning application development framework
Knowable launches its ?not a podcast? $100 audio classes
Backed by Expa, Aero is a premium air travel startup with $16M in funding
Rapyd raises $100M for its ?fintech as a service? API, now valued at nearly a $1B valuation
Rhino looks to replace renters? security deposits with a small monthly fee
DataHawk provides e-commerce analytics so you can optimize your listings
Jen Rubio to tell us the secrets behind Away?s success at Disrupt Berlin
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Challenger bank Bunq expands to all EU countries
Bnext raises $25 million for its mobile banking alternative
Khatabook raises $25M to help small businesses in India record financial transactions digitally and accept online payments
Monthly enlists experts and celebrities to teach 30-day online classes
Why is Dropbox reinventing itself
This Week in Apps: AltStore, acquisitions and Google Play Pass
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Startups Weekly: Alpha Medical wants to rebuild women?s healthcare
Cracking the code on podcast advertising for customer acquisition
Not all is predictable on Facebook?s social Horizon
Why Maxar CTO Walter Scott thinks now is the time to address the orbital traffic boom
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TC?s Greg Epstein and Kate Clark talk mental health startups and the ?Cult of the Founder?
Peloton, WeWork, Vox, Bodega, Kapwing and oh boy are we tired
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GoodRx is coming for subscription prescription services with the launch of GoodRx Care
Latin America roundup: SoftBank bets on Brazilian unicorns and Konfio raises $250M for lending plans
At the sixth annual Pear Demo Day, weather balloons, branded credit cards and lots of top degrees
?We are seeing volume and interest in Peloton explode,? says company president on listing day
MediaRadar?s new product helps event organizers maximize sales
Europe shows the way in online privacy
Gatsby raises $15M Series A for its modern web development platform
Kobalt?s edge in changing the music industry
Learn how to help build a sustainable gig economy at Disrupt SF
Beyond Pricing raises $42M to tell you what to charge on Airbnb
Terminal raises $17M led by 8VC to source and build remote teams of engineers
Battlefield vets StrongSalt (formerly OverNest) announces $3M seed round
Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator introduces 14 new startups at demo day
Honeycomb.io raises $11.4M to help developers observe and debug their apps
Package Free picks up $4.5 million to scale sustainable CPG products
Mercury banks $20M for its banking service aimed at startups
Tribe leads $12M Series A into Teampay to make managing employee expenses painless
Nigeria?s CcHub acquires Kenya?s iHub to create mega Africa incubator
Paro raises $10 million to offer corporate finance expertise on demand
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Gogoro launches its newest electric vehicle, a lightweight scooter called Viva
India?s Darwinbox raises $15M to bring its HR tech platform to more Asian markets
Spanish startup Elma gets $3.2M for a digital-first health insurance play
Bodega, once dubbed ?America?s most hated startup,? has quietly raised millions
Meal replacement company Soylent adds mint chocolate flavor
Announcing the custom contests for the TC Hackathon at Disrupt SF
Your guide to WeWork?s CEO shuffle
Why Flexport built a slick Slack SaaS for shipping
Daily Crunch: WeWork CEO steps down
Vox Media acquires the company behind New York Magazine
Fractional home ownership startup Divvy raises $43m series B to build a path from rent to purchase
Juul names longtime tobacco exec as chief executive as Kevin Burns steps down
Netdata, a monitoring startup with 50-year-old founder, announces $17M Series A
Arceo.ai raises $37 million to expand cyber insurance coverage and access
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With a new $20 million in funding, electronic stethoscope startup Eko wants to research your beating heart
ZenBusiness raises $15M to help founders launch and grow ?worry-free?
Duda nabs $25M to take on WordPress with a web development platform aimed at agencies
Kreditech, the AI-based near-prime loans platform, nabs $22M under new CEO to expand globally
MaxAB raises $6M seed round to optimize Egypt?s B2B grocery markets
Manila-based payments processing startup PayMongo raises $2.7 million in seed funding
Fidel raises $18M to let developers build on top of payment data from Visa, Mastercard and Amex
Passbase grabs $3.6M to power privacy-preserving online ID checks
Target Global is firming up its bet on Barcelona?s entrepreneurs
BlaBlaCar to acquire online bus ticketing platform Busfor
Pan-European VC fund Target Global is opening an office in Barcelona
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Google veteran Tony Wang joins 500 Startups as managing partner
WeWork CEO Adam Neumann steps down
Meme editor Kapwing grows 10X, raises $11M
Grammarly gets a tone detector to keep you out of email trouble
Meet SoundCloud rival Audius, free anti-takedowns
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Manufacturing app platform Tulip raises a $39.5M Series B
Cycode raises $4.6M seed round to keep your source code safe
Fivetran hauls in $44M Series B as data pipeline business booms
Sentry raises $40 million Series C led by Accel for its error-tracking software
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Fundbox raises $176 million Series C to build ?Visa? for B2B payments
Tipalti collects $76M from Twitter alums? 01 Advisors and more for its AI-based accounts payable solution
Car subscription service Cluno discloses ?140M in debt financing
Jellysmack launches program to scale audiences from YouTube creators
Engage:BDR raises $26.25M to fund its NetZero publisher payments
Social radio startup Stationhead moves beyond live broadcasts
What?s the right way to sponsor a YouTube influencer
Unity bets on cloud testing with new Simulation product
Customer marketing platform Ometria raises $21M Series B round led by Octopus Ventures
Entrepreneur First, the ?talent investor,? to launch in Toronto, Canada early next year
Kabbage founders raise $11M for Drum, an SMB marketplace for sourcing salespeople, goods and services
How Peloton made sweat addictive enough to IPO
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As Adam Neumann reportedly faces pressure to step down, it?s looking like a fight for life between WeWork and SoftBank
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Facebook has acquired Servicefriend, which builds ?hybrid? chatbots, for Calibra customer service
Startups Weekly: Upfront Ventures bets on a bus service
Vianai emerges with $50M seed and a mission to simplify machine learning tech
Alchemist Accelerator is launching a European program
How Kobalt is betting on music?s middle class and DIY stars
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Lookiero closes $19M led by MMC Ventures to be the Stitch Fix for Europe
Clutter acquires The Storage Fox for $152M to add self-storage to its on-demand platform
The cult of the founder and Silicon Valley?s lack of moral authority
Subscription email app Tempo hits the right minimalist notes
Readying an IPO, Postmates secures $225M led by private equity firm GPI Capital
Lime is shutting down car rental service, LimePod
Payments giant Stripe is raising another $250M at a $35B pre-money valuation
Wing will test drone delivery in the US with Walgreens and FedEx
How Automattic wants to build the operating system of the web
Groww, an investment app for millennials in India, raises $21.4M
Daily Crunch: Automattic raises $300M
Marissa Mayer and Alfred Lin are coming to Disrupt SF 2019
Darkstore raises $21 million Series B round
Airbnb says it will go public next year
Ginkgo Bioworks? dev shop for genetic programming is now worth $4 billion
?The best VC on Instagram? is now VC-backed
Quilt Data launches from stealth with free portal to access petabytes of public data
Impossible Foods will debut in SoCal grocery stores on Friday as first step in phased national rollout
Rocket Lab moves closer to opening US launch facility with landing pad completion
Automattic raises $300 million at $3 billion valuation from Salesforce Ventures
Built Robotics raises $33M for its self-driving construction equipment
Zume will provide food trucks for pizza
Cannabis logistics startup Wayv launches dynamic distribution platform
Shipper, a platform for e-commerce logistics in Indonesia, raises $5 million
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On-demand plant food startup Simple Feast raises $33M B round to push its climate credentials
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Afore Capital raises second pre-seed venture capital fund
North now offers Focals smart glasses fittings and purchases via app
Indonesia?s Julo raises $10M to expand its P2P lending platform
The founders of Robin Healthcare think doctors need smart assistants, too
PlayVS picks up $50 million Series C to build out high school esports
Aliro comes out of stealth with $2.7M to ?democratize? quantum computing with developer tools
With its third fund, Revolution Ventures stays true to its mission
Andrew Mason?s Descript snags $15M, acquires Lyrebird to let users type text to create audio in their own voices
Acronis raises $147M from Goldman Sachs to expand its cyber security services
Cybersecurity company Acronis hits unicorn status after raising $147 million led by Goldman Sachs
Normative closes a $2.1M seed to help companies automate carbon reporting
Festicket enables group festival bookings with ?Pay with Friends?
FarmWise and its weed-pulling agribot harvest $14.5M in funding
GoCardless launches US debit payments solution and opens San Francisco office
Pax Labs? Bharat Vasan is out as CEO
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The team behind Codementor launches Arc to help companies hire talented developers around the world
Boston-based DataRobot raises $206M Series E to bring AI to enterprise
IEX?s Katsuyama is no flash in the pan
Ironclad raises $50M Series C round for its digital contracting platform
Casper has created CBD gummies in partnership with Plus
GitLab hauls in $268M Series E on 2.75B valuation
Data storage company Cloudian launches a new edge analytics subsidiary called Edgematrix
FairMoney raises $11 million for its challenger bank for emerging markets
TuSimple adds another $120 million to its self-driving trucks war chest
Africa-focused Andela cuts 400 staff as it confirms $50M in revenue
Holidu raises ?40M Series C for its holiday rentals search engine
Startup Battlefield Berlin applications extended by one week
Fieldwire just raised $33.5 million more to give PlanGrid and its new owner Autodesk a run for their money
Under pressure, The We Company now only says it expects to go public ?by the end of the year?
What startup CSOs can learn from three enterprise security experts
$100M Grant for the Web fund aims to jump-start a new way to pay online
SmartNews? latest news discovery feature shows articles from across the political spectrum
Trigo raises $22M for an automated grocery check-out platform, similar to Amazon Go
FOSSA scores $8.5 million Series A to help enterprise manage open-source licenses
Plaid announces strategic investment from Mastercard and Visa
Beekeeper raises $45M Series B to become the ?Slack for non-desk employees?
Mitto, the payment card and app for ?Gen Z? teens, raises ?2M seed round
Leeto helps works councils manage perks
How to get people to open your emails
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Cloudflare co-founder Michelle Zatlyn on the company?s IPO today, its unique dual class structure, and what?s next
MoviePass will shut down on September 14th
How to work with top influencers and avoid ad blockers
Despite tipping policy changes, DoorDash says back pay is not ?at issue here?
Calculating sales efficiency in a startup: The magic number that will help you scale
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Boston gets a new biotech accelerator with the launch of Petri
WeWork and Uber are proof valuations are meaningless
Element AI raises $151M on a $600-700M valuation to help companies build and run AI solutions
India?s OkCredit raises $67M to help small merchants digitize their bookkeeping
Another high-flying, heavily funded AR headset startup is shutting down
How to stop vanity marketing from killing your startup
Voyage raises $31 million to bring driverless taxis to communities
Shape Security hits $1B valuation with $51M Series F
Sidewalk Labs spins out urban data-gathering tool Replica into a company
SmileDirectClub makes its debut on the public market
Simbe raises a $26M Series A for its retail inventory robot
Max Levchin?s Affirm seeks capital amid surge in fintech funding
Patch Homes locks in $5M Series A to give homeowners financial freedom without debt
Y Combinator?s Michael Seibel, Ali Rowghani to reveal new YC top 100 list, talk startups at Disrupt SF
RYOT co-founder Bryn Mooser launches a new documentary studio called XTR
Veo raises $6M Series A to bring its ?AI camera? for soccer matches to the US
Accel and Sequoia seed Middesk with $4M to background check businesses
Beamery announces platform to help HR recruit and retain talent
SmartDrive snaps up $90M for in-truck video telematics solutions for safety and fuel efficiency
Stock content service Storyblocks evolves with new partner program
Zyl raises $1.1 million to resurface old memories from your photos
WeWork loses its chief communications officer ahead of planned IPO
Akeneo raises $45 million for its product information management service
How Kobalt is simplifying the killer complexities of the music industry
The direct to consumer department store Neighborhood Goods has raised $11 million
Tech startups want to destigmatize sex
Despite Brexit, UK startups can compete with Silicon Valley to win tech talent
Theresia Gouw and Ann Miura-Ko are coming to Disrupt
Explorium reveals $19.1M in total funding for machine learning data discovery platform
Kensh?, ?the antithesis of Goop,? launches a research-based guide to natural medicine
ScyllaDB takes on Amazon with new DynamoDB migration tool
Vegetarian frozen food brand Strong Roots looks to expand in the US with $18.3 million funding
Bux launches ?BUX Zero? to begin offering fee-free trading in Netherlands
Nigerian online-only bank startup Kuda raises $1.6M
Gig worker bill, AB5, passes California State Senate
These brothers just raised $15 million for their startup, Dutchie, a kind of Shopify for cannabis dispensaries
Peloton plots $1.2B Nasdaq IPO
AdRoll becomes NextRoll and launches new platform services business
Hatebase catalogues the world?s hate speech in real time so you don?t have to
All the weird stuff that happens to you after you close your round
Coinbase announces USDC Bootstrap Fund to support DeFi projects
JAXA launch for HTV-8 cargo mission to International Space Station officially scrubbed
Aerospace Corp CEO Steve Isakowitz to talk how to raise non-dilutive capital at Disrupt SF this Oct
Nextdoor adds new funding, closes growth round at $170M with $2.1B valuation
Clubhouse announces new collaboration tool and free version of its project management platform
Rivian lands $350 million investment from Cox Automotive
Twenty and Mappen merge to help users hang out IRL
Work Life Ventures raises $5M for debut enterprise SaaS seed fund
Smart grocery cart startup Caper bags $10 million
Snyk grabs $70M more to detect security vulnerabilities in open-source code and containers
McDonald?s acquires Apprente to bring voice technology to drive-thrus
Q-CTRL raises $15M for software that reduces error and noise in quantum computing hardware
InMobi?s Glance raises $45M to expand outside of India
Pento raises $2.8M seed round for its payroll SaaS
SimShine raises $8 million for home security cameras that use edge computing
SoftBank mints QuintoAndar a new unicorn in Latin American real estate tech
Troubles keep mounting for The We Company as SoftBank reportedly calls for shelving the IPO
International students face immigration hurdles under Trump
With its Kubernetes bet paying off, Cloud Foundry doubles down on developer experience
Workout app Fitplan adds Alex Rodriguez as a trainer? and an investor
Root Insurance valuation hits $3.65 billion in latest round led by DST Global and Coatue
Why am I seeing this ad AI, ML human error in advertising
Syte snaps up $21.5M for its smartphone-based visual search engine for e-commerce
YC-backed Brave Care raises $5 million for pediatric urgent care clinics
Drivetime nabs $11M from Makers Fund, Amazon and Google to build voice-based games for drivers
AppZen nabs $50M to build AI tools for expenses and other finance team work
Uizard scores $2.8M seed round for its app wireframe to prototype dev tool
Freeda raises another $16 million for its media brand for women
Spendesk raises $38.4 million for its corporate card and expense service
Good Capital launches to close the funding gap for early-stage Indian startups
Volocopter raises $55M led by Volvo owner Geely, sets 3-year timeline for its flying taxi service
After Epstein, it?s time for the Valley to find a moral view on capital
Startups Weekly: Stripe?s grand plan
Pagerduty?s Jennifer Tejada and Box?s Aaron Levie will talk IPOs at TC Disrupt SF
Agave wants to fill the need Google Hire?s impending shutdown will create
APIs are the next big SaaS wave
Looking to become the video-based social network of the gaming world, Medal.tv raises $9 million
Top VCs on the changing landscape for enterprise startups
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Why Box is one of the most underappreciated companies
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Looks like Medium is testing a way to save articles across the web
SoftBank-backed Getaround is raising $200M at a $1.5B+ valuation
Flat, a Mexican property tech startup, raises $4.6M pre-seed led by ALLVP
Novameat has a platform for 3D-printing steaks and has new money to take it to market
Newly renamed Superside raises $3.5M for its outsourced design platform
How early-stage startups can use data effectively
Battlefield winner Forethought adds tool to automate support ticket routing
RippleMatch nabs $6M for a diversity-focused graduate recruitment platform powered by AI
Adam Draper gives his oddball accelerator a makeover
Shared inbox startup Front adds WhatsApp support
Upflow grabs $2.7 million to streamline payment processes
Parallel Markets is trying to make it easy to buy and sell private stock
Tyson Ventures has invested in New Wave Foods, a startup making a plant-based shrimp substitute
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BigID announces $50M Series C investment as privacy takes center stage
Lime stops working with freelancers in Paris
We Company reportedly mulls slashing its valuation ahead of its initial public offering
Cooks Venture picks up $12 million to rethink agriculture from the ground up
Terramera raises $45 million for its technology to reduce the use of chemicals in agriculture
OpenGov acquires ViewPoint Cloud, to add licensing and permitting functionality to its platform
8-month-old startup FPL Technologies raises $4.5M to improve credit card experience in India
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SF-based African fintech startup Chipper Cash expands to Nigeria
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India?s Milkbasket in talks to raise over $50M
Reefknot Investments launches $50 million fund to invest in logistics and supply chain startups
Bellwether Coffee, ?the fastest-growing company in coffee,? raises $40M Series B
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Why Walmart?s Flipkart is betting heavily on Hindi
?Mental fitness? startup Elevate Labs launches a personalized meditation app called Balance
Endurance events startup Let?s Do This raises seed cash from Serena Williams, Usain Bolt
We Company adds a director, ditches its $5.9 million naming deal with its CEO, remains a governance nightmare
Betaworks? next startup camp is focused on audio
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Fleet Space Technologies raises $7.35M for its space-based IoT tech
Cowboy recruits Sunrise co-founder Jeremy Le Van as VP of Product
Ginger, an MIT spin-out providing app-based mental health coaching to workers, raises $35M
Chime now has 5 million customers and introduces overdraft alternative
Period app Clue hopes to find out if you have PCOS
Neura, a mobile app engagement analytics startup, raises $16 million Series B
Light Phone?s founders discuss life beyond the smartphone
Light?s new minimalist phone is available now for $350
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Loog launches a trio of new educational guitars
Reach Robotics is closing up shop
How Zhihu has become one of China?s biggest hubs for experts
Bunq simplifies group payment tracking and adds analytics
Employee survey startup Culture Amp closes $82M round led by Sequoia China
Starship Technologies CEO Lex Bayer on focus and opportunity in autonomous delivery
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt is coming to Disrupt SF 2019
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OpenGov raises $51M to boost its cloud-based IT services for government and civic organizations
Tom Hulme from GV is joining us at Disrupt Berlin
European banking app Monese partners with deposits marketplace Raisin
Africa Roundup: Goldman backs Kobo360, Rwanda commits to EVs, Interswitch IPO update
WeChat restricts controversial video face-swapping app Zao, citing ?security risks?
Revolut ramps up customer support with plans to hire 400 people in Porto
India?s Oyo acquires Copenhagen-based data science firm Danamica for $10M
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Urban, the on-demand wellness platform, adds physiotherapy to its roster of on-demand services
Spotawheel picks up ?5M for its online used car dealership
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Bear Robotics is raising big bucks for robots that deliver food to restaurant patrons
At-home blood testing startup Baze rakes in $6 million from Nature?s Way
Credit Sesame, a platform for managing loans and credit scores, picks up $43M en route to IPO
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Atoms nabs $8.1M for shoes you can buy in quarter sizes for each foot
Could Peloton be the next Apple
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What is Andela, the Africa tech talent accelerator
2019 tech IPOs: Some thoughts from the public company roller coaster
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Former Google X exec Mo Gawdat wants to reinvent consumerism
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Urbvan raises $9 million for its private shuttle service in Mexico
?The Operators?: Finance in startups with Duda CFO Stephanie Hsiung and Zeus Living?s Head of Finance Mark Kang
Launching from beta, ProGuides is making money ensuring that gamers never play alone
Juul introduces new POS standards to restrict sales to minors
Mews grabs $33M Series B to modernize hotel administration
India?s Vedantu raises $42M to expand its live and interactive online tutoring platform
Kaszek Ventures raises $600 million in two funds as Latin America?s startup market booms
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How UK VCs are managing the risk of a ?no deal? Brexit
Bestmile raises $16.5 million to manage human and AI-driven fleets
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Inkitt raises $16M led by Kleiner Perkins to publish crowdsourced novels in ?mini-episodes?
Grab promises to invest $500 million into Vietnam
ReadMe scores $9M Series A to help firms customize API docs
Duolingo is now offering a beta version of Latin courses
Autonomous air transport startup Elroy Air completes first flights of large cargo VTOL
ThoughtSpot hauls in $248M Series E on $1.95B valuation
Orbion raises $9.2M to mass-produce plasma thrusters for small satellites
Glovo founder Oscar Pierre comes to Disrupt Berlin
Azimo appoints new CEO as money transfer service reaches profitability
Mythic Markets just raised $2 million in seed to build a fractional ownership market for rare collectibles
Ready, Set, Raise ? the Y Combinator for female founders ? announces second cohort
Airship acquires A/B testing company Apptimize
Peloton files publicly for IPO
AR mapping startup 6D.ai expands platform as it exits beta
Kitty Hawk CEO Sebastian Thrun is coming to Disrupt SF
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Kleiner Perkins bets on a premium email service that?s bringing Slack-like Groups into Gmail
Experian makes strategic investment in location data company PlaceIQ
Tesorio raises $10M Series A to help companies track their cash flow
New open-source project wants to expand serverless vision beyond functions
Ron Johnson?s e-commerce startup Enjoy raises $150M, expands in UK
VoiceOps raises $9M to help companies coach their call center reps
Kadena brings free private blockchain service to Azure Marketplace
Platform9 raises $25 million Series D for its managed hybrid cloud solution
Axonius, a cybersecurity asset management startup, raises $20M in Series B
Gogoro launches its electric scooters for businesses in South Korea
Y Combinator graduate PredictLeads helps VCs hunt for unicorns
How to use Amazon and advertising to build a D2C startup
India?s 9-month-old CRED raises $120M to help people improve their financial behavior
Daily Crunch: A big funding round for Boll Branch
Satellite internet startup Astranis books first commercial launch on SpaceX Falcon 9
The Void?s Curtis Hickman on scaling, creative IP and the future of VR experiences
Udacity names former LendingTree executive to CEO post
Bedding startup Boll Branch raises $100M
Style recommendation startup Stylitics raises $15M
India?s FreshToHome raises $20M to grow its fish, meat, vegetable and milk e-commerce platform
India?s BharatPe raises $50M to help merchants accept digital payments and secure working capital
Megvii, the Chinese startup unicorn known for facial recognition tech, files to go public in Hong Kong
Startups Weekly: Diamond-encrusted disruption
Graphcore founder Nigel Toon to talk about AI chips at Disrupt Berlin
Is Knotel poised to turn WeWork from a Unicorn into an Icarus
India exempts startups from long-standing ?angel tax?
Verified Expert Growth Marketing Agency: Torch
Japan?s ispace now aims for a lunar landing in 2021, and a Moon rover deployment in 2023
The myth of ?stage agnostic? investing
Ping Identity files for $100M IPO on Nasdaq to trade as ?PING?
