Next week, TechCrunch is hosting Early Stage â a virtual bootcamp for founders to gain the critical insight needed to launch and scale their companies. Day 1 is all about how-toâs. What about day two? April 2nd is the inaugural TC Early Stage Pitch-Off featuring ten exceptional early stage startups. The Pitch-Off is split into [âŠ] Read more âș
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Iâm sure Iâm not the only one who had a minor meltdown on seeing that Slack had finally added the Connect feature it announced in October. Iâm a firm believer that there are already entirely too many ways to get ahold of me. On top of the countless inbox pitches I field on a daily [âŠ] Read more âș
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I was originally looking at opening an office in Silicon Valley to be close to software engineers and investors, but then⊠COVID-19 :) A lot has changed over the last year - can I still come? Read more âș
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Weâve all heard the adage, less is more. But when it comes to learning all the complex ins and outs of building and launching a successful startup, more is definitely the way to go. Enter not one, but two bootcamp experiences for the early-stage crowd: TC Early Stage: Operations and Fundraising on April 1-2 and TC [âŠ] Read more âș
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The pandemic has clearly had an impact on the way we work, and this is especially true for salespeople. Salesforce introduced a number updates to Sales Cloud this morning including Salesforce Meetings, a smart overlay for Zoom meetings that gives information and advice to the sales team as they interact with potential customers in online [âŠ] Read more âș
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Covering YC Demo Day yesterday was good fun, but I missed a few items while watching several hundred startup pitches. A few years ago, these stories might have been the biggest news of the week. But with the venture capital market red-lining its engines while public markets remain sympathetic to growing, unprofitable companies, thereâs lots [âŠ] Read more âș
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Plaid, the fintech giant, has announced the inaugural cohort of startups in its new accelerator program, FinRise. The equity-free and capital-free program has chosen five early-stage fintech startups out of 100 applications to join its cohort, working on issues central to the financial services industry such as simplifying payments and access to credit. The accelerator, [âŠ] Read more âș
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Leveraging networks of âexpertsâ online started out as a very manual online business. But itâs rapidly becoming more efficient as machine learning is applied to the whole business model. Indeed, in the UK alone $60bn is spent a year on using outside expertise. Large players in this space include GLG, Third Bridge, Guidepoint, and AlphaSights. [âŠ] Read more âș
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Breega, a VC firm based in Paris, has announced the final closing of its third fund. The firm has managed to raise $130 million (âŹ110 million). This is Breegaâs third fund and is officially called Breega Capital Venture 3. The firmâs previous fund launched in 2015 with âŹ45 million ($53 million at todayâs exchange rate). [âŠ] Read more âș
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Poshmark has come a long way over the last decade. Launched in 2011, the social fashion marketplace has raised upwards of $150 million, and has now listed on the public markets. Itâs valued at $3.5 billion. But well before all the success, Mayfieldâs Navin Chaddha saw the potential, leading the Series A for the company. [âŠ] Read more âș
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Ketch, a startup aiming to help businesses navigate the increasingly complex world of online privacy regulation and data compliance, is announcing that it has raised $23 million in Series A funding. The company is also officially coming out of stealth. I actually wrote about Ketchâs free PrivacyGrader tool last year, but now itâs revealing the [âŠ] Read more âș
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As Coinbase is about to go public in the U.S., another cryptocurrency company is having a blockbuster first quarter of 2021. Blockchain.com, the company behind a popular cryptocurrency wallet, an exchange, a block explorer and more, has raised a $300 million Series C round. If youâve been paying attention, you may remember that I wrote [âŠ] Read more âș
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Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunchâs venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. For this weekâs deep dive, the Equity team brought on Gumroad CEO Sahil Lavingia and Hustle Fund General Partner Elizabeth Yin to talk about equity crowdfunding. Itâs been about a week since the SEC increased the equity [âŠ] Read more âș
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Last year, former Glossier executives Henry Davis and Bryan Mahoney unveiled a new e-commerce startup called Arfa. Today, theyâre announcing a new vision for the company, along with a new name, new funding and an acquisition. The name first: Moving forward, the New York startup will be known as Chord, which Davis (Chordâs chairman and [âŠ] Read more âș
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You might expect that a startup that makes community building software would be thriving during a pandemic when itâs so difficult for us to be together. And Bevy, a company whose product powers community sites like Salesforce Trailblazers and Google Developers announced it has raised a $40 million Series C this morning, at least partly [âŠ] Read more âș
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Early this month Google quietly began trials of âPrivacy Sandboxâ: Its planned replacement adtech for tracking cookies, as it works toward phasing out support for third party cookies in the Chrome browser â testing a system to reconfigure the dominant web architecture by replacing individual ad targeting with ads that target groups of users (aka [âŠ] Read more âș
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Aspiration, the financial services business for socially conscious consumers, is back with another environmentally friendly offering for its customers â this time, itâs a credit card. The Los Angeles-based company, which has raised roughly $250 million from investors including the celebrities Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert Downey Jr.âs Footprint Coalition, and Orlando Bloom and more traditional institutional [âŠ] Read more âș
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Lidar companies across the planet are going SPAC, but Baraja isnât in a hurry to go public. The Australian lidar maker has raised a $31M B round to continue the deployment and development of its âunique and ingeniousâ imaging system, with participation beyond the usual VC suspects. Barajaâs lidar uses what the company calls SpectrumScan, [âŠ] Read more âș
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Pacaso, a less-than-one-year-old startup that is out to give more people a chance at second home ownership, announced Wednesday that it has received $75 million in growth funding at a $1 billion valuation. Greycroft and Global Founders Capital co-led the $75 million in equity financing, which is notable for a few reasons. For one, the [âŠ] Read more âș
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WhatsAppâs planned policy changes arenât sailing smoothly in India, the instant messaging serviceâs biggest market by users. Indian antitrust body, Competition Commission of India, on Wednesday ordered (PDF) an investigation into WhatsAppâs privacy policy changes, alleging that Facebook-owned service contravened competition law provisions through âexploitative and exclusionaryâ conduct in âgarb of policy update.â WhatsApp didnât immediately [âŠ] Read more âș
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