Alexis Ohanian is leaving Initialized Capital
Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian is leaving Initialized Capital, the investment firm he co-founded in 2011 with Garry Tan, as first reported by Axios and confirmed by TechCrunch. The move comes… »
Category: Y Combinator
YC to cut the size of its investment in future YC startups
In a blog post this Friday afternoon, Y Combinator’s president Geoff Ralston said that the accelerator would make two changes to its terms for startups. The first would see the… »
Karat launches a credit card for online creators
Karat is a new startup promising to build better banking products for the creators who make a living on YouTube, Instagram, Twitch and other online platforms. Today it’s unveiling its… »
TaxProper raises $2M to automate getting your property taxes lowered
If you own your home, how much do you pay for property taxes? Too much? Sounds about right. If you disagree with how much you’re paying in property taxes, you… »
Belvo scores $10M from Founders Fund and Kaszek to scale its API for financial services
Belvo, a Latin American fintech startup which launched just 12 months ago, has already snagged funding from two of the biggest names in North and South American venture capital. The… »
Latin America Roundup: Big rounds, big mergers and a $3.8M pandemic fund from Nubank
Sophia Wood Contributor Share on Twitter Sophia Wood is a Venture Partner at Magma Partners . Sophia is also the co-founder of LatAm List, an English-language Latin American tech news… »
Tech for good during COVID-19: Sky-high gifts, extra help, and chips
When Roger Lee, the co-founder of Human Interest, heard that San Francisco imposed shelter-in-place orders, he started blogging about layoff news and posting crowdsourced lists of employees who were laid… »
NextView Ventures is launching a remote accelerator for startups
Over the weekend, Silicon Valley leader Marc Andreessen broke his usual silence and gave some advice to Silicon Valley: It’s time to build. The famed investor urged CEOs, entrepreneurs and… »
TrueNorth raises $3M to make independent trucker operations more seamless
As the COVID-19 pandemic makes health officials urge us all to stay at home, truckers are doing the exact opposite of that to help us live our lives inside. Now,… »
YC startup Felix wants to replace antibiotics with programmable viruses
Right now the world is at war. But this is no ordinary war. It’s a fight with an organism so small we can only detect it through use of a… »
Y Combinator-backed Kosh is a neobank for blue-collar workers in India
Dozens of startups have stepped up in India in recent quarters to improve banking experience for millions of users and businesses in the country. As a result, tens of thousands… »
The 20 best startups from Y Combinator’s W20 Demo Day
With world events overtaking the tech world’s preferences to meet for coffees and convene at events, Y Combinator skipped its famous two-day live Demo event and went for a radical… »
YC CEO Michael Seibel opens up about his accelerator’s first online-only Demo Day
Y Combinator’s Demo Day has historically drawn crowds of investors and journalists into a big warehouse to watch hundreds of startups come out to the public for the first time… »
Y Combinator may go fully remote for its next cohort
Y Combinator said that it may make its Summer 2020 accelerator program entirely virtual, proving that even the world’s premiere accelerator isn’t immune to having its business reshaped by the… »
YC-backed Legionfarm lets competitive gamers pay to play with pro coaches
Legionfarm, a YC-backed company, is looking to bring coaches to the competitive gaming world. Esports teams at the very top often have coaches, but the rest of the massive competitive… »
Y Combinator moves its online Demo Day forward one week
Just days ago, Y Combinator announced that its upcoming Demo Day event would be moving online due to “growing concern over COVID-19.” The event, previously planned to span across two… »
YC-backed Snapboard is a no-code platform for building internal tools
No code tools are on the rise, and a YC-backed company called Snapboard is looking to join the fight. Snapboard, led by solo founder Calum Moore, started when Moore decided… »
Pioneer founder Daniel Gross on bringing remote teams together
There are plenty of accelerators aiming to sway young startups to join their ranks rather than apply to Y Combinator, but Pioneer‘s sell is a bit different. First off, they… »
Astranis raises $90 million for its next-gen satellite broadband internet service
YC-backed Astranis has raised $90 million of new combined debt and equity funding in a Series B round led Venrock, with a sizeable contribution by existing investor (and lead of… »
Meet 500 Startups’ 26th batch of startups
Following TechCrunch’s coverage of 500 Startups’ 25th batch (and numbers 24, 23, 22, and 21, in case you wanted to go back in time), today we’re saying hello to the… »
Indian tech startups raised a record $14.5B in 2019
Indian tech startups have never had it so good. Local tech startups in the nation raised $14.5 billion in 2019, beating their previous best of $10.6 billion last year, according… »
Coral raises $4.3M to build an at-home manicure machine
Coral is a company that wants to “simplify the personal care space through smart automation,” and they’ve raised $4.3 million to get it done. Their first goal? An at-home, fully… »
Medigate partners with Cerner to secure medical devices and networks
Medigate, an Israeli startup working to secure medical devices and manage assets inside a hospital, has partnered with the medical information technology juggernaut Cerner on services and support for the… »
New tweet generator mocks venture capitalists
“Airbnb’s unit economics are quite legendary — the S-1 is going to be MOST disrupted FASTEST in the next 3 YEARS? Caps for effect.” Who tweeted that? Initialized Capital’s Garry… »
Postscript raises $4.5M to help Shopify shops stay connected with customers over SMS
Back in February, we wrote that Postscript “wants to be the Mailchimp for SMS.” Now they’ve raised $4.5 million to help get it done. This round was led by Accomplice,… »
Finding free money for your social impact startup
David Teten Contributor David Teten is an advisor to emerging investment managers and a Venture Partner with HOF Capital. He was previously a partner for 8 years with HOF Capital… »
China Roundup: Y Combinator’s short-lived China dream
Hello and welcome back to TechCrunch’s China Roundup, a digest of recent events shaping the Chinese tech landscape and what they mean to people in the rest of the world…. »
Y Combinator abruptly shutters YC China
Prolific startup accelerator Y Combinator has abandoned plans to establish a branch of the program in China. The company cites a general change in strategy, but a deafening silence on… »
Build trust with remote users to get qualitative feedback
Alex Gold Contributor Share on Twitter Alex Gold is co-founder of Myia, an intelligent health platform employing novel biometric data to predict and prevent costly medical events. Previously, Alex was… »
Rune raises $2M to help you find new friends in mobile games, starting with Brawl Stars
Multiplayer games are more fun when you get to play with the same crew regularly. Playing with the same people means better cooperation, deeper strategies, and, if all goes well,… »
Six-month placements aim to help those hardest hit by the Covid-19 lockdown Summer statement – the key announcements Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Rishi Sunak will… »
The daily updates on COVID-19 outbreaks, tragic stories of related fatalities, and our narrowed scope of life due to lockdown have all put the concept of mortality — and for… »