Tastemakers raises $1M to sell Africa experiences to the world
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Silicone 3D printing startup Spectroplast spins out of ETHZ with $1.5M
This Thiel Fellow thinks he can help scooters, drones and delivery robots charge themselves with sunlight
DoorDash reveals details of its new tipping model
Workplace digital assistant startup Capacity raises $13.2M from Midwestern VCs
Frontier technologies are moving closer to the center of venture investment
Watch YC CEO Michael Seibel chat startups, prices and tech?s center of gravity
Tumblr?s next step forward with Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg
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On-demand parking startup SpotHero raises $50 million
The CareVoice raises $10 million to develop better tech for insurance providers in Asia
Remediant lands $15M Series A to disrupt privileged access security
Crimson Education, a platform to help students get into top universities, nabs $5M at a $245M valuation
N26 launches Shared Spaces and is now fully available in the US
A $44M Series B Drop in the bucket for millennial loyalty
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ThredUp, whose second-hand goods will start appearing at Macy?s and JCPenney, just raised a bundle
Should you raise equity venture capital or revenue-based investing VC
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Our 12 favorite startups from Y Combinator?s S19 Demo Day 2
Twitter picks up team from narrative app Lightwell in its latest effort to improve conversations
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How Dropbox, Nike, Salesforce, MailChimp, Google and Pepsi welcome their new hires
BuzzFeed?s new MoodFeed recommends content based on how you?re feeling
Deadline extended one week: apply to Hardware Battlefield @ TC Shenzhen
Workspace provider Knotel secures $400M, putting it in WeWork?s rear-view mirror
Verified Expert Growth Marketing Agency: We Are Off The Record
Crossbeam gets $12.5M Series A to help companies organize their partnerships
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Andrew Ng?s AI companies expand to Medellin, Colombia
Cosi raises ?5M for its ?full-stack? hospitality alternative to boutique hotels
PayPal-backed money lender Tala raises $110M to enter India
Kobiton raises a $5.2M Series A round for its mobile testing platform
African incubator MEST has a new MD and 11 fresh startup investments
Fresh out of Y Combinator, Tandem lands millions from Andreessen Horowitz
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Why are revenue-based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders
Should your new VC fund use revenue-based investing
DoorDash acquires autonomous driving startup Scotty Labs
YC-backed Stoic is a journaling app with a focus on understanding your feelings
MoviePass exposed thousands of unencrypted customer card numbers
Fitbit co-founders James Park and Eric Friedman are coming to Disrupt SF
The 11 best startups from Y Combinator?s S19 Demo Day 1
?This is Your Life in Silicon Valley?: The League founder and CEO Amanda Bradford on modern dating, and whether Bumble is a ?real? startup
Y Combinator?s Michael Seibel on building startups, early-stage deal-making and tech?s center of gravity
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H2O.ai announces $72.5M Series D led by Goldman Sachs
PressReader aims to add more personalization to its digital news platform by acquiring News360
IAC acquires nursing marketplace NurseFly for $15M
LA-based gaming company, Scopely, expands in Spain and Ireland
Starship Technologies raises $40M, crosses 100K deliveries and plans to expand to 100 new universities
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SpotQA picks up $3.25M seed funding for its automated software testing
All 84 startups from Y Combinator?s S19 Demo Day 1
Who are the major revenue-based investing VCs
Revenue-based investing: A new option for founders who care about control
The five technical challenges Cerebras overcame in building the first trillion transistor chip
Men?s personal care startup Huron raises $1M
YC?s latest VR bet is a team building a cyberpunk anime MMO
A newly funded startup, Internal, says it wants to help companies better manage their internal consoles
Ally raises $8M Series A for its OKR solution
‘Breaking Into Startups&: Torch CEO and Well Clinic founder Cameron Yarbrough on mental health coaching
How healthtech startups can achieve true value
Simon Data hauls in $30M Series C to continue building customer data platform
Binance launches Venus, which it calls an ?independent, regional version? of Facebook?s Libra
YC?s Earth AI closes funding for its platform to make mining less wasteful
Rocket Lab successfully launches rideshare rocket with two experimental USAF satellites on board
Founder how-to content on the Extra Crunch Stage at Disrupt Berlin 2019
HPE Growth backs WeTransfer in ?35M secondary funding round
RedDoorz raises $70M to expand its budget hotel network in Southeast Asia
Startups Weekly: The mad dash to the public markets
ClearBrain launches analytics tools focused on connecting cause and effect
How ?ghost work? in Silicon Valley pressures the workforce, with Mary Gray
Lumineye helps first responders identify people through walls
Slack co-founder Cal Henderson and Spark Capital?s Megan Quinn are coming to Disrupt SF
Showcase your startup in Startup Alley at Disrupt SF 2019
Startup ads are taking over the subway
SmileDirectClub files to go public amid concerns from dental associations
Y Combinator-backed Holy Grail is using machine learning to build better batteries
Y Combinator-backed Narrator wants to become the operating system for data science
How should B2B startups think about growth Not like B2C
Protein replacement startups are coming for food additives as Shiru launches from Y Combinator
How-to: Exhibit for free in Startup Alley at Disrupt Berlin 2019
Cloudflare, in its IPO filing, thanks a third co-founder: Lee Holloway
Twitter leads $100M round in top Indian regional social media platform ShareChat
Elysium and the quest to bottle the fountain of youth
Traces AI is building a less invasive alternative to facial recognition tracking
GradJoy is a Y Combinator-backed fintech to help you knock out your student loans
Local governments are forcing the scooter industry to grow up fast
How about earning crypto tokens to carbon-offset your Uber rides
Cloudflare says cutting off customers like 8chan is an IPO ?risk factor?
Cloudflare files for initial public offering
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Fitz Frames, with $2.5M in seed funding, wants your kid to have custom glasses
What security pros need to know from Black Hat Def Con 2019
Flower delivery startup UrbanStems raises $12M to fund national expansion
Kitty Hawk?s Flyer personal VTOL has now flown over 25,000 times
Birth control delivery startup Nurx approaches $300M valuation
Incorta raises $30M Series C for ETL-free data processing solution
Southern California athletic brand, Vuori, raises $45 million from Norwest Venture Partners
Launching out of YC, Blair is aiming to reshape the financing of college tuition
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YC-backed Eden Farm wants to cut out the middlemen between farmers and restaurants in Indonesia
Energy Vault raises $110 million from SoftBank Vision Fund as energy storage grabs headlines
TransferWise?s debit card launches in Australia and New Zealand, with Singapore to follow
Flatfair, the ?deposit-free? renting platform, raises $11M led by Index Ventures
Fantasy football startup Sleeper nabs VC funding to take on ESPN
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Making sense of the WeWork S-1 (or trying to)
Inside Voyage?s plan to deliver a driverless future
Ex-NSA chief Mike Rogers and Team8 founder Nadav Zafrir will be at Disrupt SF
Skip unveils its first custom electric scooter
WeWork?s S-1 misses these three key points
Peer-to-peer boat rental marketplace Boatsetter raises $10M as it looks to grow globally
Corporate carpooling startup Scoop raises $60 million
Business management startup vCita acquires email marketing tool WiseStamp
WeWork reveals IPO filing
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TestCard founder: Attending Disrupt Berlin is a ?no-brainer?
Nigerian logistics startup Kobo360 raises $30M backed by Goldman Sachs
YC-backed startup Binks can ship custom-made clothing to Indian women in just three days
Only 24 hours left to apply to Hardware Battlefield at TC Shenzhen
Axios? Dan Primack on ?the most polarizing startup that exists?
Would you rent out your living room for a few hours This startup is counting on it
Confidence: The currency of acceleration
Y Combinator bets on a startup building a weed breathalyzer for cops
The secret of content marketing: avoid high bounce rates
How even the best marketplace startups get paralyzed
Darren Bechtel (yes, of those Bechtels) has raised $97.5 million for his firm, Brick Mortar Ventures
Clumio raises $51M to bring enterprise backup into the 21st century
MasterClass founder launches Outlier, offering online courses for college credit
Rimeto lands $10M Series A to modernize the corporate directory
Dostavista, the ?crowdsourced? same-day delivery service, raises $15M Series B
Rocket Internet?s Caterwings acquires German business catering marketplace Lemoncat
WeChat Pay and Alipay partner QFPay raises $20 million to develop new digital payment solutions
Chinalargest Q A platform, Zhihu, raises $434 million from investors including Kuaishou, Baidu and Tencent
Blade raises $4.3M from Coinbase, SV Angel to reshape cryptocurrency derivatives trading
London edtech startup pi-top sees layoffs after major contract loss
Postmates to drop IPO filing next month
Polarity raises $8.1M for its AI software that constantly analyzes employee screens and highlights key info
Announcing the Disrupt SF 2019 agenda
Sequoia leads $40M investment in mobile messaging startup Attentive
BuzzFeed?s former CTO joins digital health startup Ro
Light Field Lab raises $28 million to rethink the 3D TV
Lucidworks raises $100M to expand in AI-powered search-as-a-service for organizations
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Deliveroo is exiting the German market
India?s Meesho raises $125M to expand its social commerce business
Competition among alternative protein players gets hot as companies beef up with new deals
Vector?s launch business in peril after ?major change in financing?
Startups Weekly: Angel vs. VC
How a Swedish saxophonist built Kobalt, the world?s next music unicorn
Biotech researchers venture into the wild to start their own business
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Preclusio uses machine learning to comply with GDPR, other privacy regulations
Startups seek sperm? and venture capital backing
Autonomous air mobility company EHang to deploy air shuttle service in Guangzhou
India?s Lendingkart raises $30M to help small businesses access working capital
Glow raises $2.3M to help podcasters make money
This startup is helping food app delivery workers start their own damn delivery companies
Voxel51 raises $2 million for its video-native identification of people, cars and more
?The Operators?: Experts from Airbnb and Carta on building and managing your company?s customer support
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Keith Rabois, BoxGroup back New York-based Brex competitor
Statespace picks up $2.5M to help gamers train
Opsani helps optimize cloud applications with AI
Beynd gets $2M seed to improve customer experience with better onboarding
FlixMobility extends Series F at $2B+ valuation as it gears up to add cars to its bus and train network
Sperm storage startups are raising millions
MUBI founder Efe Cakarel is coming to Disrupt Berlin
Stock trading app Robinhood gets UK broker license
Africa?s top mobile phone seller Transsion to list in Chinese IPO
Earbuds lets audiences stream the playlists of athletes, entertainers and each other
Postmates expects to land first-ever permit to test sidewalk delivery robots in San Francisco
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With MapR fire sale, Hadoop?s promise has fallen on hard times
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At Disrupt SF, learn how to take a digital brand offline from Brooklinen, Framebridge and thredUP
The Pill Club is donating 5,000 units of emergency contraception
Rocket Lab?s Electron rocket will go reusable, with the company aiming for mid-air helicopter recovery
BlockFi, which lends money to cryptocurrency holders, just raised $18.3 million led by Valar Ventures
What tech gets right about healthcare
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Ousted founder Julia Angwin returns to The Markup
72 hours left on early-bird pricing to TC Sessions: Enterprise 2019
Hardware startup North?s big pivot bet on wearable computing and platform shifts
India?s Awfis raises $30M to grow its co-working spaces business
Dogdrop is launching a doggy daycare to take on Wag Hotels
6 steps to reduce churn for high-volume subscription companies
Optimus Ride?s Brooklyn self-driving shuttles begin picking up passengers this week
Ticket marketplace TickPick raises $40M in its first institutional funding
Cockroach Labs announces $55M Series C to battle industry giants
Squad, the ?anti-bro startup,? is creating a safe space for teenage girls online
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Spaceflow, the ?tenant experience platform?, scores $1.8M investment
Penta, the German business banking startup, raises ?8M additional funding
Cybereason raises $200 million for its enterprise security platform
Financial services marketplace CompareAsiaGroup raises $20 million in new funding led by Experian
India?s GoWork raises $53M in debt financing to expand its co-working spaces business
The Inside adds sofas to its custom furniture lineup
India?s Indifi raises $21M to expand its online lending platform
Not your typical startup: How being a cooperative drives our business and product development
This startup wants to democratize custom sneaker ownership
Four days left for early-bird tickets to TC Sessions: Enterprise 2019
Doubling down on business travelers, Airbnb acquires Urbandoor
Patrick Brown, the chief executive of Impossible Foods, is coming to Disrupt
Monzo says it wasn?t storing ?some? customer PINs correctly, but has now fixed the bug
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Data-driven events discovery and planning startup Fever raises $35 million led by Rakuten
News discovery app SmartNews valued at $1.1B
Series A(ggregate)
Startups Weekly: DoorDash gets a taste of Caviar
Early-bird pricing ends next week for TC Sessions: Enterprise 2019
Following Ninja?s news, Mixer pops to top of the App Store?s free charts
Unpacking DoorDash?s $410M Caviar acquisition
Scottish spaceport closer to launch after land lease signed
Biome Makers closes $4M to assess the quality of the ?gut bacteria? of a farm?s soil
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Babylon Health confirms $550M raise at $2B+ valuation to expand its AI-based health services
Africa Roundup: Canal+ acquires ROK, Flutterwave and Alipay partner, OPay raises $50M
UrbanClap, India?s largest home services startup, raises $75M
Dasha AI is calling so you don?t have to
StockX admits ?suspicious activity? led to resetting passwords without warning
Bloomscape raises $7.5M to sell you plants of all sizes
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Ninja is leaving Twitch for Microsoft?s Mixer
Which immigration headlines should you care about
Holloway launches in-depth startup guides, aims to rewrite publishing with $4.6M from NYT, tech VCs
What founders need to know about pro rata rights
Cloud-based design tool Figma launches plug-ins
Asana launches Workload to help prevent burnout
Amazon-backed food delivery startup Deliveroo acquires Edinburgh software studio Cultivate
SafetyWing raises $3.5M seed to offer medical insurance to ?digital nomads?
The ?world?s largest internet restaurant company? quietly raised $125 million this month
Revolut launches stock trading in limited release
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What happened to the sharing economy
Aspire raises $32.5M to help SMEs secure fast finance in Southeast Asia
Impossible Foods goes to the grocery store
Prodly announces $3.5M seed to automate low-code cloud deployments
Direct-to-consumer lingerie brand Lively acquired for $85M
Consumer internet companies are easy to understand, but hard to create
Clearbanc co-founder and president Michele Romanow is coming to Disrupt SF
Investors bet another $50M on Clearbanc?s revenue share model
Luna Labs creates playable ads, directly from Unity
Hello Heart raises $12 million for at-home monitoring and behavioral treatment for hypertension
Porsche Digital expands US presence beyond Silicon Valley with new Atlanta office
Jamf acquires Digita Security to gain native Mac security
Trueface raises $3.7M to recognise that gun, as it?s being pulled, in real time
Visa pitches a program offering fintechs faster market access through an ecosystem of partners
Roxanne Varza to give an update on Station F at Disrupt Berlin
NASA calls for more companies to join its commercial lunar lander program
NASA taps SpaceX, Blue Origin and 11 more companies for Moon and Mars space tech
Inside the history of Silicon Valley labor, with Louis Hyman
DigitalOcean gets a new CEO and CFO
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The dreaded 10x, or, how to handle exceptional employees
Vacasa to acquire Wyndham Vacation Rentals for $162M
Confluera snags $9M Series A to help stop cyberattacks in real time
?The Operators?: Experts from WeWork and Brex talk marketing ? Getting the most bang for your buck
Vymo raises $18M to help on-the-go salespeople do more
NakedPoppy launches curated beauty marketplace for wellness junkies
Blockchain (the company) launches an exchange (The Pit)
Techstars nabs $42M to expand its global presence
Real estate platform Compass raises another $370M on a $6.4B valuation en route to an IPO
Mobile messaging financial advisory service Stackin? adds banking features and raises cash
With Y Combinator?s seal of approval, MyPetrolPump raises $1.6 million for its car refueling business
A guide to Virtual Beings and how they impact our world
Ordermark, the online-delivery order management service for restaurants, raises $18 million
Tesseract makes spacecraft propulsion smaller, greener, stronger
Facebook and YouTube?s moderation failure is an opportunity to deplatform the platforms
Dark emerges from stealth with unique ?deployless? software model
The Exit: The acquisition charting Salesforce?s future
Minut raises $8M Series A for its camera-less home security device
Prenetics partners with Watsons, one of Asia?s largest personal care retailers, to sell its new consumer DNA tests
Applications are open for Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin 2019
Startups Weekly: SoftBank?s second act
Ethics in the age of autonomous vehicles
Lessons from the hardware capital of the world
Fintech decacorn Nubank raises $400M led by TCV
David and Goliath: Approaching the ?deal?
FeaturePeek wants to put an end to last-minute, front-end design reviews
Muzmatch adds $7M to swipe right on Muslim-majority markets
Why the hell is Robinhood worth $7.6B
Unity, now valued at $6B, raising up to $525M
Is space truly within reach for startups and VC
Africa?s ride-hail markets are hot spots for startups and VC
An inside look at the startup behind Ashton Kutcher?s weird tweets
How top VCs view the new future of micromobility
CrunchMatch simplifies networking at TC Sessions: Enterprise 2019
Standard Cognition lands $35M at $535M valuation to battle Amazon Go
Airbud raises $4 million to add a voice interface to your website
ispace Europe tapped by the European Space Agency for mission to extract water from the Moon
Brainly, a crowdsourced homework helper for students, raises $30M to expand in the US
ispace becomes the first private Chinese company to launch satellites to orbit
Ethyca raises $4.2M to simplify GDPR compliance
Toyota invests $600 million in Didi, with the two setting up a new joint venture for driver services
Robinhood stored passwords in plaintext, so change yours now
How startups can make the open office work, for employers and employees
Peer-to-peer parking marketplace Rover tests monthly subscriptions
Dataplor raises $2M to digitize small businesses in Latin America
DoorDash will change controversial tipping model
Revolut tweaks business accounts with new pricing structure
Benchling?s software for managing biotech research nabs $34.5 million
Raena raises $1.82 million to help influencers in Southeast Asia launch their own consumer brands
Adam Nelson joins FirstMark Capital
New THC and CBD-infused beverage company, Cann, joins the race to replace booze
With $160 million in new funding, Freenome looks to commercialize its blood test to detect colorectal cancer
SMB payroll startup Gusto raises $200M Series D, plans R D expansion to NYC
Sales professionals get a bad rap ? Bravado wants to change that
Tile finds another $45M to expand its item-tracking devices and platform
Drip Capital raises $25M to help exporters access working capital
Andreessen Horowitz values camping business Hipcamp at $127M
LIV, a startup making VR gaming more interactive for audiences, raises $1M from Oculus founder and Seedcamp
Indonesian startup Pomona raises $3 million to help brands increase engagement with cashback offers
WeWork accelerates IPO plans, plots September listing
Healthcare startups struggle to navigate a business world that?s set up for them to fail
How Axis went from concept to shipping its Gear smart blinds hardware
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Embedded finance, or why fintech mega VC rounds have become so common
Agolo attracts Microsoft and Google funding with AI-powered summarization tools
From liberal arts PhD to pre-IPO startup CEO with Shift?s Toby Russell
The road ahead for Waymo, AV engineering and mobility, with Waymo CTO Dmitri Dolgov
Known for its electric scooters, Gogoro moves toward its future as a mobility platform
Fintech firm Zeta?s valuation climbs to $300M in its first external funding round
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Thumbtack raises $150 million for its local services marketplace
CircleCI closes $56M Series D investment as market for continuous delivery expands
Inventables raises $11.5M for its desktop milling technology
Fetch Robotics raises $46 million to expand warehouse automation internationally
Mixhalo raises $10.7M to bring better sound quality to live events
Arrcus snags $30M Series B as it tries to disrupt networking biz
Freedom Robotics raises $6.6M to take the hassle out of founding a robotics startup
Analytics startup Heap raises $55M
TrustRadius, a customer-generated B2B software review platform, raises $12.5M
The cyber libel trial against independent news startup Rappler?s CEO and one of its former writers starts in Manila
The ?Costco of cannabis? raises $2.8 million for a membership weed delivery service
Onward raises $1.5 million to offer round-trip rides to older adults needing assistance
Meet 500 Startups? 25th batch of startups
The roles tools play in employee engagement
Serverless, Inc. expands free Framework to include monitoring and security
Microsoft invests $1 billion in OpenAI in new multiyear partnership
Airbnb introduces new search tools for business travelers
Sennder raises $70M on $300M valuation to take on the freight-forwarding industry
Visa invests in India-based B2B payments platform PayMate?s $25M round
UVeye snaps up $31M for its hyper-detailed, AI-based drive-thru vehicle-scanning platform
Streaming video service Iflix raises more than $50 million led by Fidelity International as it prepares to go public
Startups Weekly: The opportunities challenges for mental health tech
Medallia stock up 76% following first day trading on the NYSE
Deadline extended! Apply to the All Raise female founder program at Disrupt SF 2019
India?s Oyo valued at $10B after founder purchases $2B in shares
Self-driving startup AutoX expands beyond deliveries and sets its sights on Europe
How to go to market in middle America
Mylk Guys wants to be the online vegan grocery store that non-vegans can love
Lexion raises $4.2M to bring AI to contract management
Tiny UK startup takes on Google?s Wing in the race to a drone traffic control system
VertoFX raises $2M for its African and EM currency trading platform
WeWork CEO Adam Neumann has reportedly cashed out of over $700 million ahead of its IPO
Hardware startups take center stage for Hardware Battlefield at TC Shenzhen
VMware acquires ML acceleration startup Bitfusion
Submittable raises $10M to help publishers and other organizations manage their submissions
Rent the Backyard wants to build a studio apartment in your yard
Blue Origin CEO Bob Smith joins Disrupt SF to talk about bringing the Moon within reach
InCountry raises $15M for its cloud-based private data storage-as-a-service solution
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Haus, the real estate startup founded by Garrett Camp, raises $7.1M
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Inside Harley-Davidson?s EV shift with a ride on its LiveWire
VComply raises $2.5 million seed round led by Accel to simplify risk and compliance management
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Banking startup N26 raises another $170 million at $3.5 billion valuation
Coinbase tells you if top holders are buying or selling a crypto asset
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How much HR does a scale-up need
In-space shuttle service, Momentus, raises $25.5 million as investments climb for ?new space? tech
10x Ascend aims to help tech talent with job negotiations
ClassPass introduces a corporate wellness program
Peer-to-peer car-sharing marketplace Turo raises $250M at over $1B valuation from IAC
Dust Identity secures $10M Series A to identify objects with diamond dust
Snyk brings in new CEO to help lead future expansion
India?s 30-year-old MyMoneyMantra raises $15M to scale its financial services marketplace
Stonly lets you create interactive step-by-step guides to improve support
AlphaSense, a search engine for analysis and business intel, raises $50M led by Innovation Endeavors
Contract management startup Icertis becomes unicorn with $115M new round
ContractPodAi scores $55M for its ?AI-powered? contract management software
Elon Musk?s Neuralink looks to begin outfitting human brains with faster input and output starting next year
CES will allow sex tech on a one-year trial basis, and finally bans booth babes
Final ticket release to the 14th Annual TechCrunch Summer Party
What seed-stage dilution tells us about changing investor expectations
Social chat app Capture launches to take a shot at less viral success
One of Uber?s flying taxi partners just raised a $25 million Series A round
What we can learn from DTC success with TV ads
Billie raises ?30M for its B2B invoicing and payments platform
Voyant Photonics raises $4.3M to fit lidar on the head of a pin
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China startup deals shrink as fundraising for investors plummets
Quirk wants to make cognitive behavioral therapy more accessible
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3 lessons from Roblox?s growth to gaming dominance
Newsletter platform Substack raises $15.3M round led by a16z
Esports org 100 Thieves raises $35 million in Series B
Flybits nabs $35M to build consumer recommendation engines for the financial sector
Near raises $100M for an AI that merges online and offline behavior to build consumer profiles
N26 announces N26 You, a revamped premium account
Raisin picks up $28M backing from Goldman Sachs for its savings and investment marketplace
Curve, the ?over-the-top? banking platform, raises $55M at a $250M valuation
Why commerce companies are the advertising players to watch in a privacy-centric world
The need-to-know takeaways from VidCon 2019
Brave Care, backed by Y Combinator, is an urgent care clinic just for kids
?The Operators?: Understanding your user ? The art and science of UI/UX behind Facebook, Google, Mint, and Edmodo
Serena Williams, Mark Cuban invest $3 million in Mahmee, a digital support network for new moms
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Customer data management company Amperity raises $50M
Week-in-Review: Google?s never-ending autonomous road trip
Phuture Foods is creating a plant-based pork substitute for the Asian market
Kibus is like a Keurig for your pet
Is blitzscaling killing early employee equity opportunities
Startups Weekly: Zoom, Superhuman and small reactions to big scandals
As FTC cracks down, data ethics is now a strategic business weapon
Minimum investment for EB-5 investor green card expected to more than double
With so much late-stage money available, why are tech companies going public now
Digging into the Roblox growth strategy
When someone great is gone: How to address grief in the workplace with empathy
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Sage Plus for Experts gives travel experts a central place to share their content
Dejbox wants to deliver food to offices in business districts at scale
Kencko chugs down $3.4M to help you get more fruit and vegetables in your diet
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This new autonomous startup has designed its delivery robot to conquer winter
Cannabis processing startups hope to unlock new chemicals and treatments
How Roblox avoided the gaming graveyard and grew into a $2.5B company
Andrew Ng to talk about how AI will transform business at TC Sessions: Enterprise
SEC approves 1st consumer RegA+ token Props for cross-app rewards
Demetrix raises $50 million to brew cannabis
GetAccept?s workflow and e-signature platform for sales secures $7M Series A funding
Brooklinen, known for high-quality bed sheets, launches its first line of loungewear
Swit, a collaboration suite that offers ?freedom from integrations,? raises $6 million in seed funding
OneTrust raises $200M at a $1.3B valuation to help organizations navigate online privacy rules
N26 launches its challenger bank in the US
Hospitality business Sonder confirms new investment, $1B+ valuation
Signavio raises $177M at a $400M valuation for its business process automation solutions
Presso is piloting dry cleaning vending machines at midwestern hotels
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India?s Rivigo raises $65M to expand its freight and logistics platform
VC firm Otium Venture becomes Frst and raises new fund
Bankrupt Maker Faire revives, reduced to Make Community
Bird plans to hire 1,000 people in Paris
What CISOs need to learn from WannaCry
3 reasons startups should exhibit at Disrupt SF 2019
Planted joins the meatless meat melee with its pea-protein ?chicken?
