Startups

India’s Cars24, a used-vehicle sales platform, raises $400M, now at a $3.3B valuation, to double down on growth

India’s Cars24, a used-vehicle sales platform, raises $...

With supply chains in the automotive industry continuing to be disrupted due to ...

Nigerian mobility-tech startup MAX bags $31 million in Series B round, set to expand across Africa, build EV infrastructure

Nigerian mobility-tech startup MAX bags $31 million in ...

Nigerian mobility tech startup Metro Africa Xpress Inc. (MAX) is planning to ent...

Nigerian mobility tech MAX bags $31 million in Series B round, set to expand across Africa, build EV infrastructure

Nigerian mobility tech MAX bags $31 million in Series B...

Nigerian mobility tech startup Metro Africa Xpress Inc. (MAX) is planning to ent...

Kurly lands $210M pre-IPO at a $3.3B valuation just months after its last funding

Kurly lands $210M pre-IPO at a $3.3B valuation just mon...

Just half a year after its last Series F round announcement, Korean online groce...

The big startup question on my mind for 2022

The big startup question on my mind for 2022

Welcome to Startups Weekly, a fresh human-first take on this week’s startup news...

No-code data pipeline platform Hevo raises $30 million led by Sequoia Capital India

No-code data pipeline platform Hevo raises $30 million ...

Hevo Data, a SaaS startup that is helping firms collate troves of data they gene...

Full Harvest targets food waste by finding homes for imperfect, surplus produce

Full Harvest targets food waste by finding homes for im...

Within the past two years, Full Harvest’s impact on keeping food out of landfill...

Fraîche grabs new capital to whip up fresh-delivered meals for New York offices

Fraîche grabs new capital to whip up fresh-delivered me...

The company includes a smart fridge that is stocked with meals and snacks daily,...

Are Nubank’s low IPO fees a sign of the times?

Are Nubank’s low IPO fees a sign of the times?

Fees on the Nubank IPO were among the lowest of the year. Could it also be a sig...

You are the most influential person we know

You are the most influential person we know

Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups where...

Backed by former Facebook and Twitter execs, Tagg launches social branding app for Gen Z

Backed by former Facebook and Twitter execs, Tagg launc...

Gen Z isn’t satisfied with the social media they grew up with, so they’re buildi...

Coatue, Robert Downey Jr. fund cove.tool’s design tools for sustainable building

Coatue, Robert Downey Jr. fund cove.tool’s design tools...

While there is plenty of technology out there to help make a building more susta...

TechCrunch+ roundup: Travel bans and H-1Bs, Reddit’s IPO plans, early-stage space chat

TechCrunch+ roundup: Travel bans and H-1Bs, Reddit’s IP...

I’ll be off on Tuesday, December 21, but we’ll return with a very comprehensive ...

More than another check, founders need activation energy

More than another check, founders need activation energy

If there’s one lesson learned amid the pandemic, it’s that we can’t take anythin...

Ex-Uber software engineers raise $3M for Sperta, a 6-month-old startup that wants to help fintechs better manage fraud risk

Ex-Uber software engineers raise $3M for Sperta, a 6-mo...

Working together at Uber’s risk team, Yifu Diao and Ming Fang came to realize th...

Continual raises $4M for its AI-powered data platform

Continual raises $4M for its AI-powered data platform

Continual, a startup that aims to bring operational AI to the modern data wareho...