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Want a job in tech? Flockjay pitches its sales training service as an on-ramp to tech careersJanuary 15, 2021 at 9:12 AM  Tags: Startups, TC, Y Combinator, Microsoft, Entrepreneur, Georgia, Netflix, Harvard, United States, New Jersey, Computing, Will Smith, Salesforce, Fast Company, Denver, Serena Williams 117 people like this. Like YC-backed Blabla raises $1.5M to teach English through short videosJanuary 13, 2021 at 10:58 PM Short, snappy, entertaining videos have become an increasingly common way for young people to receive information. Why not learn English through TikTok-like videos too? That was what prompted Angelo Huang to launch Blabla.
Originally from Taiwan, Huang relocated to Shanghai in 2019 to start Blabla after working in Silicon Valley for over a decade. A year later, Blabla was chosen as part of Y Combinator’s 2020 summer cohort. The coronavirus had begun to spread in the U.S. at the time, keeping mil...Tags: TC, Y Combinator, Asia, Education, China, Southeast Asia, Funding, Tech, Taiwan, Shanghai, Tencent, Silicon Valley, Telefonica, Latin America, Yc, Huang 20 people like this. Like Reddit acquires DubsmashDecember 13, 2020 at 11:05 PM Reddit announced that it has acquired short video platform Dubsmash. The deal’s terms were undisclosed. Dubsmash will retain its own platform and brand, and Reddit will integrate its video creation tools. Its co-founders, Suchit Dash, Jonas Drüppel and Tim Specht, will join Reddit.
According to Crunchbase data, the app has raised $20.2 million from investors including Lowercase Capital, Index Ventures, Eniac Ventures, Heartcore Capital and Sunstone Life.
Dubsmash is now one of TikTok’s big...Tags: Fundings & Exits, Startups, TC, Facebook, Apps, Video, Berlin, Tech, Brooklyn, United States, New York Times, Reddit, Alexis Ohanian, Steve Huffman, Dubsmash, Crunchbase 38 people like this. Like YC-backed Heru raises $1.7M to build software services for Latin American gig workersDecember 2, 2020 at 1:03 PM Given the attention that TechCrunch pays to Y Combinator’s Demo Days, we also try to keep tabs on the same startups as they scale and raise more capital. Yesterday we covered YC Winter 2020 participant BuildBuddy, for example. Today we’re taking a look at Heru, a startup based in Mexico City that is announcing a $1.7 million raise after taking part in YC’s Summer 2019 session.
The pre-seed round was led by Mountain Nazca, and participated in by Magma Partners, Xtraordinary Venture Partners, Flou...Tags: Startups, TC, Y Combinator, Mexico, Tech, Colombia, Mexico City, TechCrunch, Yc, Oyo, Heru, Gig workers, Recent Funding, Mateo Jaramillo, Buildbuddy, Mountain Nazca 26 people like this. Like YC-backed BuildBuddy raises $3.15M to help developers build software more quicklyDecember 1, 2020 at 1:30 PM BuildBuddy , whose software helps developers compile and test code quickly using a blend of open-source technology and proprietary tools, announced a funding round today worth $3.15 million.
The company was part of the Winter 2020 Y Combinator batch , which saw its traditional demo day in March turned into an all-virtual affair. The startups from the cohort then had to raise capital as the public markets crashed around them and fear overtook the startup investing world.
BuildBuddy’...Tags: Google, Fundings & Exits, Startups, Y Combinator, Developer, Tech, Mountain View, Yc, Blaze, ARR, Tyler Williams, Bazel, Village Global, Recent Funding, Buildbuddy, Siggi Simonarson 41 people like this. Like YC-backed Cashfree raises $35.3 million for its payments platformNovember 23, 2020 at 9:30 PM Cashfree, an Indian startup that offers a wide-range of payments services to businesses, has raised $35.3 million in a new financing round as the profitable firm looks to broaden its offering.
The Bangalore-based startup’s Series B was led by London-headquartered private equity firm Apis Partners (which invested through its Growth Fund II), with participation from existing investors Y Combinator and Smilegate Investments. The new round brings the startup’s to-date raise to $42 million.