Revolut opens tech hub in Berlin
The future of car ownership: Cars-as-a-service
Techstars Detroit announces first class after major refocus
Anvyl, looking to help D2C brands manage their supply chain, raises $9.3M
Birth control delivery startup Nurx introduces STI home-testing kits
Visa funds $40M for no-password crypto vault Anchorage
Dataform scores $2M to build an ?operating system? for data warehouses
India?s Byju?s raises $150 million to expand globally
Opera founded startup OPay raises $50M for mobile finance in Nigeria
Remitly raises $220M to expand from money transfers to financial services, now at ~$1B valuation
Fresh tickets to our 14th Annual TechCrunch Summer Party
Bunq lets you track and settle up group expenses
After selling Auris for $3.4 billion to J J, CEO Frederic Moll and lead investor Ajay Royan come to Disrupt
AppLovin acquires SafeDK to improve brand safety
Hardware startups: Pitch to the world?s top investors at Hardware Battlefield 2019
The News Project?s publishing platform goes live with its first customer, CALmatters
Understanding mental health in Silicon Valley, with professional coach and former investor Jerry Colonna
Glitch is bringing remix culture back to the web with a $30 million Series A round
India?s NiYO ?neo-bank? raises $35M to help blue-collar workers access financial services
Staffbase, the mobile-first employee communication and ?experience? platform, raises $23M Series C
Habito, the digital mortgage broker, will begin direct lending via its own mortgages
Richard Branson?s Virgin Galactic will be the first publicly traded company for human spaceflight
HQ Trivia has paid out $6M, but winners complain of delays
SpaceX contracted by NASA to launch black hole and neutron star research craft
Final days to apply for TC Top Picks at Disrupt SF 2019
Meituan, Alibaba and the new landscape of ride-hailing in China
Grasshopper?s Judith Erwin leaps into innovation banking
15Five raises $30.7M to expand its employee development toolkit
The startups creating the future of RegTech and financial services
Startups Weekly: 2019 VC spending may eclipse 2018 record
A 23-year-old B2B company has shown how keen India is for tech IPOs
Daily Crunch: Layoffs at HQ Trivia
Karamel is an app to find activities for your kids
Investing elsewhere with Revolution?s Clara Sieg
Clever Cloud launches GPU-based instances
Smart scooter company Gogoro launches GoShare, an end-to-end vehicle-sharing platform
Waresix hauls in $14.5M to advance its push to digitize logistics in Indonesia
UnitedMasters releases iPhone app for DIY cross-service music distribution
HQ Trivia lays off ~20% as it preps subscriptions
Why you should naturalize ? now, not later
Q A Sessions return to Disrupt Berlin 2019
Dott raises $34 million to build a sustainable scooter startup
Shine adds premium accounts to its bank for freelancers
Swedish ?neobank? P.F.C. picks up ?5M backing from Nordic banking giant Nordea
Superhuman removes email location logging, will turn read receipts off by default
Pod Foods gets VC backing to reinvent grocery distribution
Earios is a new podcast network for women creators
Earios is a new podcast network for women creators
Bird investor Upfront Ventures eyes $250M growth fund
Pax Labs CEO Bharat Vasan and serial founder Keith McCarty are coming to Disrupt SF
What everyone at a startup needs to know about immigration
IP strategy: How should startups decide whether to file patents
NSLComm?s first spring-loaded expanding antenna satellite is headed to space
SoftBank Vision Fund partner David Thevenon is coming to Disrupt Berlin
Klaus, the ?conversation review? tool for support teams, picks up $1.9M seed
Cubyn raises ?12M Series B to let e-merchants outsource fulfilment
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Kyash, a would-be challenger bank in Japan, raises $14M
Podimo raises ?6M to become Europe?s ?Netflix for podcasts?
TikTok is being investigated in the U.K. for how it handles children?s data and safety
KKR has acquired Corel (including its recent acquisition Parallels), reportedly for $1B+
From seed to Series A: Scaling a startup in Latin America today
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Sam Lessin and Andrew Kortina on their voice assistant?s workplace pivot
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Fast Forward raises new war chest to fight Silicon Valley?s inequality machine
Polyrize raises $4M for its next-gen authorization platform
Kabbage secures $200M to fuel its AI-based loans platform for small businesses
Sweet Escape, a platform for booking photographers, raises $6M
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Africa Roundup: Yamaha backs MAX, Founders Factory and Norrsken support startups, inside Ethiopia?s tech scene
Ola Electric becomes India?s newest unicorn with new $250 million investment from SoftBank
Atlan raises $2.5M to stop enterprises from being so bad at managing data
Venture-backed telemedicine startup Call9 is shutting down
VCs bet on Aegis AI, a startup using computer vision to detect guns
Calm raises $27M to McConaughey you to sleep
In-depth with Freada Kapor Klein
AR headsets promise new enterprise productivity, but can the startups building them survive
?The Operators?: Slack PM Lorilyn McCue and Google Senior PM Jamal Eason on becoming a product manager and PM best practices
Revolut lets you round up payments and donate to charities
Talk leadership and mental health with VC-turned-professional coach Jerry Colonna
Apply for an AMA session with a female All Raise VC at Disrupt SF 2019
Verified Expert Growth Marketing Agency: Factorial Digital
MobiTV tunes into $50M for its set-top-box-free broadcast services for pay TV providers
Hear about how to exit from Jess Lee, Justin Kan and Michael Marquez at Disrupt SF
Tara.ai, which uses machine learning to spec out and manage engineering projects, nabs $10M
Flux, the digital receipts and rewards platform, adds support for online takeout marketplace Just Eat
With a fresh $10 million in the bank, DotLab hopes to bring endometriosis test to market
Cozycozy is an accommodation search service that works with hotels and Airbnb
The IPO?d learn investing at First Round?s Angel Track
How a martial arts gym trained me to build an inclusive culture
Startups at the speed of light: Lidar CEOs put their industry in perspective
Rocket Lab successfully launches seventh Electron rocket for ?Make It Rain? mission
Startups Weekly: What?s next for WeWork
Google finance head joins Postmates board ahead of anticipated IPO
Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes to stand trial in 2020
Facebook SDK bug crashed apps like Timehop
How startups can make influencer marketing work on a budget
SoftBank-backed startup cracks under pressure to scale
DoorDash double downs on controversial pay model
The rise of the new crypto ?mafias?
Videos lead brand creative growth with 3x increase since 2017
My six months with $30/month email service Superhuman
Ornikar raises $40 million for its driving school marketplace
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Zola founder and CEO Shan-Lyn Ma is coming to Disrupt SF
Assistive technologies will be a $26 billion dollar market, and investors are only now addressing it
Fellow raises $6.5M to help make managers better at leading teams and people
Fungible raises $200 million led by SoftBank Vision Fund to help companies handle increasingly massive amounts of data
Amperity update gives customers more control over Customer Data Platform
Corporate travel platform TripActions quadruples valuation with $250M Series D
Toronto Raptors founder brings Bird scooters to Canada as a platform partner
Station F launches a co-living space for 600 startup people
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Taster raises another $8 million for its native food delivery brands
Jewelry startup AUrate raises $13M
Skubana raises $5.4M for its e-commerce operations software
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Why Carbon just raised another $260 million
Bright Machines wants to put AI-driven automation in every factory
300M-user meme site Imgur raises $20M from Coil to pay creators
Lifestyle goods resale marketplace StockX raises $110M, pushing valuation past $1B
Vulcan Cyber announces $10M Series A to automate security patching efforts
Scribd introduces bite-sized nonfiction previews called Snapshots
Web3 platform 3Box raises seed to bring back control of user data
India?s Unacademy raises $50 million to grow its online learning platform
WeWork acquires Waltz, an app that lets users access different spaces with a single credential
San Francisco takes the final steps toward becoming the first U.S. city to ban vaping product sales
Dirty Lemon parent Iris Nova will fund and distribute third-party beverages
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How to scale a start-up in school
AI services startup Hypergiant brings on Bill Nye as an advisor
Wedding dress customizer Anomalie raises $13M as bridal stores crumble
?This is Your Life in Silicon Valley?: Former Pinterest President, Moment CEO Tim Kendall on Smartphone Addiction
Barbershop management platform Squire raises $8 million Series A round
Join raises $4M seed round to build a better construction planning platform
Why eVTOLs could be providing regional air service sooner than you think
Cameo raises $50M to deliver personalized messages from celebrities influencers
Tundra, the zero-fee wholesale marketplace, picks up $12 million
Showpad, a sales enablement platform for presentations and other collateral, raises $70M
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The next service marketplace wave: Vertical market-networks
Trash uses AI to edit your footage into a fun, short videos
SpaceRyde wants to make access to space more available and more affordable
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Equity transcribed: Slack?s IPO, the VCs behind Facebook Libra, founder salaries and trouble in scooter-land
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Slack and Zoom are flying high; they?re also being chased already by upstarts
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?This is Your Life in Silicon Valley?: Nomiku Founder CEO Lisa Fetterman on why Silicon Valley doesn?t care about female founders
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Nowports raises $5.3 million to become Latin America?s digital shipping answer to Flexport
Early-bird pricing ends tonight for TC Sessions: Mobility 2019
Space startup Wyvern wants to make data about Earth?s health much more accessible
Northzone?s Paul Murphy goes deep on the next era of gaming
African fintech dominates Catalyst Fund?s 2019 startup cohort
The VCs behind Libra, Facebook?s new cryptocurrency
Ethiopia?s bid to become an African startup hub hinges on connectivity
Meet your new chief of staff: An AI chatbot
A chat with Niantic CEO John Hanke on the launch of Harry Potter: Wizards Unite
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?The Operators?: Acceleprise partner Whitney Sales and Docsend CEO Russ Heddleston on how to grow your sales strategies
Transitioning from engineering to product with Adobe?s Anjul Bhambhri
Brex CEO Henrique Dubugras is coming to Disrupt SF
Machine learning for everyone startup Intersect Labs launches platform for data analysis
Slack opens at $38.50, a pop of 48% on its first day of trading on NYSE as WORK
The boring genius of how Atrium kills legal busy work
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AI-based travel app Hopper expands price monitoring to hotels worldwide
Armoire is angling to become the everyday Rent the Runway
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GirlGaze Network looks to connect brands with female creatives
SaaS data protection provider Druva nabs $130M, now at a $1B+ valuation, acquiring CloudLanes
iRobot acquires education startup Root Robotics
MAX.ng raises $7M round backed by Yamaha and pilots EVs in Nigeria
Founders Factory is going live in Paris
Slack prices IPO at $26 per share
Canada?s True North conference is not your typical tech event
Video and messaging enable remote work. But is it right for your company
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Humanising Autonomy pulls in $5M to help self-driving cars keep an eye on pedestrians
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Text IQ, a machine learning platform for parsing sensitive corporate data, raises $12.6M
Risks and rewards of digital therapeutics in treating mental disorders
Tally?s Jason Brown on fintech?s first debt roboadvisor and an automated financial future
Whitebox raises $5M for its e-commerce logistics platform
Echo, the medication management app, has been acquired by LloydsPharmacy-owner McKesson
Indonesia?s EV Hive raises $13.5M and expands into co-living and new retail
Postman raises $50 million to grow its API development platform
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BlackBuck raises $150 million to digitize freight and logistics across India
Struggling grocery startup Honestbee fires its CEO
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Wheely raises $15 million for its luxury ride-hailing app
RosieReality, a Swiss startup using AR to get kids interested in robotics and programming, scores $2.2M seed
Wireless broadband startup Starry files to raise up to $125 million
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Embrace raises $4.5M for its mobile application performance management platform
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Holded, the ?business operating system? for SMEs, gets ?6M in Series A funding led by Lakestar
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HipChat founders launch Swoot, a social podcast app
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Astroscreen raises $1M to detect social media manipulation with machine learning
Marketing platform startup Adverity raises $12.4M in round led by Felix Capital
Bankin? raises $22.6 million for its financial coach
Phantom Auto raises $13.5M to expand remote driving business to delivery bots and forklifts
Spotinst, the startup enabling companies to purchase and manage excess cloud capacity, acquires StratCloud
Consumers get another digital home health offering as Tyto Care and Best Buy launch TytoHome
PathAI raises $60 million for its computer vision-based pathogen detection technology
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Zoom, the profitable tech unicorn, prices IPO above range
Acting as the data integrator between hospitals and digital health apps brings Redox $33 million
NuvoAir raises $3M to help patients monitor respiratory diseases with AI
Birth control delivery startup Nurx taps Clover Health?s Varsha Rao as CEO
Kindbody raises $15M, will open a ‘Fertility Bus& with mobile testing assessments
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ZenGo wants to become the crypto wallet for the masses
Brex, the credit card for startups, raises $100M debt round
Zoom increases IPO price range ahead of Thursday listing
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Walmart partners with subscription-based children?s clothing startup, Kidbox
Techstars celebrates 10 years in Boston and over $1B in graduate funding
Logistics startup Zencargo raises $20M to take on the antiquated business of freight forwarding
Leapwork raises $10M for its easy process automation platform, plans US expansion
Tackling the $190 billion physical therapy market, Sword Health raises $8 million from Khosla Ventures
With 35 different in-home health diagnostic tests now on offer, EverlyWell raises $50 million to expand
Dropbox challenger pCloud just became profitable
Electric car startup Byton loses co-founder and former CEO, reported $500M Series C to close this summer
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Airbnb officially owns HotelTonight
YC alum Keeper raises $1.6M to help gig workers pay taxes
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Password manager Dashlane closes on $30M, adds former Spotify CMO to board
Bird will launch electric scooters in 50+ European cities
African e-commerce startup Jumia?s shares open at $14.50 in NYSE IPO
Backer of Musical.ly, Grindr and Opera to invest $50M in self-driving startup Pony.ai
LumApps raises $24M Series B for its ?social intranet?
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Public health startup Cityblock raises $65M Series B
Rasa raises $13M led by Accel for its developer-friendly open-source approach to chatbots
Armis nabs $65M Series C as IoT security biz grows in leaps and bounds
Lemonade picks up $300 million Series D led by SoftBank Group
Trint, the AI-powered transcription service, closes $4.5M Series A
Shedul, the booking platform for salons and spas, raises $20M Series B at a $105M valuation
InVision announces new integrations with Jira
Streetwear marketplace Bump raises $7.5M
Online used car startup Shift adds another $40M, snags COO in road to IPO
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Pearson is committing $50M to fund next-gen edtech startups
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Restaurant website builder BentoBox raises $16.4M
Esports org OverActive Media gets investment from The Weeknd
Innovation Endeavors debuts Deep Life, an incubator focused on the intersection of life science and computer science
Movo grabs $22.5M to get more cities in LatAm scooting
ShopBack, a cashback startup in Asia Pacific, raises $45M from Rakuten and others
Expanse, which lets its customers know when their digital assets aren?t safe, has raised $70 million in new funding
Labelbox raises $10 million for its services to support machine learning applications
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Personio acquires Spanish payroll startup Rollbox
Indian social commerce startup GlowRoad raises $10M Series B
Dote raises $12M and introduces live-streamed Shopping Parties
PubNub nabs $23M as its IaaS network hits 1.3T messages sent each month
India?s Cashfree raises $5.5M from Korea?s Smilegate, Y Combinator and others
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Leadfeeder raises ?3.1M Series A to turn website visitors into leads
Human rights activist Amira Yahyaoui is battling the US college financial aid system
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Zoom addresses CFO?s past workplace conduct ahead of IPO
Partnering with Visa, emerging market lender Branch International raises $170 million
RightHand Robotics debuts a new pick and place system
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Klaviyo raises $150M Series B after building company the old-fashioned way
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Kabbage raises a record $700 million in debt for its SMB loans platform
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Boomplay, a Spotify-style music and video streaming service for African music and Africa, raises $20M
Landed raises $7.5 million Series A to help teachers buy homes
Lotame pitches an ?unstacked? approach to selling data tools
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Tonal raises $45 million to bring strength training to more living rooms
India?s OYO enters Japan in partnership with SoftBank
OpenClassrooms partners with Microsoft on a masters-level AI diploma
Africa Roundup: Jumia files for IPO, OneFi acquires Amplify, FlexClub expands in Mexico
Swedish fintech Zaver has raised $1.2M seed for its P2P payments platform
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HyperSciences raises an untraditional $9.6M for its hypersonic drilling vision
WeWork acquires Managed by Q
Hometalk raises $15M to grow its DIY community
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Clearbanc plans to disrupt venture capital with ?The 20-Min Term Sheet?
On the heels of a $40 million round, TriNetX brings its services for drug trials to Europe
Torch takes $10M to teach empathy to executives
Scribd kicks off its original content initiative with a book about Robert Mueller
Fleksy?s AI keyboard is getting a store to put mini apps at chatters? fingertips
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Rippling raises $45M at $270M to be the biz app identity layer
Okta unveils $50M in-house venture capital fund
Enterprise blockchain startup Offchain Labs scores $3.7M seed round
Run.AI raises $13M for its distributed machine learning platform
Container security startup Aqua lands $62M Series C
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BuzzFeed teams up with Eko to create interactive recipes and other videos
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Boston Dynamics acquires a 3D vision startup in bid to put its robots to work
Home buying and selling platform Perch raises $220M in debt and equity
Streaming service Quibi snags Snap and Pandora vet Tom Conrad as chief product officer
Alcatraz AI is building Face ID for corporate badges
FireHydrant lands $1.5M seed investment to bring order to IT disaster recovery
Pixeom raises $15M for its software-defined edge computing platform
Edgybees?s new developer platform brings situational awareness to live video feeds
Good Dog raises $6.7 million to help you find a pup
Lyft?s stock has a blue Monday as shares slide after public debut
Elvie raises $42M to become the go-to destination for women?s health
Sqreen raises $14 million for its application security management service
Online catering marketplace ezCater gets another $150M at a $1.25B valuation
German fintech company builder Finleap acquires SME banking provider Penta
A startup trying to detect endometriosis through ?smart tampons? just landed $9 million in Series A funding
ManoMano raises $125 million for its home improvement e-commerce platform
Bringing affiliate marketing and outsourced customer acquisition to Brazil nets Escale $22.6 million
Jio Health combines online and offline healthcare in Southeast Asia, starting in Vietnam
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Focaldata thinks it has some answers for campaigners in the age of Trump and Brexit
Nativo acquires content analytics company SimpleReach
Snap CEO?s sister Caroline Spiegel starts a no-visuals porn site
User Interviews, a platform for product feedback, raises $5 million
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Built Robotics? massive construction excavator drives itself
WeWork backs New York tech clubhouse Betaworks Studios
DoorDash launches a new program highlighting immigrant and refugee business owners
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Boundless gets $7.8M to help immigrants navigate the convoluted green card process
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Drake invests in esports betting startup Players? Lounge
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Atom Tickets to challenge MoviePass with a subscription ticket platform for theaters
Moolah Mobile partners with Surge to offer free mobile service with ads
Forge acquires IRA Services to expand offering for private company shares
PayIt, a payments platform designed for public services, raises $100M+ from Insight Partners
Kong raises $43M Series C for its API platform
Microsoft gives 500 patents to startups
Mattress startup Casper valued at $1.1B with new funding
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Ocean drone startup merger spawns Sofar, the DJI of the sea
Proxy raises $13.6M to unlock anything with Bluetooth identity
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Artiphon raises $2M round led by Warner Music
Goodly replaces lame office perks with student loan repayment
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Enterprise drone service Kespry raises new funding from Salesforce Ventures
Airbnb just checked in its 500 millionth guest
SparkLabs Group launches its first university accelerator program at Arizona State University
Hong Kong-based fintech startup Qupital raises $15M Series A to expand in mainland China
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Linear Labs? next-gen electric motor attracts $4.5 million in funding
Lidar and perception startup Innoviz raises $132 million
Australian influencer marketing startup Tribe raises $7.5M as it eyes US expansion
Hello Alfred launches new platform to reach more buildings and improve accessibility
Vlocity nabs $60M Series C investment on $1B valuation
McDonald?s is acquiring Dynamic Yield to create a more customized drive-thru
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Social investment platform eToro acquires smart contract startup Firmo
Lidar startup Ouster raises $60 million in production run-up
Yunji, a startup that enables social commerce via WeChat, files for $200M US IPO
Gjirafa raises a $6.7M Series B from Rockaway Capital to digitise the Balkans
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Alibaba acquires Israeli VR startup Infinity Augmented Reality
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Clark, a venture-backed tutoring platform, will now help tutors build their own sites
Respondology helps brands and influencers hide toxic comments
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Indonesia?s Kargo comes out of stealth with $7.6M from Travis Kalanick, Sequoia and others
Keatz, a European ?cloud kitchen? startup, raises further ?12M
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Robotics process automation startup UiPath raising $400M at more than $7B valuation
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Rent the Runway hits a $1 billion valuation
Veteran tech journalist Dan Frommer launches his own subscription publication, The New Consumer
Epic Games CEO says Apex Legends hasn?t made a dent in Fortnite
MoviePass co-founder?s new startup PreShow gives you free movie tickets for watching ads
Ludlow Ventures raises $45M for third fund
LogRocket nabs $11M Series A to fix web application errors faster
Guesty, a tech platform for property managers on Airbnb and other rental sites, raises $35M
The Plum Guide raises $18.5M to expand its ?vacation homes for the elite? service
Morphin instantly Deepfakes your face into GIFs
Skymind raises $11.5M to bring deep learning to more enterprises
Music?s next big startup Splice raises $57.5M to sell samples
Skedulo raises $28M for its mobile workforce management service
Movius raises $45M for its business communications service
Iterable lands $50M Series C investment to expand cross-channel marketing platform
Erectile pharmacy app Ro launches telehealth service for women
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Portworx raises $27M Series C for its cloud-native data management platform
Blameless emerges from stealth with $20M investment to help companies transition to SRE
Tandem Bank launches ?Autosavings? account
Welcome Pickups lands ?3.3M funding to offer ?in-destination? travel services
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Launching from YC, Eclipse Foods casts a long shadow over the $336 billion dairy industry
Doctolib is now a unicorn with new $170 million round
Alcohol e-commerce startup Thirstie raises $7M
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Glossier triples valuation, enters unicorn club with $100M round
Patreon ups its revenue cut, but grandfathers in old creators
Custom framing startup Framebridge is opening two retail stores
Employee retention platform Peakon raises further $35M in a new round led by Atomico
Axeleo Capital raises $51 million fund
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Atlassian acquires AgileCraft for $166M
misterb b hits the equity crowdfunding trail to expand into hotels
Y Combinator bets on the booming podcast industry
ClimaCell bets on IoT for better weather forecasts
YC-backed Basement is a social network for close friends only
Lyft?s imminent IPO could value the company at $23B
WorkClout brings SaaS to factory floor to increase operational efficiency
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Zeus raises $24M to make you a living-as-a-service landlord
CoParenter helps divorced parents settle disputes using AI and human mediation
Big data AI startup Noble.AI raises a second seed round from a chemical giant
YC-backed Aura Vision analyzes video footage to provide new data to retailers
Passbase is building a full-stack identity engine with privacy baked in
YourChoice Therapeutics is developing unisex, non-hormonal birth control
Firework officially launches a short-form video storytelling app, backed by Lightspeed
This robot can park your car for you
London proptech startup Nested has laid off 20% of its workforce citing ?Brexit uncertainty?
