startups News of 08/21/19

Should Your New VC Fund Use Revenue-Based Investing?

David Teten Contributor Share on Twitter David Teten is a Venture Partner with HOF Capital . He was previously a Partner for 8 years with HOF Capital and ff Venture Capital . David writes ...

Why Are Revenue-Based VCs Investing In So Many Women And Underrepresented Founders?

David Teten Contributor Share on Twitter David Teten is a Venture Partner with HOF Capital . He was previously a Partner for 8 years with HOF Capital and ff Venture Capital . David writes ...

Here Are The 82 Startups From Day 2 Of Y Combinator’S s19 Demo Days

Team TechCrunch was back for Day 2 of Y Combinator’s Summer 2019 Demo Days where we heard from another massive chunk of startups that are taking disruption very seriously, even if they’re aiming to upend companies that only launched in ...

DoorDash Acquires Autonomous Driving Startup Scotty Labs

DoorDash has been on an acquisition tear of late with  Scotty Labs as its latest target. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but this comes after DoorDash acquired Caviar in a deal worth $410 million . Scotty Labs, a tele-operations ...

YC-Backed Stoic Is A Journaling App With A Focus On Understanding Your Feelings

The process of using the Stoic journaling app is simple: You open the app in the morning and the evening, when you’ll prompted to answer a couple questions and perform a few simple exercises. For example, this evening the app asked me to ...

MoviePass Exposed Thousands Of Unencrypted Customer Card Numbers

Movie ticket subscription service MoviePass has exposed tens of thousands of customer card numbers and personal credit cards because a critical server was not protected with a password. Mossab Hussein, a security researcher at Dubai-based ...

Fitbit Cofounders James Park And Eric Friedman Are Coming To Disrupt SF

Ten years ago, a hardware startup launched a fitness device on stage at TechCrunch 50 . The $99 gadget combined a pedometer with a diet monitoring system, designed to help wearers meet their fitness goals. Of course, a lot has changed for Fitbit ...

The 11 Best Startups From Y Combinator’S s19 Demo Day 1

Y Combinator, the genesis for many of the companies that have shaped Silicon Valley including Airbnb, PagerDuty and Stripe, has minted another 200 some graduates. Half of those companies made their pitch to investors today during Day 1 of Y ...

‘This Is Your Life In Silicon Valley’: The League Founder And CEO Amanda Bradford On Modern Dating, And Whether Bumble Is A ‘Real’ Startup

Sunil Rajaraman Contributor Sunil Rajaraman is the co-founder of Scripted.com More posts by this contributor ‘This is Your Life in Silicon Valley’: Former Pinterest president, Moment CEO Tim Kendall on ...

Y Combinator’S Michael Seibel On Building Startups, Early-Stage Deal-Making And Tech’S Center Of Gravity

Hello and welcome back to  Equity , TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. We have a special episode ready for you today. As many of you know, it’s that time of year when hundreds ...

Discover The Startups Exhibiting At Disrupt SF 2019

We’re just a few weeks away from kicking off our flagship event, Disrupt SF 2019 , that takes place on October 2-4. If you’re an investor looking to increase your portfolio, it’s the perfect time to start planning your Disrupt strategy. Never ...

h2o.Ai Announces $72.5m Series D Led By Goldman Sachs

H2O.ai ‘s mission is to democratize AI by providing a set of tools that frees companies from relying on teams of data scientists. Today it got a bushel of money to help. The company announced a $72.5 million Series D round led by Goldman Sachs ...

Starship Technologies Raises $40m, Crosses 100k Deliveries And Plans To Expand To 100 New Universities

Starship Technologies invented the category of rolling autonomous sidewalk delivery robots, and to date, the company has made over 100,000 commercial deliveries on behalf of customers. The milestone comes as Starship adds $40 million in Series A ...

PressReader Aims To Add More Personalization To Its Digital News Platform By Acquiring news360

A pair of digital news companies are teaming up, with PressReader acquiring News360 . PressReader was founded back in 1999 as Newspaper Direct. It now operates a platform that converts newspapers and magazines into digital formats, while ...

IAC Acquires Nursing Marketplace NurseFly For $15m

NurseFly , a startup that’s created a job marketplace for short-term nursing positions, is announcing its acquisition by holding company IAC . While the companies aren’t disclosing the deal terms, a source with knowledge of the ...

Summer Flash Sale: Score 2-For-1 Passes To Disrupt Berlin 2019

The dog days of summer are upon us, and even busy startuppers across Europe are enjoying a well-deserved vacation. Down time’s important and so is saving money, so all this week we’re holding a 2-for-1 summer flash sale on passes to Disrupt ...

SpotQA Picks Up $3.25m Seed Funding For Its Automated Software Testing

SpotQA , a new automated software testing platform that claims to be significantly faster than either manual testing or existing automated QA solutions, has raised $3.25 million in seed funding. Leading the round is Crane Venture Partners, the ...

All 84 Startups From Y Combinator’S s19 Demo Day 1

It’s that time of year, Silicon Valley’s investor technocrati and advice-giving Twitter celebrities descended upon Pier 48 in San Francisco to judge the latest summer batch of Y Combinator startups. TechCrunch was there, as well, and we ...

Who Are The Major Revenue-Based Investing VCs?

David Teten Contributor Share on Twitter David Teten is a Venture Partner with HOF Capital . He was previously a Partner for 8 years with HOF Capital and ff Venture Capital . David writes ...

Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option For Founders Who Care About Control

David Teten Contributor Share on Twitter David Teten is a Venture Partner with HOF Capital . He was previously a Partner for 8 years with HOF Capital and ff Venture Capital . David writes ...