Techcrunch · News

News listings from Techcrunch on TechiSeek. 1000 public listings.

• Real estate tech startup Offerpad to go public via SPAC merger in $3B deal | TechCrunch (Techcrunch)
  Offerpad is the latest proptech company to go public via a SPAC merger.
• Sequoia Capital India pledges to take proactive steps amid fraud allegations at some startups (Techcrunch)
  Sequoia Capital India cites fraudulent practices allegations levelled against some of its startups, pledges to take steps to drive increase…
• Avi Dorfman's legal battle to be named founding member of Compass has ended in a settlement (Techcrunch)
  Entrepreneur Avi Dorfman, who sued Compass seven years ago for not recognizing him as a co-founder, received a settlement and key acknowled…
• Github removes Tsunami Democràtic's APK after a takedown order from Spain (Techcrunch)
  Microsoft-owned Github has removed the APK of an app for organizing political protests in the autonomous community of Catalonia — acting on…
• Extra Crunch roundup: Build a founding team, choose a VC and recruit your board (Techcrunch)
  Starting with the assumption that 90% of startups will fail and the most successful ones take an average of six years to IPO, founders must…
• Um, where is the SEC when it comes to SPACs and conflicts of interest? (Techcrunch)
  Earlier today, Tech Crunch’s Kirsten Korosec reported that the autonomous vehicle startup Aurora is close to finalizing a deal to merge wit…
• Auto giant Stellantis to invest €30B in electrification through 2025 (Techcrunch)
  Stellantis, the global automaker born out of a merger between Fiat Chrysler Automobiles and French automaker Groupe PSA, will invest €30 bi…
• After raising $100M, AI fintech LoanSnap is being sued, fined, evicted | TechCrunch (Techcrunch)
  The company has been sued by at least seven creditors, including Wells Fargo.
• Serena Ventures backs SoLo Funds as finance platform tops 1M registered users (Techcrunch)
  The over 1 million registered users makes SoLo Funds “the largest and first Black-owned personal finance platform” to reach that milestone,…
• Mudge's report helps Musk's legal fight over $44B Twitter deal (Techcrunch)
  Musk can cite data from Twitter's former head of security, Peiter "Mudge" Zatko, to bolster his claim regarding the number of bots on the p…
• Flipkart Group launches payments app, Super.money, in fintech push (Techcrunch)
  Indian e-commerce giant Flipkart has quietly started rolling out a payments app, dubbed Super.money, as it broadens its fintech ambitions.
• Volkswagen to start testing self-driving ID Buzz vans in Austin (Techcrunch)
  Volkswagen has launched an autonomous vehicle test program in Austin using a fleet of 10 all-electric ID Buzz vehicles equipped with partne…
• AR glasses maker Nreal nabs $200M funding in 12 months | TechCrunch (Techcrunch)
  China's augmented reality startup Nreal is on a roll.
• Reali expands its online real-estate service to the entire Bay Area, raises $5M Series A round (Techcrunch)
  Reali wants to change how people buy and sell their homes and now it has $5 million more to work on it, thanks to a Series A led by Signia…
• Bitcoin’s bid to be the 'one chain to rule them all' (Techcrunch)
  The Bitcoin 2022 conference brought over 25,000 attendees to Miami last month to discuss the future of the world’s largest cryptocurrency.
• Electrification is poised to turn school buses into money-making arbitrage assets (Techcrunch)
  When electricity demand surged, a small fleet of electric school buses sent electricity stored in their batteries into the grid to prevent…
• The Station: Aurora gets closer to a SPAC deal, Spin's new strategy and Waymo One app numbers (Techcrunch)
  The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation.
• Alga Biosciences wants to help climate change, one bovine burp at a time (Techcrunch)
  Alga Biosciences has created a new feed for cows that dramatically reduces how much burping goes on, thus reducing methane emissions.
• The Climate Choice wants to make supply chain emissions more visible and more green (Techcrunch)
  The Climate Choice has built a platform that helps companies understand the emissions of their suppliers, acquire audit-ready data and take…
• ‘Bored Apes’ shoots for the moon (Techcrunch)
  Few things have been more fascinating and frustrating to witness in 2021 than the rise of million-dollar NFT profile pic projects.
• Venture firm CRV returns $275 million citing overvaluation of mature startups | TechCrunch (Techcrunch)
  CRV, a more than 50-year-old venture firm, is returning to investors $275 million from its $500 million Select fund, which backs later-stag…
• Leaf helps farms decipher the troves of data they generate (Techcrunch)
  Leaf is cleaning up unstructured farm data and loading it into an API so its customers can better build off the information.
• SeedFi closes on $65M to help financially struggling Americans get ahead | TechCrunch (Techcrunch)
  Millions of Americans live paycheck to paycheck, and struggle to get out of a debt cycle.
