Ryan Lawler
Ryan Lawler is a relapsed journalist. He’s writing again at TechCrunch after a brief stint as a Venture Partner at 500 Startups. Ryan has also covered technology and business for publications such as GigaOM, Contentinople, and Light Reading.
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ClauseMatch raises $1.6 million to provide real-time collaboration to finance and legal teams
ClauseMatch provides a real-time collaboration tool for financial and legal teams to create and edit documents, track changes and mark as approved before being signed. It simplifies the process of indexing all updates and provides a comprehensive audit trail for all documents, giving teams greater visibility into how documents evolve over time. Read More
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Kids debit card startup Greenlight adds Fiserv and WorldPay veteran Nancy Cox as CTO
Greenlight Financial, maker of a smart debit card for kids, is already making moves just six months after launch. On the heels of a $7.5 million fundraise we reported earlier this month, the company is announcing a major hire in its executive ranks and new features to its cards. Read More
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The Eero Beacon is the perfect addition to its family of mesh WiFi products
Since launching two years ago, wireless networking startup Eero has sought to make it easier for consumers to blanket their homes in strong WiFi. With the its newest hardware products, Eero took a step forward in that goal, in part by introducing a small-footprint Beacons that can be placed nearly anywhere in a person’s house or apartment. Read More
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In new filing, Uber says it was unaware of Waymo data theft prior to lawsuit
In response to a series of questions posed by District Judge William Alsup, Uber claims that no one there was aware of any proprietary information taken from Waymo until that company had filed its lawsuit. Read More
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LendUp gets strategic investment from PayPal and adds to its executive team
LendUp has built business providing personal loans to customers that traditional financial institutions wouldn’t touch. As it looks to expand into credit cards and other services, the company has raised some strategic funding from PayPal and also has expanded its executive ranks. Read More
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Credit Karma touts $500 million in revenues
It turns out that you can make a lot of money by giving stuff away for free. That’s the lesson from Credit Karma, which today is announcing that it’s running its business profitably after earning $500 million in revenues last year. Read More
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Fiverr launches a Pro tier and acquires video production marketplace Veed.me
Freelance marketplace Fiverr has for years worked on connecting buyers and sellers of online services that range from writing to design to programming to digital marketing. Today the company is launching Fiverr Pro, a new offering that highlights a curated group of professional freelancers on its marketplace. Read More
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Plaid puts out a ‘request for startups’ in nine underserved fintech sectors
Plaid wants to make it easier for financial services companies to serve consumers and businesses, but it sees significant holes in the fintech ecosystem. As a result, the company has issued a Y Combinator-like “request for startups” to tackle particular issues where it believes significant innovation is lacking. Read More
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With $13.5M in new funds, Pillow partners with building owners to make rentals Airbnb-friendly
Short-term rental management startup Pillow has raised $13.5 million in new funding, and is launching a new product to provide more transparency to apartment owners when renters make their apartments available on platforms like Airbnb. Read More
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Textio raises $20 million to help companies do English good
As it looks to expand beyond recruiting and job postings, Textio has raised $20 million in new funding led by Scale Venture Partners, with participation from existing investors Bloomberg Beta, Cowboy Ventures, Emergence Capital, and Upside Partnership. Read More
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Final: One credit card account to rule them all
A startup called Final wants to change the way people use credit cards — or rather, the company wants to change the credit card industry to fit consumers’ lifestyles. With a 1% cash-back bonus and no annual fee, Final offers a competitive credit card product, but it really excels in the flexibility it provides in the way consumers can manage virtual cards across multiple vendors. Read More
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Tally wants to automate your financial life, with managing credit cards as its first step
It’s not easy to get out of credit card debt, but a startup called Tally wants to do just that, as its first step in helping to automate their personal finance. That company is launching a mobile app today that is designed to help consumers avoid late fees, lower credit card balances and maximize their savings. Read More
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Streaming sports startup FuboTV raises $55 million
To expand its channel lineup and grow its customer base, FuboTV has raised $55 million in Series C funding led by Northzone, with participation from 21st Century Fox, Sky and Scripps Networks Interactive. That brings total funding to $75 million since being founded in 2014. Read More
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Justin Kan confirms $10.5 million in funding for his legal tech startup Atrium LTS
In April we reported that Justin.tv founder and Y Combinator alum Justin Kan had assembled a team to “disrupt the legal industry” and was raising $10 million to do so. This week Kan confirmed that the company has completed its fundraising process, raising $10.5 million in what ended up being one of the biggest “party rounds” I’ve ever seen. Read More
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Fairy wants to make daily housecleaning a thing
A startup called Fairy wants to change the way consumers get their homes cleaned. Perhaps counterintuitively, the company is betting that by providing frequent, hotel-like housecleaning, it can actually lower the cost and provide a higher quality of service. Now operating in the San Francisco Bay Area and New York City, Fairy has raised $4.1 million in funding from investors that include… Read More
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Dropbox updates its admin panel for Business users
Dropbox might have gotten its start in the consumer market, but over the past several years it’s made huge steps toward getting enterprise users comfortable with using its products. It’s managed to sign up more than 200,000 Dropbox Business users, who need more advanced controls over how their employees can access and share sensitive files and information on the cloud storage… Read More
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Smart WiFi startup Eero updates its hardware and introduces a new network security service
Eero is launching a new version of its flagship Eero wireless base station. The second-gen Eero is the same size and shape of its predecessor, but the company has drastically upgraded the underlying hardware. It’s also launching Beacon, which is designed to plug directly into wall sockets in places like kitchens, hallways and stairwells, where it’s inconvenient to have a corded product Read More
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SoFi has applied for a bank charter
In May, SoFi CEO Michael Cagney told TechCrunch the company would be applying for a bank charter “in the next month.” Well, it’s about a month later, and — surprise! — the company has actually done so. Read More
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Houzz raising $400 million at $4 billion valuation
Home improvement platform Houzz continues to grow, and is in process of raising another huge round of funding. The company confirms that it is raising $400 million in new financing, at a valuation that multiple reports peg at around $4 billion. Read More
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Incubated by Kleiner Perkins, Packagd is creating a ‘QVC for the mobile generation’
A team incubated out of venture firm Kleiner Perkins has created Packagd, which is building a series of mobile apps that combine unboxing and review videos with the ability to instantly purchase the products they talk about. Read More
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