ProdPerfect gets $2.6 million to automate QA testing for web apps
AI photo startup Polarr raises an $11.5 million Series A
Populus raises $3.1 million to help cities make sense of shared scooters and bikes
WeWork Labs is launching a food tech accelerator
DoorDash claims drivers made an average of at least $17.50/hour on deliveries in 2018
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Sketch, maker of popular design tools, just landed $20 million in Series A funding from Benchmark in its first outside round
The FDA proposes further restrictions to sales of flavored e-cig products
Determined AI nabs $11M Series A to democratize AI development
Automation Hero picks up $14.5 million led by Atomico
Email app Spark adds delegation feature for teams
Competition policy must change to help startups fight ?winner takes all? platforms, says UK report
Acko, a digital insurance provider in India, raises another $65M at a $300M valuation
Drivezy, India?s vehicle-sharing startup, is raising $100M+ at a $400M valuation, eyes US expansion
CXA, a health-focused digital insurance startup, raises $25M
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African e-commerce startup Jumia files for IPO on NYSE
Goalsetter gives parents a way to teach their kids how to save money
Truepill, the ?AWS for pharmacies,? gets $10M from Initialized Capital
Investing app Stash raises $65M, launches banking and ?stock-back? rewards with Green Dot
Pluto is travel insurance aimed at millennials
Instacart?s alcohol delivery is now available in 14 states
The Dubler Studio Kit lets you use your voice to control synths, drum machines and other MIDI gear
Time is Ltd. uses data from Slack and other cloud software to help companies improve productivity
Bottomless has a solution for lazy coffee addicts
Nigeria?s Gloo.ng drops consumer e-commerce, pivots to e-procurement
Amun raises $4M to give stock-like buying options for crypto investors
Talent Garden raises ?44M to expand in cities ignored by the WeWork-style spaces
Starling Bank to open second UK office, creating up to 150 tech and support jobs in Southampton
Appen acquires Figure Eight for up to $300M, bringing two data annotation companies together
Josh Wood, hair colorist to the stars, gets $6.5M led by Index in its latest D2C bet
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Y Combinator president Sam Altman is stepping down amid a series of changes at the accelerator
UK military veteran launches crowd-funding for Pixie app to revive local stores
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Foursquare?s Hypertrending helps you spy on the coolest local happenings
Digital publisher Serial Box raises $4.5M
HealthJoy raises $12.5M Series B to help employees make the most of their healthcare benefits
Okta to acquire workflow automation startup Azuqua for $52.5M
Changes at YC, $1.5B more for ride hailing and Airbnb buys HotelTonight
PolyAI scores $12M Series A to put its ?conversational AI agents? in contact centres
YC?s latest moonshot bet is a startup building a $380K ?flying motorcycle?
WellSaid aims to make natural-sounding synthetic speech a credible alternative to real humans
Camelot lets Twitch and YouTube audiences pay for what they want to see
VCs have growing appetite for ?AgriFood?
Airbnb agrees to acquire last-minute hotel-booking app HotelTonight
Scaleway releases cloud GPU instances for ?1 per hour
Hammerhead raises $4.2M to build a smarter operating system for bikes
Remix picks up $15 million to help cities make better decisions around transit
EToro bringing crypto trading and wallet to the US
Hooch moves beyond subscription drinks, with rewards for travel, dining and more
Bird launches platform to let entrepreneurs manage their own fleet of scooters
SoftBank launches the Innovation Fund, committing $2B to invest in Latin America
Raisin, the marketplace for savings and investment products, acquires German banking provider MHB Bank
Pioneer Square Labs is invigorating Seattle?s startup ecosystem
Court dismisses Paris lawsuit against Airbnb for illegal listings
Square Roots will expand across North America through new partnership
Tia launches a clinic that places the menstrual cycle at the center of care
Red Cat wants to track drone flight data on the blockchain
Clari platform aims to unify go-to-market operations data
Africa Roundup: Kenya?s BRCK acquires EveryLayer, Nigeria?s TeamApt eyes global expansion
Sea is raising up to $1.5B for its Shopee e-commerce business in Southeast Asia
The Silicon Valley exodus continues
Wefox Group, the Berlin-based insurance tech startup, raises $125M Series B led by Mubadala
Blueground raises $20 million for flexible apartment rentals
France overhauls its special visa for tech talent
US mobile bank Chime raises $200 million, valuing its business at $1.5 billion
London-based Soldo has secured an e-money license from Ireland as a hedge against ?crazy? Brexit
Eargo raises $52M for virtually invisible, rechargeable hearing aids
Quip launches toothbrush for kids
Neutrino employees who once worked for a controversial surveillance tech company will leave Coinbase
Failed meal-kit service Munchery owes $6M to gift card holders, vendors
Glossier launches its first spin-off brand, a line of Instagram-friendly ?dialed-up? beauty extras
Shift Technology raises $60 million to detect insurance fraud
Scytale grabs $5M Series A for application-to-application identity management
Tide Foundation gives consumers full control of personal data on blockchain
Go-Jek pulls in $100M more for its massive Series F round
Moka raises $27M led by Hillhouse to make hiring more data-driven in China
Voi Technology, the European e-scooter rentals startup, raises an additional $30M
Startups Weekly: Lyft?s S-1, cash for fertility startups and litigious VCs
WeWork confirms it has laid off 300 employees
Tiger Global and Ant Financial lead $500M investment in China?s shared housing startup Danke
Cherry lets startup employees choose their own office perks
It?s a new era for fertility tech
Sequoia-backed Medallia raises $70M at a $2.4B valuation
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Two Chairs nabs $7M for its client-therapist matching app and brick-and-mortar clinics
Ceros raises $14M for its interactive content platform
Z?m, a ridesharing service for kids, raises $40 million
SoftBank?s Vision Fund invests $1.5B in Chinese second-hand car startup Chehaoduo
Mirakl raises $70 million to manage the marketplace of your e-commerce website
SoFi founder Mike Cagney?s new company, Figure, just raised another $65 million
Presto raises $30M to bring its AI platform and tabletop ordering hardware to restaurant chains
Coterie, a young New York startup, promises to deliver charming party kits to your doorstep
Compass acquires Contactually, a CRM provider to the real estate industry
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The Shadow Ghost turns cloud gaming into a seamless experience
Cequence Security hauls in $17M Series B investment to help protect applications
Threads emerges from stealth with $10.5M from Sequoia for a new take on enabling work conversations
Challenger bank N26 plans to expand to Brazil
Zone7 raises $2.5 million seed round to predict injury risk for athletes
Polis, the door-to-door marketer, raises another $2.5 million
For a monthly subscription fee, this startup will send out customized gifts to current and prospective clients at scale
Sapling, an employee management and on-boarding platform, lands $4 million in seed funding
Search marketing company Botify raises $20M
Gradient Ventures, Google?s AI fund, leads $7M investment in English learning app Elsa
Dipsea raises $5.5M for short-form, sexy audio stories
YieldStreet raises $62M to democratise alternative investments in shipping, real estate and more
Ubiquitilink advance means every phone is now a satellite phone
Superb AI generates customized training data for machine learning projects
With a $3.5 million haul, Dray Alliance joins a booming logistics startup scene in LA
Data startup Narrative raises $3M more
Airbnb, Automattic and Pinterest top rank of most acquisitive unicorns
Startups Weekly: Flexport, Clutter and SoftBank?s blood money
Report: Zoom, the video conferencing company, may be a public company as early as April
Fortnite goes big on esports for 2019 with $100 million prize pool
Pinstagram Instagram code reveals Public Collections feature
Showfields raises $9M for a more flexible approach to brick-and-mortar retail
Circle raises $20M Series B to help even more parents limit screen time
Podcasting startup WaitWhat raises $4.3M as interest in audio content explodes
Sunsama?s $10/month task management calendar cleans up your online productivity
As shared kitchens heat up, a China-based startup, Panda Selected, nabs $50 million led by Tiger Global
DoorDash raises $400M round, now valued at $7.1B
Pinterest files confidentially to go public
Zoba raises $3 million to help mobility companies predict demand
Logistics startup Flexport just raised a SoftBank-led round at a whopping $3.2 billion valuation
About.me acquired by mobile-first small business startup Broadly
Loop acquires ScreenPlay to build its streaming library
wearTRBL lets you express yourself with a connected T-shirt
Powtoon acquires Showbox.com to extend its video-creation platform
Tech investors see bugs as a big business as ?nsect raises $125 million
Clutter confirms SoftBank-led $200M investment for its on-demand storage service
Citymapper announces subscription service for multiple transportation methods
Made.com founder Ning Li launches cosmetics startup Typology
QuizUp founder launches Teatime, a mobile gaming platform with built-in video chat
MLG co-founder Mike Sepso joins 100 Thieves board of directors
Resooma launches Resooma Bills to help ?generation rent? manage household expenditures
StarOfService switches business model for its independent contractor marketplace
Image recognition startup ViSenze raises $20M Series C
Orai raises $2.3M to make you a better speaker
EF raises $115M new fund, aiming to create another 300-plus startups in the next three years
Medal.tv?s clipping service allows gamers to share the moments of their digital lives
Slack off ? send videos instead with $11M-funded Loom
IFTTT co-founder Linden Tibbets steps down as CEO, replaced by turnaround specialist Chris Kibarian
Thumbtack now offers benefits to independent contractors
Kairos gets a $4 million lifeline for its facial recognition software
SendBird snags $52M Series B to expand messaging API tool
Redis Labs raises a $60M Series E round
Senseon raises $6.4M to tackle cybersecurity threats with an AI ?triangulation? approach
Antescofo?s Metronaut adds an orchestra when you play music
Litho is a finger-worn controller for augmented reality, IoT and other ?spatial? interactions
Alan raises another $45 million for its health insurance product
GoCardless raises $75M Series E for its recurring payments network and heads to America
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Apple acquires talking Barbie voicetech startup PullString
GoTrendier raises $3.5 million to take on Spanish-language fashion marketplaces
3DEN raises $2M to create pay-as-you-go urban spaces
StayTuned Digital helps video creators publish and measure everywhere
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Peltarion raises $20M for its AI platform
Figma gets $40 million Series C to put design tools in the cloud
Biotech AI startup Sight Diagnostics gets $27.8M to speed up blood tests
Grover launches e-scooter subscription service
Teckro scores $25M Series C round to speed up clinical trials
Malt raises $28.6 million for its freelancer platform
Qloo acquires cultural recommendation service TasteDive
Medivis has launched its augmented reality platform for surgical planning
Lime loses appeal to operate electric scooters in SF
Asteroid is building a human-machine interaction engine for AR developers
Elevate Security announces $8M Series A to alter employee security behavior
Fiverr acquires ClearVoice to double down on content marketing
DoorDash subsidizes driver wages with tips
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Google expands partnership with Founder Gym to support underrepresented founders
Donde Search picks up $6 million to help fashion retailers with visual search
Mental health startup Lantern will continue to live through IP licensing deals
Devialet?s Phantom Reactor turns music into an emotional experience
Medium buys Bay Area mag The Bold Italic to add to its paywall
Investors are pouring money into Latin America?s logistics and shipping businesses
WeWork launches skills-based profiles as a value add for tenants
Glide helps you build mobile apps from a spreadsheet without coding
Mode, a collaborative analytics platform focused on empowering data scientists, just landed $23 million in fresh funding
Datadog acquires app testing company Madumbo
InVision acquires design file versioning startup Trunk
SumUp acquires ?multi-channel? e-commerce platform Shoplo
Car rental startup Virtuo picks up ?20M Series B
InReach Ventures, the ?AI-powered? European VC, closes new ?53M fund
Bevy acquires community-focused networking company CMX
DoorDash is reportedly raising $500M at a $6B+ valuation
Paris sues Airbnb for illegal listings and seeks $14.2 million
Taali takes its popped water lily snacks from Y Combinator to the world
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Reddit confirms $300M Series D led by China?s Tencent at $3B value
C2A raises $6.5M for its in-car cybersecurity platform
Nordic banking app Lunar Way raises ?13M
Melonport dissolves in favor of its protocol, setting a new bar for the blockchain world
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Extend Fertility banks $15M Series A to help women freeze their eggs
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Foot Locker invests $100 million in GOAT Group
Airbnb hires a global head of transportation
Segmented security startup Illumio raises $65M in Series E round
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DataSine raises $5.2M led by Pentech and Propel for its AI content-marketing platform
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Lime raises $310 million Series D round led by Bain Capital Ventures and others
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NYC launches partnership network, ?The Grid,? to help grow urban tech ecosystem
Meditation app Calm hits unicorn status with fresh $88 million funding
vArmour, a security startup focused on multi-cloud deployments, raises $44M
Raisin raises $114M for its pan-European marketplace for savings and investment products
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Little Spoon gets $7M for its organic baby food delivery service
Signal Sciences secures $35 million investment to protect web apps
By Humankind picks up $4M to rid your morning routine of single-use plastic
Ritual raises $25M for its subscription-based women?s daily vitamin
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Self-driving truck startup Ike raises $52 million
Vinli raises $13.5M Series B to expand its vehicle data intelligence platform
Thriva expands its range of test-at-home kits to add female hormone and cortisol stress tests
HouseMyDog and Gudog merge in European dog walking roll up
Ousted Flipkart founder Binny Bansal aims to help 10,000 Indian founders with new venture
Databricks raises $250M at a $2.75B valuation for its analytics platform
Festicket, the festival booking platform, picks up $4.6M backing from creative investor Edge Investments
Lunchr grabs $34 million for its corporate lunch card
Workplace messaging platform Slack has confidentially filed to go public
Aurora Solar?s computer-generated installation maps pull in a $20M Series A
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Bud raises $20M to connect banks to fintechs and other financial service providers
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Juul Labs hires former Apple employee to lead the fight against counterfeits
Joseph Gordon-Levitt?s artist-collaboration platform HitRecord raises $6.4M
Kleiner Perkins gets back to early-stage with its $600M 18th fund
Houzz resets user passwords after data breach
Step targets teens and parents with a no-fees mobile bank account and Visa card
Dadi brings in $2M to democratize sperm storage
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FabFitFun raises $80 million for its growing lifestyle brand
Amex blocks Curve as the fintech startup vows to fight ?anti-competitive? decision
Wanna Kicks, a new AR app from Wannaby, lets you virtually ?try on? your next pair of kicks
Altice to acquire majority stake in OTT startup Molotov
Pinterest puts an IPO on its pinboard, hiring Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan to lead an offering this year
Knotch raises $25M to help marketers collect data about their content
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Darkstore raises $7.5 million Series A round for its same-day fulfillment center
Alphabet-backed Medicare Advantage startup Clover Health raises $500M
Regulatory demands for better data governance push Collibra?s valuation above $1 billion
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Unity acquires Vivox, which powers voice chat in Fortnite and League of Legends
YC-backed Oxygen raises seed to bring digital banking to freelancers
Petal raises $30M from Valar to bank the unbanked with credit cards
Verbit raises $23M for its transcription service
Timescale announces $15M investment and new enterprise version of TimescaleDB
Aiming to change the way people take medicine, Lyndra Therapeutics raises $55 million
Entrepreneur First eyes further Asia growth to build its global network of founders
TrueLayer?s Payments API lets companies accept payments through Open Banking
5 years after its Oculus investment, a16z leads a new VR startup?s $68M Series A
Wellness startup Hims enters the unicorn club with $100M investment
Former Munchery employees sue company, blame CEO for shutdown
Sapphire Ventures bets big on esports and entertainment with new $115M fund
Kite raises $17M for its AI-driven code completion tool
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Contentsquare, the digital experience insights platform, raises $60M Series C
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The Predictive Index brings in $50M to help businesses create winning teams
Tinder agrees to settle age discrimination lawsuit
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Lydia launches shared accounts for its mobile payment app
Cannabis startup Caliva raises $75M from former Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz and Joe Montana
Asian food delivery startup Chowbus raises $4M
Swarm Technologies raises $25M to deploy its own 150-satellite constellation
Whim, the all-in-one mobility app for ridesharing, public transit and rentals is coming to the US
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Vangst just raised $10 million to plug more people into the fast-growing cannabis industry
Microsoft acquires Citus Data
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Kustomer nabs $35M to take on Zendesk and Salesforce with its Slack-like approach to CRM
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Trust Will closes first electronic will in the US (plus $2m investment)
Alphabet?s healthcare subsidiary Verily is expanding its startup investment program
Postmates brings on two new execs from Pinterest
Verizon?s unlimited data carrier Visible starts selling iPhones, announces Android compatibility
Humio raises $9M Series A for its real-time log analysis platform
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Sherpa, a Spanish voice assistant, expands Series A to $15M as it passes 5M users
Sequoia-backed NEXT gets $97M as investment in logistics heats up
Idera acquires Travis CI
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Uplift raises $123M to bring flexible payments to the travel industry
pi-top?s latest edtech tool doubles down on maker culture
Epic Games buys 3Lateral, maker of super-realistic ?digital humans?
