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While Microsoft cloud services such as SharePoint, Microsoft Teams and Office 365 are used widely by large organizations, the products don’t come standard with an enterprise-grade control layer.

That’s where AvePoint, a Microsoft independent software vendor (ISV), comes in.

Today, the company announced a $200 million Series C investment.The round was led by TPG Sixth Street Partners, with additional participation from prior investor Goldman Sachs and other unnamed investors.

The round brings the total raised to $294 million, according to the company.The company says that the equity investment has a couple of purposes.

First of all it wants to provide some liquidity for long-time investors.

Secondly, it wants capital for company expansion.Specifically, it provides a set of governance and migration services for Microsoft SharePoint, Teams, Office 365 and other Microsoft SaaS products.

The company has been around for 18 years, but transitioned about five years ago to protecting online services, chief marketing officer Dux Raymond Sy explained.

Prior to that it concentrated on on-prem services like SharePoint backup.Today, AvePoint takes care of a few key management tasks.

First of all, it provides a policy layer on top of Office 365, Microsoft Teams and SharePoint to give companies the ability to enforce usage rules across these products.

For instance, it could define the types of files an employee can share in Teams.In addition, the company provides backup for the three services and others like Microsoft Dynamics to aid in disaster recovery, and finally it has migration tools to move data from a related cloud service to a Microsoft cloud service.For example, AvePoint could help move documents from Google Drive to Office 365 or Slack data to Microsoft Teams.Sy says the company has been growing rapidly, with four consecutive quarters of record growth, which he said works out to about 40% year over year growth.

AvePoint currently has 1,250 employees serving 16,000 customers.

Overall, it is helping to protect 7 million Microsoft cloud service users around the world, but it has a long-term, rather ambitious goal of adding more than 40,000 new customers.It hopes to expand its market further by adding new services to sell to existing customers, while expanding aggressively into the SMB market.

It also wants to enhance relationships with channel partners to sell AvePoint on its behalf.

It already has a number of channel partners, including Ingram Micro, Synnex and TechData.The new investment should help the company invest in the engineering, sales, customer service and partner relations that this level of expansion will no doubt require.





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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


Startups Weekly: Understanding Uber?s latest fintech play


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


Learn how to scale your startup globally at Disrupt Berlin


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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Let?s have a word about what3words with Clare Jones at Disrupt Berlin


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


Registration is open for TC Sessions: Robotics + AI 2020


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


Announcing the Disrupt Berlin 2019 agenda


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


6 considerations for managing your cap table


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


Learn how to win customers and influence consumers at Disrupt Berlin


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


Don&t miss the Q A Sessions at Disrupt Berlin 2019


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


Sequoia shares wisdom with Disrupt SF Battlefield competitors and Startup Alley Top Picks


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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And the winner of Startup Battlefield at Disrupt SF 2019 is? Render


$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


Here are the five Startup Battlefield finalists at Disrupt SF 2019


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


Introducing the Startup Battlefield companies at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2019


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


Application extension: pitch in Startup Battlefield at Disrupt Berlin


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


Learn everything you can about mobility at Disrupt SF


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


Get your pitchdeck analyzed by top investors and experts at Disrupt SF next week


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



Worried about a ?no deal? brexit UK startups should check this guide


Why startups exhibit in Startup Alley at Disrupt Berlin 2019


One day left to get featured at TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin?s Startup Battlefield


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


Hack with these APIs at the Disrupt SF 2019 Hackathon


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


CrunchMatch is open: Ready, set, vet and network at Disrupt SF 2019


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


Investors: Prospect for early-stage startup gold at Disrupt Berlin 2019


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


100 Thieves? Nadeshot and Scooter Braun are coming to Disrupt


As Adam Neumann reportedly faces pressure to step down, it?s looking like a fight for life between WeWork and SoftBank


TechCrunch Disrupt offers plenty of options for attendees with an eye on the enterprise


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


At TechCrunch Disrupt, insights into key trends in venture capital


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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How to profit from valuable peer referrals hiding in Slack


Lunchclub raises $4M from a16z for its AI warm intro service


Out of the box influencer strategies to accelerate awareness for your startup


Video ad company Eyeview names Rob Deichert as its new CEO


Stephen Curry Brings SC30 Inc. to Disrupt SF


On-demand plant food startup Simple Feast raises $33M B round to push its climate credentials


Hear how to hire at breakneck speed at TechCrunch Disrupt SF


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


In a social media world, here?s what you need to know about UGC and privacy


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


Get the word on product-market fit from leads at Instagram, Tinder, Uber, and Okta at Disrupt SF


How to get your ads working, and whether PR is worth it


Help TechCrunch offer a valuable new tool for startups (by taking this quick survey)


Startups Weekly: Part Parcel plans plus-sized fashion empire


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


Space is the next economic frontier? hear more about it at Disrupt SF


24-hour Friday flashback on Disrupt SF passes


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


Only a few hours left for early-bird passes to Disrupt SF 2019



Why Box is one of the most underappreciated companies


Super early-bird pricing for Disrupt Berlin 2019 ends tonight


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


Only 48 hours left on early-bird pricing to Disrupt SF 2019


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


Only 48 hours left on super early-bird savings for Disrupt Berlin 2019


SF-based African fintech startup Chipper Cash expands to Nigeria


Is your startup TC Top Picks material Apply to exhibit for free at Disrupt Berlin 2019


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


Ashton Kutcher, Ann Miura-Ko and Mamoon Hamid are coming to Disrupt!


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


Only 3 days left on early-bird pricing to Disrupt SF 2019


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


Time to apply to the TC Hackathon at Disrupt Berlin 2019


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


Deadline alert: Only 4 days to save on passes to Disrupt SF 2019


Joseph Gordon-Levitt is coming to Disrupt SF 2019


Only 4 days left on super early-bird pricing for Disrupt Berlin 2019


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


We want you: Apply to Startup Battlefield at Disrupt Berlin 2019


Only 5 days left for super early bird savings at Disrupt Berlin 2019


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


Startups Weekly: Peloton?s 29 secret weapons


Labor Day Special: One extra week on early-bird pricing for Disrupt SF 2019


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


Disrupt SF prices increase tonight


Atoms nabs $8.1M for shoes you can buy in quarter sizes for each foot


Could Peloton be the next Apple


Final week to buy super early-bird passes to Disrupt Berlin 2019


What is Andela, the Africa tech talent accelerator


2019 tech IPOs: Some thoughts from the public company roller coaster


Marc Benioff will discuss building a socially responsible and successful startup at TechCrunch Disrupt


Former Google X exec Mo Gawdat wants to reinvent consumerism


48 hours left: Buy your early-bird passes to Disrupt SF 2019


Female founders: All Raise AMA applications @ Disrupt SF 2019 close tomorrow


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


Bring your international delegation to Disrupt Berlin 2019


Compete in the TC Hackathon at Disrupt Berlin 2019




How UK VCs are managing the risk of a ?no deal? Brexit


Bestmile raises $16.5 million to manage human and AI-driven fleets


Only 3 days left for early-bird pricing on passes to Disrupt SF 2019


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


SAP Pricefx cover hot topics at TechCrunchSept. 5 Enterprise show in SF


Only 4 days left until prices go up on passes to Disrupt SF 2019


Meet with General Catalyst investors in September


Customer success isn?t an add-on ? Start early to win later


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


Summer flash sale ends tonight: 2-for-1 Disrupt Berlin 2019 passes


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


How do you build a secure startup Find out at TechCrunch Disrupt SF


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


Compete in Startup Battlefield at Disrupt Berlin 2019


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


YC is doubling down on these investment theses in its most recent batch


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


Bring your posse to Disrupt SF 2019 with group discounts


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


Only 3 days left: Get your 2-for-1 passes to Disrupt Berlin 2019


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


Here are the 82 startups from day 2 of Y Combinator?s S19 Demo Days


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


Discover the startups exhibiting at Disrupt SF 2019


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


Summer flash sale: Score 2-for-1 passes to Disrupt Berlin 2019


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


Meet the TC Top Picks for Disrupt SF 2019


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


Apply to the TC Hackathon at Disrupt Berlin 2019


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


Every TC Sessions: Enterprise 2019 ticket includes a free pass to Disrupt SF


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


Apply to Startup Battlefield at Disrupt Berlin 2019


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


TechCrunchEnterprise event early-bird deadline extended: buy now save $100


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


Last chance for early-bird tickets to TC Sessions: Enterprise 2019


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


Only 24 hours left to save $100 on TC Sessions: Enterprise 2019


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


Government and nonprofit discounts available for Disrupt SF 2019


With MapR fire sale, Hadoop?s promise has fallen on hard times


Only 48 hours left for early-bird tickets to TC Sessions: Enterprise 2019


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


Female founders: Apply to the All Raise AMA to win a free Expo Pass to Disrupt SF


