Browsing Category: Startups

  • TFLiving, with $4.8M in seed funding, wants to be the Uber for amenities

    TFLiving, looking to bring amenities to residential and commercial spaces, has today announced the close of a $4.8 million seed financing led by Camber Creek. Courtside Ventures, and other strategic investors, also participated in the round. TFLiving uses technology to connect service providers, like massage therapists, yoga instructors and dog walkers, with property managers and …

    March 9, 2020 | by Raheel
  • Equity Monday: Circuit breakers, seed rounds and startup valuations

    Good morning friends, and welcome back to TechCrunch’s Equity Monday, a short-form audio hit to kickstart your week. Regular Equity episodes still drop Friday morning, so if you’ve listened to the show over the years, don’t worry — we’re not changing the main show. (Here’s last week’s episode with Danny Crichton, in which we took a look …

    March 9, 2020 | by Raheel
  • Uptrust raises new money to fight mass incarceration with technology

    While most technology companies are building up a surveillance state to serve political powers and private profiteering, Uptrust is using some of those same tools to make it easier to move people out of the criminal justice system. And the San Francisco-based startup has just raised $1.3 million to expand its business. Think of the …

    March 9, 2020 | by Raheel
  • Crypto wallet app ZenGo launches savings mode

    ZenGo is expanding beyond the basic features of a cryptocurrency wallet — letting you hold, send and receive crypto assets. You can now set aside some of your crypto assets to earn interests. In other words, ZenGo now also acts like a savings account. The company has partnered with two DeFi projects for the new feature. …

    March 8, 2020 | by Raheel
  • VCs warn coronavirus will impact fundraising for the next 2 quarters

    As of this writing, COVID-19 has killed more than 3,400 people around the globe and the coronavirus has infected tens of thousands more. But its impact has gone much further, causing major disruptions in public markets and leading corporations to pull out of conferences and delay travel. Big tech companies are asking workers to stay …

    March 7, 2020 | by Raheel
  • New funding round values catering marketplace Hungry at $100M+

    Hungry, a catering marketplace that connects businesses with independent chefs, announced this week that it has raised $20 million in Series B funding. Hungry tells me that the funding valued the company at more than $100 million (pre-money). The investors were also pretty impressive: The round was led by Evolution VC Partners and former Whole Foods …

    March 6, 2020 | by Raheel
  • What to consider when employees need to start working remotely

    The COVID-19 crisis is touching all aspects of society, including how we work. In response, many companies are considering asking some percentage of their workforce to work remotely until the crisis abates. If your organization doesn’t have a great deal of experience with remote work, there are a number of key things to think about …

    March 6, 2020 | by Raheel
  • Oribi brings its web analytics platform to the US

    Oribi, an Israeli startup promising to democratize web analytics, is now launching in the United States. While we’ve written about a wide range of new or new-ish analytics companies, founder and CEO Iris Shoor said that most of them aren’t built for Oribi’s customers. “A lot of companies are more focused on the high end,” …

    March 6, 2020 | by Raheel
  • Citing concern over COVID-19, Y Combinator moves demo day online

    Startup accelerator Y Combinator announced today that it has moved its demo day online, citing a “growing concern over COVID-19,” or coronavirus. The demo day has historically drawn crowds of Silicon Valley elite, journalists and both national and international venture capitalists to watch more than 100 startups come out to the world.  “While we won’t …

    March 6, 2020 | by Raheel