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Amazon acquires connected camera and doorbell startup Blink
Amazon has acquired Blink (via Slashgear), a startup founded in 2014 that builds connected Wi-Fi home security cameras, as well as a new video doorbell introduced earlier this week. The company got its start via a crowdfunding campaign that raised over $1 million for its totally wireless home monitoring system. Amazon has already made forays into connected home video cameras and even home… Read More
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Watch SpaceX’s last Falcon 9 rocket launch for 2017
SpaceX is launching its last mission of 2017 later today, with a planned launch window of 5:27 PM PST (8:27 PM EST). The mission is for client Iridium, and will send a fourth set of 10 satellites into low Earth orbit for Iridium’s NEXT constellation, which will eventually consist of 75 satellites launched by SpaceX in total. SpaceX is launching the Falcon 9 for Iridium-4 from… Read More
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Equity podcast: Stitch Fix tumbles, stocks go crypto and VCs still love unicorns
Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week the crew — Katie Roof, Matthew Lynley, Alex Wilhelm — were joined Jeff Richards, a managing partner at GGV. (GGV has raised nearly $4 billion to invest, according to Crunchbase.) This week we turned our eyes to Stitch Fix’s… Read More
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Meet Molekule, the sleekest air purifier on the market
Molekule, a San Francisco-based startup with a sleekly designed molecular air purifier started as an immigrant dream twenty years ago and ended up being named one of Time’s top 25 inventions of 2017. The inventor Yogi Goswami came up with the idea when his baby son Dilip started having a hard time breathing the air around him. Dilip suffered from severe asthma but no air purifier at… Read More
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Crunch Report | Sequoia Capital’s Next Fund Could Be $5 Billion
Daimler acquires a majority stake in an Uber competitor in France, Sequoia Capital’s next fund could be a $5 billion one and an iced tea company changes its name to Long Blockchain and its value skyrockets. All this on Crunch Report. Read More
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Mattermark to shut down after selling to FullContact
Mattermark, the site for startup and company data, is shutting down its own business after selling in a disappointing outcome to FullContact. In a document obtained by TechCrunch, co-founder and CEO Danielle Morrill wrote that “common stockholders will not be receiving anything in this deal.” In other words, Mattermark employee shares are worthless. It was just last year that… Read More
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Laser-equipped shoes help Parkinson’s patients take the next step
Here’s an unexpected but pleasant little way tech might be able to improve a few lives: laser shoes. Yes, seriously. Shoes equipped with small laser emitters were shown in recent tests to help sufferers of Parkinson’s disease to walk normally. Read More
Latest TC Videos
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Google Home Max review
The Max sounds good. But is it $399 good? On the whole, it’s a solid offering. It isn’t a flashy speaker from a design perspective, but the audio is loud and clear, and the bass bumps like a mofo. Read More
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Apple’s Design Delirium
I watch with increasing trepidation at the direction Apple is taking its products. The most recent concern came yesterday from Bloomberg that Apple intends to offer its software developers new libraries that will allow apps to serve both touchscreen interfaces like the iPhone as well as traditional mouse and keyboard setups on desktop computers using a single unified set of APIs. Read More
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Podia helps content creators build their online business
More than a year and a half ago, I wrote about Coach, a startup offering tools for tutors and other freelancers to make money and operate their business online. Since then, the company has shifted focus in a big way, and it recently announced that it’s raised $3 million in seed funding. It’s got a new name, too — Podia. Read More
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A new bipartisan Senate bill seeks to bolster US election security at the state level
A bipartisan group of lawmakers in the Senate has introduced a bill designed to protect the technical integrity of American elections as the nation moves toward midterm season. Introduced in the Senate, the bill known as the Secure Elections Act. Read More
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There’s no magic bullet for reversing the FCC’s net neutrality decision
Huge numbers of people are upset at the FCC’s decision to undo its own highly popular net neutrality rules. But the grand plans to undo this mischief being announced left and right should be taken with a grain of salt. Unfortunately, it all comes down to politics. Read More
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Eric Schmidt stepping down as Alphabet’s executive chairman to become a ‘technical advisor’
A little late in the day news dump for you, ahead of the upcoming holiday. Longtime Google executive Eric Schmidt announced today that he’ll be stepping down from his role as the executive chairman of Alphabet’s board of directors. Alphabet has confirmed the move with TechCrunch. Read More
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Crunch Network
How to unmask AI
Millions of people engage with artificial intelligence (AI) in some form every day — most of them unwittingly. It’s at our fingertips through applications people from all over the world use regularly. That’s why it’s more important than ever to launch, and sustain, a global effort to improve the transparency of AI in order to shed light on the technology. Read More
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Oscar Health expects to generate $1 billion in revenue and sign up 250,000 members in 2018
Despite repeal of the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate this week, health insurance startup Oscar Health expects to pull in nearly $1 billion in revenue and enroll a quarter of a million members in 2018. The revenue prediction first reported in Axios and signups are quite a feat for the insurance company meant for the digital age. Read More
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Instagram now lets you share live videos through direct messages
Instagram has been beefing up its Direct Messaging feature as it toys with the idea of spinning out messaging into its own, separate app. Among its more recent tweaks: the added option for photo and video message replays, and enhancements like support for web links and different photo orientations. Today, it’s rolling out another change — live videos over Direct Messaging. Read More
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Thank Kim Jong Un for your crypto gains
Because of heavy sanctions placed on the country for its nuclear weapons testing, North Korea has long run a series of “side businesses” like drug trafficking, endangered species trading, money laundering and currency counterfeiting to provide hard cash to the Kim regime. Naturally, bitcoin trading came next. Read More
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University of Michigan
- $3.6M
- HQ: Ann Arbor, Michigan
- Categories: universities, e-learning, education
- Investors: Not available
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Science
- $12M
- HQ: Santa Monica, California
- Categories: finance
- Investors: Not available
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Coinify ApS
- 30M DKK
- HQ: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden
- Categories: bitcoin, mobile payments, internet, e-commerce, point of sale, financial ... See More
- Investors: Nordic Eye, SEB Venture Capital, Seed Capital
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Indus OS
- $4.0M
- HQ: Andheri, Maharashtra
- Categories: internet, information services, information technology, software
- Investors: Omidyar Network
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velmai
- Not available
- HQ: Braunton, Devon
- Categories: artificial intelligence, advertising, mobile apps, augmented reality, ... See More
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Hashplay Inc.
