Tag: TechCrunch

WayUp’s new dashboard helps employers see where their recruiting process loses diverse candidates (TechCrunch)

Anthony Ha WayUp started out as a platform to help college graduates find jobs and internships, but over time, it has increasingly focused on helping employers find...

Hustle Fund backs Fintor, which wants to make it easier to invest in real estate (TechCrunch)

Mary Ann Azevedo Farshad Yousefi and Masoud Jalali used to drive through Palo Alto neighborhoods and marvel at the outrageous home prices. But the drives...

Leo AR, user-facing marketplace for 3D objects, raises $3 million seed round (TechCrunch)

Jordan Crook Apple’s introduction of ARKit changed the game for entrepreneurs, not unlike the App Store did on a much, much larger scale back in 2008. https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/20/leo-ar-user-facing-marketplace-for-3d-objects-raises-3-million-seed-round/

Synthesia’s AI video generation platform hooks $12.5 million Series A led by FirstMark (TechCrunch)

Jordan Crook As AI improves, the possibilities of what we can do with the technology grow exponentially (for better or worse). Synthesia, an AI video generation...

Gaming infrastructure startup Pragma raises $12M from Greylock, Mark Pincus and others (TechCrunch)

Anthony Ha Pragma is building what it calls a “backend as a service,” providing ready-made infrastructure to developers of online, live service games. And it’s announcing...

Amazon is opening a London hair salon to test AR and other retail technologies (TechCrunch)

Sarah Perez Amazon announced this morning it’s opening Amazon Salon, the retailer’s first hair salon and a place where Amazon aims to test new technologies with the...

Cape Privacy announces $20M Series A to help companies securely share data (TechCrunch)

Ron Miller Cape Privacy, the early-stage startup that wants to make it easier for companies to share sensitive data in a secure and encrypted way,...

Grip Security raises $6M to improve SaaS security (TechCrunch)

Frederic Lardinois Many large enterprises now rely on hundreds of third-party SaaS applications to do business, but their security organizations can barely keep pace. https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/20/grip-security-raises-6m-to-improve-saas-security/

Alphabet’s CapitalG leads $40 million round in fintech Mantl (TechCrunch)

Mary Ann Azevedo Community banks and credit unions aim to be the heart of the, well, communities, they serve. https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/20/alphabets-capitalg-leads-40m-round-in-fintech-mantl/

Pulumi launches version 3.0 of its infrastructure-as-code platform (TechCrunch)

Frederic Lardinois Pulumi was one of the first of what is now a growing number of infrastructure-as-code startups and today, at its developer conference, the company...

After a decade of bootstrapping, Octopus Deploy raises $172.5M from Insight Partners (TechCrunch)

Catherine Shu Founded almost a decade ago, Octopus Deploy has grown through bootstrapping to serve 25,000 organizations, including Microsoft, NASA, Xero, Disney and Stack Overflow. https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/20/after-a-decade-of-bootstrapping-octopus-deploy-raises-172-5m-from-insight-partners/

Chargebee valued at $1.4 billion in new $125 million fundraise (TechCrunch)

Manish Singh A startup that enables businesses to set up and manage their billing, subscription, revenue operations and compliance has become the newest firm to...

‘Bowl food’ startup Poke House closes $24M Series B led by Eulero Capital to expand in Europe (TechCrunch)

Mike Butcher The food tech industry is effectively now going into fast food. https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/20/bowl-food-startup-poke-house-closes-24m-series-b-led-by-eulero-capital-to-expand-in-europe/

UK drone startup sees.ai gets go ahead to trial beyond-visual-line-of-sight (BVLOS) flights (TechCrunch)

Natasha Lomas The U.K.’s Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has given the go ahead to local startup sees.ai, which is developing a beyond-visual-line-of-sight (BVLOS) command & control solution...

Venmo adds support for buying, holding and selling cryptocurrencies (TechCrunch)

Sarah Perez Venmo is adding support for cryptocurrency, starting today. https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/20/venmo-adds-support-for-buying-holding-and-selling-cryptocurrencies/

Tesla mulls cars tailored to China amid mounting criticism (TechCrunch)

Rita Liao Tesla is working on vehicles tailored to Chinese consumers as complaints about the quality of its electric vehicles send shock waves through the...