• Google Lens comes to Chrome for searching using images from webpages (Techcrunch)
  Google has been working to better integrate its visual search tools from Google Lens into its browser to enable new types of searches that…
• Pure Storage CEO Says $225M Round Gives It Flexibility And R&D Runway | TechCrunch (Techcrunch)
  Pure Storage, a company that has pioneered a way to deliver solid state disk performance for a mechanical disk price, announced today it ha…
• Lyft takes $135.7 million hit on Argo AI shutdown | TechCrunch (Techcrunch)
  Lyft lost its small stake in Argo AI when the company recently shutdown. Lyft and Argo's robotaxi operations have ceased operating.
• An actionable framework for founders bridging into web3 (Techcrunch)
  For founders looking to foray into the world of decentralization, it’s all too easy to become distracted from core business objectives by s…
• With the real estate industry facing headwinds, SoftBank-backed Compass lays off 15% of staff (Techcrunch)
  Compass, the real-estate brokerage startup backed by roughly $1.6 billion in venture funding, has laid off 15% of its staff as a result of…
• Apple’s Scary Fast October Mac event: How to watch and what to expect tonight (Techcrunch)
  Apple sent out invites for Scary Fast last week, leading to speculation that an M3 chip and new Macs are on their way.
• Is your startup heading to MWC? TechCrunch wants to hear from you (Techcrunch)
  We’re sending a scaled-down team to this year’s event, but while we’re in Catalonia, we’d like to meet with a few interesting startups.
• Real estate site Redfin files for IPO (Techcrunch)
  Redfin, the popular real estate listings site, has filed for IPO. The Seattle-based company unveiled its filing, suggesting that it will ra…
• Catalan separatists have tooled up with a decentralized app for civil disobedience (Techcrunch)
  Is our age of ubiquitous smartphones and social media turning into an era of mass civil unrest?
• Construction marketplace Construex takes in first capital to expand in Latin America | TechCrunch (Techcrunch)
  Co-founders Roberto Arroyo and Nicolas Arroyo bootstrapped the company, reaching profitability while expanding into Chile and Argentina.
• Astrix Security, which uses ML to secure app integrations, raises $25M | TechCrunch (Techcrunch)
  Astrix, a startup developing an ML-powered platform to secure app-to-app connections, has raised $25 million in a funding round.
• Digging into digital mortgage lender Better.com's huge SPAC (Techcrunch)
  We'll have to wait to see how public investors value the company once it begins to float later this year.
• Celebrity investors pile into consumer savings startup Checkmate (Techcrunch)
  Google Ventures led savings startup Checkmate's $15M Series A, which included participation from The Chainsmokers, Paris Hilton and angels.
• Barcelona's Impress heads toward a $125M Series B round (Techcrunch)
  Last year we covered how Barcelona-based startup Impress had digitalized the area of orthodontics, raising a $50 million Series A in the pr…
• Tekion, the automotive retail platform headed by a former Tesla CIO, just tripled in value (Techcrunch)
  A year ago, we told you about the opportunity that former Tesla CIO Jay Vijayan was chasing.
• Verizon’s +Play is the first to bundle Netflix and Paramount+ with Showtime (Techcrunch)
  Verizon announced Thursday a new streaming bundle through its +Play subscription-aggregation hub that will combine Netflix’s premium plan a…
• In bad news for US cloud services, Austrian website’s use of Google Analytics found to breach GDPR (Techcrunch)
  A decision by Austria’s data protection watchdog upholding a complaint against a website related to its use of Google Analytics does not bo…
• Ford, VW-backed Argo AI is shutting down (Techcrunch)
  Argo AI, an autonomous vehicle startup that burst on the scene in 2017 stacked with a $1 billion investment from Ford, is shutting down.
• The road map for building the Uber of climate tech (Techcrunch)
  The world needs a climate tech startup that’s like an early-days Uber, a company that won’t take no for an answer.
• Google’s Pixel Watch arrives this fall (Techcrunch)
  Here’s something to wrap your brain around: Google has never made its own smartwatch.
• Google I/O was an AI evolution, not a revolution (Techcrunch)
  At Google’s I/O developer conference, the company made its case to developers -- and to some extent, consumers -- why its bets on AI are ah…
• Defacto gets new credit facility to provide instant financing to small companies (Techcrunch)
  French startup Defacto has closed a new securitization fund that will be used to provide short-term loans to small and medium enterprises v…
• Redfin is already trying to defend against a new flat-fee real estate startup (Techcrunch)
  Redfin is responding to a new startup that is hoping to upend the way people search for and buy homes by offering a flat-fee service.
• Massive iron batteries could be key to displacing natural gas from the grid (Techcrunch)
  VoltStorage recently raised a Series C worth $24 million from engine manufacturer Cummins.
• YouTube plans week-long live shopping event, following tests of livestream shopping with creators (Techcrunch)
  YouTube announced earlier this year it would begin pilot testing livestream shopping with a handful of select creators.
• Buckle up, autonomous vehicles finally get federal safety standards (Techcrunch)
  The first-of-its-kind rule updates the safety requirements for occupants in vehicles that don’t have normal manual controls associated with…
• Chrome will now silence many of those annoying notification permission prompts on the web (Techcrunch)
  Google today announced a set of new and updated security features for Chrome, almost all of which rely on machine learning (ML) models, as…