Connecting African software developers with top tech companies nets Andela $100 million
Electric, the startup that automates IT, raises $25 million from GGV
DoorDash poaches Uber Eats engineering boss
Desktop Metal just raised another $160 million
Lumigo scores $8M seed to help manage serverless operations
Adobe acquires Allegorithmic, makers of the Substance texture tools
Anchorage emerges with $17M from a16z for ?omnimetric? crypto security
Brandless introduces a $9 price point with the launch of baby and pet products
Dog cancer treatment startup raises $5 million from Andreessen Horowitz and others
Juniper Networks invests $2.5M in enterprise tech accelerator Alchemist
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Mooncard raises $5.7 million for its expense platform
Varsity Tutors acquires Veritas Prep to expand into live online classes
Adtech veteran Marcus Startzel becomes CEO at Whitebox
Dosh raises $40M on $300M valuation as its cashback app passes $50M doled out to shoppers
Wynd raises $82 million for its store management service
Citizens Reserve is building a supply chain platform on the blockchain
Adjust expands its anti-ad fraud tech by acquiring Unbotify
The Pill Club raises $51M as VCs find new opportunities in women?s health
UK startup veteran and investor Wendy Tan White joins Alphabet?s X as Vice President
Axa Venture Partners raises $150 million early-stage fund
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Roger Dickey ditches $32M-funded Gigster to start Untitled Labs
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Whyd now helps companies create their custom voice assistant
Flash, the stealthy e-scooter and ?micro-mobility? startup from Delivery Hero founder, raises ?55M Series A
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SeeTree raises $11.5M to help farmers manage their orchards
Dreaming of Mars, the startup Relativity Space gets its first launch site on Earth
Pro.com raises $33M for its home improvement platform
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Index has backed Immersive Games Lab, a new startup from founder of Tough Mudder
Former Facebook engineer picks up $15M for AI platform Spell
On-demand workspace platform Breather taps new CEO
Alation announces $50M Series C investment as data catalog biz takes off
Innovaccer nabs $11 million from Microsoft?s VC arm to give doctors a better window into patient health
German HR and recruiting platform Personio raises $40M Series B led by Index
Ciitizen raises $17 million to give cancer patients better control over their health records
Email security company Tessian is closing in on a $40M round led by Sequoia Capital
Ubiquity6 acquires AR music startup Wavy
Driving down the cost of preserving genetic material, Acorn Biolabs raises $3.3 million
We Company CEO in hot water over being both a tenant and a landlord
HyperScience, the machine learning startup tackling data entry, raises $30 million Series B
Techstars will build and launch startups with new venture studio
Instamojo raises $7M to help SMEs and ?micro-entrepreneurs? in India sell online
YC-backed Upsolve is automating bankruptcy for everyone
On-demand telehealth company Tyto Care adds Sanford Health, Itochu and Shenzhen Capital Group as strategic investors
Consolidation is coming to gaming, and Jam City raises $145 million to capitalize on it
BeMyEye acquires Streetbee, a Russian crowdsourcing and image recognition provider
Doctolib details how telemedicine appointments work
GBatteries let you charge your car as quickly as visiting the pump
Opendoor competitor Knock raises $400M
Campaign Monitor acquires email enterprise services Sailthru and Liveclicker
Ahead of IPO, Airbnb achieves profitability for second year in a row
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Maverick Ventures announces $382M evergreen fund
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Workforce management solution Quinyx raises further $25M
Contabilizei raises $20 million to ease Brazilians? tax pain
Freelancer banking service Shine switches to paid subscriptions
Computer vision startup AnyVision pulls in new funding from Lightspeed
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WeWork gets into the food business, backing the superfood startup of big wave surfer Laird Hamilton
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Revolut hires Freetrade co-founder and former CTO as head of Wealth Trading Product
Mr Jeff bags $12M Series A to replace trips to the laundromat
Badi gets $30M for AI-aided room rentals
Emeritus, which develops online courses with universities, raises $40M
TransferWise applying for Brussels license in bid to navigate a ?no deal? Brexit
Banking startup N26 raises $300 million at $2.7 billion valuation
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Bowery Valuation raises $12 million more to automate the real estate appraisal process
Report: Self-driving car startup Aurora is raising capital at a $2B valuation
Managed by Q ends 2018 with a fresh $25 million in funding
Women?s co-working space The Wing adjusts membership policy to allow all genders
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Scape Technologies raises $8M to let machines visually understand their surroundings
For SoftBank, no majority stake in WeWork as it scales down talks from a new $16 billion investment to $2 billion
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To automate bigger stores than Amazon, Standard Cognition buys Explorer.ai
Open source monetization startup Tidelift raises $25m series B
Pouch, the browser extension that surfaces discount codes, has been acquired by Global Savings Group
Ledger announces next-generation cryptocurrency hardware wallet
Fitness marketplace ClassPass acquires competitor GuavaPass
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Boom Supersonic nabs $100M to build its Mach 2.2 commercial airliner
Trading app Robinhood is stealthily recruiting ahead of planned UK launch
Moesif raises $3.5M seed round to provide insight into API usage
FloWater just raised $15 million to put bottled water out of business
Challenger bank Monzo has quietly begun working on a U.S. launch
Scratch 3.0 is now available
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Go-Jek extends ride-hailing service to the rest of Singapore
NYSE operator?s crypto project Bakkt brings in $182M
Samsara banks $100M at a $3.6B valuation for its internet-connected sensors
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TrueFacet, which sells pre-owned, authenticated watches and jewelry, is raising a $10 million round of funding
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Crowdfunded developer of space sim Star Citizen takes on $46M in funding at nearly $500M valuation
Bounce raises $1.2M to tap local retailers for short-term storage
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CherryHome raises $5.2M to apply AI to home care cameras, detecting behavior changes
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Zynga to acquire Small Giant Games, the maker of Empires Puzzles, for $700M
Earnin raises $125M to help workers track and cash out wages in real time
Boosted nabs $60M as the electric skateboard maker looks to build something new
Juul Labs gets $12.8 billion investment from Marlboro maker Altria Group
Gamelearn closes $5M Series A to develop video games for corporate training
Square Roots is bringing more transparency to its produce
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Coinbase?s Earn.com becomes a crypto webinar with crypto rewards
Devcon raises $4.5M to beef up adtech security
PetaGene scores $2.1M in funding for its genomics data compression technology
Teeth aligner startup Candid opens physical location in SF
Dataiku raises $101 million for its collaborative data science platform
Elementary Robotics raises cash to expand in Los Angeles? growing robotics hub
Kahoot, a ?Netflix for education?, launches an accelerator to tap gaming and education startups
Morressier makes it easy to share early research
Price f(x) picks up ?25M Series B for its pricing optimization SaaS
The Wing gets $75M from Sequoia, Airbnb
Flux raises $7.5M Series A to bring its digital receipts platform to more banks and merchants
PixelMe raises $1.3 million for its retargeting URL shortener
Uber to resume autonomous vehicle testing months after fatal accident
Rothy?s just landed $35 million from Goldman Sachs to sell more of its popular ballet flats
Coinbase lets you convert one cryptocurrency into another
Ex-Googlers meld humans machines at new cobotics startup Formant
SpaceX said to be raising $500M to help fund internet service
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Ada nets $19 million Series A to grow its customer service chatbot
A month after $70M, Clearbanc raises $50M fund to front startups ad money
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Tonsser scores ?5.5M Series A to help discover the next soccer star
YouGov acquires social analytics company Portent.IO
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Moonbug nabs $145M to buy up kids? digital media brands
Lightspeed is raising its largest China fund yet
N26 launches its premium offering in the UK
RightHand Robotics grabs $23 million in funding
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Careem launches delivery service as it nears closing a massive round
K Health raises $25M for its AI-powered primary care platform
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Meeshkan raises ?370K for its ?ChatOps? bot for training machine learning models
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Propel raises $12.8M for its free app to manage government benefits
Niantic reportedly raising $200M at $3.9B valuation
Robinhood said to not be properly insured to offer checking savings
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LemonBox, which brings US vitamins to Chinese consumers, raises $2M
International money transfer company TransferGo scores $17.6M Series B
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OffGridBox raises $1.6M to charge and hydrate rural Africa with its all-in-one installations
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Construction management software developer Procore raises $75 million at a $3 billion valuation
Mental wellness startup Wisdo launches with $11 million in funding
Keepsafe launches My Number Lookup so you can see the public data tied to your mobile number
Sovrn acquires VigLink to expand its publisher monetization platform
Robinhood launches no-fee checking/savings with Mastercard the most ATMs
African fintech startup Jumo raises $12.5M more to fund Asia expansion
Minted lands $208M Series E from Permira and T. Rowe Price
Postmates unveils Serve, a friendlier autonomous delivery robot
Glose raises $3.4 million for its collaborative reading app
Finalcad, the mobile platform for the construction industry, raises $40M Series C
Revolut gets European banking license in Lithuania
Bowery, an indoor farming startup, raises $90 million more, including to counter a SoftBank-funded rival
Farfetch bets on sneakers with $250M Stadium Goods acquisition
YayPay raises $8.4 million for its accounts receivable service
Accenture will acquire digital ad company Adaptly
Tigera raises $30M Series B for its Kubernetes security and compliance platform
Future Family secures a $100M credit line to help more families with fertility care
AI-powered knowledge-sharing platform Guru raises $25 million Series B
Procter Gamble acquires Walker Company, Tristan Walker will remain as CEO
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Juniper Square lines up $25M for its real estate investment platform
Multilingual Indian video app Roposo raises $10M from Tiger Global and Bertelsmann
Wix launches a new suite of products for support, sales and marketing
With $15M, The Riveter plans to open 100 new female-focused co-working spaces
Lift Aircraft?s Hexa may be your first multirotor drone ride
Online liquor store Drizly just landed $34.5 million in fresh funding
WaveOptics nabs $26M as it sets its sights on lower-cost AR hardware
Ultra-affordable ultrasound startup M-SCAN wins TechCrunch Startup Battlefield Africa
Coffee Meets Bagel goes anti-Tinder with a redesign focused on profiles, conversations
AppOnboard raises $15 million to let Android users try before they buy apps on Google Play
TechSee nabs $16M for its customer support solution built on computer vision and AR
Capture lets you grab real 3D models with your iPhone X?s powerful camera
InVision, valued at $1.9 billion, picks up $115 million Series F
Vroom nabs $146M from AutoNation, VCs for its used car site
Fintech startup Plaid raises $250M at a $2.65B valuation
Hardware Club closes its $50 million fund
Molotov creates a VR coffee shop to watch TV together
HypeHop is a product to fix sponsored videos
SoftBank invests in parking startup ParkJockey pushing valuation to $1 billion
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Solo.io raises $11M to help enterprises adopt cloud-native technologies
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Verve, the word-of-mouth selling platform, acquires Campus Vacations for $7M
Waggel launches ?fully digital? pet insurance
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Nigerian logistics startup Kobo360 raises $6M, expands in Africa
Contentful raises $33.5M for its headless CMS platform
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Flipdish raises ?4.8M Series A to wean restaurants off takeout aggregators like Just Eat
LeanIX, the SaaS that lets enterprises map out their software architecture, closes $30M Series C
Taiwan-based travel startup AsiaYo raises $7M Series B led by Alibaba Taiwan Entrepreneurs Fund
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Workato raises $25M for its integration platform
Revcontent names Omar Nicola as its new CEO
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Acast raises $35M to help podcasters make money
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Uber Eats test lets restaurants trade discounts for ranking boost
Madrid authorities order Lime, Wind and Voi to halt e-scooter sharing in the Spanish city
FortressIQ raises $12M to bring new AI twist to process automation
Fivetran announces $15M Series A to build automated data pipelines
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Forethought scores $9M Series A in wake of Battlefield win
Freeletics raises $45M for its AI-powered mobile fitness coach
Mixcloud rolls out ?fan-to-creator? subscription service
Bios raises $4.5M to further develop its ?neural interface? and new ways to treat chronic medical conditions
Zopa, the UK P2P lending company, secures bank license
Agricool raises another $28 million to grow fruits in containers
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Corporate food catering startup Chewse raises $19 million
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Brazilian long-term rentals service QuintoAndar raises $64M Series C
Floom, the online marketplace and SaaS for florists, receives $2.5M seed
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Polyteia launches to help European city governments put their data to work
Spin Analytics automates credit risk modeling for banks
Loro?s mounted wheelchair assistant puts high tech to work for people with disabilities
WiARframe wants to make building AR experiences easy
Revolut is ready to launch in Singapore and Japan
Phiar raises $3 million for an AR navigation app for drivers
LearnLux raises $2M from Sound Ventures, Marc Benioff to help employees make financial decisions
Australian scheduling software company Deputy brings in $81M amid rapid growth
30 European startup CEOs call for better stock option policies
Social music app Playlist lets you listen to music with others in real time
For a small fee, entrepreneurs can now manage their own fleet of Bird e-scooters
Meet ?Bitski?, the single sign-on wallet crypto desperately needs
Robinhood hires 20-year Amazon veteran to CFO role as high-flying startup eyes IPO
Red Hat acquires hybrid cloud data management service NooBaa
Quip raises another $40 million for dental care products and services
Lime launches electric-assist bikes in its first UK city
Enterprise messaging startup Eko Communications raises $20M for its European expansion
That night, a forest flew
Corvus Insurance lands a fresh $10 million to turn sensor data into actionable info for its food and pharma customers
Banuba raises $7M to supercharge any app or device with the ability to really see you
Amazon exec Dave Stephenson tapped to lead Airbnb to the public markets
Upflow turbocharges your invoices
BlueCargo optimizes stacks of containers for maximum efficiency
Silentmode?s PowerMask is a $200 connected relaxation mask
Soundbrenner?s wearable metronome gets a modular upgrade
Zizoo, a booking.com for boats, sails for new markets with $7.4M on board
Wluper, a London-based startup building a better conversational AI, picks up $1.3M seed
October lets 11 public companies borrow money on its platform
Teaching STEM through the wonders of larva harvesting
CV Compiler is a robot that fixes your resume to make you more competitive
Quantum Machines raises $5.5M to build control and operational layer for quantum computers
African investors and founders to judge Startup Battlefield competition in Nigeria
Berlin-based Wind Mobility raises $22M for its e-scooter rental service
Piano teams up with True[x] to combine advertising and paywalls
Cloud communications platform Agora closes $70M Series C to create new developer tools
With investors knocking, PlayVS opens the door to a $30M Series B
HyperSurfaces turns any surface into a user interface using vibration sensors and AI
The WT2 in-ear translator arrives in January, with real-time feedback coming soon
iHeartMedia to acquire radio adtech company Jelli
Move over Le Creuset A new cookware startup founded by and for millennials is getting down to business
Today in brighter crypto news: SEC says tokens are securities
BuzzFeed News launches a paid membership program (and yes, there?s a tote bag)
Peer tutoring platform Knack raises $1.5M from Charles Hudson, Jeff Vinik
Genies brings lifelike avatars to other apps with $10M from celebrities
Wonolo, a staffing platform for blue-collar and labor contractors ?left behind by Silicon Valley,? raises $32M
Lidar startup AEye raises $40M Series B led by the Taiwanese government?s investment firm
Cities that didn?t win HQ2 shouldn?t be counted out
Plastiq raises $27M at 2X+ value to let you pay for anything on credit
VOI Technology, the e-scooter startup from Sweden, raises $50M led by Balderton Capital
Microsoft to shut down HockeyApp
How cities can fix tourism hell
SparkLabs Taipei closes initial $4.25M for its first fund, adds Jeremy Lin as an advisor
Blockchain gaming gets a boost with Mythical Games? $16M Series A
Kairos founder countersues his own company for $10 million
Pitching a $99 tax advisory service for the masses, Visor has raised $9 million
Stoop aims to improve your news diet with an easy way to find and read newsletters
Airbnb made more than $1 billion in revenue last quarter
CodeStream lets you collaborate and talk directly in VS Code
Musca is the winner of TechCrunch Battlefield Tokyo 2018
Africa?s agtech wave gets $10 million richer as Twiga Foods raises more capital
Shyft raises $6.5M to help retail and service workers swap shifts
Overnight success now requires a little more time
What the FDA?s restriction of e-cig flavors means for Juul
Meet Uber?s newly promoted chief product officer, Manik Gupta
Propel accelerates with $18M Series B to manage product lifecycle
Italic launches its marketplace for affordable luxury goods from top manufacturers
Spotify alums create Canopy content suggester that won?t steal your data
WeWork hires Prabhdeep Singh to lead operations for its startup program WeWork Labs
Apex.AI raises $15.5 million for autonomous-vehicle software
LocalGlobe, the London seed-stage VC, is raising a new fund aimed at Series B
Bunch scores $3.8M to turn mobile games into video chat LAN parties
Standard Cognition raises $40M to replace retailers? cashiers with cameras
Plus-sized clothing startup Dia Co gets another $70M from Sequoia, USV
Lies, damn lies, and HQ2
Urban Massage re-brands to ?Urban? as it launches wellness services beyond massage
Legrand acquires smart home startup Netatmo
Sweetgreen is officially a unicorn
Pirate Studios raises $20M from Talis Capital for its ?self-service? tech-enabled music studios
The Correspondent launches campaign to bring its ad-free journalism to the US
Meet Jennifer Tejada, the secret weapon of one of Silicon Valley?s fastest-growing enterprise software startups
iBanFirst raises $17 million to help companies move money around the world
Unicorn shoe startup Allbirds debuts a high-top sneaker
Skincare startup Heyday raises $8M
Lime is debuting its line of shareable vehicles in Seattle this week
In one of Latin America?s largest deals, Movile raises $400 million for its iFood delivery business
Rent tech-focused RET closes first fund; pours $5M into management platform SmartRent
RideCell expands funding round to $60 million
WeRecover, the Kayak for addiction recovery, raises $2M
WeWork picks up ANOTHER $3B from SoftBank
Atolla uses machine learning to address your skin care needs
Meditation app Simple Habit raises $10 million Series A
Cognigo raises $8.5M for its AI-driven data protection platform
Mercaux bags $4.5M to help bricks-and-mortar retail tool up to sell more
Poynt raises $100M for its smart payment terminal
?Rent tech? focused RET closes first fund; pours $5M into management platform SmartRent
Calm heads to the airport, invests $3 million in XpresSpa
Sustainable clothing startup For Days raises $2.8M for its closed-loop manufacturing process
Announcing the agenda for TechCrunch Startup Battlefield Africa
Okay, one final Form D note
BlaBlaCar to acquire Ouibus and offer bus service
Audioburst turns the best part of podcasts into personalized news briefs
Framer, the interactive design platform, scores $24M Series B led by Atomico
London?s transport regulator looks to startups to help fix urban mobility
Clearbanc raises $70M to give startups ad money for a rev share
SAP agrees to buy Qualtrics for $8B in cash, just before the survey software company?s IPO
Travel startups are taking off
A tale of two scooter cities
Bubble lets you create web applications with no coding experience
Growing pains at venture-backed Moogsoft lead to layoffs
Can the startup building a Fortnite for VR become the Fortnite of VR
Pure Bit, a South Korean exchange, pulls a $2.8 million exit scam
Everything you missed from the Startup Battlefield Latin America
Burgerbot startup Creator hires inventor of Boston Dynamics? Big Dog
Sneaker marketplace GOAT announces an AR-centric Black Friday giveaway
SoftBank?s debt, Ford buys Spin and Chinese coffee is huge money
AdRoll expands its B2B data and tech by acquiring Growlabs
Olho do Dono is the winner of Startup Battlefield Latin America
Datacoral raises $10M Series A for its data infrastructure service
Japan is cracking down on SoftBank?s revenue
Bonobo AI raises $4.5M seed round to help companies turn interactions with customers into valuable data
The scooters arrive in Australia
RealtimeBoard, a visual collaboration platform for companies, raises $25M led by Accel
Corporate travel startup TripActions raises $154M at $1B valuation
Here are the startups and agenda for Startup Battlefield Latin America
Infarm expands its ?in-store farming? to Paris
Guardian Circle upgrades with a decentralized alert network
The disappearing Form D
This tiny house grows with your family
Brooklinen launches a pop-up shop in NYC
Anti-fraud startup Fraugster scores $14M Series B
Storyblocks makes it easier for developers to integrate its stock media services
Social media content and analytics startup PressLogic raises $10M from popular Chinese selfie app Meitu
Watch biotech startups pitch at IndieBio?s demo day today
TransferWise partners with Dutch challenger bank Bunq
Photomath raises $6 million for its math-solving app
Fantasmo pivots to scooter cameras that keep them off sidewalks
SoftBank?s debt obsession
Lydia launches mobile phone insurance
Precision farming startup Taranis gets $20M Series B for its crop monitoring tech
Lizzie Chapman to talk about building a fintech startup in India at Disrupt Berlin
Venture capital and the blockchain will be the talk at Startup Battlefield Africa
Automakers invest in Transit, the app that helps people get around without a car
Subterranean drone mapping startup Emesent raises $2.5M to autonomously delve the deep
Reverso launches synonyms app and service
Sequoia leads $10M round for home improvement negotiator Setter
The Minte raises $2.25 million in seed funding to bring hotel-style housekeeping to luxury residences
Dynamic Yield, which builds Amazon-like personalisation for the rest of us, raises $38M
MyPart finds that next def jam
Edo raises $12M to measure TV ad effectiveness
GoPro shares tank after reporting revenue dives 13%
Foursquare partners with TripAdvisor
Retail-as-a-service provider Leap raises $3M and launches first store
Peak Theory lines up media partners and funding as Cubcoats becomes a phenomenon
Anti-fraud startup Shape Security raises $26M in Series E round to drive global expansion
Rockset launches out of stealth with $21.5 M investment
Spoke enhances AI engine to power help desk ticketing system
Monzo launches interest-earning savings accounts
Men?s wellness startup HIMS has launched a line of women?s health products called HERS
VICIS completes $28.5M Series B and launches its first youth helmet
Rafal Modrzewski to talk about launching microsatellites at Disrupt Berlin
Influencer marketing startup Mavrck raises another $5.8M
The tactics behind The Athletic?s breakout success in sports subscriptions
A look at all the companies participating in 500 Startups? 24th accelerator program
Happy 10th birthday, Bitcoin!
Scared to trade stocks Titan algorithmically invests for you
Lendix is now called October
Brex has partnered with WeWork, AWS and more for its new rewards program
Even Financial acquires Birch Finance, a credit card rewards startup
ZypMedia raises $5.6M to help traditional media companies embrace online ads
Emotional wellness startup Aura raises $2.7 million from Cowboy Ventures and Reach Capital
Freebird flies off with $8M to rescue passengers after flight cancellations
Sentieo raises $19M to be the AI-powered Bloomberg Terminal
Concord raises $25 million for its contract management platform
Valued at $500M, investors say HeadSpin is ?one of the fastest-scaling software companies? ever
Ian Small, former head of TokBox, takes over as Evernote CEO from Chris O?Neill
Lime hires its first chief business officer amid push into car-sharing
YC-backed Observant uses the iPhone?s infrared depth sensors to analyze user emotions
The corpse of Kodak coughs up another odd partnership
Failed drone startup Airware auctions assets, Delair buys teammates
Unu raises $12 million to build new electric scooter
Eaze co-founder Keith McCarty raises $5M for his new B2B cannabis startup
Translating startup-speak for the corporate buyer
Expedia acquires Pillow and ApartmentJet to conquer the short-term rental market
Chat fiction startup Hooked unveils ?Dark Matter,? its first feature-length thriller
Tap, a new startup from Sam Rosen, wants to be the Google of drinking water
Epic Games, the creator of Fortnite, raises $1.25 billion
More than half of crypto news sites are pay-for-play
China?s Nio invests in LiDAR startup Innovusion
Valentin Stalf to talk about scaling N26 at Disrupt Berlin
Quizlet hits 50M monthly users
NBA All-Star Michael Jordan leads a $26 million round for esports group aXiomatic
Daily Crunch: Tesla is profitable again
Teikametrics raises $10M to optimize Amazon ads
Metrc, whose tracing system helps regulators track cannabis from seed to sale, just raised $50 million, including from Tiger Global
Confirmed: ShopRunner acquires Spring, raises $40M
Summersalt raises $6M for its direct-to-consumer line of eco-friendly swimsuits
Adzuna acquires job board Work In Startups
Amazon backs German smart heating and AC company Tado in new $50M funding round
Voting is a social experience
Hear how Threads makes fashion social at Disrupt Berlin
A closer look at Mirror
Subscription management startup RevenueCat raises $1.5M
Dash Radio raises $8.8M as it reaches 10M monthly listeners
Spatial raises $8 million to bring augmented reality to your office life
Ex-One Medical exec launches mental health studio
Marieme Diop and Shikoh Gitau to speak at Startup Battlefield Africa
Naya Health, once a promising breast pump startup, now leaving customers in the dark
Cloudflare reportedly gearing up for a $3.5 billion IPO next year
Teamable, the Tinder for hiring, raises $5M and acquires Simppler
DLab is a new East Coast accelerator for crypto
Coinbase lets you buy and sell USDC stablecoin
Sources: Balderton Capital gearing up to invest in Swedish e-scooter startup VOI
TC Sessions: AR/VR surveys an industry in transition
Dating app Vibes aims to create a safe, authentic space for people to meet
Y Combinator issues a request for geo-engineering startups because climate change is real and we?re all going to die
GoEuro raises $150 million for its travel aggregator
iPharmacy Roman fights stigmas with premature ejaculation meds
Bright Machines lands $179M to bring smarter robotics to manufacturing
Predictive sales tool People.ai racks up $30M Series B led by Andreessen Horowitz
EyeSight scores $15M to use computer vision to combat driver distraction
Tier, the Berlin-based scooter rental startup, raises ?25M as European e-scooter market heats up
Berlin?s Emil launches pay-per-mile car insurance
Cowboy, the Belgian e-bike startup, raises ?10M Series A
Lime will open brick-and-mortar scooter ?lifestyle stores?
Minds, the blockchain-based social network, grabs a $6M Series A
China is funding the future of American biotech
Domio just raised $12 million in Series A funding to build ?apart hotels? across the US
Alumni Ventures Group is the most active venture fund you?ve never heard of
Hiver lets you manage shared email addresses from Gmail
Virtual reality makes food taste better
Twilio shops, Uber and Lyft IPO scuttlebutt, and Instacart raises $600M
TrackR is rebranding to Adero as it looks beyond small devices to track lost items
Funderbeam CEO to talk about disrupting startup funding at Disrupt Berlin
Jane VC, a new fund for female entrepreneurs, wants founders to cold email them
Knotch launches Blueprint to help marketers find the best publishers of sponsored content
Uber is developing an on-demand staffing business
Embracing multimodality, Uber pioneers ride recommendations
Future Family raises $10M to make fertility treatments more affordable
Amplifyher Ventures launches to fund startups led by women
Daivergent connects people on the autism spectrum with jobs in data management
Proxxi saves workers from getting electrocuted
Seva snares $2.4M seed investment to find info across cloud services
Sick of managing your Airbnb Vacasa raises $64M to do it for you
Arianna Huffington?s Thrive Global is teaming up with Zenefits
Emma, the money management app, rolls out cryptocurrency support
Cryptocurrency wallet startup Cobo raises $13M Series A to enter the U.S. and Southeast Asia
YC grad Oh My Green gets $20M seed investment
Building a great startup requires more than genius and a great invention
Health insurance startup Alan covers meditation app subscription
New York on Tech is helping under-resourced students become future tech leaders
N26 faces criticism regarding its identification processes
Crypto Quantique unveils its ?quantum driven secure chip? for IoT devices
These are the most successful companies to emerge from Y Combinator
The new normal
Epsagon emerges from stealth with serverless monitoring tool
Azimo launches business money transfer service
Applied gets $2M to make hiring fairer ? using algorithms, not AI
Smule raises $20M, with plans to expand India operations
Memory raises $5M to bring AI to time tracking
Roborace to augment racing drivers with robots at Disrupt
Samsung acquires network analytics startup Zhilabs to help its transition to 5G
Scribd and The New York Times announce a joint $12.99 subscription
Blockchain media startup Civil is issuing full refunds to all buyers of its cryptocurrency
10 lessons from Marketo?s growth to a multi-billion-dollar exit
Google-incubated AdLingo uses chatbot integration to create conversational ads
Keeps parent company Thirty Madison raises $15 million to fight male pattern baldness
With $300M in new funding, Devoted Health launches its Medicare Advantage plan in Florida
Substack celebrates its first birthday with 25K paying newsletter subscribers
Paperspace scores $13M investment for AI-fueled application development platform
Instacart raises another $600M at a $7.6B valuation
Journal raises $1.5 million to bring Google-like search to your personal life
Announcing the Disrupt Berlin Agenda
Video-based recruitment startup JobUFO scores ?2M seed
TravelPerk grabs $44M to take its pain-free SaaS for business travel global
This robot uses lasers to ?listen? to its environment
Y Combinator survey confirms what we already know ? female founders are too often victims of sexual harassment
Electric scooter startup Grin raises ~$45 million
Penta, the German challenger bank account for SMEs, raises ?7M Series A
Entrepreneur First, the company builder backed by Greylock, lands in Bangalore
AllTrails gets $75M to keep hikers happy
Want to reduce fraud Make a better password, dummy!
