TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

It’s typical for creators and their teams to rely on email, text messages, Word Docs, Google Drive, Dropbox, and other file-sharing services and tools that aren’t optimized for audio content, Highnote co-founder and CEO Jordan Bradley told TechCrunch. Highnote is free to use, and no download is required.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

While typically, game creation involves some aspect of coding, Playbyte’s games are created using simple building blocks, emoji and even images from your Camera Roll on your iPhone. After you play a game, you can like and comment using buttons on the right-side of the screen, which also greatly resembles the TikTok look-and-feel.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Now, a Spanish startup called Penpot — which is taking a new approach to design collaboration through an open source platform that brings designers and developers into the mix simultaneously — says that it’s been seeing a huge amount of adoption since the Figma deal. On-premise deployments have also grown 400%.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2021

Social commerce startup Flip is mixing live commerce mobile apps with real customer reviews to improve the buying experience and opportunity for the creator economy. He intends to use the new funding to scale the company and its creator ecosystem, while also expanding the end-to-end logistics part of the platform.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The Dubai-based VUZ says that this round which has seen it onboard a mix of U.S.- Founder and chief executive officer Khaled Zaatarah launched VUZ, formerly 360VUZ, as a platform to bridge the gap between physical and virtual worlds by offering premium immersive content to a global audience.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 21, 2021

The company may be best known for its podcast production, but it describes itself as a “media invention company,” and co-founders June Cohen and Deron Triff want to double down on the invention part of that description, going past podcasting to explore other ways of interacting with users. Podcasting startup WaitWhat raises $4.3M

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

And the startup’s young founder — Ritesh Agarwal — doesn’t plan to sell his shares in the public offering. That deal immediately proved to be a success, which then propelled Agarwal to explore broadening his offering — now using technology — to focus on what were the neglected segments of the market.

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TechCrunch

MAY 8, 2023

Second, while financial terms of the acquisition are not being disclosed by the two companies, but we have confirmed other details with Go1’s co-CEO and founder Andrew Barnes: the acquisition is a mix of cash and shares. “But there was never something before Go1 that looked like a great fit,” Seim said.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

TechCrunch reports that data indicates that the crypto trading ad push during the big American football game led to a spike in downloads for the pertinent companies. versus-China battle but could have a third hub, or series of hubs, in the mix. TechCrunch+ is our membership program, which helps founders and startup teams get ahead.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2021

From humble origins a decade ago as a translation platform for news agencies, it’s now used by 500 million people across the world to learn Spanish, English, French and more, all while generating bookings of $190 million in 2020. One of the companies that has led the charge in transforming those perceptions is Pittsburgh-based Duolingo.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Using the service’s tools, developers can easily turn any SQL database into an API to power their apps — or use the service’s no-code tools to build apps that way, too. Directus co-founders Ben Haynes (l.) Directus co-founders Ben Haynes (l.) Today’s Directus is obviously not a PHP app anymore.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2022

market in June last year , later going on to add a free “basic” tier to the mix with certain restrictions in place. “A startup founder’s primary job is to raise money so that you don’t run out,” Ramaswamy added. Neeva search engine. Tripadvisor. Image Credits: Neeva.

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Gust

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Readers joining this series in progress may find it helpful to download the sample term sheet from my firm’s website and review the earlier posts covering the basics. In Parts II and III, we looked at commonly used mandatory and voluntary conversion language in convertible notes. What happens to the outstanding convertible notes?

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

Co-founder and CEO Ev Kontsevoy says that the capital from the new round will be put toward product development and expanding the size of Teleport’s team from 200 people to around 300 by the end of the year. The open source version of Teleport, Teleport Community Edition, remains available for download from GitHub. ”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

The startup — based out of Stuttgart, Germany, and used primarily in the German-speaking DACH region — will be using the funding to break into new markets, starting with the UK, CEO and founder Benedikt Ilg said. But there are three things to be said about what looks like a crowded field.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

The startup — based out of Stuttgart, Germany, and used primarily in the German-speaking DACH region — will be using the funding to break into new markets, starting with the UK, CEO and founder Benedikt Ilg said. But there are three things to be said about what looks like a crowded field.

