Startups

When you're running your own venture — especially if it's your first — it's unlikely you will find the time to deep dive into how venture capital firms work. Fundraising is distracting for founders and can even hurt their company in the early days. But if you only start learning abo

If you're a part of the early-stage startup space race, or aspire to such celestial heights, don't miss out on early-bird savings to TC Sessions: Space 2020 on December 16-17. We're at T-minus four days and counting — buy your pass before the countdown clock strikes 11:59 p.m. (PT) No

One of the problems with putting a satellite in orbit is that once you do, it’s pretty much out of your hands. If anything goes wrong, or it runs out of fuel, that’s all she wrote. Fortunately there are companies that aim to change this, and three leaders in the field — Orbit Fab, Ast

Carbon Health has raised a $100 million Series C funding round, led by Dragoneer Investment Group and including participation from prior investors Brookfield Technology Partners, DCVC and Builders VC. This funding will be used to help the SF-based healthcare provider startup continue to expand its

Explo, a member of the Y Combinator Winter 2020 class, which is helping customers build customer-facing business intelligence dashboards, announced a $2.3 million seed round today. Investors included Amplo VC, Soma Capital and Y Combinator, along with several individual investors. The company origi

Venture capitalist Soraya Darabi of TMV will join us today to discuss strategies early-stage startup founders can deploy to get their first “yes” from an investor — and which founder mistakes often lead her to say “no.” You’ll need to be an Extra Crunch subscriber t

Spotify has come under fire of late over questions around musician compensation, but when it comes to podcasting, it has money to burn. This morning, the streaming service confirmed its acquisition of Megaphone for a reported $235 million. Launched by The Slate Group in February 2015 as Panopoly, i

Remote working has become the norm in many offices around the world this year, as organizations do what they can to help contain the rapid transmission of Covid-19 by reducing in-person interactions between workers. That’s also meant a renewed focus on how companies manage employees who have

Now that COVID-19 has accelerated the adoption of digital education tools, edtech has become one of the hottest areas of investment. As someone who has been in edtech for nearly 20 years, this sounds like the precise moment to capitalize on all the newfound interest. Which is why what I'm about

Tailscale has raised a $12 million funding round. Accel is leading the round, with Heavybit and Uncork Capital participating. The company is building a better corporate VPN by leveraging a modern protocol and focusing on ease of implementation. A VPN, or a virtual private network, is an encrypted t

The African continent is currently one of the fastest-growing regions when it comes to mobile growth, and financial technology companies that are building services to meet that rapidly-expanding market are getting a lot of attention. In the latest development, Kuda, a startup out of Nigeria that op

Qualcomm Ventures, Qualcomm’s investment arm, today announced four new strategic investments in 5G-related startups. These companies are private mobe network specialist Celona, mobe network automation platform Cellwize, the edge computing platform Azion and Pensando, another edge computing pl

This morning Hopin, a startup that provides online events software, announced that it has closed a $125 million Series B round of capital. The new funds come mere months after Hopin raised a $40 million Series A this summer. According to Hopin CEO Johnny Boufarhat, the new capital was raised at a $

Berlin-based micromobility startup Tier has raised a significant Series C round of $250 million. SoftBank Vision Fund 2 is leading the round, which proves that the Vision Fund team is still focused on high-risk, high-potential bets. As a reminder, SoftBank has invested in many late-stage funding ro