TechCrunchStartups Don’t miss the Q&A Sessions at Disrupt Berlin 2019TechCrunch - Leslie HitchcockThe early-stage startup community knows that the Disrupt Main Stage is the place to hear and learn from iconic founders, technologists and investment leaders. And the speakers you’ll hear at Disrupt Berlin
TechCrunchStartups Supermercato24 acquires Szopi, an on-demand grocery delivery service in PolandTechCrunch - Steve O'HearSupermercato24, the Italian same-day grocery delivery service, has acquired Szopi.pl, an on-demand grocery delivery service in Poland. Terms of the deal remain undisclosed, although I understand it is
TechCrunchStartups Lilium releases new flight footage and details factory plans for 2025 launchTechCrunch - Steve O'HearLilium, the Munich-based startup developing an on-demand “air taxi” service, has released its latest flight video — this time demonstrating a successful transition from vertical flight (liftoff) to horizontal
TechCrunchStartups Signal AI taps $25M for public data-based market intelligence that spots trends and risksTechCrunch - Ingrid LundenMedia monitoring — where news sources and other public information outlets are scanned regularly for mentions of specific organizations — is a well established service used by companies for market intelligence
TechCrunchVenture Capital Luge Capital raises $85M to invest in Canadian fintech startupsTechCrunch - Kate ClarkThere are 831 financial technology startups headquartered in or operating in Canada, according to data collected by Fintech Growth Syndicate, yet only a handful of venture capital funds specializing in
TechCrunchStartups Former Stitch Fix COO Julie Bornstein is rewriting the e-commerce playbookTechCrunch - Kate ClarkMore than two years after Julie Bornstein–Stitch Fix’s former chief operating officer–mysteriously left the subscription-based personal styling service only months before its initial public offering, taking
TechCrunchWeWork Report: SoftBank is taking control of WeWork at an ~$8B valuationTechCrunch - Kate ClarkWeWork, once valued at $47 billion, will be worth as little as $7.5 billion on paper as SoftBank takes control of the struggling co-working business, CNBC reports. SoftBank, a long-time WeWork investor,
TechCrunchStartups Is there room for a U.S. equivalent to China’s #1 news app?TechCrunch - Catherine ShuNot only has its parent company ByteDance achieved a $75 billion valuation, two of its apps — Toutiao, a news aggregator, and Douyin (Tik Tok in China) — are chipping into WeChat’s user engagement numbers,
TechCrunchStartups Superhuman founder seeks to raise debut venture fundTechCrunch - Kate ClarkThe founder of one of 2019’s most buzzworthy startups is putting on his VC hat. Rahul Vohra, the creator of the $30/month subscription emailing service Superhuman, and Todd Goldberg, the founder of the
TechCrunchMicrosoft Microsoft acquires Mover to help with Microsoft 365 cloud migrationTechCrunch - Ron MillerMicrosoft wants to make it as easy as possible to migrate to Microsoft 365, and today the company announced it had purchased a Canadian startup called Mover to help. The companies did not reveal the acquisition
TechCrunchStartups Shine Bathroom raises $750K for a smart home add-on that flushes away your toilet doldrumsTechCrunch - Ingrid LundenOne ongoing theme in the world of smart homes has been the emergence of gadgets and other tools that can turn “ordinary” objects and systems into “connected” ones — removing the need to replace things
TechCrunchStartups YouTube founder secretly building sports fan game GreenParkTechCrunch - Josh ConstineChad Hurley is hunting for what comes after fantasy sports. He envisions a new way for fans to play by watching live and cheering for the athletes they love. Beyond a few scraps of info the YouTube co-founder
TechCrunchStartups Moon’s browser extension lets you pay with bitcoin on AmazonTechCrunch - Romain DilletMeet Moon, a three-person startup that lets you pay for stuff on Amazon using bitcoin via the Lightning Network, bitcoin, Litecoin or Ether. The company has released a desktop browser extension for Google
TechCrunchStartups Don’t miss out: Apply for the TC Hackathon at Disrupt Berlin 2019TechCrunch - Leslie HitchcockThe popular TC Hackathon is back in action at Disrupt Berlin 2019 on 11-12 December. We’re limiting the competition to 500 participants and seats are going fast. Don’t miss your chance to put your creative
