Podcast Episodes

Anduril raises $1.5B at a $14B valuation

The Palmer Luckey-founded defense startup wants to become a serious rival to longstanding kingpins, and has been clocking some big wins.

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1 year, 6 months ago

Fintech Payoneer is buying 5-year-old global payroll startup Skuad for $61M in cash

New York-based fintech Payoneer has acquired Skuad, a Singapore-based global HR and payroll startup, for $61 million in cash, the company exclusively…

1 year, 6 months ago

Database startup Neon nabs a Microsoft investment

In a sign that big tech companies are ready and willing to shell out cash for database tech, Neon, a startup building an open source alternative to A…

1 year, 6 months ago

H3X scales up its electric aerospace ambitions with $20M in new funding

Many industries that rely on legacy energy sources are aiming to electrify or at least streamline their operations, but for countless use cases the t…

1 year, 6 months ago

Placer.ai boosts valuation to $1.5B after quietly raising another $75M

A startup developing AI market research based on location data, and backed by a who's who, has quietly raised, TechCrunch has learned.

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1 year, 6 months ago

From golf to hunting, a new crop of startups want to make these experiences even better

COVID-19 pushed people to take up outdoor activities. Now, startups are helping companies and consumers keep up with demand.

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1 year, 6 months ago

Trade My Spin is building a business around used Peloton equipment

Trade My Spin has pieced together a logistics network capable of offering same or next day delivery in most major cities in the continental U.S.

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1 year, 6 months ago

Google Cloud now has a dedicated cluster of Nvidia GPUs for Y Combinator startups

Google Cloud is giving Y Combinator startups access to a dedicated, subsidized cluster of Nvidia graphics processing units and Google tensor processi…

1 year, 6 months ago

Self-driving truck startup Aurora Innovation to sell up to $420M in shares ahead of commercial launch

Self-driving technology company Aurora Innovation is looking to raise hundreds of millions in additional capital as it races towards a driverless com…

1 year, 6 months ago

Indian startups Ola Electric, FirstCry gut valuations ahead of IPOs

Two large Indian startups, Ola Electric and FirstCry, are set to test investor appetite with their public listings this month, but both have had to p…

1 year, 6 months ago