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


Apply to be a TC Top Pick at Disrupt Berlin 2019


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


Secure your seat to Disrupt Berlin now and pay later


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


Bring your team to Disrupt Berlin 2019 and save big


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


Attend Disrupt SF 2019 for free as a volunteer


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


Calling all hardware startups! Apply to Hardware Battlefield @ TC Shenzhen


Save with group discounts and bring your team to TechCrunch?s first-ever Enterprise event Sept. 5 in SF


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


Special offer: discounted hotels and flights for Disrupt SF 2019


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


Buy a demo table at TC Sessions: Enterprise 2019


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


Almost sold out! Buy a ticket to the 14th Annual TechCrunch Summer Party


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


Last chance! Apply for the All Raise female founder program at Disrupt SF 2019


Haus, the real estate startup founded by Garrett Camp, raises $7.1M


Only 24 hours left to apply for TC Top Picks at Disrupt SF 2019


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


Watch an unfiltered interview of PicsArt founder at Disrupt Berlin


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


Let CrunchMatch simplify your networking at Disrupt SF 2019


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


Verified Expert Growth Marketing Agency: TrueUp


China startup deals shrink as fundraising for investors plummets


Quirk wants to make cognitive behavioral therapy more accessible


Apply to TC Top Picks before the deadline exhibit free at Disrupt SF 2019


Learn how to change banking one dollar at a time at Disrupt SF


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


48-hours only: 2-for-1 sale on passes to Disrupt Berlin 2019


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


Verified Expert Brand Designer: Studio Rodrigo


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


Attend TC Sessions: Enterprise and score a free pass to Disrupt SF 2019


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


Buy a Startup Alley Exhibitor Package at Disrupt Berlin 2019


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


Superbacklash


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


Demo your startup at TC Sessions: Enterprise 2019


Sam Lessin and Andrew Kortina on their voice assistant?s workplace pivot


Disrupt SF 4-day flash sale: Save an additional $300 off passes


Data says there are only two seasons for fundraising and one secret window


When is the right time to pitch VCs for funding


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


Apply for your discounted student, nonprofit and government pass to Disrupt Berlin 2019


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


Win a Wild Card to compete in Startup Battlefield at Disrupt SF 2019


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


Host your country?s startup delegation at Disrupt Berlin 2019



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


Network with CrunchMatch at TC Sessions: Enterprise 2019


New tickets available to the 14th Annual TechCrunch Summer Party


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


Only 100 seats left: Apply to hack at the TC Hackathon at Disrupt SF


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



Learn ?How-To? at the Extra Crunch Stage at Disrupt Berlin 2019



What startup names are most effective


Only 24 hours left to apply to Startup Battlefield at Disrupt SF 2019


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


Two days left to apply to Startup Battlefield at Disrupt SF 2019


Equity transcribed: Slack?s IPO, the VCs behind Facebook Libra, founder salaries and trouble in scooter-land


Startups Weekly: The scooter cash desert


Ray Dalio is coming to Disrupt SF


Slack and Zoom are flying high; they?re also being chased already by upstarts


Apply to Startup Battlefield for a shot at TC fame and fortune


?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


Get your early-bird tickets to TC Sessions: Enterprise 2019


?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


Verified Expert Brand Designer: Stitzlein Studio


AI-based travel app Hopper expands price monitoring to hotels worldwide


Armoire is angling to become the everyday Rent the Runway


2 days left on super-early-bird discounts to Disrupt SF 2019


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


Launch your startup onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2019


Humanising Autonomy pulls in $5M to help self-driving cars keep an eye on pedestrians


Only 72 hours left to save big on passes to Disrupt SF 2019


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


Still in stealth mode, Duffel raises $21.5M in Series A from Benchmark for its travel platform


Meero raises $230 million for its on-demand photo platform


San Francisco is getting closer to an e-cigarette ban to protect kids, but it may hurt adult smokers who use vaping to quit


Google will start attributing lyrics in its search results to their third-party providers


People familiar with Slack?s upcoming public offering share what to expect


Careteam aims to unite patients and healthcare providers with a platform approach


For pen testing firm IOActive, security is cultural not transactional


Probably Genetic helps families identify genetic conditions early with AI and DNA tests


Fresh off a $2.65B valuation, Plaid co-founder William Hockey is leaving


SafeAI raises $5M to develop and deploy autonomy for mining and construction vehicles


Leaving for a competitor Onboarding new employees Avoid accusations of trade secret theft


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Focals by North review: The future is (almost) here


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Orbit Fab becomes first startup to supply water to ISS, paving the way for satellite refueling


GoTenna is ramping up public sector mesh networking with a $24M C round


Youper, a chatbot that helps users navigate their emotions, raises $3 million in seed funding


Two Sigma leads $12m series A for expert knowledge network NewtonX


Optimizely raises $50M Series D round for its experimentation platform


The rise of the gig economy helps London-based insurtech Zego to raise $42M


Fairjungle is a modern take on corporate travel management


More tickets available to the 14th Annual TechCrunch Summer Party


Annie Kadavy, Russ Heddleston and Charles Hudson will tell us how to raise seed money at Disrupt SF


India?s payments firm MobiKwik kick-starts its international ambitions with cross-border mobile top-ups


A diversity and inclusion playbook


Cleo, the London-based fintech, has quietly taken debt financing from US-based TriplePoint Capital


Only 5 days left for super savings on passes to Disrupt SF 2019


Enterprise healthcare platform Collective Health raises $205M led by SoftBank


Early-bird pricing extended one week for TC Sessions: Mobility 2019


Decentralized video infrastructure platform Livepeer raises $8M Series A


India?s Bounce raises $72 million to grow its electric scooters business


Clockwise nabs $11M Series A to make your calendar smarter



Meet Hatch Baby?s portable, Wi-Fi-enabled sleep device Rest+


PayFit raises $79 million for its payroll service


Shyp is preparing for a comeback under new management


Startups Weekly: #CodeCon, the ?techlash? and ill-prepared CEOs


How to make remote work work


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VMware announces intent to buy Avi Networks, startup that raised $115M


24 hours left to score early-bird tickets for TC Sessions: Mobility 2019


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Pioneering private space explorer Anousheh Ansari welcomes ISS commercialization


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Neurobehavioral health company BlackThorn pulls in $76 million from GV to treat mental disorders


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Calendar influencers Event social network IRL raises $8M


Monzo, the UK challenger bank with over 2 million users, expands to the US


Emma, the London-based money management app, launches in the US and Canada


Airbnb launches ?Adventures? for tourists seeking more thrills


Target Circle and TapHeaven team up in a mobile marketing merger


Willo is a robot that wants to replace your toothbrush


VidMob raises $25M for its video advertising tools


Facebook backs social commerce startup Meesho in first India investment


Lifen raises $22.7 million for its healthcare messaging platform


Curve, the all-your-cards-in-one banking app, introduces 1% instant cashback with Curve Cash


Chewy founder Ryan Cohen on its fast-approaching IPO: ?It?s like seeing my baby graduate?