Zyl is now a nostalgia-powered photo app
The real-life Emery and Evan from ?Fresh off the Boat? launch Batu Capital for cannabis, crypto and big data startups
With TodayTix Presents, TodayTix is starting to produce its own live shows
Readdle?s Denys Zhadanov to talk about bootstrapping at Disrupt Berlin
With $50M in fresh funding, Allbirds will open new stores in the US, UK and Asia
Lime wants to block Scoot and Skip from deploying electric scooters in SF next week
YC-grad Papa raises $2.4M for its ?grandkids-on-demand? service
CommonSense Robotics? first automated fulfillment center is now live
SpankChain spanked
Coord, a Sidewalk Labs spin-out, raises $5 million to help mobility services better integrate into cities
Walmart is working with Eko to create interactive content
Tandem?s new credit card targets people who have non-existent credit histories
Watch Shimon the marimba-playing robot play along to jazz, reggae, and hip hop
ServiceNow to acquire FriendlyData for its natural language search technology
Teeth-straightening startup SmileDirectClub is now worth $3.2 billion
Origin launches protocol for building cheaper decentralized Ubers Airbnbs
Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman announce the name of their stealthy mobile video startup
Target?s newest incubator is looking for ?save the world? kind of stuff
Skello raises $6.9 million for its staff management service
The Hack Fund will use crypto to give startups early liquidity
Warby Parker taps NY celebs for Pupils Project limited edition collection
Shared inbox startup Front launches a complete redesign
Zenefits& Parker Conrad returns with Rippling to kill HR IT busywork
Robinhood cuts trading fees, grows profits with in-house clearing
Let?s talk about space at Disrupt Berlin with Mike Collett
SoftBank is considering taking a majority stake in WeWork
Jennifer Garner?s baby food company Once Upon a Farm raises $20M Series B
Venture capital investment in US companies to hit $100B in 2018
Making A Murderer returns on October 18
Emmanuel Macron meets with the French tech community
Google partners with tech retailer b8ta to let people demo smart home products
The Wing, a co-working space for women, opens its doors in San Francisco
Netlify just got $30 million to change the way developers build websites
Tim Berners-Lee is on a mission to decentralize the web
SoundCloud finally lets more musicians monetize four years later
Upskill launches support for Microsoft HoloLens
Matt Lerner reduces role at 500 Startups to launch ?growth coaching? company Heretix
Devialet unveils an ambitious new speaker
Mapify, the Berlin-based ?social travel network?, locates $1M seed round
Brand management platform Frontify raises $8.3M led by Blossom Capital
Machinify raises $10 million to help businesses use AI to monetize data
Humbition is a new fund led by the Indiegogo?s Slava Rubin
RankScience closes $1.8M seed ? and now only wants to replace human SEO staff if you don?t have any
WeWork taps Lemonade to offer insurance to WeLive members
Mosaic Ventures, the London-based Series A investor, has closed a second fund at $150M
Atomico leads $31M Series B in Varjo, the Finnish startup developing ?human-eye resolution? VR and XR
Faraday Future investor Evergrande Health now says the troubled startup is trying to back out of deal
Recent departures hint at turmoil at Quartet Health, a mental health startup backed by GV
D-Wave offers the first public access to a quantum computer
Study says the US is quickly losing its entrepreneurial edge
Magic Leap buys mesh-computing startup Computes
Scaleway adds object storage
Deliverr raises $7M to help e-commerce businesses compete with Amazon Prime
Siilo injects $5.1M to try to transplant WhatsApp use in hospitals
Forward Health, the healthcare messaging app, scores $3.9M led by Stride.VC
Overstock?s investment arm funded blockchain for wine
Rylo scores $20 million for its clever camera tech
See you in Vancouver tonight
Circle Invest lets you buy cryptocurrency collections
Former Uber exec Andrew Chapin takes the wraps off his stealth mental health startup
JFrog lands $165M investment as valuation jumps over $1 billion
Flutterwave and Ventures Platform CEOs will join us at Startup Battlefield Africa
N26 is launching its bank in the UK
KZen raises $4 million to bring sanity to crypto wallets
Talkdesk nabs $100M at more than $1B valuation for its smart call centers
Iron Ox opens its first fully autonomous farm
Product Hunt Radio: The evolution of Y Combinator, and counter-intuitive advice for founders
Palo Alto Networks to acquire RedLock for $173 M to beef up cloud security
GoodTime raises $5 million to bring artificial intelligence into the interview process
Alan partners with Kry?s Livi for telemedicine appointments
Balderton?s $145M ?secondary? fund will give shareholders in European scale-ups the chance to exit early
Cratejoy sheds nearly half of workforce amid restructuring effort
Meet the 10 startups in Techstars NYC?s summer 2018 class
Cover collects $16M to insure your gadgets, pets? anything
See you in Vancouver on Thursday
Rich-text editing platform Tiny raises $4M, launches file management service
Vital Labs? app can measure changes in your blood pressure using an iPhone camera
SoftBank leads $35M investment in sports engagement startup Heed
NYC wants to build a cyber army
Freetrade launches ?zero-fee? investment app
Lingokids scores $6M Series A for its English language learning platform
Why Blissfully decided to go all in on serverless
Subscription startup Bespoke Post is creating its own brands and products for men
Watch this humanoid robot install drywall
Ettitude targets eco-conscious shoppers with its organic bedding
Let?s meet in Vancouver
Babbel CEOs to talk about language and startup lessons at Disrupt Berlin
Carpooling service Klaxit partners with Uber for last-minute changes
Relike lets you turn a Facebook page into a newsletter
Ne-Yo wants to make Silicon Valley more diverse, one investment at a time
Y Combinator is changing up the way it invests
Blok.Party raises $10M, will adapt Settlers of Catan to its blockchain game console
Our 3 favorite startups from Urban-X?s 4th demo day
May Mobility puts autonomous shuttles on the streets of Columbus, Ohio
Compound launches easy way to short cryptocurrencies
The Infatuation raises $30M from Jeffrey Katzenberg?s WndrCo to bring Zagat into the digital age
China?s secret startup advantage: liquidity
Meet the startups that pitched at EF?s 10th Demo Day in London
In-car commerce startup Cargo raises $22 million led by Founders Fund
Berkanan is a Bluetooth-powered group messaging app
Rally Rd., the app that lets you invest in classic cars, raises $7M Series A
Doctolib to open up telemedicine appointments
Vinay Gupta to talk about Mattereum at Disrupt Berlin
Facebook poisons the acquisition well
YC grad The Lobby raises $1.2M to help job seekers break into Wall Street
Farmer?s Fridge wants to make eating healthy food as easy as getting money from an ATM
Stripe is now valued at $20B after raising another $245M led by Tiger Global
Meet 13 startups launching out of the Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator
Circle launches its stablecoin
Instana raises $30M for its application performance monitoring service
Sequoia backs Maven, a virtual health clinic for women
Bleximo raises $1.5M for its quantum computing accelerators
Data.world raises $12M to help Fortune 500 companies close the great data divide
Picfair gives every photographer on its marketplace their own store
Chinese electric scooter startup Niu files for $150M U.S. public offering
BlaBlaCar is on the path to profitability
BloomThat pauses on-demand flower services
Mode raises $3M Series A to put sensor data in the cloud
Qonto raises $23 million to improve business banking
Understanding Renaud Laplanche?s next Upgraded act
VCs say Silicon Valley isn?t the gold mine it used to be
uBiome is jumping into therapeutics with a healthy $83 million in Series C financing
Cleo, the ?digital assistant? that replaces your banking apps, picks up $10M Series A led by Balderton
uBeam wireless power?s CEO Meredith Perry steps aside amidst B2B pivot
Eventbrite?s IPO should encourage tech companies to get out while they still can
Cluep, a Canadian startup that raised just $500K, acquired for $40M
Meet the startups in the latest Alchemist class
Bird hits 10 million scooter rides
MariaDB acquires Clusterix
Hear about the keys to local investing at Startup Battlefield Africa with Omobola Johnson and Lexi Novitske
Lime hits 11.5 million bike and scooter rides
Curve, the all-your-cards-in-one app, adds ?zero fees? when spending abroad
Lime is pissed at San Francisco for denying it an e-scooter permit, claims ?unlawful bias?
Wove raises $9M to help companies form strategic marketing partnerships
Ghostery revamps its privacy-focused mobile browsers
Fresh out of Y Combinator, Leena AI scores $2M seed round
Tandem CEO will tell you why building a bank is hard at Disrupt Berlin
?Brotopia? inspired OODA Health to raise its $40.5M round only from firm?s with female partners
Committed to privacy, Snips founder wants to take on Alexa and Google, with blockchain
Inside the pay-for-post ICO industry
Rent the Runway opens physical store in San Francisco
Spire Health Tags are now on Apple?s shelves
The Gap Table: Women own just 9% of startup equity
Lyft hits 1 billion rides a couple of months after Uber hit 10 billion trips
Framer X design tool steps in the ring with InVision, Adobe, and Sketch
Postmates raises another $300M, reportedly valued at $1.2B
Marketing data startup Singular raises $30M
UiPath lands $225M Series C on $3 billion valuation as robotic process automation soars
Indigo raises $250M, launches marketplace to help farmers get paid for quality grain
Mabl announces $20 million Series B to bring automated QA to enterprise customers
Erectile pharmacy app Roman raises $88M to launch ?quit smoking? kit
Ostrichpillow Hood, the latest product from Studio Banana, is no joke
Ultimate.ai nabs $1.3M for a customer service AI focused on non-English markets
Divido, the consumer finance platform, scores $15M Series A
Ola raises $50M at a $4.3B valuation from two Chinese funds
Congressional bill would improve startup valuations
WHILL raises $45M to help people with disabilities get around airports and other large venues
Mumford Sons beware! An AI can now write indie music
Stripe moves into brick-and-mortar payments with Terminal
Boom?s chief test pilot on the thrill and challenge of going supersonic (again)
Lucid Motors secures $1 billion from Saudi wealth fund to launch the Air
Blippar picks up $37 million hoping to become profitable in the next year
Zortrax launches a new high-speed, high-resolution printer, the Inkspire
Logistics startup Freightos raises $44.4M Series C led by Singapore Exchange
Uber fires up its own traffic estimates to fuel demand beyond cars
In Bad Blood, a pedestrian tale of heuristics and lies
Kegel trainer startup Elvie is launching a smaller, smarter, hands-free breast pump
3DHubs, once a community 3D printing service, is now sourcing all 3D prints internally
Crypto?s second bubble, Juul has 60 days and three Chinese IPOs
The funding mirage: How to secure international investment from emerging markets
It?s the end of crypto as we know it and I feel fine
Microsoft acquires Lobe, a drag-and-drop AI tool
Online used car startup Shift raises $140 million
Economist Tyler Cowen launches a fellowship and grant program for moon shot ideas
iHeartMedia is acquiring HowStuffWorks
Hybrid cloud data specialist Datrium nabs $60M led by Samsung at a $282M valuation
Hacera creates directory to make blockchain projects more searchable
PlayVS taps League of Legends in launch of high school esports platform
Brazilian startup Yellow raises $63M ? the largest Series A ever for a Latin American startup
Discover Sono Motors? vision of the electric car at Disrupt Berlin
Detroit?s StockX raises $44M from GV and Battery to expand marketplace internationally
HQ Trivia nabs Target to sponsor game with biggest ever single winner prize of $100K
The clock is ticking for e-cig companies to block underage users
Wasabi just landed $68 million to upend cloud storage
Grammarly now saves you from embarrassing mistakes in Google Docs, too
Sisense hauls in $80M investment as data analytics business matures
Job Today gets a $16M top up as it preps for Brexit bump
Ready, Set, Raise is a new accelerator built for women by women
Google Street View cars will be roaming around the planet to check our air quality with these sensors
Confrere, the video calling service for professionals and clients, raises $1.5M seed
The Family raises $17.4 million to support European startups
Deliveroo will enter Taiwan, its fourth market in the Asia-Pacific so far
Lively raises $6.5M to bring its comfortable and inclusive lingerie to brick-and-mortar stores
This tech (scarily) lets video change reality
Paysend announces global account to compete with Revolut
The Winklevoss stablecoin is one small step toward crypto acceptance
Global M A activity is flat so far in 2018
TiDB developer PingCAP wants to expand in North America after raising $50M Series C
Instacart brings on Mark Schaaf as Chief Technology Officer
As biological manufacturing moves to the mainstream, Synvitrobio rebrands and raises cash
The ambitious real estate ?unicorn? Opendoor just made its first acquisition, snapping up Open Listings
Packet hauls in $25M Series B as customized cloud vision takes shape
Impossible Aerospace raises $9.4M to sell drones stuffed with battery cells
At Sounding Board, an executive coaching startup, the coaches get coaching, too
Not hog dog PixFood lets you shoot and identify food
Hoodline raises $10M for its hyper-local, automated data newswire
Meet SelfieCircus and 8 more in Snapchat?s new startup accelerator
Evaneos, the online marketplace for tailor-made travel experiences, picks up $80M Series D
Atrium raises $65M from a16z to replace lawyers with machine learning
Branch pairs up with TUNE to create a supersized marketing and measurement platform
Crowdcube acquires business reporting software Supdate
Hong Kong-based OneDegree gets $25.5M Series A to make coverage more accessible, starting with pet insurance
Perlego raises $4.8M for its ?Spotify for textbooks?
Coinbase?s Brian Armstrong: ?I?d love to run a public company?
And the winner of Startup Battlefield at Disrupt SF 2018 is? Forethought
Deep-linking startup Branch is raising more than $100M at a unicorn valuation
Rigetti announces its hybrid quantum computing platform ? and a $1M prize
Starry wants to put high-speed 5G internet in reach of everyone
Sonatype raises $80 million to build out Nexus platform
Managing the music business from a mobile phone, Jammber is making the industry sing
Meet the five Startup Battlefield finalists at Disrupt SF 2018
Vtrus launches drones to inspect and protect your warehouses and factories
Wingly is carpooling for private planes
Kinta AI uses artificial intelligence to make factories more efficient
Mira launches a device for more accurate fertility testing in the home
Kadho debuts Kidsense A.I., offline speech-recognition tech that understand kids
Lori Systems is launching a service with the Kenyan government for last-mile haulage from railroads
Robinhood aims at IPO as the fintech startup seeks CFO
Measuring AI startups by the right yardstick
MasterClass raises $80M after doubling sales last year
Bumble launches Snooze button to pause dating for a digital detox
Fertility startup Future Family switches to a subscription platform
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Location marketing platform Uberall raises further $25M and acquires competitor Navads
European banking app Monese scores $60M Series B led by Kinnevik
South Korean home cleaning startup Miso sweeps up $8 million Series A
Taxify is entering the e-scooter game
Origami Labs shows off its voice-powered smart ring
Secretive semiconductor startup Groq raises $52M from Social Capital
Nutrigene wants to personalize your vitamins using your genetic code
Forethought looks to reshape enterprise search with AI
Myki raises $4M Series A to decentralize identity management for enterprises
N26 launches N26 Black for freelancers
McCarthyFinch AI services platform automates tedious legal tasks
Uppercase raises $3.5M to help e-tailers open brick-and-mortar stores
PoLTE lets you track devices using LTE signal
Backstage Capital to launch an accelerator in four cities to promote underrepresented founders
Mobile spyware maker leaks 2 million records
Stealthy wants to become the WeChat of blockchain apps
Lease, own or subscribe Carma wants to jump-start the car-as-a-service market
Ashton Kutcher hates cars, loves scooters
Clinc expands to automotive, releases SaaS platform for its voice AI assistant
Elevian is developing medicine to prevent age-related diseases
Denver, Austin Miami are the top upcoming tech startup markets, says Sound Ventures
Airbnb for Work is getting bigger
German mobility startup Wunder Mobility raises $30M Series B
Here are the six startups participating in Betaworks LiveCamp
WSJ reports that Theranos will finally dissolve
Expanding its internet service to more countries in Africa, Tizeti raises $3 million
Behind the turnaround that netted Vinted ?50 million
These two CRISPR experts are coming to Disrupt SF 2018
Open source drone software startup Auterion lands $10M seed funding
Munich Re buys IoT middleware startup, relayr, in deal worth $300M
Encrypted cloud storage and collaboration company Tresorit secures ?11.5M Series B
Shine grabs $9.3 million to build a bank for freelancers
Peep the future of distributed ledgers with the leaders of Hyperledger, Parity Technologies and Tradeshift
Starry CEO Chet Kanojia will discuss the future of home networks at TechCrunch Disrupt SF
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Uber?s chief diversity officer is coming to TechCrunch Disrupt 2018
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Rappi raises $200M as Latin American tech investment reaches new highs
Mynewsdesk acquires web monitoring service Mention
Enveritas? technology lets small growers tap into the market for sustainable coffee
Clinc is building a voice AI system to replace humans in drive-through restaurants
InVision deepens integrations with Atlassian
Porter Road wants to herd the meat industry in a new direction
Instacart is now available to 70 percent of U.S. households
Space investors are coming to Disrupt SF 2018
AirTM raises $7 million to fight hyperinflation
Sinemia takes aim at MoviePass again, with new $9.99 plan
Deliveroo offers free OpenClassrooms courses to riders
George Church?s genetics on the blockchain startup just raised $4.3 million from Khosla
Datree gets $3M seed round to build DevOps policy engine in GitHub
Contraception app Natural Cycles? Facebook ad banned for being misleading
Cleo Capital sets $10M target to fund female entrepreneurs
Another food delivery startup, Foodsby, rakes in venture capital funding
New Knowledge just raised $11 million more to flag and fight social media disinformation meant to bring down companies
Puls raises $50 million for in-home technical support
WeTransfer is getting weird?
Very Good Security makes data ?unhackable? with $8.5M from Andreessen
Spotinst, excess cloud capacity management service, snares $35M Series B
Planday raises ?35M Series C for its shift-based work collaboration platform
Eventbrite just made some pricing changes as it moves toward an IPO
VMware acquires CloudHealth Technologies for multi-cloud management
OVH gets a new CEO
Bellwether Coffee raises $10M to bring more transparency to the coffee industry
Berkshire Hathaway reportedly agrees to buy stake in One97, owner of Paytm
Rebuilding employee philanthropy from the bottom up
Hear how to build a brand from Tina Sharkey, Emily Heyward and Philip Krim at Disrupt
How corporations and startups can more effectively work with one another
Housing startup Bungalow raises $14 million Series A round led by Khosla Ventures
Carmera, the mapping startup for autonomous vehicles, raises $20 million
Armory lands $10M Series A to bring continuous delivery to enterprise masses
Simple Feast raises $12M from Balderton and 14W to expand its weekly meat-free meal-box deliveries
Plant-focused startup The Sill raises $5M
A new unicorn is born: Root Insurance raises $100 million for a $1 billion valuation
Crater rebrands as Shyft to focus on helping global nomads move
Latch raises $70M for its apartment smart lock system
Ubiquity6 CEO Anjney Midha is coming to Disrupt SF 2018
The top 10 startups from Y Combinator?s Demo Day S18 Day 2
Mail digitizing service Earth Class Mail acquires receipt digitizing service Shoeboxed
Nylas scores $16M Series B to expand email API tool
All 59 startups that launched today at Y Combinator?s S18 Demo Day 2
Revolut introduces a metal card
CardMunch founder returns with HiHello, a new app aiming to replace business cards
Elkrem is a blockchain dev board for tinkerers
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TraceLink, which helps pharma companies trace drugs through the supply chain, just raised $93 million
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Braavo raises $6M for its app financing business
Foundries.io promises standardized open source IoT device security
Canvass Analytics raises $5M led by Gradient Ventures, Google?s AI fund
TomboyX picks up $4.3 million Series A
Semmle, startup that makes code searchable, hauls in $21M Series B
Cootek, the Chinese maker of TouchPal keyboard, files for $100M US IPO
Titan launches its mobile ?not a hedge fund?
DraftKings CEO Jason Robins is coming to Disrupt SF
Safety and inspection bot startup Gecko Robotics adds $7 million to the coffers
RDMD attacks rare diseases with data mined from health records
Tencent-backed news aggregation app Qutoutiao files for U.S. public offering
Y Combinator invests in non-invasive breast cancer screening bra EVA
Movado Group acquires watch startup MVMT
YC-backed Mutiny helps B2B business personalize their website for each visitor
YC-backed Sterblue aims to enable smarter drone inspections
Incentivai launches to simulate how hackers break blockchains
Klarity uses AI to strip drudgery from contract review
A new foreign investment bill will impact venture capital and the US startup ecosystem
DoorDash raises another $250M, nearly triples valuation to $4B
Autonomous retail startup Inokyo?s first store feels like stealing
Tonal launches at-home digital strength-training system
Credit Karma acquires mortgage platform Approved
The company behind BarkBox is opening an ?outdoor clubhouse? for Nashville?s dogs
Shelf Engine uses machine learning to stop food waste from eating into store margins
Coinbase acquires Distributed Systems to build ?Login with Coinbase?
Descartes Labs launches its geospatial analysis platform
Flowbox is a tool that makes it easy to build special effects
Twistlock snares $33 million Series C investment to secure cloud native environments
To fight the scourge of open offices, ROOM sells rooms
To fight the scourge of open offices, ROOM sells rooms
Karma raises $12M to let restaurants and grocery stores offer unsold food at a discount
Revcontent is trying to get rid of misinformation with help from the Poynter Institute
?Unhackable? BitFi crypto wallet has been hacked
Cytera CellWorks aims to bring cell culture automation to your dinner plate
HQ Trivia downloads spiral downward as it hits Apple TV
Y Combinator invests in HappiLabs to help scientists shop smarter
Alphabet invests $375 million in Oscar Health
Owl raises $10 million for two-way car dashboard camera
The FDA OK?d an app as a form of birth control
Facebook buys Vidpresso?s team and tech to make video interactive
Y Combinator invests in a build-your-own mac and cheese restaurant
African tech leaders Fope Adelowo, Ken Njoroge, Tayo Oviosu to speak at Disrupt SF
Startups should read this checklist before they go ?whale hunting? for big partners
Taiwan startup FunNow gets $5M Series A to help locals in Asian cities find last-minute things to do
Openbook is the latest dream of a digital life beyond Facebook
Founder Zain Jaffer may be looking to take back control of Vungle
Federacy wants to put bug bounty programs in reach of every startup
Apeel Sciences is combating food waste with plant-derived second peels
Workona helps web workers finally close all those tabs
Google isn?t sure how to spell ?Fortnite Battle Royale?
Wonderschool raises $20M to help people start in-home preschools
SenSat, a UK startup that uses visual and spatial data to ?simulate reality?, picks up $4.5M seed
Lowe?s Ventures backs Moved, a startup that makes moving less stressful
Starry launches pilot program with Boston Housing Authority to expand affordable internet access
Lyvly scores $4.6M for its members-based shared living and rental platform
Blissfully grabs $3.5 million seed investment to help companies get their SaaS in gear
Blippar is using AR to help customers find their way indoors
Hinge Health raises $26M Series B to tackle musculoskeletal pain
Berlin?s Taxfix, a mobile assistant for filing your taxes, picks up $13M led by Valar Ventures
WeWork?s HQ product aims to better accommodate mid-sized companies
Spark Neuro raises $13.5M to measure your emotional response to ads and movies
SoundCloud on the blockchain Audius raises $5.5M to decentralize music
Patreon buys Memberful but keeps it indie as patronage consolidates
H1Z1 officially comes to the PS4
MessageBird offers single API for customer comms across WhatsApp, WeChat, Messenger and more
Handiscover, the startup that helps you find accessible travel accommodation, raises $700K
Don?t fear the big company ?kill zones?
