TechCrunch Startup News
3,836 episodes — Page 35 of 77
SponsorUnited secures $35M investment to build out its database of brand sponsorships
Sponsorships are a multibillion-dollar industry. But data on sponsorships, like who’s sponsoring who, can be tough to come by because of the various forms they take — and channels on which those sponsorships take place (think not only websites and social media posts but also physical signage and even sports team jerseys). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Flipkart chief warns startups of turmoil and funding crunch for another 12 to 18 months
The funding winter for the startup ecosystem may continue for another 12 to 18 months and the industry might have to grapple with a “lot of turmoil and volatility,” e-commerce giant Flipkart chief executive Kalyan Krishnamurthy has warned executives. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
ReadySpaces, which offers co-warehousing spaces to corporate customers, secures $20M in debt
Jon Zimmerman — the co-founder of ReadySpaces, a warehouse storage provider for small businesses — was working in the self-storage market when he had the idea for a product with the flexibility of self-storage but the capabilities of a traditional warehouse, aimed primarily at enterprise customers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
With $8.6M in seed funding, Nx wants to take monorepos mainstream
Narwhal, the company behind the popular monorepo-focused open source Nx build system for JavaScript code, today announced that it has raised an $8.6 million seed funding round co-led by Nexus Venture Partners and Andreesen Horowitz. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Elephantech wants to create circuit boards that are kinder to the environment
Printed circuit boards (PCB), which perform essential functions in electronic devices, including displays and sensors, need a lot of energy to create. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Summer International uses social media data to launch new beauty brands
If you follow #beautytok, #beautytube or any beauty content on social media platforms, you know that popular product trends are hard to keep up with. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Zest wants to make buying and sending gifts online ‘delightful’
While e-commerce was on the rise before the pandemic, the massive shift to digital supercharged the online shopping industry — bringing entirely new categories of products (and shoppers) to the web. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Thailand’s Beam simplifies checkout for social commerce
The social commerce market is already worth more than $13 billion in Southeast Asia, but the checkout process is filled with friction. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Silkhaus gets $7.75M to digitize short-term rentals across emerging markets
Silkhaus, a Dubai-based platform for short-term rentals coming out of stealth, has raised $7.75 million in seed funding, money it plans to use for expansion across South Asia, Southeast Asia and the MENA region. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Induction cooking heats up with a $20M cash injection for Impulse
All electric, everywhere, all of the time; that’s one of the many climate mantras. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Directus wants to democratize data across the enterprise
A startup that wants to democratize data in the enterprise? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Pet insurance startups chase the market as pet ownership booms among Gen Z and Millennials
Walk through any public park these days and you will see a hell of a lot more dogs than you might have done three years ago. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Airly fights air pollution with a network of affordable sensors
Cleantech startup Airly wants to help communities around the world improve air quality with affordable sensors and software that provides actionable insights. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Perfekto bags $1.1M to find homes for imperfect produce in Mexico
Perfekto's customers can personalize their subscription box of imperfect produce, of which the company says 1 million pounds have been rescued from landfills since 2021. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
With new capital, Adapty is betting it can help app devs make more money
Adapty hopes to help developers earn more from their apps. So far, it has been doing this mostly by powering A/B testing for paywalls, but it has a broader road map.With new capital, Adapty is betting it can help app devs make more money by Anna Heim originally published on TechCrunch Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Equals secures $15M investment to supercharge spreadsheets
Equals, a New York-based startup ambitiously aiming to challenge Excel’s dominance with a supercharged spreadsheet, today announced that it raised $16 million in a Series A funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), with participation from Craft Ventures, Box Group, Worklife and Combine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Kuda takes digital banking play to the U.K. with its remittance product
Kuda, the London-based and Nigerian-operating startup taking on incumbents in the country with a mobile-first and personalized set of banking services, is expanding to the U.K. by offering a remittance product to Nigerians in the diaspora. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Beekeeper, which helps companies engage with their ‘deskless’ frontline workforce, raises $50M
Beekeeper, a platform for businesses to engage with frontline workers, has raised $50 million in a Series C round of funding. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Eliyan raises $40M from Intel and Micron to build chiplet interconnects
Increasingly, as Moore’s law rears its ugly head, computer chip developers are adopting “chiplet” architectures to scale their hardware’s processing power. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Security automation startup Veriti launches out of stealth with $18.5M
Veriti, a platform for unifying cybersecurity infrastructure, today emerged from stealth with $18.5 million in funding, a combination of $12 million from Insight Partners and a $6.5 million round led by NFX and Amiti. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Twitter said to delay verification check mark rollout until after US midterm elections
Twitter is reportedly delaying the rollout of verification check marks to subscribers as the social network attempts to steer clear of possible impact to Tuesday’s midterm elections. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
After 40 million app downloads, PhotoRoom raises $19 million
French startup PhotoRoom has raised a $19 million Series A funding round. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Sacca’s Lowercarbon doubles down on startup bringing solar modules to Indian rooftops
Chris Sacca’s Lowercarbon is doubling down on a startup that is racing to bring solar modules to rooftops in India. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Spend management startup Pleo lays off 15% of its workforce
Danish startup Pleo has announced that it plans to lay off around 15% of the company’s workforce. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Dropit picks up $25M to digitize brick-and-mortar stores and unify inventories