Revolut launches in Australia as a beta release


N26 shares some metrics


Laundry startup FlyCleaners confirms major layoffs


Creative Destruction Lab?s second Super Session is an intense two-day startup testbed


London?s LocalGlobe just closed on two funds totaling $295 million


Against Gravity is building a VR world that won?t stop growing


Simpo raises $4.5M seed to help drive software adoption


Krisp?s smart noise-cancelling gets official release and pricing


RealityEngines.AI raises $5.25M seed round to make ML easier for enterprises


Fundraising 101: Do VC associates matter


Helium launches $51M-funded ?LongFi? IoT alternative to cellular


Apollo raises $22M for its GraphQL platform


Stride raises $2.5M from JetBlue, NFX for its guided trips marketplace


Only 48 hours left for early-bird tickets to TC Sessions: Mobility 2019


Citymapper is shutting down its efforts to reinvent the bus


?This is Your Life in Silicon Valley?: Philz Coffee CEO Jacob Jaber on tech culture and Blue Bottle


KKR leads $300M investment in phishing training company KnowBe4


Symphony, a messaging app that?s been a hit with Wall Street, raises $165M at a $1.4B valuation


Orca Security scores $6.5M seed round to solve cloud native security


The future of car ownership: Building an online dealership


Modern Fertility raises $15 million to sell its hormone tests ? and gather more fertility data from its users


Sense Photonics flashes onto the lidar scene with a new approach and $26M


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As Alzheimer?s costs soar, startups like Neurotrack raise cash to diagnose and treat the disease


Misfits Market raises $16.5 million for their ?ugly? produce subscription box


Colombian point-of-sale lender ADDI nabs $12.5 million from Andreessen Horowitz


Welcome?s new app will do your travel planning for you


Transit city navigation app seeks to solve bad public transit ETAs with machine learning


ZeroDown is constructing a new path to home ownership


Brex valued at $2.6B with new cash from Kleiner Perkins


Alyce picks up $11.5 million Series A to help companies give better corporate gifts


Yubo is a social network about socializing


Providing supplemental educational videos for healthcare online nets Osmosis $4 million


Insurance startup Lemonade expands into Europe


Foodles raises another $10 million for its cloud canteen


Infarm closes $100M Series B to scale its ?urban farming platform?


Workhorse gets $25 million needed to finish electric delivery van


Lilium, the ambitious German air taxi company, picks London for its new software engineering base


Innoviz extends funding round to $170 million to bring its lidar tech to self-driving cars


What top VCs look for in women?s fertility startups


Spacemaker scores $25M Series A to let property developers use AI


Startups Weekly: The Peloton IPO (bull vs. bear)


Maker Faire halts operations and lays off all staff


Economic development organizations: good or bad for entrepreneurial activity


Weighing Peloton?s opportunity and risks ahead of IPO


Why identity startup Auth0?s founder still codes: It makes him a better boss


Swiftly raises $10 million Series A to power real-time transit data in your city


Unmortgage, the ?part own, part rental? housing startup, loses founder and CEO


Depop, a social app targeting millennial and Gen Z shoppers, bags $62M, passes 13M users


FoodShot Global is digging up innovation for soil health as part of its first prize competition


The Ticket Fairy is tech?s best hope against Ticketmaster


Voatz has raised $7 million in Series A funding for its mobile voting technology


The 10 benefits and policies any modern workplace should have


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Thumbtack is raising up to $120M on a flat valuation


Instagram one-ups TikTok with karaoke lyrics


Unraveling the ?Secrets of Sand Hill Road? and the VC thought process, with Andreessen Horowitz?s Scott Kupor


Postmates taps longtime Apple engineer to boost autonomous delivery efforts


Manifold?s Marketplace as a Service puts app marketplaces in reach of any developer


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Paris clamps down on scooter startups


Step raises $22.5M led by Stripe to build no-fee banking services for teens


Google to acquire analytics startup Looker for $2.6 billion


Legacy, a sperm testing and freezing service, raises $1.5M


Apple reportedly exploring acqui-hire of self-driving startup Drive.ai


Zyper, the marketing platform that connects brands with their ?superfans?, raises $6.5M Series A


Bunq launches travel card to make foreign exchange fees disappear


Sources: Bird is in talks to acquire scooter startup Scoot


AdHawk raises $13M as it expands into the flooring industry


Which type of funding is actually best for your business


Yellowbrick Data raises $81M Series C for hybrid data warehouse


Connected bike and treadmill-maker Peloton files confidentially for IPO


The Stanford connections behind Latin America?s multibillion-dollar startup renaissance


Aaron Rodgers raises $50M for Rx3 Ventures, a consumer fund backed by influencers


Getsafe, the German insurance app, scores $17M Series A


AntiToxin sells safetytech to clean up poisoned platforms


NoBroker raises $51M to help Indians buy and rent without real estate brokers


Mirakl Connect lets sellers list products on multiple e-commerce marketplaces


Tier, the Berlin-based e-scooter rental startup, unveils new hardware and announces it?s reached 2M rides


Uber eats Uber Eats, embedding it in the main app


VCs bet $12M on Troops, a Slackbot for sales teams


Dilution: The good, the bad and the ugly


Sequoia-backed Whole Biome wants to heal your gut with medical-grade probiotics


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Majelan is a personal podcast player with premium content


Africa Roundup: Jumia?s post-IPO earnings, Gokada?s $5.3M raise, Facebook?s fake-news purge, Joe Montana?s fintech investment


Tink, the European open banking platform, announces PayPal as a strategic investor


Fitness startup Mirror nears $300M valuation with fresh funding


Cookware startup Great Jones launches Potline, a text service for recipes and advice


Flash, the e-scooter startup from Delivery Hero founder, re-brands as ?Circ? and announces 1M rides


Is your event strategy paying off How to calculate your event ROI


Should your company move into a co-working space, sublease space or traditional office


Substack expands its subscription platform with discussion threads


How Marcin Kleczynski went from message boards to founding anti-malware startup Malwarebytes


Flexible housing startup Anyplace raises $2.5M


Twitter bags deep learning talent behind London startup, Fabula AI


Fluree grabs $4.7M seed round to build blockchain-based database


Owlin, the text and news analytics platform for financial institutions, raises $3.5M Series A


Penta, the digital SME banking upstart, appoints co-founder of solarisBank as new CEO


Where are all the biotech startups raising


Startups net more than capital with NBA players as investors


Startups Weekly: Will the real unicorns please stand up


Groupon co-founder Eric Lefkofsky just raised another $200 million for his newest company, Tempus


Diving deep into Africa?s blossoming tech scene


An insider?s look into venture with Andreessen Horowitz?s Scott Kupor


Touring Factory Berlin, Europe?s ?largest club for startups?


Security startup Bugcrowd on crowdsourcing bug bounties: ?Cybersecurity is a people problem?


