Tag: year

Startups
Looking back at the venture market of one year ago

Looking back at the venture market of one year ago

Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, ...

Startups
Poparazzi hits 5M+ downloads a year after launch, confirms its $15M Series A

Poparazzi hits 5M+ downloads a year after launch, confi...

Poparazzi, the anti-Instagram social app that hit the top of the App Store last ...

Startups
Why Convoy’s Dan Lewis expects digital freight to go mainstream within the year

Why Convoy’s Dan Lewis expects digital freight to go ma...

"I guess I'm glad that our plan was not to go public right now. I think it's a g...

Technology
10 Insights on Voice Search, Memes, Crypto, and Other Current Tech Trends

10 Insights on Voice Search, Memes, Crypto, and Other C...

Here are 10 insights on voice search, memes, crypto, and other tech trends so yo...

Startups
Block rival SpotOn lands $300M at $3.6B valuation after doubling ARR last year

Block rival SpotOn lands $300M at $3.6B valuation after...

Payments and software startup SpotOn has closed on $300 million in a Series F fi...

Startups
Modern Fertility co-founder leaves Ro a year after acquisition

Modern Fertility co-founder leaves Ro a year after acqu...

Modern Fertility co-founder Afton Vechery is leaving healthcare unicorn Ro about...

Startups
Use data from Q5 to boost mobile app growth for the entire year

Use data from Q5 to boost mobile app growth for the ent...

Wondering how to improve the marketing performance of your mobile app in the spr...

Startups
Teen-focused fintech app Copper raises $29M, grows to over 800,000 users in less than a year

Teen-focused fintech app Copper raises $29M, grows to o...

Copper, a digital banking service aimed at teens, has raised $29 million in Seri...

Startups
UPSIDE Foods bites into $400M round to serve cultivated meat later this year

UPSIDE Foods bites into $400M round to serve cultivated...

Pending regulatory review, the company’s chicken product will be available to co...

Startups
Weee! delivers second big funding round in a year, this time backed by SoftBank

Weee! delivers second big funding round in a year, this...

This new monster round comes about a year after another big fundraise of $316 mi...

Startups
Are late-stage startup valuations going to suffer this year?

Are late-stage startup valuations going to suffer this ...

Everyone can run the math on what slowing growth and cash burn are worth on the ...

Funding
Sweden’s Volta raises $260M at a $490M valuation to get its all-electric trucks into production by the end of this year

Sweden’s Volta raises $260M at a $490M valuation to get...

Volta Trucks — the Swedish electric vehicle startup that believes it can build b...

Funding
PortalOne raises $60M as it levels up to launch its hybrid, immersive gaming platform later this year

PortalOne raises $60M as it levels up to launch its hyb...

Gaming has been one of the most popular entertainment categories in the last two...

Startups
Venture capitalists fell in love with Europe last year

Venture capitalists fell in love with Europe last year

Amid this long-lasting startup era, 2021 may go down as the peak venture capital...

Startups
SoftBank leads cash infusion into AI infrastructure company Pyxis One as it starts year with new name

SoftBank leads cash infusion into AI infrastructure com...

Prior to starting Pixis, the co-founders spoke to potential marketing customers ...

Startups
Upward plans to open a 250,000-square-foot vertical farm in PA early next year

Upward plans to open a 250,000-square-foot vertical far...

Brooklyn-based Upward Farms this week unveiled plans to launch a massive 250,000...