TechCrunch Startup News
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Listen to select TechCrunch articles on startups coverage—who's raising, who's exiting, who's changing the world.
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Sep 28, 2023 • 5min
Senser launches its AI-enhanced observability platform, raises $9.5M
Senser describes itself as an AIOps platform that uses machine learning to help developers and ops teams more easily get to the root causes of outages and service degradations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Sep 28, 2023 • 4min
Rayon is a collaborative design tool for architects and designers
When you think about collaborative design tools, chances are you immediately start thinking about Figma, the popular design tool that Adobe wants to acquire for $20 billion. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Sep 27, 2023 • 7min
Photo-sharing app Lapse hits top of the App Store by forcing you to invite your friends
Forget invite-only social apps, Lapse is testing a new technique to acquire its users: it forces you to invite your friends in order to get in. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Sep 27, 2023 • 6min
Sequoia backs PartyKit to power real-time multiplayer collaboration for any app
If a company wants to offer in-app messaging or voice calls, they don’t have to develop the infrastructure themselves when there’s something like Twilio at their disposal. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Sep 26, 2023 • 4min
AI chip company Kneron raises $49M to scale up its commercial efforts
Kneron, which is developing AI chips to power self-driving cars, among other autonomous machines, today announced that it raised $49 million in an extension to its Series B round. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Sep 26, 2023 • 5min
TeachMe.To lands $2M to connect beginner athletes with local coaches
TeachMe.To, a sports coaching platform for beginner athletes, secured $2 million in seed funding, the company exclusively told TechCrunch. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Sep 25, 2023 • 5min
Amazon to invest up to $4 billion in AI startup Anthropic
Amazon said Monday it has agreed to invest up to $4 billion in AI startup Anthropic. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Sep 25, 2023 • 4min
Frontier Space Technologies is developing an on-orbit autonomous lab to make space science easy
Astronauts have been conducting experiments on the International Space Station for as long as the station has been in orbit, but astronaut labor is expensive: crew time costs $130,000 per hour, and companies are capped at 25 hours per year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Sep 22, 2023 • 4min
Mesh, which helps people manage their digital assets, raises $22M
Mesh (formerly Front Finance), a startup developing a service to help customers transfer and manage digital assets like crypto, has raised $22 million in a Series A funding round. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Sep 22, 2023 • 5min
Somani’s Offline secures $2M to build community for top Indian startup founders
Utsav Somani, who helped AngelList launch in India and oversaw its local operations for five years, is gearing up to find more ways to help founders. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