Foursquare buys Placed from Snap Inc. on the heels of $150M in new funding


The Slack origin story


Why ICS security startup Dragos? CEO puts a premium on people not profits


Alibaba pumps $100 million into Vmate to grow its video app in India


Password manager Dashlane raises $110M in Series D, adds CMO


OpenAI?s Sam Altman and Greg Brockman will tell Disrupt about tomorrow?s jobs


XFactor, the early-stage VC that invests in women-led startups, raises a second fund


?Weirdo? Fintech VC Anthemis marches to its own drummer


Fintech and cleantech? an odd couple or a perfect marriage


Firefly raises $30M to bring more ads to Ubers, Lyfts and taxis


Soona raises $1.2M for quick, affordable content creation


Pitching accuracy rates of over 99% for multiple cancer screens, Thrive launches with $110 million


Machine learning startup Weights Biases raises $15M


Pillar launches with $5.5M from Kleiner Perkins and others to tackle your student loan debt


Enterprise cybersecurity startup BlueVoyant raises $82.5M at a $430M+ valuation


Healthcare data integration startup Abacus Insights lands $12.7M Series A


London fintech Yapily raises $5.4M to offer a single API to connect to banks


Less than 1 year after launching its corporate card for startups, Brex eyes $2B valuation


Fundraising 101: How to trigger FOMO among VCs


How we scaled our startup by being remote first


Indie travel app Lambus makes group trip planning easier


Upsie nabs $5M to build a direct-to-consumer warranty service


VCs give failed AR startup Meta a do-over with new CEO, corporate entity


Glovo faces safety protests after delivery rider killed on the job


Q A with J Crowley, Head of Product at Airbnb Lux, on what makes a great PM


Paladin Drones picks up $1.3M to give first responders a live feed of emergencies


Out of stealth, Stratio emerges with predictive AI to stop your bus from breaking down


SeedLegals closes $4M Series A, led by Index Ventures, to automate startup fundraisings


Reminiz automatically indexes and tags videos in real time


India?s FreshToHome raises $11 million to expand its fish, meat, and vegetable e-commerce platform


As the term ?unicorn? goes broke from overuse, what?s actually rare


The savage genius of SoftBank funding competitors


Which public US universities graduate the most funded founders


Startups Weekly: VCs are drunk on beverage startups


How to see another company?s growth tactics and try them yourself


CoinBits launches as a passive investment app for bitcoin


Livekick raises $3M to use live video for one-on-one training


CFIUS Cometh: What this obscure agency does and why it matters to your fund or startup


Luckin leaves bitter aftertaste, now trading below IPO price


Why Luckin?s ultimate target may not be Starbucks


Nigeria?s Gokada raises $5.3M round for its motorcycle ride-hail biz


Online bank Simple makes things harder by removing bill pay


Canopy?s upscale co-working business adds a new location in SF on the heels of strategic funding


Lime?s founding CEO steps down as his co-founder takes control


Streem buys Selerio in effort to boost its AR teleconferencing tech


From launch to launch: Peter Beck on building Rocket Lab?s orbital business


Indian PM Narendra Modi?s reelection spells more frustration for US tech giants


Automattic acquires subscription payment company Prospress


Zero raises $20 million from NEA and others for a credit card that works like debit


DoorDash, now valued at $12.6B, shoots for the moon


Takeaways from KubeCon; the latest on Kubernetes and cloud native development


Andreessen pours $22M into PlanetScale?s database-as-a-service


EFounders backs Yousign to build a European e-signature company


Using full-body MRIs, Ezra can now detect 11 cancers in men and 13 in women


Indiegogo hires Reddit?s Andy Yang as new CEO


Zenkit redesigns its project management app, adds public API and more


Hunters.ai raises $5.4M for its autonomous threat-hunting solution


Future launches $150/mo exercise app where real coaches nag you



Revolut launches Group Vaults as an alternative to joint accounts


Documentary series Foundation is back with a season 2


Modsy scores $37M to virtually redesign your home


Gender, race and social change in tech; Moira Weigel on the Internet of Women, Part Two


These startups are locating in SF and Africa to win in global fintech


DuckDuckGo creator Gabriel Weinberg is coming to Interrupt


N26 faces banking regulator order about fraudulent transactions


Meet Projector, collaborative design software for the Instagram age


Throw out your diary, Jour is a new app for guided journaling


Zendesk acquires Smooch, doubles down on support via messaging apps like WhatsApp


Loot, the UK digital current account for students and millennials, enters administration after a potential sale falls through


Agtech startup Agrilyst is now Artemis, raises $8M Series A


TransferWise now valued at $3.5B following a new $292M secondary round


A young entrepreneur is building the Amazon of Bangladesh


SoFar Sounds house concerts raises $25M, but bands get just $100


10 immigration tips for love-struck tech workers


DefinedCrowd offers mobile apps to empower its AI-annotating masses


The Exit: Getaround?s $300M roadtrip


Bringing tech efficiencies to the agribusiness market, Silo harvests $3 million


As meal-kit melee stretches on, Sun Basket whips up $30M Series E


Pro gamer Tfue files lawsuit against esports org over ?grossly oppressive? contract


What does ?regulating Facebook? mean Here?s an example


Raisin rides into the US with its savings and investment marketplace


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FlareAgent, a platform that automates real estate transactions, launches out of YC


People.ai, the predictive sales startup, raises $60M at around $500M valuation


Future Family launches a $200 membership for fertility coaching


Kard is a challenger bank for teens


Payment card startup Marqeta confirms $260M round at close to $2B valuation


Generation closes $1B growth fund targeting sustainable startups


Ravin.ai raises $4M to use computer vision for vehicle damage inspections


Quadric.io raises $15M to build a plug-and-play supercomputer for autonomous systems


Myneral.me wins the TechCrunch Hackathon at VivaTech


Startups Weekly: There?s an alternative to raising VC and it?s called revenue-based financing


Starbucks? Chinese nemesis surges 20% in public debut


DNA Script picks up $38.5 million to make DNA production faster and simpler


Credder offers Rotten Tomatoes-style ratings for the news


Under the hood on Zoom?s IPO, with founder and CEO Eric Yuan


Fastly pops in public offering showing that there?s still money for tech IPOs


Postmates CEO Bastian Lehmann is coming to Disrupt SF


Health at Scale lands $16M Series A to bring machine learning to healthcare



Macron defends his startup-friendly policies


China?s Luckin Coffee raises up to $651M in upsized US IPO


Retail Zipline raises $9.6M from Emergence and Serena Williams


How startups can use Amazon?s SEO best practices to dominate new shopping verticals


Fiverr files to go public, reports revenue of $75.5M and a net loss of $36.1M for 2018


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MultiVu raises $7M seed round for its next-gen 3D sensor


Replex gets $2.45M seed round to help track cloud native spend


GetYourGuide picks up $484M, passes 25M tickets sold through its tourism activity app


OpenFin raises $17 million for its OS for finance


Daimler and BMW-backed Kapten rides into London with anti-Uber ad campaign


Mobile ticketing company TodayTix raises $73M in new funding


Xnor?s AI2GO serves up custom edge AI models with a few clicks


Lilium unveils five-seater air taxi prototype after a successful maiden flight for its latest jet


7 accessibility-focused startups snag grants from Microsoft


Tealium, a big data platform for structuring disparate customer information, raises $55M at $850M valuation


Solo.io wants to bring order to service meshes with centralized management hub


Measured promises a smarter approach to ad attribution


American Express is acquiring Resy


Karat nabs $28M led by Tiger Global to grow its human-powered online interview platform for engineering jobs


Online grocery startup Grofers lands $200M led by SoftBank?s Vision Fund


India?s ride-hailing firm Ola is now in the credit card business, too


Trendy luggage brand Away packs on $100M, rolls past $1.4B valuation


CrowdStrike, a cybersecurity unicorn, files to go public


Innowatts raises $18 million for its energy monitoring toolkit for utilities


Beyond costs, what else can we do to make housing affordable


D2C underwear brand TomboyX raises $18 million from Craftory


CEO Howard Lerman on building a public company and the future of Yext


AR display-maker DigiLens lands $50 million from Samsung, Niantic


Voi unveils ?longer-lasting? e-scooters designed to withstand rentals, and launches its first e-bikes


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Coinbase expands USDC stablecoin support to 85 nations


Tempo Automation raises $45M Series C for its turnkey circuit board manufacturing solution


Healthcare booking platform DocPlanner scores ?80M Series E


Pleo, the multi-card business spending platform, closes $56M Series B


Urban closes $10M Series B in bid to become ?one-stop shop? for on-demand wellness services


Uber had an abysmal second day of trading


Market map: the 200+ innovative startups transforming affordable housing


Innovations in inclusive housing


Mailchimp?s Ben Chestnut on bootstrapping a startup to $700M in revenue


Crowned by Burger King, meat replacement company Impossible Foods raises $300 million


Mailchimp expands from email to full marketing platform, says it will make $700M in 2019


India?s Locus raises $22 million to expand its logistics management business


Where cannabis investors see the next big wave In precision dosing


After burning through $1 billion, Jawbone?s Hosain Rahman has raised $65 million more


As a founder, I mistook my work for self-worth


Startups Weekly: Venture capitalists are crazy for cannabis


India?s most popular services are becoming super apps


Equity Shot: Judging Uber?s less-than-grand opening day


Uber?s trading debut: who was (and wasn?t) at the opening bell


Meet Bobbie, a baby formula delivery startup promising healthier ingredients


How the trade war with China hit Uber?s public offering


Uber opens at a disappointing $42 per share


Why Om Malik thinks ?the VC subsidized life is over?