Scale, whose army of humans annotate raw data to train self-driving and other AI systems, nabs $18M
Chinese AI startup Tianrang raises a $26M funding round, launches new project to apply ML to cities
Lumen raises $7M and passes $1M on Indiegogo for its breath-measuring device for weight loss
InVision hires former Twitter VP of Design Mike Davidson
Self-driving truck startup Kodiak Robotics raises $40 million
Klara picks up $11.5 million to improve communication in healthcare
Researchers teach an AI how to dribble
Shell Ventures backs UK car repair marketplace WhoCanFixMyCar
Evolute debuts enterprise container migration and management platform
Flux partners with fast food merchant itsu for itemised paperless receipts
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Google acquires GraphicsFuzz, a service that tests Android graphics drivers
Airbnb for Work now accounts for 15 percent of bookings
Challenger bank Monzo launches accounts for 16-18 year olds
Boston-area startups are on pace to overtake NYC venture totals
Rentlogic lands millions to grade NYC real estate for renters and landlords
Kin expands its celebrity-driven ?neighborhood? model for online video
Sagewise pitches a service to verify claims and arbitrate disputes over blockchain transactions
Andreessen-funded dYdX plans ?short Ethereum? token for haters
Insurance app Lemonade looks set to drop lawsuit against Germany?s Wefox
Goodly looks to give companies student loan payments as an employee benefit
Portal offers an easy way to pay creators for their content
Google Maps is no longer #flatearth
Epic Games sidesteps the Play Store with Fortnite for Android launch
Optic wants to help developers drop boilerplate code into their development flow
MallforAfrica goes global, Kobo360 and Sokowatch raise VC, France explains its $76M fund
Teamleader, the SaaS platform to help SMEs go digital, scores $22M Series C
Warner Music Group acquires Uproxx
Decentralized exchange Radar Relay raises $10 million
Rent the Runway inks $200 million credit facility with Temasek
Stampli raises $6.7M in Series A funding to streamline invoice management
Kinside wants families to make the most of their dependent care flexible spending accounts
RideOS raises $25M to become the traffic control center for self-driving cars
Cisco is buying Duo Security for $2.35B in cash
Shedul, the booking platform for salons and spas, picks up $5M investment
Altru raises $1.3M to improve recruiting with employee videos
Fashionably AI
Sexual harassment suit filed against Pilot AI co-founders and investor NEA
Pico nabs $24.7M to create VR hardware that challenges Facebook, Google
DoorDash CEO Tony Xu to deliver startup lessons at Disrupt SF
Subscription startup Kidbox launches its own clothing lines
Test.ai nabs $11M Series A led by Google to put bots to work testing apps
Gusto raises $140 million to go after small business payroll and benefits with more gusto
What every startup founder should know about exits
Autonomous-aviation startup Xwing takes flight with $4 million in funding
CallPage lets you call your website visitors
Discord?s Jason Citron to chat it up at Disrupt SF
Skyline AI raises $18M Series A for its machine learning-based real estate investment tech
Athena Club offers a cheaper way to prepare for your next period
Tractable is applying AI to accident and disaster appraisal
Optoro raises $75 million more to make it easier for brands to manage and resell returned and excess inventory
A pickaxe for the AI gold rush, Labelbox sells training data software
Body scanning app 3DLOOK raises $1 million to measure your corpus
Interior Define, the custom furniture startup, opens new location in SF
Fabric offers an alternative to Facebook sharing with a private timeline of personal moments
Serverless, Inc. lands $10M Series A to build serverless developers platform
Feature.fm offers free ?pre-save? tool for upcoming releases on Spotify, Apple Music and Deezer
Twitter turns to academics to improve conversational health on the platform
Bus-sharing app Shuttl gets $11M Series B from investors including Amazon India
Grover raises ?37M Series A to offer latest tech products as a subscription
MoviePass borrowed $5M to end yesterday?s outage
Maisie Williams shows off Daisie, an app for artistic collaboration
Facebook?s debacle, $100M rounds and Slack links up with Atlassian
Jeffrey Katzenberg?s NewTV closes a billion-dollar round, says report
Facebook acquires Redkix to enhance communications on Workplace by Facebook
SuperAwesome now offers kids brands an alternative to YouTube
Spotify hits 180M users but loses ?394M in tepid Q2 earnings
Snap40 raises $8M for its AI-powered patient monitoring solution
Enterprise barcode scanner startup Scandit raises a $30 million Series B
FameGame wants to recreate reality TV for a mobile age
Zbiotics says it?s bioengineered a hangover cure
Nextdoor CEO is stepping down
Outvote hopes to flip elections by getting Democrats to text their friends
Coinbase lets you convert your tokens into gift cards
ColdQuanta raises $6.75M to make it easier to spin up a limited use-case quantum computer
Mayfield Robotics ceases production of Kuri robot amid a questionable future
Snark AI looks to help companies get on-demand access to idle GPUs
In hot market for secondary shares, one player, Equidate, just locked down $50 million in new funding
Peloton CEO John Foley will join us at Disrupt SF
Seattle Food Tech looks to replace the chicken nugget with a plant-based copycat
Grubhub acquires payments and loyalty company LevelUp for $390M
ClassPass works up $85 million Series D funding
Guild Education raises $40M to offer employees education as a company perk
Former Viki CEO Tammy Nam joins PicsArt as its first COO
?Waze of Parking? app SpotAngels raises $2.3 million
Chat gaming startup Knock Knock raises $2M
PAX, cannabis oil and moderation
Two ex-Uber execs have an investor syndicate to fund Uber alum
Supermedium scores $1.1M in seed funding for its web-first vision for virtual reality
Outlier raises $6.2 M Series A to change how companies use data
InVision CEO Clark Valberg to talk design at Disrupt SF
Miles gives you reward miles for almost everything
MentalHappy helps companies send custom care packages to employees going through a rough time
YC-backed Send Reality makes 3D virtual walkthroughs for residential listings
Rescale reels in $32 million Series B to bring HPC to cloud
League raises $47.1M Series B to fix corporate health care benefits
ezCater acquires GoCater to expand beyond the US
Doughbies? cookie crumbles in a cautionary tale of venture scale
Xage secures $12 million Series A for IoT security solution on blockchain
Industrial robots startup Gideon Brothers raises $765K led by TransferWise co-founder
HoneyLove looks to reinvent shapewear
YC-backed RevenueCat helps developers manage their in-app subscriptions
SessionM customer loyalty data aggregator snags $23.8 M investment
Cogito scores $37M as AI-driven sentiment analysis biz grows
Festicket integrates with Spotify to help you discover festivals you?ll like
Tall Poppy aims to make online harassment protection an employee benefit
Trill Project aims to be a safe community for people to express their true selves
Propelling deep space flight with a new fuel source, Momentus prepares for liftoff
While tech waffles on going public, biotech IPOs boom
CowryWise micro-savings service opens high-yield government bonds to everyday Nigerians
What should competitive Fortnite look like
Tempow?s Bluetooth stack can improve your TV setup
Public shareholders got high today on Tilray, the first marijuana company to IPO on Nasdaq
Yelp partners with event management startup Gather to make planning your next party easier
Carbyne wants to replace outdated 911 systems
Malta paves the way for a decentralized stock exchange
Ofo shuts down many international markets to focus on profitability
Lifebit raises $3M to scale-up AI-powered analysis of DNA data
Uber partners with Cargo to help drivers make money by selling stuff to riders
Even raises $40M to transform the working class to the savings class
Printrbot has shut down
Sinemia drops prices for its movie ticket subscriptions, which now start a $3.99 per month
PureSec exits Beta to secure serverless code
Landbot gets $2.2M for its on-message ?anti-AI? chatbot
Sweden's Engaging Care raises $800,000 for its digital healthcare SaaS
The Accel team is coming to Disrupt Berlin
With eyes on Europe, Open Banking API provider TrueLayer raises $7.5M
InkHunter heads to YC to build a try-and-buy tattoo marketplace
Comic sales are down as readers abandon print
Knotel acquires 42Floors in order to build the blockchain of property
Hu-manity wants to create a health data marketplace with help from blockchain
Reali raises $20M for its flat-fee real estate platform
Watch Blue Origin?s most critical rocket launch right here
Kik launches beta product after $100 million ICO
Y Combinator to give $10K to 100 grads of its online Startup School
Okta nabs ScaleFT to build out ?Zero Trust? security framework
Custom framing startup Framebridge picks up $30 million Series C
Greycroft raises $250M for its fifth early-stage fund
Swim.ai raises $11M to bring real-time analytics to the edge
BuzzFeed launches a new website for its real journalism
Self-driving car startup Zoox is raising $500 million at a $3.2 billion valuation
Meetup CEO Scott Heiferman moves into chairman function
Ultimate Software is acquiring PeopleDoc for $300 million
Ocean Solutions Accelerator names its first wave of conservation startups
Standard Cognition raises another $5.5M to create a cashier-less checkout experience
Certify acquires real-time expense management startup and YC alum Abacus
Dialpad dials up $50M Series D led by Iconiq
Mention Me, the referral marketing platform, raises $7M led by Eight Roads Ventures
Online learning platform Unacademy gets $21M Series C from Sequoia India, SAIF and Nexus
0x lets any app be the Craigslist of cryptocurrency
Prime Down: Amazon?s sale day turns into fail day
Airobotics makes autonomous drones in a box
Kapwing is Adobe for the meme generation
Fastly raises another $40 million before an IPO
Proportunity offers ?help to buy? loans based on predicting future house prices
Furniture startups skip the showroom and go straight to your door
Chowly is raising $5.8 million to help restaurants manage on-demand delivery orders
Chad Rigetti to talk quantum computing at Disrupt SF
Emptor looks to help companies more easily find contractors in the area
Instacart taps Postmates to help with deliveries in SF during peak demand
Guru announces new AI and Sync features for knowledge sharing platform
Headout lands $10M Series A to help tourists book last-minute outings
Octi raises $7.5M to create augmented reality that understands human movement
Robinhood CEO Baiju Bhatt to talk fintech at Disrupt SF
Ransomware technique uses your real passwords to trick you
As product development incorporates more feedback, development toolkit productboard raises $8M
Japanese startup Paidy raises $55M Series C to let people shop online without a credit card
Spring Health raises $6M to help employees get access to personalized mental health treatment
Intelligent recruiting platform Greenhouse picks up another $50M
Meero raises $45 million for its on-demand photography service
Pointy raises $12M Series B to help bricks and mortar retailers fight Amazon
Medical care scheduling startup Doctolib acquires MonDocteur
Nurx raises $36 million and adds Chelsea Clinton to its board of directors
Casper opens a storefront for $25 naps
Dirt Protocol raises $3M for a decentralized, blockchain-based approach to information vetting
Come see Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi at TC Disrupt
Real estate platform Nestio raises $4.5 million
Alan introduces Alan Blue, a high-end health insurance product
Facial recognition startup Kairos acquires Emotion Reader
Timehop admits that additional personal data was compromised in breach
Pinterest is adding a way for users to collaborate on boards
Next Insurance, an insurtech targeting small businesses, scores $83M Series B led by Redpoint
Xara Cloud is an easy to use design tool to help businesses create better looking content
Aurora Labs raises $8.4 million to bring its self-healing software to cars
GrubMarket gobbles up $32M led by GGV for its healthy grocery ordering and delivery service
The Nudge is a planner app packaged as an SMS subscription service
Is insurance a rich enough game to disrupt
SolarWinds acquires real-time threat-monitoring service Trusted Metrics
SolarWinds acquires real-time threat-monitoring service Trusted Metrics
Ledger finally has a good app for its crypto wallet
ANGLR raises $3.3 million to create a Fitbit for fishing
Box acquires Butter.ai to make search smarter
CodeFights becomes CodeSignal and launches a new ratings system for developers
Slack wants to make search a little easier with search filters
WeWork competitor Convene raises a $152 million Series D
Foursquare brings on Liz Ritzcovan as chief revenue officer
Toast raises $115M at a $1.4B valuation to create a one-stop management tool for restaurants
With Lime teaming up with Uber, can rival Bird afford to go it alone
Lodgify, the SaaS for vacation rentals, books $5M in Series A funding
N26 updates its web app
Retail startup Bulletin is giving brands new tools to manage their in-store presence
Instacart hires its first chief communications officer, Dani Dudeck
PlayVS CEO Delane Parnell to talk high school esports at Disrupt SF
Topbox raises $5M for its customer experience analytics service
TaxScouts wants to make filing your tax return a lot less tedious
Shoe startups aren?t dragging their feet
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The future of Ethereum looks bright
Boost VC backs Storyline?s Alexa skill builder
This startup streamlines the pro bono work of lawyers, including those fighting for immigrants at the border
Jina Choi, SF Regional Director of the SEC, is coming to Disrupt to talk ICOs and more
Lyft goes biking, Airbnb is going public (eventually), big money for software robots, and Juul
Booksy, the worldwide booking system, raises $13.2 million
Joseph Lubin, Amanda Gutterman and Sam Cassatt from Consensys to speak at Disrupt SF
YC-backed Buttermilk brings easy-to-prepare Indian meals to your doorstep
Tinder Loops, the dating app?s new video feature, rolls out globally
Mobike unveils first initiatives since acquisition by Meituan, including no longer requiring deposits in China
Deliveroo opens its first shared kitchen in Paris
ISAI closes new $175 million fund
Starling CEO Anne Boden is coming to Disrupt Berlin
Facebook confirms that it?s acquiring Bloomsbury AI
Alan launches Alan Map to find doctors around you
Planck Re scores $12M Series A to simplify insurance underwriting with artificial intelligence
Airwallex raises $80M for its international payment service for businesses
Airbnb tests earlier payouts for hosts
MeetFrank nets $1.1M for its passive job matching chatbot
All charges against ex-Vungle CEO Zain Jaffer, including lewd act on a child, dismissed by judge
Anthony Levandowski is back with a new self-driving startup, called Kache.ai
Original Stitch?s new Bodygram will measure your body
Yo founder returns with design-to-code startup Anima
Online hardware store BuildDirect brings in new leadership as it refocuses on pros
Instagram tests questions in Stories
Online bra startup Harper Wilde raises $2 million in seed round
OnePlus 6 Red goes on sale July 10
Oden Technologies raises $10M to bring data analytics to manufacturing
Facebook is buying UK?s Bloomsbury AI to ramp up natural language tech in London
Kasaz wants to make it less painful to buy or sell a home in Spain
OpenPhone lets you get a business phone number with an app
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Replacing pills with a Band-Aid Avro Life Science thinks there?s a patch for that
Thousands of cryptocurrency projects are already dead
Leena AI builds HR chatbots to answer policy questions automatically
Ben Horowitz is concerning Interfere with SF
Nigerian logistics startup Kobo360 accepted into YC, raises $1.2 million
India?s Cashify raises $12M for its second-hand smartphone business
TrendKite expands its PR analytics platform by acquiring Insightpool and Union Metrics
Hellman Friedman deal values SimpliSafe at $1B
Doctrine raises $11.6 million for its legal search engine
Bird has officially raised a whopping $300M as the scooter wars heat up
Cerebri AI raises $5M Series A round led by M12, Microsoft?s venture fund
Doug Leone, the global managing partner of powerhouse Sequoia Capital, is coming to Disrupt
Ceres Imaging gets $25M to intelligently scan crops from above
VR blockchain startup founded by Second Life co-creator raises $35M
what3words raisesfundsfrom saicandf1driver
Lies, damn lies, and crypto analytics
The International Olympic Committee is curious about esports
Cyber startup Baffin Bay Networks takes in $6.4M funding led by EQT Ventures
Unblockable raises $5M to create crypto collectibles around pro athletes
Self-driving car startup Nuro teams up with Kroger for same-day grocery delivery
Electric scooter and bike parking has arrived
Instead of points, Bumped gives equity in the companies you shop at
ExceptionAlly helps parents navigate the special needs education labyrinth
Bannersnack makes it easy to punch the monkey (and more)
Warby Parker?s Dave Gilboa is coming to Disrupt SF
Taster creates restaurants for Deliveroo and UberEats
Hoodline launches a content recommendation widget that?s all about local news
Cordial raises $15M for smarter emails and messaging
Puppet raises $42M led by Cisco as its DevOps automation platform passes 40,000 businesses
Peloton acquires music startup Neurotic Media
Codefresh raises $8M Series B round for its container-centric CI/CD platform
Watch Rocket Lab?s first commercial launch, ?It?s Business Time? [Update: Postponed]
Honk, the Uber for towing services, raises $18 million
Mike Judge to join us at Disrupt SF 2018
b8ta raises $19 million Series B led by Macy?s
Shone wants to automate container ships
Pared picks up $10M to help restaurant employees live an on-demand life
YC grad ZenProspect rebrands as Apollo, lands $7M Series A
CoverWallet looks to make it easy for businesses to get commercial insurance
August can now generate smart entry codes for Airbnb guests
Celonis scores $50 million Series B on $1B valuation
TourRadar, the OTA for tour holidays, scores $50M Series C led by Silicon Valley?s TCV
EveryTeam raises $3M to create a living internal company lexicon
Jay-Z has a new venture fund and a Silicon Valley partner
Meru Health wants to make mental health care more accessible
Winnie raises $4 million to make parents? lives easier
Papa is ?grandkids on-demand? for seniors who need some extra help
New York?s RRE Ventures raises $265M for its new fund
BigID scores $30 million Series B months after closing A round
Tact $27M Series C attracts Amazon, Microsoft and Salesforce
Fintech friends: Monzo partners with TransferWise for international payments
Open source sustainability
Are scooter startups really worth billions
Konsus looks to give companies a way to get specially designed documents in under a day
WordPress.com parent company acquires Atavist
Lime scooters are live in Paris
Sphero acquires a music education startup
Citymapper lets you find Ofo, Mobike and scooters around you
Transfer.sh is an instant sharing tool for programmers
Twitter buys a startup to battle harassment, e-cigs are booming, and a meditation app is worth $250M
Labstep wants to fix the way science experiments are recorded and reproduced
Microsoft and Nintendo release Minecraft trailer focused on cross-play
Urban Airship raises another $25M
Taste test: Burger robot startup Creator opens first restaurant
Lydia now supports Samsung Pay
Drip Capital helps exporters access working capital
Truepic raises $8M to expose Deepfakes, verify photos for Reddit
StreetCred is building a blockchain-based marketplace for location data
Tiller raises $13.9 million for its modern cash register
Stensul raises $7M to make email creation easier for marketers
Hired raises $30M to build an easy subscription pipeline for company hiring
Nginx lands $43 million Series C to fuel expansion
Taiwan-based media startup The News Lens raises Series C for its international growth plans
Meditation app Calm hits a $250M valuation amid an explosion of interest in mindfulness apps
Italian grocery delivery service Supermercato24 picks up ?13M Series B
Feed raises $17.4 million for its Soylent-like food products
Startup Grind founders raise $6.4M for community event platform Bevy
Keepsafe launches a privacy-focused mobile browser
Why startups can?t afford to ignore customer retention
Using tech and $100M, Dr Consulta transforms healthcare for the poorest
Patriot Boot Camp wants to turn soldiers into entrepreneurs
ICOs are becoming funds
Riskified prevents fraud on your favorite e-commerce site
Cyan Banister to tell her story at Disrupt SF
Lyft?s app code reveals unlaunched bike or scooter feature
PAX introduces Session Control to let novice users control their intake
Paperless Post introduces Flyer for more casual invitations
Redpoint looks to fresh faces to pilot its latest $400M fund
IRL wants to get people together offline
Crate.io raises $11M and launches its hosted IoT data platform.
Brex picks up $57M to build an easy credit card for startups
Penta, the bank account for SMEs, adds multi-card support to manage expenses
Talentry scores ?6M for its ?social recruitment and marketing? platform
ezCater raises $100M as it looks to own office catered meals around the world
Veriff raises $7.7 M Series A to end up being the 'Stripe for identity'Veriff, the Estonian startup that wants to become something similar to the'Stripe for identity ', has actually raised $7.7 million in Series A funding.Leading the round is Mosaic Ventu
Bet money on yourself with Proveit, the 1-vs-1 trivia app
SpeakSee makes it simple for a deaf person to join a group conversation
Prisma co-founders raise $1M to develop a social app called Capture
The long Cocky-gate nightmare is over
Microsoft acquires social learning platform Flipgrid
Pulumi wants to let you manage your infrastructure with code
Breaking down France?s new $76M Africa startup fund
Plum, the fintech chatbot that helps you save, adds theme-based investing
Zenaton lets you build and run workflows with ease
Email security startup Tessian raises $13M led by Balderton and Accel
VCs serve up a large helping of cash to startups disrupting food
Lemonade files lawsuit against wefox for IP infringement
YC alum Modern Health, a startup focused on emotional wellbeing, gets $2.26M seed funding
Scooters go mad, Opendoor wants to buy your house, and Meituan?s IPO
Cheq raises $5M for a proactive, AI-driven approach to safe ad placement
Tainted, crypto-mining containers pulled from Docker Hub
Juul tightens up social media to focus on former smokers switching to e-cigs
Meet Atoms, the minimalist startup shoes you?ll actually wear
Nuzzel unveils NuzzelRank, which scores news sources on ?authority?
Marketing startup Influential raises $12M from WME and others
Celebrity funds from Jay Z, Will Smith and Robert Downey Jr. are backing a life insurance startup
Benchling raises $14.5M to help streamline collaboration among scientists
VR helps us remember
Sphero raises $12M as it focuses on education
This AR guppy feeds on the spectrum of human emotion
Chowbotics raises $11 million to move its robot beyond salads
Ashton Kutcher and Effie Epstein to talk Sound Ventures at Disrupt SF
N26 launches a revised metal card
A conversation with Sarah Cannon and Mark Goldberg, Index Ventures? new partners
Back Market raises $48 million for its refurbished device marketplace
Safety app Watch Out acquires paywall startup BitWall
Managed By Q acquires NVS to offer space planning and project management
Tableau gets AI shot in the arm with Empirical Systems acquisition
Opendoor raises $325M to make buying and selling homes a near-instant process
Self-driving shuttle startup May Mobility partners with auto supplier Magna
An update on black women raising startup funding
Jane.ai raises $8.4M to bring a digital assistant into your office software
Macy?s acquires minority stake in tech retailer b8ta
Beware ?founder-friendly? VCs ? 3 steps founders should take to protect their companies
Exotec Solutions raises $17.7 million for its warehouse robots
Reid Hoffman to talk ?blitzscaling? at Disrupt SF 2018
Scooter startup Bird is reportedly about to hit a $2B valuation
Amino raises $45M for to bring fan communities to smartphones
Primary Venture Partners raises $100M to invest in NYC startups
Squarespace expands its website-building platform with email marketing
New technology can see your body through walls
Metaboards raises $5M for ?metamaterials?-based wireless charging tech
Uber bets on developing world growth with low-data Uber Lite
Chinese electric car startup Byton raises $500 million
Africa Roundup: African startup investments turn to fintech this winter season
By automating code compliance, UpCodes AI is ?the spellcheck for buildings?
