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Anchor raises $10 million for podcast platform
A quarter of Americans listen to podcasts each month, but far fewer make them. Anchor is a startup that is looking to change that with its app that makes it easy to record and distribute content. Anchor also has a discovery platform, which allows users to find audio across categories like news, sports, music and tech. The New York-based team is announcing $10 million in Series A funding, led by… Read More
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Snapchat launches sponsored 3D World Lenses, starting with Blade Runner
Snapchat is taking its World Lenses augmented reality feature and opening them up to brands. Snap’s Imran Khan just announced the availability of the new advertising product on stage at Advertising Week New York, along with launch partners Warner Bros and Bud Light, both of which will be debuting branded 3D World Lenses as part of marketing campaigns. The new sponsored 3D World Lenses… Read More
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Spotify’s newest personalized playlist, Your Time Capsule, is a blast from your past
One of Spotify’s better features – and a competitive advantage for its app in the streaming music market – are its personalized playlists. These compilations have long since expanded beyond Spotify’s Discover Weekly to include other selections, like Release Radar, your bottomless Daily Mix playlists, or the recently added Summer Rewind. Today, Spotify is adding yet… Read More
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Used goods marketplace LetGo quietly raised $100M more at a $1B+ valuation
LetGo, a startup that has built a marketplace for people to buy and sell used goods, is one of the fastest growing apps in the U.S. at the moment according to comScore, with some 75 million downloads, “tens of millions” of active users, and 200 million listings in the last two years. Now it is gearing up for another stage of expansion. TechCrunch has learned from a source that… Read More
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Giphy wants you to put stickers on your favorite website
It’s no secret that Giphy thinks the future of communication is visual. And of course stickers are a big part of that – Japanese chat app Line makes hundreds of millions of dollars a year just from selling stickers. But Giphy thinks that stickers can be used as visual commentary in places beyond chat. So today they’re launching Giphy Sticker Embed, which is a tool that… Read More
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Varsity Tutors acquires First Tutors in the UK to start expanding internationally
Varsity Tutors, the education platform that connects students with tutors, has today announced the acquisition of First Tutors in the UK. This marks the first major international expansion for Varsity Tutors, which has raised $57 million since launch in 2011. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. Varsity Tutors originally launched as a platform that would connect tutors with students and… Read More
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Google Assistant turns Nvidia Shield TV into a hands-free smart device
Nvidia Shield TV, the Android TV-powered smart TV streaming box that offers 4K and more, now also includes built-in support for Google Assistant. Nvidia’s integration of Google Assistant was first revealed way back in January, but the feature was announced as something that would be coming later. Now it’s arriving to Shield devices courtesy of Nvidia’s 6.0 software… Read More
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Airbus and HAX create an accelerator program for flying taxi tech
Aeronautics industry giant Airbus is teaming up with hardware early-stage investment firm HAX to create a four-month accelerator program based in Shenzhen focused on a high-flying goal – “urban air mobility.” The program will seek to guide startups working on various aspects of flying cars and aerial city transportation, including air traffic management, perception… Read More
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Stockpile raises $30 million to popularize fractional share investing
Stockpile, the startup brokerage that’s bringing fractional share investing to mainstream investors, has raised $30 million to continue its mission. The company received its latest cash injection from the Fidelity-backed Eight Roads Ventures, alongside traditional venture funds like Mayfield, Arbor Ventures, Hanna Ventures, Wang Ventures, and others. “We’re on a mission to… Read More
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Self-driving startup Drive.ai to open Singapore office with new Grab funding
Autonomous vehicle technology startup Drive.ai has raised $15 million in a new round from Grab and others, Southeast Asia’s largest Uber rival. The added funding will help Drive.ai expand internationally, and it plans to open a Singapore office in the coming months in order to provide a base of operations for considering a deployment of its self-driving cars in the country. This… Read More
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Aston Martin’s limited edition submarine is totally my next car
Aston Martin has a new concept submarine designed in partnership with submarine maker Triton Submarines. The project is codenamed “Neptune,” and the concept designs envision a sleek underwater craft with aggressive pointy-ended pontoons and a central passenger bubble cockpit with an unobstructed, all-around view. The Neptune submersible combines Aston Martin’s design skills… Read More
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Daimler acquires German P2P carpooling startup Flinc
Daimler — the German car giant that owns Mercedes-Benz among other brands — has made one more acquisition to further its reach in ridesharing and what it sees as the next generation of how cars are owned and used. It has acquired Flinc, a startup also out of Germany that has built a platform and app for peer-to-peer-style carpooling. People who are driving in one direction find… Read More
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Three-year old startup Vera scores huge deal to protect all of GE’s IP
When Box landed GE as a customer in 2014, it marked a turning point for the cloud content management company, giving them momentum ahead of their IPO. Three years later, Vera, a data rights management startup is getting a similar feeling, announcing GE’s 300,000 employees would be using Vera to protect the company’s intellectual property as it moved through the world. “This… Read More
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Toshiba chip business set for $18B sale to Bain-led group backed by Apple
The long-running saga over the future of Toshiba’s memory chip business — the world’s second largest supplier of NAND memory used in phones and PCs — took a big step forward after the Japanese company officially agreed [PDF] to an $18 billion sale to a consortium led by Bain Capital, which includes Apple among its backers. A deal was agreed in principle earlier this… Read More
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Google tweaks search ads after EU shopping antitrust ruling
Google has rolled out changes to how it displays search results for products in Europe to try to comply with an EU antitrust ruling against its Google Shopping search comparison service. Read More