Daye, a startup developing a ?cramp-fighting? tampon, raises $5.5M from Khosla, Index and Kindred


Singapore?s Grain, a profitable food delivery startup, pulls in $10M for expansion


Hong Kong insurance tech startup OneDegree extends its Series A to a total of $30 million


Printify raises $3M to expand its marketplace for custom printing


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Clean.io raises $2.5M to fight malicious advertising


Docpack offers a simple, enterprise-friendly way to share documents


Verified Expert Brand Designer: Base


Robotics startups won?t win without also incorporating AI, as Karakuri?s fundraise shows


Razor startup Harry?s will be acquired by Edgewell Personal Care for $1.37B


SaaS management startup Intello scores $2.5 million extended seed


Mint House raises $15M to give business travelers a better hotel


Cybersecurity insurance startup Coalition raises $40M in Series B funding


Uber begins trialing e-bikes and bicycles rides in India


Chipper Cash convinces Joe Montana to invest in African fintech


Tink, the European banking platform, partners with British incumbent NatWest


RedCircle?s latest feature makes it easy to tip podcast creators


Sextech company scorned by CES scores $2M and an apology


Rent the Runway just opened its largest brick-and-mortar store yet


Alibaba-backed facial recognition startup Megvii raises $750 million


SoFi launches gig-focused ETF


HeyJobs, a ?talent acquisition? platform out of Berlin, raises $12M Series A


India?s edtech startup CollegeDekho raises $8 million to connect students with colleges


Keyword research in 2019: Modern tactics for growing targeted search traffic


As concerns over medical device security rise, MedCrypt raises $5.3 million


Shape Security?s latest product protects smaller businesses from credential stuffing


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OnePlus CEO Pete Lau will discuss the future of mobile at Disrupt SF


Journey launches its real-time group ?Peloton for Meditation?


Serverless monitoring startup Epsagon expands to cover broader microservices


K-Zen Beverage, a nascent cannabis-infused drink brand, has raised $5 million in seed funding


Hubtype raises $1.1M to help developers build richer chat support


Nokia Chairman Risto Siilasmaa backs machine learning startup Aito.ai



Tourlane raises a $47M C round led by Sequoia and Spark Capital


Luckin Coffee plans to raise over $500M in US IPO


Startups Weekly: Will the Seattle tech scene ever reach its full potential


Dear Hollywood, here are 5 female founders to showcase instead of Elizabeth Holmes


How tech entrepreneurs think of Universal Basic Income


Asto, the bookkeeping app from Santander, adds invoice financing for freelancers and SMEs


WorldCover raises $6M round for emerging markets? climate insurance


A quiet London-based payments startup just raised among the biggest Series A rounds ever in Europe


Microbiome testing service uBiome puts its co-founders on administrative leave after FBI raid


Awair raises $10M to help customers like WeWork monitor their office environments


Takeaways from F8 and Facebook?s next phase


Unshackled Ventures has $20M to invest exclusively in immigrant founders


Beyond Meat rockets in early trading on Nasdaq, reaching a valuation of over $3 billion


3 key secrets to building extraordinary teams


Frozen food gets its turn in the meal delivery game


Grainchain, a blockchain-based platform for commodity sales, launches in Mexico


Flume Health is an insurance administrator cutting costs by pre-approving prices and paying on-demand


FreightHub, the European digital freight forwarder, collects $30M Series B


Plum, the money management chatbot, raises another $4.5M and lands on iOS


A 30-mph e-bike to compete with cars in cities Investors just bet $20 million on it


Acast launches Acast Access to make paywalled podcasts available on any player


Nine lessons on how Niantic reached a $4B valuation


SeatGeek names former Tumblr and NYT exec Brian Murphy as CTO


Sean Parker?s Brigade/Causes acquired by govtech app Countable


Early-stage US VC Joyance to scout for health and wellness startups in Europe


BlackBuck raises $150 million to digitize freight and logistics across India


Struggling grocery startup Honestbee fires its CEO


Samsung Ventures? first investment in Southeast Asia is HR startup Swingvy


SoftBank makes a huge bet on Latin America


Spot.IM raises $25M to help publishers engage with readers


Golden unveils a Wikipedia alternative focused on emerging tech and startups


Old Facebook finally wants you to ?Meet New Friends?


Altice USA buys digital news network Cheddar for $200M


Glovo, the on-demand ?deliver anything? local app, raises $169M Series D


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Cushion wants to negotiate bank service fees on your behalf


Fabletics, the activewear brand from Kate Hudson, launches NYC pop-up shop


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Vault Platform raises $4.2M to fix workplace misconduct reporting



What we want to know in the We Company (WeWork) S-1


ManyChat raises $18M to help businesses tap into messaging


Getting a piece of Uber


Diving into TED2019, the state of social media and internet behavior


WeWork files confidentially for IPO


Pana raises $10 million to help companies arrange travel for onsite interviews


Caribou Biosciences CEO, Rachel Haurwitz will talk CRISPR?s present and future applications at DisruptSF


FutureLearn takes $65M from Seek Group for 50% stake in UK online degree platform


Tray.io hauls in $37 million Series B to keep expanding enterprise automation tool


How a blockchain startup with 1M users is working to break your Google habit


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Startups Weekly: All these startups are raising big rounds


Equity Shot: Uber?s IPO terms and Slack?s S-1


The FBI searched the offices of microbiome startup uBiome


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Lattice raises another $15M to improve performance reviews


Slack files to go public, reports $138.9M in losses on revenue of $400.6M


Mary Meeker?s new fund, two IPOs from China and what?s next for Uber and Slack


Uber prices IPO at $44-50, to raise $7.9-9B, PayPal takes $500M stake in strategic partnership


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


Grocery delivery startup Honestbee is running out of money and trying to sell


Carbon, the fast-growing 3D printing business, is raising up to $300M


Movie subscription service Sinemia is ending US operations


Uber will reportedly seek up to $90 billion valuation in IPO


The Markup faces staff exodus and funder scrutiny following ouster of Julia Angwin


Kiwi?s food delivery bots are rolling out to 12 more colleges


Render gets $2.25M seed round to give developers alternative to biggest names in tech


Mejuri raises $23M Series B to serve women buying jewelry for themselves


Meet the 13 startups launching out of Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator


Online learning startup Coursera picks up $103M, now valued at $1B+


SalesLoft nabs $70M at around $600M valuation for its sales engagement platform


The startup behind that deep-fake David Beckham video just raised $3M


Labster scores $21M Series B to bring VR to STEM education


Internet connectivity projects unite as Alphabet spinout Loon grabs $125M from SoftBank?s HAPSMobile


How to source hard-to-fill programming positions


Robotics VCs on what?s real, what?s coming, and what to keep in mind


Pinterest employee #1 launches blockchain art market MakersPlace


Are women better gamers than men This startup?s AI-driven research says yes


The Brave browser launches ads that reward users for viewing


Mint founder Aaron Patzer launches Vital, an ER management tool that integrates with electronic health records


Managed by Q launches a new task management feature for office managers


Ford invests $500M in Rivian and intends to build a vehicle on Rivian?s EV platform


Embrace raises $4.5M for its mobile application performance management platform


R/GA Ventures incubator to nurture enterprise blockchain startups in Portland, OR


Holded, the ?business operating system? for SMEs, gets ?6M in Series A funding led by Lakestar