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David Teten VC

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

We’re fortunate to interview William Stringer, Founder of Chisos Capital , a structured finance company. Q: Please give us an overview of Chisos. A CISA allows a founder to utilize their future earnings as a type of collateral to receive funding today. Q: What is CISA and how does it compare to other alternative VC models?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2022

Investors in the round include a mix of national and international funds, including Spain’s Seaya Ventures, a new backer of Payflow and Cathay Innovation via its C. “[Payflow] is free for users and it will always be the case,” adds co-founder Benoît Menardo. Payflow is targeting the product at large corporate clients.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

The startup was only founded in mid 2020 — launching its service in the UK last July — but it touts rapid domestic growth (100,000+ monthly downloads of its apps; reaching sixth position in the iOS App Store’s top finance apps); and is already gearing up for international expansion.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2021

“If the phone loses service, the charger loses service, the environment loses service or the server is down, the charging session never occurs and you’re stranded,” EV charging startup Xeal co-founder Alexander Isaacson said in a recent interview.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2023

My transcribing experience is usually a matter of downloading the video or audio associated with a meeting, provided someone thought to record it (and I know who that someone was), then uploading that file to a service like Otter and waiting 10-15 minutes while it processes. The open beta goes live today. And how are the transcripts?

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 19, 2025

Today you can make calls using FaceTime, Messenger, WhatsApp, or dozens of other call apps, and virtual phone systems do the same for your office number. Instead of deploying yards of copper wires spooled out to attached office phones to make and receive calls, virtual calls are made using a broadband internet connection.

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TechCrunch

MAY 7, 2021

Part 2: Product-led growth strategy “ The product-led growth behind edtech’s most downloaded app ” (3,000 words/12 minutes) — analyzes the tactics and tradeoffs that an edtech company has to evaluate as it grows from thousands to 500 million registered learners. Within 24 hours, tens of thousands of people had used it.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MARCH 24, 2022

link] Here is how Andrew (aka Gaz, aka the founder) describes MicroAcquire Everything you need to buy and sell startups. I used to run sales for Vonage, I have built applications on Twilio and Nexmo, and my startup is tailored to a very niche market in the VoIP industry. NO DOWNLOADS, NO INVITES, NO INSTALLS, NOTHING!

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TechCrunch

MAY 8, 2021

The product-led growth behind edtech’s most downloaded app (3,000 words/12 minutes). One of my favorite details in the story that got left on the cutting room floor was Duolingo co-founder and CEO Luis von Ahn comparing his company to the elliptical. Uber’s mixed Q1 earnings portray an evolving business. Seen on TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Quantified health activity is all around us these days, as scores of people use mobile sensing technologies to keep an eye on their well-being by tracking their steps, workouts and even how long and deep they sleep — so why shouldn’t women who cycle (as in menstrual cycle) track monthly changes to their hormone levels?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Talking to Valentina Milanova, the still just 28-year-old founder of U.K. The intention for us was always to deliver on a number of different areas of gynaecological health — not just changing the tampon so it serves people better and so it delivers pain relief. femtech Daye , is best described as an exhilarating experience.

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Y Combinator

MAY 15, 2019

Chris is the co-founder and CEO of Substack. Jonathan is a co-founder and CEO of Backtracks. Jonathan Gill [00:49] – I’m Jonathan Gill, co-founder and CEO of Backtracks. The ecosystem for podcasting and paid-for content in China is much greater than even in the US. There can be a mix.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

Twitter founder Jack Dorsey said Musk is the only solution he trusts, but as you read above, Carly isn’t so sure, saying that this is going to be a privacy nightmare. The hardware dweebs among us were having a great day today. Klaviyo co-founder Ed Hallen’s 3 top pieces of advice for launching a startup. Startups and VC.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Hive also uses the same follower-based model as Twitter, as opposed to the mutual friending model you’d find on a network like Facebook. However, unlike most social networks, Hive avoids personalization algorithms in favor of a chronological feed and it doesn’t monetize using ads. — its non-U.S. ” Sus!

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2022

“Stable Diffusion will allow both researchers and soon the public to run this under a range of conditions, democratizing image generation,” Stability AI CEO and founder Emad Mostaque wrote in a blog post. “We plan to use our compute to accelerate open source, foundational AI.” Far-reaching implications.

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