startups News of 12/09/19

RaySecur, A Mailroom Security Startup, Raises $3m In Seed Funding

Raysecur says at least ten times a day someone sends a suspicious package containing powder, liquid, or some other kind of hazard. The Boston, Mass.-based startup says its desktop-sized 3D real-time scanning technology, dubbed MailSecur, can ...

Startups Weekly: U.S. VCs Eye European Startups

Hello and welcome back to Startups Weekly, a weekend newsletter that dives into the week’s noteworthy startups and venture capital news. Before I jump into today’s topic, let’s catch up a bit. Last week, I wrote about Chinese investor activity ...

Raising VC In Silicon Valley As A Female POC

Nathan Beckord Contributor Share on Twitter Nathan Beckord is CEO of Foundersuite.com , a software platform for raising capital and managing investors that has helped entrepreneurs raise over $2 ...

Move Over Slack — Space Is A New Project Management Platform For Developers

While file sharing, time tracking, email integration, Gantt Charts, and budget management are usually some of the most requested features in the average project management platform, we still have a proliferation of tools taking a multiplicity of ...

Canva Introduces Video Editing, Has Big Plans For 2020

Canva , the design company with nearly $250 million in funding, has today announced a variety of new features, including a video editing tool. The company has also announced Canva Apps, which allows developers and customers alike to build on top of ...

Closing The Race And Gender Funding Gap

Hello and welcome back to  Equity , TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week was a bit different than usual. First, we managed to come close to our old time target (20 minutes) ...

Style Theory, A Fashion Rental Startup In Southeast Asia, Raises $15 Million Led By SoftBank Ventures Asia

Style Theory , a platform for renting designer apparel in Indonesia and Singapore, announced today it has raised $15 million in Series B funding. The startup says this is the first closing of the round. It was led by SoftBank Ventures Asia, the ...

A Look At Latin America’S Emerging Fintech Trends

Thiago Paiva Contributor Share on Twitter Thiago is a fintech entrepreneur, investor, and columnist. He is currently a product leader at Oyster, a neobank for SMEs in Latin America. More ...

New Tweet Generator Mocks Venture Capitalists

“Airbnb’s unit economics are quite legendary — the S-1 is going to be MOST disrupted FASTEST in the next 3 YEARS? Caps for effect.” Who Tweeted that? Initialized Capital’s Garry Tan? Homebrew’s Hunter Walk? Y Combinator ...

Inside VSCO, A Gen Z-Approved Photo-Sharing App, With CEO Joel Flory

Long before Instagram toyed with removing “likes,” VSCO , an Oakland-based photo-sharing and editing app, built a community devoid of likes, comments and follower counts. Perhaps known to many only because of this year’s ...

Einride To Launch Commercial Pilot Of Driverless Electric Pods With Coca-Cola European Partners

Autonomous robotic road-riding cargo pod startup Einride has signed a new partner for a commercial pilot on Sweden’s roads, which should be a great test of the company’s electric driverless transportation pods. Einride will be providing ...

Airbnb Officially Bans All Open-Invite Parties And Events

One month after Airbnb confirmed plans to verify all of its listings , the home-sharing giant has announced additional efforts to protect its hosts and guests. Airbnb will provide a “clear and actionable enforcement framework” for ...

Daily Crunch: Imgur Launches An App For Gaming Memes

The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe here . 1. 300M-user Imgur launches Melee, a ...

Uniform Teeth Raises $10 Million For Its Teeth-Straightening Operations

Uniform Teeth, the teeth straightening startup that helped me figure out I needed a root canal, has just raised a $10 million round of funding led by Canaan Partners. This brings Uniform Teeth’s total funding to $14 million. With the new ...

Design May Be The Next Entrepreneurial Gold Rush

Ten years ago, the vast majority of designers were working in Adobe Photoshop, a powerful tool with fine-tuned controls for almost every kind of image manipulation one could imagine. But it was a tool built for an analog world focused on photos, ...

Figma Launches Auto Layout

Figma, the design tool maker that has raised nearly $83 million from investors such as Index Ventures, Sequoia, Greylock and Kleiner Perkins, has today announced a new feature called Auto Layout that takes some of the tedious reformatting out of ...

Apostrophe Raises $6 Million To Let You See A Dermatologist From Your Phone

Ben Holber and Ryan Hambley grew up together. Hambley, the son of a dermatologist, always had clear skin. But Holber struggled with acne from the time he was a teenager. The two saw first-hand the difference it makes to have a dermatologist on demand. ...

300m-User Imgur Launches Melee, A Gaming Meme App

10 years after debut, 300 million monthly user Imgur is one of the last massively popular yet unpersonalized home pages on the internet. Since everyone sees the same upvoted posts when they open Imgur, it creates a shared experience full of inside ...

Check Out The Prizes For TC Hackathon At Disrupt Berlin

We’ve got a packed house for the TC Hackathon that kicks off at Disrupt Berlin 2019 in just six days. We may have limited the number of participants to 500 people, but there’s no limit on the skills, creativity and dogged determination of ...

How To Build Or Invest In A Startup Without Paying Capital Gains Tax

Peyton Carr Contributor Share on Twitter Peyton Carr is a Financial Adviser to founders, entrepreneurs and their families, helping them with planning and investing. He is a Managing Director of ...