Postmates has launched in 1,000 new cities since December


Singapore?s Saleswhale raises $5.3M to bring AI to sales and marketing teams


The master list of PR DON?Ts (or how not to piss off the writer covering your startup)


Squarespace makes its first acquisition with Acuity Scheduling


Group Nine hires Brian Lee to lead its commerce business


Luxury consignment e-tailer The RealReal to enter the unicorn club with new funding


Locus Robotics raises $26 million for warehouse automation


Canoo, the electric vehicle startup formed from Faraday Future?s ashes, seeks $200 million


Digging into key takeaways from our 2019 Robotics + AI Sessions event


Harness hauls in $60M Series B investment on $500M valuation


GV-backed KeepTruckin nabs $149M at $1.25B valuation


Le Wagon launches part-time coding bootcamps


Smartcar accuses $50M-funded rival Otonomo of API plagiarism


Vine reboot Byte begins beta testing


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Talk media and TED2019 key takeaways with TechCrunch?s Anthony Ha


Down to Shop is a tongue-in-cheek mobile shopping network


Beyond Meat prices its public offering


Audioburst raises $10M to build AI-powered infotainment systems for cars, ad solutions


Confirmed: Pax Labs raises $420 million at a valuation of $1.7 billion


Resurgent HappyFresh raises $20M for its online grocery service in Southeast Asia


From lab-grown meat to fermented fungus, here?s what corporate food VCs are serving up


Acquisitions, more than IPOs, will create Africa?s early startup successes


Startups Weekly: Zoom CEO says its stock price is ?too high?


Fastly, the content delivery network, files for an IPO


Verified Expert Brand Designer: Ramotion


How do you hire a great growth marketer


ProcessOut improves payment data visualization


Uber?s self-driving car unit raises $1B from Toyota, Denso and Vision Fund ahead of spin-out


Index Ventures, Stripe back bookkeeping service Pilot with $40M


Working backwards to uncover key success factors


Uber, Lyft implement new safety measures


The different playbooks of D2C brands


HipChat founders launch Swoot, a social podcast app


Y Combinator grad Fuzzbuzz lands $2.7M seed round to deliver fuzzing as service


VCs bet on cannabis vaping, ED meds and mobile fertility clinics


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


Pinterest prices IPO above range


Kids on 45th just raised millions in seed funding to sell lightly used kids clothes ? sight unseen


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



Unicorns: A tale of two continents


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


Want to know where epidemics are flaring up around the world Metabiota has the tool for you


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


7 steps to building an engineering competency matrix


Airbnb officially owns HotelTonight


YC alum Keeper raises $1.6M to help gig workers pay taxes


Talk all things robotics and AI with TechCrunch writers


Mutiny at HQ Trivia fails to oust CEO


Diving into Google Cloud Next and the future of the cloud ecosystem


How do startups actually get their content marketing to work


Startups Weekly: Lessons from a failed founder


Data tells us that investors love a good story


Pitching your product will kill your fundraising


Harry Potter, the Platform, and the Future of Niantic


HQ Trivia replaces Quiz Daddy Scott Rogowsky


Juul launches a pilot program that tracks how Juul devices get in the hands of minors


Listen to us talk about ?undercorns,? IPOs and what going public is really about


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?


Uber has already made billions from its exits in China, Russia and Southeast Asia


Equity Shot: A deep dive into the Uber S-1


Uber is dishing out ?appreciation awards? up to $10K to let prolific drivers buy stock


CEO Jennifer Tejada just took PagerDuty public; we talked about the roadshow, the IPO and what comes next


Founders meet with Salesforce Ventures at TechCrunch Include?s April Office Hours


WTF is Baillie Gifford


Baillie Gifford?s Charles Plowden on 110 years of investing


Verified Expert Brand Designer: Character


ReachFive manages logins and accounts for e-commerce platforms


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


The definitive Niantic reading guide


Uber is expected to seek $10 billion in IPO


Pearson is committing $50M to fund next-gen edtech startups


Calling all countries: Bring your best startups to exhibit at Disrupt SF 2019


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


Can the law be copyrighted


Uber, Lyft and the challenge of transportation startup profits


New privacy assistant Jumbo fixes your Facebook Twitter settings


Verified Expert Brand Designer: Red Antler


Investors continue to pour money into dental startups


Brand is more than meets the eye


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


Scaling a nonprofit, startup style


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


Democratic senators question Juul about its Altria deal


An Equity deep dive on Patreon


Should you hire an in-house designer or a contractor


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


When to ditch that nightmare customer (before they kill your startup)


Klaviyo raises $150M Series B after building company the old-fashioned way


Sources: Y Combinator?s growth fund to back challenger bank Monzo


Fleetsmith lands $30M Series B to grow Apple device management platform


Kabbage raises a record $700 million in debt for its SMB loans platform


Veratrak wants to digitise the pharmaceutical supply chain


The Wing poaches Snap?s comms director


Dissecting what Lyft?s IPO means for Uber and the future of mobility


Startups Weekly: US companies raised $30B in Q1 2019


On balance, the cloud has been a huge boon to startups


Snap is channeling Asia?s messaging giants with its move into gaming


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


The future of a16z, Lyft?s sinking stock and another IPO to watch


Cannabis banking reform is smart, necessary and politically viable


?This is Your Life in Silicon Valley?: NYT?s Mike Isaac discusses his upcoming Uber book, Leaks from Facebook and More


Startup Law A to Z: Regulatory Compliance


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



Femtech?s billion-dollar year


The uncertain future of shared electric scooters


HyperSciences raises an untraditional $9.6M for its hypersonic drilling vision


WeWork acquires Managed by Q


Hometalk raises $15M to grow its DIY community


How France?s new digital minister plans to regulate tech


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


Talk Lyft?s stock market debut with TechCrunch writers


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


Andreessen Horowitz isn?t alone in leaving behind VC as we know it ? and more company is coming


BuzzFeed teams up with Eko to create interactive recipes and other videos


How to handle dark data compliance risk at your company


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


Ride-hailing, bike and scooter companies probably raised less money than you thought


Remote workers and nomads represent the next tech hub


Startups Weekly: Why Lyft?s $2.2B IPO wasn?t ?crazy land? or ?nuts?


Toast, the restaurant management platform, has raised $250M at a $2.7B valuation


Equity Shot: Lyft is public ? what does that mean for other IPO-ready unicorns


Lyft closes up 9% on first day of trading


1stdibs, the high-end online marketplace, just nabbed $76 million in Series D funding


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


Lyft?s IPO, Casper the friendly unicorn and WeWork?s staggering losses


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


Lyft prices IPO at top of range


Boundless gets $7.8M to help immigrants navigate the convoluted green card process


Turns out The Correspondent isn?t opening a US newsroom after all


How to delay your Form Ds (or not file them at all)


Drake invests in esports betting startup Players? Lounge


Startup branding: how much does it really cost


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


How to make sure that your product is accessible to all users


Ocean drone startup merger spawns Sofar, the DJI of the sea


Proxy raises $13.6M to unlock anything with Bluetooth identity


Meet the European startups that pitched at EF?s 11th Demo Day in London


Artiphon raises $2M round led by Warner Music


Goodly replaces lame office perks with student loan repayment


For Basecamp, brand identity and product development are all about the customer


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


Unicorns aren?t profitable, and Wall Street doesn?t care


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


Tell us who designed your startup?s brand


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


Meet the Texas startup that wants to decarbonize the chemical industry


Alibaba acquires Israeli VR startup Infinity Augmented Reality


Flying taxi startup Blade is helping Silicon Valley CEOs bypass traffic


Startups Weekly: A much-needed unicorn IPO update


Equity Shot: Pinterest and Zoom file to go public


Our 9 favorite startups from Y Combinator W19 Demo Day 2


Clark, a venture-backed tutoring platform, will now help tutors build their own sites