- $1.1M
- HQ: San Francisco, California
- Categories: internet, data visualization, virtual reality, mobile
- Investors: Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Metatron Global
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Intuition Robotics
- $6.0M
- HQ: Ramat Gan, Tel Aviv
- Categories: human computer interaction, robotics, social, artificial intelligence
- Investors: Mirai Creation Investment
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Aura Biosciences
- $30M
- HQ: Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Categories: biotechnology, health care, pharmaceutical
- Investors: Alexandria Venture Investments, Arix Bioscience, Advent Life Sciences, ... See More
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UpLift
- $15M
- HQ: Sunnyvale, California
- Categories: travel, information services, information technology, software, e-commerce ... See More
- Investors: Draper Nexus Ventures, PAR Capital Management, Highgate Ventures
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UpLift
- $75M
- HQ: Sunnyvale, California
- Categories: information services, information technology, software, travel, e-commerce ... See More
- Investors: Not available
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inMotionNow
- $3.7M
- HQ: Morrisville, North Carolina
- Categories: enterprise software, project management, manufacturing
- Investors: Eastside Partners
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TARIS Biomedical
- $25M
- HQ: Lexington, Massachusetts
- Categories: biotechnology, pharmaceutical, therapeutics
- Investors: Flagship Pioneering, RA Capital Management, Yonghua Capital, Millhouse LLC ... See More
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MySize
- $2.5M
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: internet of things, internet, e-commerce
- Investors: Not available
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Agility Scales
- 300K EUR
- HQ: Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland
- Categories: paas, social network, saas, b2b, content delivery network
- Investors: Not available
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UrWork
- 300M CNY
- HQ: Beijing, Beijing
- Categories: virtual workforce, business development, coworking
- Investors: Acquisition Funds, Qianhai Wutong Mergers, Context Labs, CKing Home-Key ... See More
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Blue Frog Robotics
- Not available
- HQ: Paris, Ile-de-France
- Categories: consumer electronics, robotics
- Investors: Fenox Venture Capital
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Labs64 NetLicensing
- 400K EUR
- HQ: Munich, Bayern
- Categories: information services, information technology, saas, software, enterprise ... See More
- Investors: Not available
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Upside Energy
- 5.5M GBP
- HQ: Northwich, Cheshire
- Categories: computer, enterprise software, software
- Investors: Legal & General, SYSTEMIQ, Bulldog Innovation Group LLC
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Peergrade
- $1.5M
- HQ: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden
- Categories: edtech, education, e-learning
- Investors: Learn Capital, Nordic Makers - Peace, love and seed funding, Y Combinator ... See More
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Babierge
- Not available
- HQ: San Francisco, California
- Categories: marketplace, baby, travel
- Investors: GWC Innovator Fund
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SteamaCo
- $2.9M
- HQ: Manchester, Manchester
- Categories: emerging markets, internet of things, industrial automation
- Investors: Ashden Trust, GReeN Investor Group, Shell Technology Ventures
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BitCAD
- Not available
- HQ: Walnut, California
- Categories: cryptocurrency, security, biometrics, fintech
- Investors: Not available
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SMAAASH
- 900M INR
- HQ: Mumbai, Maharashtra
- Categories: media and entertainment, sports, online games
- Investors: Avendus Capital
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FLX Bio
- $60M
- HQ: South San Francisco, California
- Categories: biotechnology, therapeutics, medical
- Investors: Topspin Partners, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Celgene, The Column ... See More
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Triggi
- 1.1M EUR
- HQ: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland
- Categories: internet, internet of things, apps
- Investors: Not available
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Scalefast
- $6.0M
- HQ: El Segundo, California
- Categories: cloud computing, payments, b2b, e-commerce platforms, b2c, e-commerce, ... See More
- Investors: Benhamou Global Ventures, B&Y Venture Partners, Adara Ventures
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MoveInCat
- $21K
- HQ: Opole, Opolskie
- Categories: real estate, hospitality, marketplace, rental property
- Investors: Not available
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Critical Control
- $2.0M
- HQ: Calgary, Alberta
- Categories: analytics, oil and gas, energy
- Investors: Not available
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Waaree
- 1.0B INR
- HQ: Mumbai, Maharashtra
- Categories: solar, energy, renewable energy
- Investors: Centrum Financial Services
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ServusConnect
- $50K
- HQ: Raleigh, North Carolina
- Categories: mobile apps
- Investors: Cofounders Capital
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