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Don’t miss Off the Record sessions at Disrupt Berlin
TechCrunch Disrupt brings top tech founders and investors to the stage for riveting interviews, but many attendees want more time with the experts. Introducing Off the Record (OTR), a new series of sessions inside Disrupt Berlin that delivers just that. So, what are Off the Record sessions? Think conversations with main stage-caliber speakers — only they take place in a more intimate… Read More
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Confirmed: Korean crypto exchange Korbit sold to Nexon parent for $80M
The parent company of games giant Nexon has confirmed that it acquired Korea’s second largest cryptocurrency exchange, Korbit, in a deal that values it at just over $120 million. A spokesperson from NXC, the corporation which owns $11.5 billion-valued Nexon, confirmed to TechCrunch that it paid 91.3 billion KRW (approximately $79.5 million) for 65.19 percent of Korbit. South Korean… Read More
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CallDesk raises $2.5 million for its AI agent for customer support calls
It’s time to put an end to these dumb automatic customer support calls that ask you to press 1, then press 4, then press 2, then say “yes”… CallDesk is working on a virtual agent for customer support calls. Think something like Siri for customer calls. Point Nine Capital and EQT Ventures are investing in today’s funding round of $2.5 million (€2.1 million). There… Read More
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Toys "R" Us
- $3.1B
- HQ: Wayne, New Jersey
- Categories: toys, e-commerce, retail
- Investors: Not available
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NewSpring Capital
- $75M
- HQ: Radnor, Pennsylvania
- Categories: consulting, professional services, health care
- Investors: Not available
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Moodle
- $6.0M
- HQ: Perth, Western Australia
- Categories: open source, education, e-learning
- Investors: Not available
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Meituan-Dianping
- $3.0B
- HQ: Shanghai, Shanghai
- Categories: information services, apps, guides, local business, internet, advertising ... See More
- Investors: Not available
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Playbuzz
- $35M
- HQ: New York, New York
- Categories: content, publishing, b2b, video editing, b2c, digital media
- Investors: Not available
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Onfido
- $30M
- HQ: London, England
- Categories: security, identity management, internet, fintech, information technology, ... See More
- Investors: Not available
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AdAsia Holdings Pte. Ltd.
- $2.5M
- HQ: Singapore, Central Region
- Categories: ad network, ad targeting, advertising, advertising platforms, marketing ... See More
- Investors: Not available
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DoubleMe
- $1.1M
- HQ: San Jose, California
- Categories: 3d technology, virtual reality, video games, augmented reality, software, ... See More
- Investors: Not available
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Chime
- $18M
- HQ: San Francisco, California
- Categories: banking, mobile payments, e-commerce, fintech, debit cards
- Investors: Not available
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Kyriba Corporation
- $45M
- HQ: San Diego, California
- Categories: fintech, payments, saas, risk management, finance, enterprise software
- Investors: Not available
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Stockpile
- $30M
- HQ: San Francisco, California
- Categories: financial services, retail, consumer software, security, gift card
- Investors: Not available
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Logtrust
- $35M
- HQ: Sunnyvale, California
- Categories: internet of things, enterprise software, information technology
- Investors: Not available
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SpotRight, Inc.
- $6.8M
- HQ: Little Rock, Arkansas
- Categories: analytics, social media marketing, big data
- Investors: Not available
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Tespack
- 2.0M EUR
- HQ: Helsinki, Southern Finland
- Categories: energy, renewable energy, solar
- Investors: Not available
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Eden
- $10M
- HQ: San Francisco, California
- Categories: service industry, wireless, technical support
- Investors: Not available
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Jobcase, Inc.
- $7.0M
- HQ: Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Categories: big data, employment, recruiting, social media
- Investors: Not available
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Exicure
- $20M
- HQ: Skokie, Illinois
- Categories: therapeutics, life science, genetics, biotechnology
- Investors: Not available
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Think Biosolution
- Not available
- HQ: Dublin, Dublin
- Categories: wearables, internet of things, mhealth, fitness
- Investors: Not available
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PlayerLync
- $2.0M
- HQ: Englewood, Colorado
- Categories: education, wireless, video
- Investors: Not available
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CloudRanger
- $1.1M
- HQ: Chicago, Illinois
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Not available
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Roomonitor
- 650K EUR
- HQ: Barcelona, Catalonia
- Categories: travel accommodations, information technology, energy management, tourism ... See More
- Investors: Not available
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Reno Sub Systems
- $11M
- HQ: Halifax, Nova Scotia
- Categories: semiconductor, manufacturing, electronics
- Investors: Not available
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Iris Plans
- $5.1M
- HQ: Austin, Texas
- Categories: health care, personalization, mhealth
- Investors: Not available
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FPX
- Not available
- HQ: Plano, Texas
- Categories: crm, software, sales automation
- Investors: Not available
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Clear Returns
- 1.5M GBP
- HQ: Glasgow, Glasgow City
- Categories: analytics, enterprise software
- Investors: Not available
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Jobbio
- $10M
- HQ: Dublin, Dublin
- Categories: human resources, recruiting, employment, search engine
- Investors: Not available
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Royole Corporation
- $240M
- HQ: Fremont, California
- Categories: mobile devices, electronics, manufacturing
- Investors: Not available
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interviewing.io
- $3.0M
- HQ: San Francisco, California
- Categories: recruiting, training, software engineering
- Investors: Not available
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Royole Corporation
- $560M
- HQ: Fremont, California
- Categories: mobile devices, electronics, manufacturing
- Investors: Not available
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MinionLabs
- 1.0M INR
- HQ: Chennai, Tamil Nadu
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Not available
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