Respondology helps brands and influencers hide toxic comments


Lyft?s IPO is hot, YC Demo Day, two new unicorns and what?s Boy Brow


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


To fund Y Combinator?s top startups, VCs scoop them before Demo Day


Gig workers need health benefits — Catch is their safety net


Robotics process automation startup UiPath raising $400M at more than $7B valuation


How to develop a brand identity system (like Intercom)


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


Seven Africa-focused startups present at Y Combinator?s Demo Day


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


All 88 companies from Y Combinator?s W19 Demo Day 2


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


The top 10 startups from Y Combinator W19 Demo Day 1


Daily Crunch: 85+ startups launch at YC Demo Day 1


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


Here are the 85+ startups that launched at YC?s W19 Demo Day 1


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


Meet eFounders? next batch of startups that want to redefine the future of work


KashFlow founder Duane Jackson has launched Staffology, a payroll SaaS and API


To get big faster, younger unicorns start buying startups sooner


Decade in review: Trends in seed- and early-stage funding


Pre- and Post-Money SAFEs: Choosing the right one for your startup


Startups Weekly: Uber?s headline-grabbing week and sextech at SXSW


What to watch for in a VC term sheet


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


Meet the 19 startups in AngelPad?s 12th batch


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


Startup Law A to Z: Employment Law


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


Funerals are tough. Ever Loved helps you pay for them


The other smartphone business


Startups Weekly: What?s up with YC Plus, mobility layoffs and Airbnb?s grand plans


Which types of startups are most often profitable


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


Here?s a sneak peek at HBO?s Elizabeth Holmes documentary, The Inventor


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


Applications are open for Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2019


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


This is the Stanford thesis presentation that launched Juul


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


How to read fiction to build a startup


Startups Weekly: Is Y Combinator?s latest cohort too big


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


Why your startup may not be as great as everyone says


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


Tim Cook-backed shower startup Nebia shows off a warmer, water-saving shower head


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


Marketing company Zeta Global hires Ben Hayes as its first chief privacy officer


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


PerimeterX secures $43M to protect web apps from bot attacks


Sean Parker?s govtech Brigade breaks up, Pinterest acqhires engineers


Startup names may have passed peak weirdness


Startups Weekly: Spotify gets acquisitive and Instacart screws up


Facebook picks up retail computer vision outfit GrokStyle


FDA chief summons Altria and JUUL to Washington to discuss teen vaping


Item tracking startup Adero is laying off 45% of staff, just weeks after it pivoted


How to prepare for an investment apocalypse


Luxury handbag marketplace Rebag raises $25M to expand to 30 more stores


Extend Fertility banks $15M Series A to help women freeze their eggs


Dixa, the ?customer friendship? platform, raises $14M


Gametime lets you buy tickets for games and concerts that have already started


Hired buys Y Combinator grad Py, launches assessment tool


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


Subscription startup Scroll acquires news aggregator Nuzzel


Honest Company co-founder Christopher Gavigan has a new, and newly funded, CBD startup called Prima


Subscription platform Substack adds podcast support


DataSine raises $5.2M led by Pentech and Propel for its AI content-marketing platform


Interior Define and Monica + Andy collaborate to make children?s furniture


Gong.io nabs $40M investment to enhance CRM with voice recognition


Africa Roundup: Zimbabwe?s net blackout, Partech?s $143M fund, Andela?s $100M raise, Flutterwave?s pivot


Deepomatic raises $6.2 million for its industrial computer vision technology


The plot to revive Mt. Gox and repay victims? Bitcoin


Tink, the European open banking platform, scores ?56M in new funding


Fabula AI is using social spread to spot ?fake news?


How students are founding, funding and joining startups


Instacart CEO apologizes for tipping debacle


Robin?s robotic mowers now have a patented doggie door just for them


Investigation finds e-scooters a cause of 1,500+ accidents


Lime raises $310 million Series D round led by Bain Capital Ventures and others


Uber Freight co-founders and top dealmakers join logistics startup Turvo


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


Showing the power of startup womenhealth brands, P G buys This is L


Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3 billion valuation


Workwell wants to be the companion app for your office building


Bots are cheap and effective. One startup trolls them into going away


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


Backed by Benchmark, Blue Hexagon just raised $31 million for its deep learning cybersecurity software


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


Spotify, eBay set standard for fertility benefits, study finds


Bud raises $20M to connect banks to fintechs and other financial service providers


Bird CEO on scooter startup copycats, unit economics, safety and seasonality


Coastal startups don?t have a monopoly on raising big at early-stage


Austin in January: Cash rich and maturing


Startups Weekly: Even Gwyneth Paltrow had a hard time raising VC


The next big bet for former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick may be cloud kitchens ? in China


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


Sencrop is a data platform to help farmers manage their lands


Meet the 20 startups in this year?s GCT Startup-in-Residence program


Rebooted startup program WeWork Labs celebrates its one-year anniversary


Cosmic JS wants to simplify web development so you can focus on content


How business-to-business startups reduce inequality


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


Startup investors should consider revenue share when equity is a bad fit


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


Starting with data centers, Carbon Relay is slashing energy costs and emissions using AI


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


China?s social credit system won?t tell you what you can do right


The new Parsley Health Center in NYC doesn?t feel like a doctor?s office


Lack of transparency in healthcare startups risks another Theranos implosion


Scribd has more than 1M paying subscribers


Contentsquare, the digital experience insights platform, raises $60M Series C


Curve, the all-your-cards-in-one app, adds support for Amex


Monzo teams up with Flux to add itemised receipts and loyalty points


Has the fight over privacy changed at all in 2019


Startups Weekly: Is Munchery the Fyre Festival of startups


The Predictive Index brings in $50M to help businesses create winning teams


Tinder agrees to settle age discrimination lawsuit


Crypto wallet BRD raises $15M for Asian expansion


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


Parse.ly?s new feature helps writers find topics that are (relatively) under-covered


Vangst just raised $10 million to plug more people into the fast-growing cannabis industry


Microsoft acquires Citus Data


How Jyve secretly raised $35M built a $400M retail gig economy


Kustomer nabs $35M to take on Zendesk and Salesforce with its Slack-like approach to CRM


After an abrupt shutdown, Munchery?s small business vendors are the ones picking up the bill


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


Meet the startups in Alchemist?s 20th cohort


Hola Code tackles the real migration crisis


YC-backed Our World in Data wants you to know what?s changing about the planet


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


How we?re finding the best lawyers for early-stage startups


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


To rebuild satellite communications, Ubiquitilink starts at ground level


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


After raising $125M, Munchery fails to deliver


Roger Dickey ditches $32M-funded Gigster to start Untitled Labs


Flexciton is using AI to help factories optimise production lines


The AI market is growing, but how quickly is tough to pin down


Following a record year, Illinois startups kick off 2019 on a strong foot


Startups Weekly: Squad?s screen-shares and Slack?s swastika


FanDuel co-founder Tom Griffiths just closed a seed round for his decidedly noncontroversial new startup, Hone


Sony venture arm invests in geocoding startup what3words


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


A look at Birdies, the popular slipper shoe startup that just raised $8 million more from investors


Slack?s product chief is out ahead of direct listing


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


Squad is the new screensharing chat app everyone will copy


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


Help us find the best startup lawyers


Maverick Ventures announces $382M evergreen fund


For $5,400 per year, Chief helps women reach the C-suite


Pia d?Iribarne joins Stride.VC as third partner


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


What3words breaks the world down into phrases


Goldman Sachs leads $8M round in cyber security skills platform Immersive Labs


Testing times for second wave scooter startups


Startups Weekly: Will Trump ruin the unicorn IPOs of our dreams


Scooter startup Bird tried to silence a journalist. It did not go well.


WeWork gets into the food business, backing the superfood startup of big wave surfer Laird Hamilton


Elon Musk shows off the assembled Starship test rocket


Daily Crunch: Bing has a child porn problem


Postmates lines up another $100M ahead of IPO


How to get your money?s worth from your startup lawyer


Daily Crunch: How the government shutdown is damaging cybersecurity and future IPOs


Meet Caper, the AI self-checkout shopping cart


The rise of (societal) resilience tech


Check out the trailer for Jordan Peele?s new YouTube series ?Weird City?