TechCrunchStartups Spiff pitches a way to automate sales commissions calculationsTechCrunch - Jonathan ShieberSpiff, a Salt Lake City-based company pitching a new service for calculating sales commissions for salespeople around the world, has raised $6 million in funding to sell its own product to the millions
TechCrunchStartups Commercetools raises $145M from Insight for Shopify-style e-commerce APIs for large enterprisesTechCrunch - Ingrid LundenGlobal retail e-commerce is expected to be a $25 trillion business this year, and today one of the companies that has built a set of tools to help larger enterprises to sell to consumers online has raised
TechCrunchStartups Gojek founder and CEO Nadiem Makarim resigns to join Indonesian cabinet; Soelistyo and Aluwi to be new co-CEOsTechCrunch - Manish SinghNadiem Makarim, founder and CEO of Gojek, said on Monday he has stepped down from his role at the ride-hailing startup to join Indonesia president Joko Widodo’s cabinet. The announcement, which has taken
TechCrunchStartups IPOs are the beginning, not the endTechCrunch - Frederic LardinoisEarlier this month at TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco, we sat down with Box’s Aaron Levie and PagerDuty’s Jennifer Tejada to discuss their respective companies’ paths to an IPO, the general IPO landscape
TechCrunchStartups Startups Weekly: The unicorn from down under, an Uber TV show and All Raise’s expansionTechCrunch - Kate ClarkHello and welcome back to Startups Weekly, a weekend newsletter that dives into the week’s noteworthy news pertaining to startups and venture capital. Before I jump into today’s topic, let’s catch up bit.
TechCrunchAdam Neumann Adam Neumann planned for his children and grandchildren to control WeWorkTechCrunch - Connie LoizosWeWork cofounder Adam Neumann didn’t plan for his family’s control of WeWork to end at his death but he expected it be controlled by future generations of Neumanns, too. According to Business Insider,
TechCrunchStartups Tilting Point acquires game monetization startup GondolaTechCrunch - Anthony HaTilting Point announced yesterday that it has acquired Gondola, a company that aims to increase to improve game monetization by optimizing in-game offers and video ads. Tilting Point CEO Kevin Segalla
TechCrunchStartups YellowHeart allows musicians and concert organizers to take more control of resold ticketsTechCrunch - Anthony HaYellowHeart is trying to solve a problem that should be familiar to anyone who’s ever tried to buy a ticket to a popular concert: Those tickets will often get snatched up by scalpers, who then resell at
TechCrunchStartups Three of the best tackle the thorny issue of Brexit for startups at Disrupt BerlinTechCrunch - Mike ButcherThe turbulence of Brexit has left both UK and European startups alike wondering about the best path forward. From recruiting to acquiring investment to scaling into other parts of Europe, the challenges
TechCrunchGuo Greylock GP Sarah Guo is as bullish on SaaS as everTechCrunch - Alex WilhelmGreylock GP Sarah Guo is as bullish on SaaS as ever Equity Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where each week we discuss other people’s money and what sense
TechCrunchStartups Last few hours to apply: TC Top Picks @ Disrupt Berlin 2019TechCrunch - Leslie HitchcockThis is it, startup founders. Today, October 18, is the last day and your final opportunity to be chosen as a TC Top Pick, to score a free Startup Alley Exhibitor Package and to shine a bright spotlight
TechCrunchMobile Gaming Mobile game startup Madbox raises $16.5 million after 100 million downloadsTechCrunch - Romain DilletFrench startup Madbox is raising a $16.5 million (€15 million) Series A funding round from Alven. The company is developing mobile games and handles everything from start to finish, from game design to
TechCrunchStartups Kenyan telco Safaricom’s Alpha incubator faces uncertain futureTechCrunch - Jake BrightSafaricom’s Nairobi based Alpha innovation incubator may have an uncertain future, according to sources. With two high-level departures, and the passing of Safaricom’s CEO Bob Collymore, there are questions
TechCrunchAirbnb Airbnb’s WeWork problemTechCrunch - Kate ClarkAirbnb may be another overvalued “unicorn,” but it’s no WeWork. The Information this morning reported new Airbnb financials — indicating a massive increase in operating losses — that immediately call future
TechCrunchStartups Getting press for your startup: the true role of communicationsTechCrunch - Tim Hsia & Neil DevaniWelcome to this edition of The Operators, a recurring Extra Crunch column produced by insiders with executive experience at companies like AirBnB, Brex, Dropbox, Facebook, Google, Lyft, Slack, Square,
