Browsing Category: Startups

  • Users say Robinhood is down as stocks soar

    Users are reporting that trading platform Robinhood was down during early morning trading that saw stock markets soar. Robinhood’s status page says all systems are “operational,” but users on Twitter said they could not access the service. A Robinhood spokesperson would not comment on the record but referred TechCrunch to a company tweet. Sorry about …

    May 18, 2020 | by Raheel
  • Use dynamic CTAs to close more B2B leads

    Julian Shapiro Contributor Share on Twitter Julian Shapiro is the founder of BellCurve.com, a growth marketing team that trains startups in advanced growth, helps hire senior growth marketers and finds vetted growth agencies. He also writes at Julian.com. More posts by this contributor Use accelerated retargeting to increase conversions Break-even ads can generate free brand …

    May 18, 2020 | by Raheel
  • Equity Monday: Food delivery economics, and global layoffs

    Good morning and welcome back to TechCrunch’s Equity Monday, a brief jumpstart for your week. A few housekeeping notes. First, the main, long-from Equity episodes still drop every Friday, so if you are behind, check your podcast feed. Also, we’re running a listener survey which you can find here, in the last ep’s shownotes. And finally, …

    May 18, 2020 | by Raheel
  • Electric gets another $7 million in funding from 01 Advisors and the Slack Fund

    Electric, a platform that aims to put IT departments in the cloud, today announced new funding following a continuation of its Series B earlier this year. Dick Costolo and Adam Bain (01 Advisors) and the Slack Fund participated in the $7 million capital infusion. 01 Advisors put up the majority of the financing ($5 million) …

    May 18, 2020 | by Raheel
  • Buzzy Ethereum wallet app Argent comes out of stealth

    Argent is launching the first public version of its Ethereum wallet for iOS and Android. The company has been available as a limited beta for a few months with a few thousand users. But it has already raised a seed and a Series A round with notable investors, such as Paradigm, Index Ventures, Creandum and …

    May 18, 2020 | by Raheel
  • Is the e-commerce shift going to last?

    Ashwin Ramasamy Contributor Share on Twitter Ashwin Ramasamy is the co-founder of PipeCandy, an online merchant graph company that discovers and analyzes business and consumer perception metrics about D2C brands and e-commerce companies. More posts by this contributor Will ‘New Retail’ help D2C brands succeed offline? D2C companies deliver customer delight and simplicity E-commerce is …

    May 17, 2020 | by Raheel
  • The Great Reset

    Ann Miura-Ko Contributor Share on Twitter Ann Miura-Ko is a co-founding partner at Floodgate, a seed-stage VC firm. A repeat member of the Forbes Midas List and the New York Times Top 20 Venture Capitalists Worldwide, she earned a PhD in math modeling of cybersecurity at Stanford University. More posts by this contributor True product-market …

    May 17, 2020 | by Raheel
  • E-bike startup Angell partners with SEB for manufacturing and investment

    French startup Angell has signed a wide-ranging partnership with SEB, the French industrial company behind All-Clad, Krups, Moulinex, Rowenta, Tefal and others. As part of the deal, SEB will manufacture Angell’s electric bikes in a factory in Is-sur-Tille near Dijon, France. SEB’s investment arm, SEB Alliance, is also investing in Angell . The terms of …

    May 17, 2020 | by Raheel
  • Startups Weekly: How will we build the city of the future?

    Editor’s note: Get this weekly recap of TechCrunch news that any startup can use by email every Saturday morning (7am PT), just subscribe here. Commercial real estate, the traditional heart of most cities, may have lost its reason to exist in the last few months. The world is about to find out what the situation …

    May 16, 2020 | by Raheel