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


Hands-on with Ledger?s Bluetooth crypto hardware wallet


With SEC workers offline, the government shutdown could screw IPO-ready companies


The state of seed


E-scooter startup Bird is raising another $300M


Daily Crunch: Well Facebook, you did it again


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


WeWork rebranding won?t work


Daily Crunch: The age of quantum computing is here


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


Uber?s IPO may not be as eye-popping as we expected


Daily Crunch: Nvidia breaks with tradition at CES 2019


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



Hire faster, work happier: Startups target employment with AI and engagement tools


Startups Weekly: VCs celebrate the new year the only way they know how


Engineers can now reverse-engineer 3D models


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


Daily Crunch: AR startups face an uneasy future in 2019


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


Private equity buyouts have become viable exit options ? even for early-stage startups


Venture capital, global expansion, blockchain and drones characterize African tech in 2018


Why your startup shouldn?t rush to $1 million in revenue


TrueFacet, which sells pre-owned, authenticated watches and jewelry, is raising a $10 million round of funding


Cap table management tool Carta valued at $800M with new funding


Grove Collaborative, a subscription startup selling ?household essentials,? has been quietly raising a lot of moolah


The best tech books of 2018


The 10 largest US venture rounds of 2018


A new solar technology could be the next big boost for renewable energy


See you in Las Vegas during CES


My product launch wishlist for Instagram, Twitter, Uber and more


Four ways to bridge the widening valley of death for startups


Alphabet spins off moonshot project Malta with backing from Gates?s BEV fund


Dolls Kill is raising up to $15 million for its edgy fashion brand made for ?misfits?


Remembering the startups we lost in 2018


Captiv8 report highlights data for spotting fake followers


5 unicorns that will probably go public in 2019 (besides Uber and Lyft)


HQ Trivia launches HQ Words as reinstalled CEO seeks a game-changer


How Juul made vaping viral to become worth a dirty $38 billion


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


Layer1 wants to thrive in the age of the crypto crash


Spot is a cryptocurrency app to control all your wallets and exchange accounts


CherryHome raises $5.2M to apply AI to home care cameras, detecting behavior changes


Join us in Las Vegas during CES


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


Did unicorns like Lyft and Uber wait too long


Report: Pinterest may go public as soon as April


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


Sphero is finished making Star Wars products


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


Atari teams up with some startup to pretend to make blockchain-based games


Tonsser scores ?5.5M Series A to help discover the next soccer star


YouGov acquires social analytics company Portent.IO


In emerging markets there are no copycats, just budding entrepreneurs


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


But not a broken man



Careem launches delivery service as it nears closing a massive round


K Health raises $25M for its AI-powered primary care platform


Starling?s Chief Platform Officer Megan Caywood has been recruited by Barclays


Meeshkan raises ?370K for its ?ChatOps? bot for training machine learning models


Ten pieces of friendly VC advice for when someone wants to buy your company


The limits of coworking


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


Last call for Polish pitch-offs


LemonBox, which brings US vitamins to Chinese consumers, raises $2M


International money transfer company TransferGo scores $17.6M Series B


A former Ofo exec is launching his own scooter startup


Distinguished VCs back wholesale marketplace Faire with $100M at a $535M valuation


Online ads and games would benefit from more rewards, according to UCLA survey


The annual PornHub year in review tells us what we?re really looking at online


They scaled YouTube ? now they?ll shard everyone with PlanetScale


OffGridBox raises $1.6M to charge and hydrate rural Africa with its all-in-one installations


Tempow?s new Bluetooth profile lets you create AirPods clones more easily


Here?s what you missed at Startup Battlefield Lagos


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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AtScale lands $50 million investment led by Morgan Stanley


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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


CTRL-labs? first dev kit is a gesture-tracking neural controller


AR startup Blippar in danger of becoming a blip as shareholders fight over future funding


Africa Roundup: Terragon?s Asia acquisition, Twiga Foods? $10M raise, SimbaPay?s China payment service


Solo.io raises $11M to help enterprises adopt cloud-native technologies


Q A with Diversity VCCheck Warner on newly launched Diversity Inclusion guide for tech companies


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How Uber will become an ad company, starting with Eats Pool


Verve, the word-of-mouth selling platform, acquires Campus Vacations for $7M


Waggel launches ?fully digital? pet insurance


Why you need a supercomputer to build a house


2 Milly files a lawsuit against Fortnite maker Epic Games over dance move


Nigerian logistics startup Kobo360 raises $6M, expands in Africa


Contentful raises $33.5M for its headless CMS platform


Rideshare advertising startup Firefly launches with $21.5M in funding


How France wants to become a tech giant


The trust dilemma of continuous background checks


Farmstead is an ambitious grocery delivery startup with plans to defeat Instacart


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


Announcing the final batch of judges for Startup Battlefield Africa


Putting the band back together, ExactTarget execs reunite to launch MetaCX


Still a year away from launch, Meg Whitman and Jeffrey Katzenberg?s Quibi keeps adding talent


Foxconn or Foxgone Tariffs, Wisconsin and iPhone fires


Workato raises $25M for its integration platform


Revcontent names Omar Nicola as its new CEO


Intelligo does constant background checks on your trusted employees


Tiger Global and Accel lead facility management startup Facilio?s $6.4M Series A


Acast raises $35M to help podcasters make money


Cove.Tool wants to solve climate change one efficient building at a time


Birth control delivery startup Nurx now offers an at-home HPV testing kit


New York?s Taxi and Limousine Commission approves minimum wage rules for app-based drivers


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


Jenny Fielding takes over as managing director of Techstars NYC


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


Fintech investors and founders to judge Startup Battlefield Africa


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


Lime tries to back-peddle on VP?s line on why it hired Definers


The economics and tradeoffs of ad-funded smart city tech


And the winner of Startup Battlefield at Disrupt Berlin 2018 is? Legacy


N26 says it now has more than 2M customers


Floyd Mayweather and DJ Khaled to pay SEC fines for flogging garbage ICOs


Insurance startup Bright Health raises $200M at ~$950M valuation


Meet the five Startup Battlefield finalists at Disrupt Berlin 2018


Lyft?s pink-wheeled shareable bikes will be available to rent soon


Legacy freezes your sperm so you don?t have to


Koo! is a social network for short-form podcasts


Rlay offers a blockchain-powered platform to help companies build better crowdsourced data sets


Agtech startup Imago AI is using computer vision to boost crop yields


Spike Diabetes applies social pressure to keep patients safe


Insurance app Lemonade prepares for European expansion


Looking back at Readdle?s journey from zero to hero


Robotic Exoskeleton company Roam raises a $12 million Series A


Atomico unveils Angel Programme to ?activate? the next generation of European investors


LocalGlobe co-founder Saul Klein says despite Brexit fears, the UK?s startup kids should be all right


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


Live from Disrupt SF 2018 day two!


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


For Labor Day, work harder


Uber?s chief diversity officer is coming to TechCrunch Disrupt 2018


How Silicon Valley should celebrate Labor Day


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


From ICO to SEC: Join us for a panel on regulation at TechCrunch Disrupt


TraceLink, which helps pharma companies trace drugs through the supply chain, just raised $93 million


10 startups that caught our eye from day 1 of YC Demo Day S18


Talla builds a smarter customer knowledge base


Here are the 63 startups that launched today at Y Combinator?s S18 Demo Day 1


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


Chilling effects


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


Watch all the interviews from TechCrunch Sessions: Blockchain


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


Hydrate, intoxicate, caffeinate, repeat: Meet the startups pouring the future



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


Let?s meet today in New York for some ICO talk


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


See you next week in New York


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


See you on Thursday in Chicago


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


Join me at the amazing Blue Lacuna space in Chicago


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