Dropit, a retail technology platform that bridges the digital divide by unifying merchants’ online and in-store inventories, has raised $25 million in a Series C round of funding. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Bump builds a central hub for all your APIs
Meet Bump, a French software-as-a-service startup that wants to help you maintain and use APIs across your organization. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Former Yext CEO launches Roam to provide a virtual HQ for distributed teams
Roam, which bills itself as a “cloud HQ” for distributed, remote companies, today emerged from stealth with $30 million in Series A funding led by IVP with participation from undisclosed angel investors. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Microsoft backs web3 game developer Wemade
Microsoft has backed Wemade, a popular video game developer that has made aggressive bets on blockchain in recent years, the latest sign of tech giants’ showing growing interest in web3. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Digital card and gifting platform Givingli nabs $10M
Three years ago, Ben and Nicole Green were planning their wedding and decided to go digital with registries to save on money and materials. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
HR employee benefits platform Fringe raises $17M to offer customizable perks
Fringe, an HR tech startup enabling companies to offer customizable perks and benefits to employees, today announced that it raised $17 million in a funding round led by Origin Ventures and Felton Group. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Navina secures $22M to process and summarize medical data for clinicians
Navina, a company developing AI-powered assistant software for physicians, today announced that it raised $22 million in Series B funding led by ALIVE with participation from Grove Ventures, Vertex Ventures Israel and Schusterman Family Investments. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Twitter will be delisted from the New York Stock Exchange on November 8
Twitter’s stock will be delisted from the New York Stock Exchange and become a private company on November 8, according to a new filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Integration platform Cinchy lands fresh cash to connect data sources
Cinchy, a startup that provides a data management service for enterprise customers, today announced that it raised $14.5 million in Series B funding led by Forgepoint Capital with participation from IVP, SUV, Techstars and Mars. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Uber alum rakes in $9.7M to curb finance-related fights between co-parents
The daughter of divorced parents herself, Uber alum Jacklyn Rome founded Onward to help co-parents more easily manage their shared expenses. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Needl wants to become the search engine for your accounts
Google, DuckDuckGo, and other search engines help you find information from the web. But it’s hard to find documents, messages, meetings, and emails from your own accounts. You need to go to different applications to find things that might be related to one project. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Valence Security raises fresh capital to secure the SaaS app supply chain
Valence Security, a company securing business app infrastructure, today announced that it raised $25 million in a Series A round led by M12, Microsoft’s corporate venture arm, with participation from YL Ventures, Porsche Ventures, Akamai Technologies, Alumni Ventures and former Symantec CEO Michael Fey. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Duolingo’s owl will now shout fractions at you
Duolingo is launching its math app to the public, and months after a beta version joined the app store. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
WATI, a CRM tool built for WhatsApp, raises $23M led by Tiger Global
WhatsApp is used by more than two billion around the world, and is an important tool for many small businesses. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
AI chip startup Axelera lands $27M in capital to commercialize its hardware
Several years ago, Fabrizio Del Maffeo and a core team from Imec, a Belgium-based nanotechnology lab, teamed up with Evangelos Eleftheriou and a group of researchers at IBM Zurich Lab to develop a computer chip. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Pantheon Design alleviates supply chain uncertainty with factory-grade 3D printing
In the midst of the pandemic, Pantheon Design, a maker of industrial 3D printers from Vancouver, BC, suddenly found itself getting orders from factories in the Midwest, the center of heavy industries. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Maro’s new app looks to help schools screen kids for depression and anxiety
Maro has developed a platform that helps families and schools navigate tough conversations about mental health. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Sensat raises $20.5M to build digital twins for infrastructure companies
Sensat, a platform that helps physical infrastructure companies map and visualize all their data, has raised $20.5 million in a Series B round of funding. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Handoff is creating a more equitable workforce through job sharing
Many qualified workers are failed by the current model of work in the United States, where jobs are either part-time or full-time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Banyan raises $43M to grow its network of item-level purchase data
Banyan, a platform for product purchase data that allows customers such as banks, fintechs, hotels and merchants to automate expense management and more, today announced that it raised $43 million in a Series A funding round. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
N26 adds crypto trading with new Bitpanda integration
Challenger bank N26 is launching a new trading feature in its app — N26 Crypto. Users will be able to easily trade crypto assets using money in their N26 account. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Makersite lands $18M to help companies manage product supply chains
In 2018, Neil D’Souza, a software engineer by trade and previously the VP of product development at Thinkstep, came to the realization that his ten-plus-year effort to solve enterprise product challenges in the areas of sustainability, compliance and risk were having little impact. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
DigestAI’s 19-year-old founder wants to make education addictive
When Quddus Pativada was 14, he wished that he had an app that could summarize his textbooks for him. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Streaming data processing platform RisingWave lands $36M to launch a cloud service
RisingWave Labs, a company developing a platform for data stream processing, today announced that it raised $36 million in a Series A funding round led by Yunqi Partners. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Drivetrain is the “Google Maps for business growth”
Businesses usually plot their growth strategies on spreadsheets, but Drivetrain wants to provide a faster alternative for financial planning and decision making. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Andreessen Horowitz backs Synonym’s bio-manufacturing facilities
Synonym is developing designs and underwriting for its fermentation farms so that companies can more easily utilize them for bioproduct production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices