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You might not know Viggle AI, but you’ve likely seen the viral memes it created. The Canadian AI startup is responsible for dozens of videos remixing the rapper Lil Yachty…
17-year-old Eric Zhu’s startup was built in a high school bathroom — now it’s raised $2.3M and is emerging from stealth
Eric Zhu started building Aviato, an analytical platform for private market data, in a very atypical place for an entrepreneur: the bathroom in his Carmel, Indiana, high school. Now the 17-year-old’s…
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Identity.vc writes checks that range from €250,000 to €1.5 million into companies from the pre-seed to Series A stages.
AI may not be up to the task of replacing Google Search just yet, but it can be useful in more specific contexts — including handling the drudgery that comes…
Accurate weather forecasts are critical to industries like agriculture, and they’re also important to help prevent and mitigate harm from inclement weather events or natural disasters. But getting forecasts right…
Silo, a Bay Area food supply chain startup, has hit a rough patch. TechCrunch has learned that the company on Tuesday laid off roughly 30% of its staff, or north…
Cathay Innovation is hoping to secure the bag in a new investment partnership with a company that secures crypto assets. The $1.5 billion venture capital firm is entering the crypto…
Antler East Africa, the Nairobi office of VC firm and venture builder Antler, has closed a $13.5 million fund to invest in early-stage tech startups in the region. The oversubscribed…
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Intel’s plan to free Mobileye brings welcome IPO heat check
The Mobileye IPO really does matter for the startup market’s largest players, and a host of smaller, less well-known tech startups that would also like to exit, thank you very much.
Mercury restricted a number of accounts linked to African startups and didn’t exactly say why
Yesterday, Mercury, which describes itself as a bank for startups, restricted several accounts linked to African tech startups, TechCrunch has learned. The number of companies involved with this restriction is…
Wayflyer raises $150M on a $1.6B valuation for a new spin on providing loans to e-commerce merchants
E-commerce has continued to boom in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, but running an e-commerce business has also become significantly more chaotic, with unpredictable supply chains, logistics hiccups and…
Food tech is booming in Europe and is growing exponentially. In 2020, €3 billion went into European food tech companies (State of European Tech Report, March 2021), and the pandemic…
Startups are raising record sums around the world, thanks to several contributing factors. But the free ride could be ending.
Icon group is a new $30M VC fund being launched out of Germany’s iconmobile group, a WPP network agency. This means a reorganization of the company from a full-service innovation…
Freepik, a Malaga-Spain based website which offers a curated freemium marketplace of vector graphics and stock photos fed by a community of contributing designers and photographers, is being acquired by…
Thermal imaging wearables used in China to detect COVID-19 symptoms could soon be deployed in the U.S. Hangzhou based AI startup Rokid is in talks with several companies to sell…
On February 7, aka this Friday, the Bay Area startup community will descend on Galvanize to celebrate everything great and small about tech startups at the 3rd Annual TechCrunch Winter…
Commercetools raises $145M from Insight for Shopify-style e-commerce APIs for large enterprises
Global retail commerce is expected to be a $25 trillion business this year, with e-commerce accounting for $3.5 trillion of that, and today one of the companies that has built…
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Bodega, once dubbed ‘America’s most hated startup,’ has quietly raised millions
The startup — now Stockwell — is backed by GV, NEA and DCM Ventures.
Ramotion is a remote branding and product design agency that has worked with Bay Area tech startups since 2014. While they typically do branding for funded, fast-growing startups, Ramotion has…
Tickets are almost sold out for the TechCrunch Winter Party — buy yours before they’re gone
On February 8, less than two weeks from today, the cream of the Bay Area’s early-stage startup community will descend on Galvanize to celebrate everything great and small about tech…
Forty-seven and a half million dollars is a big commitment to African technology companies — even with the recent uptick in VC investment on the continent.
A 25-year-old named Ben Schlappig was in the news recently because he traveled around the world for an entire year — for free. People like Schlappig outsmart loyalty programs all…
On Lending Club’s February 2015 quarterly earnings call, an analyst asked CEO Renaud Laplanche a simple question: have you considered getting the loans you’re issuing rated? Renaud had a simple…