Canvs brings its emotion analysis tool to surveys
Splunk nabs on-call management startup VictorOps for $120M
Uber applies for patent that would detect drunk passengers
Workday acquires Rallyteam to fuel machine learning efforts
M17 delays IPO debut after pricing this morning on NYSE
Speech recognition triggers fun AR stickers in Panda?s video app
Women?s Safety XPRIZE $1M winner is a smart, simple panic button
SeatGeek brings ticket buying into Snapchat
The Hybrid and Gaza Sky Geeks are helping Arab-Israeli and Palestinian entrepreneurs overcome adversity
Devo scores $25 million and cool new name
Self-driving robot delivery startup Starship Technologies raises $25 million
Zebra Medical Vision gets $30M Series C to create AI-based tools for radiologists
Laka raises $1.5M seed to take its ?crowd insurance? model beyond bicycles
Marshmallow picks up $1.2M seed to provide car insurance to immigrants and expats
A friendly reminder: Don?t put passwords in Trello
Photos on social media can predict the health of neighborhoods
?Social selling? startup Meesho lands $11.5M Series B led by Sequoia India
Revolut announces a Robinhood-like trading product
Bumble CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd is coming to Disrupt SF
Order-ahead app Ritual picks up $70M to rethink the social office lunch break
Marley Spoon, the cook-at-home meal kit service, announces IPO
Caroobi, a marketplace for automotive mechanics, raises $20M led by Nokia?s NGP Capital
Indiegogo expands its efforts to help Chinese startups reach global consumers
The Uberization of telcos
Patreon acquires Kit to let creators bundle merch in subscriptions
Highfive?s video conferencing platform is now available through Ingram Micro and at Best Buy
TransferWise?s next partnership could be with U.K. challenger bank Monzo
Scooter startup Lime is reportedly raising $250M led by Uber investor GV
Scooter startup Bird has authorized sale of $200M in shares in latest funding round
Hailo raises a $12.5M Series A round for its deep learning chips
Casper launches a $35 nap pillow for sleeping on-the-go
Coya raises $30 million to launch its insurance service in Europe
Hotel management platform Mews closes ?6m Series A
Lendix raises $37 million for its lending marketplace
Microsoft promises to keep GitHub independent and open
Microsoft has acquired GitHub for $7.5B in stock
PlayVS, bringing esports infrastructure to high schools, picks up $15 million
ING backs FinCompare, the German comparison platform for SME financing
N26 now has 1 million customers
TransferWise partners with France?s second largest bank BPCE Groupe
Scaling startups are setting up secondary hubs in these cities
The startup community must defend merit-based immigration
Ethereum wallet imToken raises $10M Series A from IDG to expand in the US, Asia and Africa
Rebel launches new tools for developers to build marketing emails
Bitcoin exchange abandons Poland even as the government invites it to a working group
Walmart?s new personal shopping service Jetblack launches in New York
Weights Biases raises $5M to build development tools for machine learning
To become a public company, start operating like one early on
20 takeaways from Meeker?s 294-slide Internet Trends report
Steve Case and JD Vance are speaking at Disrupt SF on startup opportunities outside of Silicon Valley
Klaxoon gets $50M to try to make boring meetings more interactive and productive
This newly funded startup wants to help women gauge their reproductive health a lot sooner in life
Scout.fm turns podcasts into personalized talk radio
Neighborhood Goods raises $5.75M to reinvent the department store
Trilogy Education gets $50M to build a market-driven bootcamp program for universities
Virtru secures $37 million Series B led by Iconiq
Researchers create the first 3D-printed corneas
Pinterest gives advertisers a way to show promoted videos that take up the screen
More speakers, panels at The Europas, and how to get your ticket free
Nigeria?s Piggybank.ng raises $1.1M, announces group investment product
Coffee Meets Bagel raises $12M for international expansion and live events
Airbnb CEO said company will ?be ready to IPO next year? but might not
Here?s where it?s cheaper to take an Uber than to own a car
Here?s Mary Meeker?s essential 2018 Internet Trends report
GIF and sticker platform Emogi gets $12.6M as the battle of GIF startups continues to heat up
Tradeshift raises $250M Series E, Goldman Sachs joins the round
Startup studio eFounders is gaining some serious traction
OnTruck picks up ?25M Series B for its haulage tech platform
Snap CEO Evan Spiegel says letter about ?toxic? culture was a wake-up call
Snapchat preps Snapkit platform to bring camera, login to other apps
Bird is reportedly raising $150 million at $1 billion valuation
Diamond dynasty De Beers stoops to conquer with new line of man-made diamond jewelry
Arrested Development Season 5 is now live on Netflix
BlaBlaCar sells car insurance products from Axa
Collaborative Fund raises $100M for its fourth fund
Comet grabs $12.8 million for its engineering freelancer platform
ZenScreen could help you achieve a ?balanced digital diet?
The well-funded startups driven to own the autonomous vehicle stack
Here is where CEOs of heavily funded startups went to school
CommerceDNA wins the TechCrunch Hackathon at VivaTech
Riminder raises $2.3 million for its AI recruitment service
Gravy?s new mobile game show is ?Price is Right? mixed with QVC
Kaltura acquires interactive video startup Rapt Media
Dot lets you invest in property without the hassle of a traditional mortgage
And the winner of Startup Battlefield Europe at VivaTech is? Wingly
Dog-sitting startup Rover just raised $155M
Sinemia, a MoviePass competitor, launches cardless ticketing
WorkFusion adds $50 million from strategic investors as it bulks up for acquisitions
ClassPass plans to add nine international cities by the end of 2018
Crowd Cow, offering ranch to table meats, picks up $8 million from Madrona, Ashton Kutcher
Sentry raises $16M Series B from NEA and Accel to help developers squash bugs more quickly
InVision design tool Studio gets an app store, asset store
Watch every startup from Startup Battlefield Europe
Meet the five finalists at Startup Battlefield Europe
Macron defends the European way of tech regulation
Klevio launches its smart intercom and app that lets you open doors remotely
Announcing the 15 companies competing in Startup Battlefield Europe
Revolut adds Ripple and Bitcoin Cash support
Uber?s raising up to $600M in a secondary round at $62B valuation, Q1 sales grew to $2.5B
GUN raises more than $1.5M for its decentralized database system
Ring?s Jamie Siminoff and Clinc?s Jason Mars to join us at Disrupt SF
Hugging Face raises $4 million for its artificial BFF
Tempow raises $4 million to improve Bluetooth
Platform.sh raises $34 million to simplify cloud deployment
YouTeam is a marketplace for offshore developer talent
Meet the speakers at The Europas, and get your ticket free (July 3, London)
Drink-a-day startup Hooch raises $5M as it plans blockchain initiative
Slack introduces Actions to make it easier to create and finish tasks without leaving
Real Vision, a media platform for finance and business, raises $10 million
Po.et launches lab for developers to build apps on publishing blockchain
Instagram now lets you mute accounts
Researchers recreate a brain, piece by piece
Quit Genius, helping smokers quit, picks up an extra $1.1 million in seed
Amuse scores $15.5M for its free music distribution service and ?next gen? record label
OpenPath raises $7M to help you access your office with your phone
Yubico launches an SDK that lets iOS devs add support for its NFC keys
This UK startup thinks it can win the self-driving car race with better machine learning
Maze turns your InVision prototypes into flexible testing tools
Announcing the last judges for the TC Startup Battlefield Europe at VivaTech
TheSkimm closes its $12M Series C with big names Shonda Rhimes and Tyra Banks on board
Cryptocurrency and a stock market boom pushes TradingView to $37 million in new funding
Teen monitoring app TeenSafe exposes thousands of passwords
CREXi raises $11 million to bring commercial real estate out of the Dark Ages
The BCT terminal brings crypto to Wall Street
Whisk, the smart food platform that makes recipes shoppable, acquires competitor Avocando
Microsoft acquires conversational AI startup Semantic Machines to help bots sound more lifelike
Bail reform has a complex relationship with tech
La Belle Vie wants to compete with Amazon Prime Now in Paris
zGlue launches a configurable system-on-a-chip to help developers implement customized chipsets
WARD is an app for placing fantasy predictions on esports games
Fortnite Battle Royale?s Solo Showdown lets players compete for up to 50,000 V-Bucks
Meet Alchemist Accelerator?s latest demo day cohort
Rackspace acquires Salesforce specialist RelationEdge
Boosted Boards founders launch heavy-duty scooter renter Skip
Headspace gets a new CTO and head of data analytics
FCTRY wants to be a new type of startup studio
Monzo, the U.K. challenger bank, finally rolls out Apple Pay
Bossa Studios launches Worlds Adrift, the first game built on Improbable?s SpatialOS
This jolly little robot gets goosebumps
The SEC creates an educational ?token? to stop scammers
Coinbase?s first investment, Compound, earns you interest on crypto
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong to talk the future of cryptocurrency at Disrupt SF
OpenClassrooms raises another $60 million
Deliveroo employees are getting shares, riders are getting nothing
Circle raises $110 million (or 13,300 BTC)
Parsable secures $40M investment to bring digital to industrial workers
Gfycat starts rolling out 360 degree GIF content
Lemonade wants to rewrite the insurance policy itself
Dashdash, a platform to create web apps using only spreadsheet skills, nabs $8M led by Accel
Oxford-based MeVitae wants to scale the hiring process and remove unconscious bias
Index and Atomico back Teatime Games, a stealthy new startup from QuizUp founders
Aircall raises another $29 million
MemSQL raises $30M Series D round for its real-time database
Quarterback lets top esports gamers and streamers create their own fan-based leagues
Music payments startup Exactuals debuts R.AI, a ?Palantir for music royalties?
Auth0 snags $55M Series D, seeks international expansion
BRD crowdraises $32 million to build financial services into a mobile crypto wallet
Instacart names David Hahn as new Chief Product Officer
Lerer Hippeau raises a new $122M fund, plus $60M for follow-on investments
Genoox raises $6M to help physicians better diagnose patients with genomic data
BrainQ raises $5.3M to treat neurological disorders with the help of AI
Prisma raises $4.5M seed round led by Kleiner Perkins
Good Eggs raises $50M and eyes West Coast expansion
AnyDesk scores ?6.5M for its remote desktop software
?Welcome to the Jungle? raises another $8.4 million
Hospitals can save billions by improving operational efficiencies; Qventus just raised millions to help
Lost in Space is coming back for a second season
A free web tool can predict your hair, skin, and eye color from DNA data
Xage introduces fingerprinting to protect industrial IoT devices
Uber lets you rate mid-ride before you forget feedback
Munchery shuts down operations in LA, New York and Seattle
Wes Blackwell joins Scout Ventures to invest in early-stage, veteran-led startups
Cleveland offered $120 million in freebies lure Amazon to the city
LightTag is a text annotation platform for data scientists creating AI training data
Necto looks to help individuals get their own local ISP businesses off the ground
Free stock trading app Robinhood rockets to a $5.6B valuation with new funding round
Tailor Brands raises $15.5M for AI-driven logo creation and more
MoviePass parent drops another 46%
Monzo, the U.K. challenger bank, now lets you pay ?Nearby Friends?
Google to acquire cloud migration startup Velostrata
Fantasmo is a decentralized map for robots and augmented reality
Targetprocess lands Series A 14 years after launching
Brexit data transfer gaps a risk for UK startups, MPs told
Emily Weiss and Kirsten Green will join us on the Main Stage at TC Disrupt SF
On Fridays, HQ Trivia will let you see your friends? answers during the game
Tame wants to bring order to conference and event planning chaos
Brazil?s tech startups begin to expand globally
MoviePass parent drops 31% on looming cash crunch
Gamalon scores $20 M led by Intel Capital
Intel Capital pumps $72M into AI, IoT, cloud and silicon startups, $115M invested so far in 2018
Google?s Android development studio gets a new update with visual navigation editing
Slack hits 8 million daily active users with 3 million paid users
Walmart ends grocery delivery deal with Uber and Lyft
XNOR raises $12M for its cloud-free, super-efficient AI
Green Power Exchange enables peer-to-peer energy sharing
Rare Bits launches a market for digital collectables
Yobe launches with $1.8M seed to pinpoint a voice in noise
Dreamlines, the online travel agency for cruise holidays, scores ?45M Series E
I visited a teeth-straightening startup and found out I needed a root canal
Printify, a new marketplace for custom printing, raises $1 million seed
Vegan meal kit startup Purple Carrot raises $4M from Fresh Del Monte
Lobe?s ridiculously simple machine learning platform aims to empower non-technical creators
The formula behind San Francisco?s startup success
Chinese robotics company UBTECH gets $820 million in funding
Wedding startup Zola just received a lavish gift: $100 million in fresh funding
Freeda raises $10 million for its new media brand for women
Columbus Collaboratory?s Jeff Schmidt talks about the future of security
BuzzFeed built its own editing tool for short, meme-y videos
Soft Robotics raises $20 million to expand operations
The Handmaid?s Tale gets greenlight for season 3
MoviePass brings back ?unlimited? movie subscription plan
Massage-on-demand company, Soothe, raises $31 million
Google will start investing in early-stage startups that use the Assistant
Tyson Foods investment arm backs another lab-grown meat manufacturer
Sling TV expands cloud DVR service to a bunch of new devices
Homecare services startup Cera announces $17M Series A
ICO services: Lots of barnacles but no whales
The BBC will run its first podcast ads, powered by Acast
Cisco is acquiring business intelligence startup Accompany for $270M
Frontier Car Group raises another $58M for its used-car marketplace for emerging economies
Regulus Cyber launches with a technology to secure autonomous vehicles
Hustle rallies $30M for grassroots texting tool Republicans can?t use
ZeroCater raises $12M to rule the fridges and pantries of an office
Cambridge Uni graphene spin-out Paragraf gets $3.9M
Suki raises $20M to create a voice assistant for doctors
TransferWise founder Taavet Hinrikus invests in fintech chatbot Cleo
Covee uses blockchain to allow experts worldwide to collaborate
Spam filters and AI help figure out what animals do all day
There?s something called Bacoin now
SoFi founder Mike Cagney is back with a new startup and $50 million in funding
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Twitter also sold data access to Cambridge Analytica researcher
From dorm room to Starbucks, Rip Van Wafels is bringing Euro-inspired snack to the masses
Emissary wants to make sales networking obsolete
CultureCrush breaks out of the swipe right box
Aloe Bud is the adorable self-care app you?ve been waiting for
Meet the first four startups in the MetaProp Bridge international accelerator
Maverick, a social network for young women, launches with $2.7M in funding
Square is acquiring website builder Weebly for $365M
MoviePass CEO says he doesn?t know if the one-movie-per-day subscription will ever return
The alternative to the four-hour workweek mindset
DeepCode cleans your code with the power of AI
Meet 11 new startups launching out of the Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator
Digital banking startup Revolut raises $250M at a valuation of $1.7B
Adtech company BuySellAds acquires a majority stake Digg
Rookout raises $4.2M for its rapid production debugging platform
The FDA is cracking down on Juul e-cig sales to minors
Dolo delivers on the Foursquare prophecy of hyper-local tips
Netflix picks up ?Follow This,? a weekly series about BuzzFeed reporters
Rocketrip raises $15 million to reward cost-saving employees
Gfycat ramps up its focus on game clips and highlights as it hits 180M monthly users
Drew Houston to upload his thoughts at TC Disrupt SF in September
Hasura snares $1.6M seed for developer-focused Kubernetes solution
Rockerbox acquires calendar marketing startup Eventable
Video consultation service Doctor on Demand raised $74 million so everyone can see a doctor anytime
BigCommerce raises $64 million to power e-commerce sites
Challenger bank Starling adds investment service Wealthify to its in-app marketplace
Fat Lama, the online marketplace for renting out things you own, raises $10M
Real-time developer tool startup Pusher pulls in $8M in Series A funding
German insurance ?robo-advisor? Clark scores $29 million Series B
Vacation rental management service Guesty raises $19.75M
New numbers illustrate how fast fundraising has changed for young startups
Bose acquires Andrew Mason?s walking tour startup, Detour
Etleap scores $1.5 million seed to transform how we ingest data
Catalyst brothers find capital success with $2.4M from True
Meet the quantum blockchain that works like a time machine
Kidbox raises $15.3 million for its personalized children?s clothing box
Spotify beefs up its free tier
Flipboard launches a new tech section
Delivery robotics company Marble raises $10 million, with plans to move beyond food
DoorDash makes a big push into grocery delivery through a pilot program with Walmart
Belgium?s Cowboy raises $3M led by Index to launch a smarter e-bike
Drink-a-day startup Hooch adds a perk-filled premium membership plan
From Ferraris to flying taxis: Q A with Liliumnew head of Product Design
Indian lending platform Capital Float raises $22M Series C extension from Amazon
Rapchat raises $1.6 million to help you make and share your def jams
Bluedot Innovation gets $5.5 million in funding to track smartphone users more precisely
Deliv now offers same-day delivery for Shopify retailers
Mobile guru Amol Sarva talks about the future of work
Netflix looks to raise $1.5 billion in debt financing
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Slite raises $4.4M to create a smarter internal notes tool
Pivotal CEO talks IPO and balancing life in Dell family of companies
In the NYC enterprise startup scene, security is job one
Through luck and grit, Datadog is fusing the culture of developers and operations
Up-and-coming enterprise startups in NYC
Full-Metal Packet is hosting the future of cloud infrastructure
BigID lands in the right place at the right time with GDPR
Timescale is leading the next wave of NYC database tech
Special Report: New York?s enterprise infrastructure ecosystem
Startup ecosystem report: China is rising while the US is waning
This robot can build your IKEA furniture
Square acquires corporate catering startup Zesty
Crypto-collectibles and Kitties marketplace Rare Bits raises $6M
3D-printing marketplace Shapeways raises a $30 million Series E
mParticle hires Adobe?s John Sedlak as chief revenue officer
PlayVS wants every high school to have an esports team
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BenevolentAI, which uses AI to develop drugs and energy solutions, nabs $115M at $2B valuation
OutVoice makes it dead simple for editors to pay freelancers
EarthNow promises real-time views of the whole planet from a new satellite constellation
Streaming sports service fuboTV raises $75 million from AMC and others
Ad-blocking browser Brave signs up Dow Jones Media Group as a partner
A minor cryptocurrency partners with a major porn network. What could go wrong
Indian online insurance startup Coverfox lands $22M led by World Bank?s IFC and Transamerica
ReviveMed turns drug discovery into a big data problem and raises $1.5M to solve it
Voicera scoops up AI note-taking app Wrappup
Wonolo picks up $13M to create a way to connect temp workers with companies
Here?s the 23rd batch of 500 Startups companies
Personably, software that helps on-board new hires at fast-growing companies, gets backing from GFC
Funding Societies, a Southeast Asian lending platform, gets $25M Series B led by Softbank Ventures Korea
Former DreamWorks exec Shawn Dennis joins GoldieBlox as president
Electric scooter permits will be required in San Francisco
Ripple?s Brad Garlinghouse and Michael Arrington to talk cryptocurrency at Disrupt SF
Here?s what you?ll learn at Atrium?s fundraising workshop
Snap launches new features for Lens Studio
Crypto fans, let?s meet in New York next week
Parsley Health picks up $10 million to reimagine healthcare
This tiny agtech company thinks it has figured out something its better-capitalized rivals haven?t
Guestfriend automates chatbot creation for restaurants
Resy rolls out a new suite of tools for restaurants
Drift raises $60 million to be an Amazon for businesses
Node snags two top AI researchers to advance AI-fueled search tool
LawGeex raises $12M for its AI-powered contract review technology
A16Z and Founders Fund sink $28M into IRL asset blockchain Harbor
Taiwanese startup Kdan Mobile raises $5M Series A for its cloud-based content creation tools
Minds aims to decentralize the social network
Elon Musk?s Boring Co. raises $113 million to chase a pipe dream
Utah?s Pluralsight unveils IPO filing
Instead of stealing instruments, musicians turn to Splice
US early-stage investment share shrinks as China surges
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Bolt Threads joins Modern Meadow in the quest to bring lab-grown leather to market
DeferPanic secures $1.5 M seed round to popularize unikernel concept
Mixcloud, the audio streaming platform for long-form content, raises $11.5M from WndrCo
Kolide raises $8M to turn application and device management into a smart database
Osama Hashmi on ?Exponential Social Impact challenges?
Teachable raises $4M to create a tool to turn any online class into a true business
Sword Health raises $4.6M for its digital physiotherapy solution
Facebook shouldn?t block you from finding friends on competitors
Zuora?s IPO is another step in golden age of enterprise SaaS
Here are the 12 startups in Techstars NYC?s Winter 2018 class
Podcasting app Anchor can now find you a cohost
PullRequest pulls in $8M Series A just months after scoring seed round
Exit scammers run off with $660 million in ICO earnings
Sensu raises $10M to build a robust monitoring system for all your different operations
Uber expands privacy settlement with FTC
Dutch uni spinout gets $1.2M for its zero ink printing tech
SpaceX has authorized new shares that could value it at $24B
Sophia Amoruso, Carbon?s Dr. Joseph DeSimone, and Adidas? Eric Liedtke to crash Disrupt SF
ServiceTitan is LA?s least likely contender to be the next billion-dollar startup
Foundation is a touching documentary series on tech entrepreneurs
Bubblz lets you collaborate on painful processes
Marketing platform Punchh raises $20M Series B to give brick-and-mortar retailers better data analytics
HelpSelf uses simple AI to help those in legal trouble
Revue, the newsletter publishing tool, now lets you charge subscribers
Background checks pay for Checkr, which just rang up $100 million in new funding
Zaius raises $30M to help marketers unify their customer data
Luminar puts its lidar tech into production through acquisitions and smart engineering
Billie, which wants to eliminate the ?pink tax,? closes a $6M seed round for its razor subscription service
Cluno, the Munich-based ?car subscription? service, raises ?7M Series A
Tentrr is turning private land into glampgrounds, with the help of VCs
Element wants to give identity to the whole world, raising $12M Series A
ICOs like to move fast and break (lots of) things
Bloglovin? becomes Activate and names Kamiu Lee as its new CEO
Here Technologies and Argus join our Tel Aviv lineup
TravelPerk grabs $21M to make booking business trips suck less
Tandem adds fixed savings accounts
Koio, a direct-to-consumer leather sneaker brand, picks up $3 million
How to watch Zuckerberg?s congressional testimony online
Laundry service Zipjet picks up backing from Henkel and BSH
Instabridge, the Wi-Fi sharing community, scores $3M more funding for Asia expansion
Mark Zuckerberg: ?We do not sell data to advertisers?
New research shows successful founders are far older than the Valley stereotype
Mark Zuckerberg: ?There will always be a version of Facebook that is free?
A new app called Garden helps you stay in touch with friends and family without Facebook
Sesame Street turns to Kickstarter to fund autism book
Lucidity uses the blockchain to bring more transparency to online ads
Instapage raises $15M to make landing pages smarter
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Fleetsmith secures $7.7M investment to manage Apple devices
Where to watch Zuckerberg?s Senate testimony live
Alan raises $28.3 million for its health insurance of the future
Tribe combines arcade games with group video chat
Holberton raises $8M for its full-stack engineering school
Juro grabs $2M to take the hassle out of contracts
Scribd will get Veronica Roth?s ?Fates Divide? on launch day
Join me for an ICO meetup in New York
Uber acquires bike-share startup JUMP
Armis raises $30 million Series B as enterprise IoT security heats up
James Murray from the Impractical Jokers talks about the future of VR
Bitmovin scores $30M Series B for ?next-gen? online video software
Tencent and education startup Age of Learning bring popular English-learning app ABCmouse to China
Dictionary app Reverso learns new tricks
Robo Wunderkind wants to build the Lego Mindstorms for everyone
Selina raises $95M to create a boutique travel lodging experience built around communities
Zuckerberg will also testify before the Senate
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