...Tags: Travel, Amazon, Fundings & Exits, Startups, Apps, Y Combinator, Asia, London, Finance, India, Funding, Paypal, Payments, Zomato, Shopify, Bangalore 23 people like this. Like Malaysia-based inventory management platform Food Market Hub raises $4 million from Go-Ventures, SIGNovember 18, 2020 at 4:29 AM Food Market Hub co-founders Anthony See and Shayna Teh
Many restaurants still rely on spreadsheets to track their inventory of produce, meat and other ingredients. But using manual methods often results in food wastage and higher costs. Malaysia-based Food Market Hub is a cloud-based platform that connects food and beverage (F&B) outlets directly to suppliers, making it easier to communicate and manage orders. The startup announced today it has closed a Series A round of $4 million from Go-Ventu...Tags: Fundings & Exits, Startups, TC, Asia, Indonesia, Restaurants, Southeast Asia, Singapore, Supply Chain Management, Tech, Taiwan, Thailand, Malaysia, Yc, Gojek, FB 13 people like this. Like Boostrapped Clearfind wants to cut your software spend, for a small feeNovember 11, 2020 at 10:00 AM  Tags: Startups, TC, Enterprise, Tech, SaaS, Yc, Simons, LTV, Layfield, Boostrapped Clearfind, Clearfind, James Layfield, Jocelyn Simons, Sage Quickbooks SAP, Clearfind Clearfind, Clearfind Layfield 141 people like this. Like Bootstrapped Clearfind wants to cut your software spend, for a small feeNovember 11, 2020 at 10:00 AM Tags: Startups, TC, Enterprise, Tech, SaaS, Yc, Simons, LTV, Layfield, Clearfind, James Layfield, Jocelyn Simons, Sage Quickbooks SAP, Clearfind Clearfind, Clearfind Layfield, Bootstrapped Clearfind 59 people like this. Like The gig economy, cannabis and car data are tech-election winners in 2020November 7, 2020 at 2:00 PM  Tags: Apple, Startups, TC, Facebook, Lyft, Uber, Florida, UK, California, China, Massachusetts, US, Tech, Cnn, United States, SEC 115 people like this. Like Daily Crunch: Apple announces its next big eventNovember 2, 2020 at 6:11 PM  Tags: Apple, TC, Spotify, US, Tech, Tim Cook, Bill Murray, Yc, Raspberry Pi Foundation, Murray, Boden, Gabe Newell, Starling Bank, Anne Boden, Daily Crunch, VotingWorks 84 people like this. Like YC-backed nonprofit VotingWorks wants to rebuild trust in election systems through open sourceNovember 2, 2020 at 1:36 PM  Tags: Florida, Mississippi, Government, Wikipedia, America, Tech, Post Office, Policy, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Yc, Choctaw County, Pasternack, Ben Adida, Matt Pasternack, Adida 74 people like this. Like Here’s what’s happening today on day 1 of Disrupt 2020September 14, 2020 at 11:44 AM Welcome to Day One of Disrupt 2020, our biggest Disrupt ever! Over the next five days (cue Star Trek theme), you’ll explore strange new technology, seek out new opportunities and new collaborations. You’ll boldly immerse yourself with the global startup community. There’s still time to register if you haven’t picked up your pass to attend. Just head to our ticket page and sign up!
Day one, right. Here’s a snapshot of what you can expect today at Disrupt — speakers, breakout sessions, events and ...Tags: Startups, Tech, Garry Tan, Initialized Capital, Yc, Startup Battlefield, Squire, Michael Seibel, Songe, Hans Tung, Anu Hariharan, Reham Fagiri, Howie Liu, Google Play App Store, Disrupt 2020 32 people like this. Like Groww, an investment app for millennials in India, raises $30M led by YC ContinuitySeptember 9, 2020 at 8:32 PM Even as more than 150 million people are using digital payment apps each month in India, only about 20 million of them invest in mutual funds and stocks. A startup that is attempting to change that by courting millennials has just received a big backing.
Bangalore-headquartered Groww said on Thursday it had raised $30 million in its Series C financing round. YC Continuity, the growth-stage investment fund of Y Combinator, led the round, while existing investors Sequoia India, Ribbit Capital and ...Tags: Amazon, Startups, Apps, Asia, Finance, India, Funding, Tech, Sequoia Capital, Flipkart, Bangalore, Yc, Anu Hariharan, Sequoia Capital India, Ashish Agrawal, Recent Funding 7 people like this. Like Kinspire’s new app helps parents find screen-free activities for kidsSeptember 9, 2020 at 4:37 PM  Tags: Amazon, Crafts, Startups, Mobile, Apps, Family, New York, Kids, Education, Parents, Children, Tech, Ios Apps, Android Apps, Npr, Denver 111 people like this. Like At Disrupt, YC’s Anu Hariharan, Initialized’s Garry Tan, and GGV’s Hans Tung will tell you how to raise money in a dumpster fireSeptember 5, 2020 at 12:30 PM As this pandemically perverse year draws to a close, there’s one thing that’s certain. Everything has changed — at least a little bit.
The U.S. is still grappling with a virus that it has yet to control and a vaccine, once it’s discovered and proven to be effective will take months to be distributed throughout the population. That means the virtual, socially distanced reality that has become the new normal will remain that way for at least a little bit longer.
But what does that mean for startup...Tags: TC, South Park, Tech, New York Times, Alexis Ohanian, Andreessen Horowitz, Palantir, Garry Tan, Sand Hill Road, Initialized Capital, Yc, Brien, Tan, Continuity Fund, Hans Tung, Anu Hariharan 35 people like this. Like Daily Crunch: Judge says Apple can’t block Unreal EngineAugust 25, 2020 at 6:10 PM Tags: Apple, Mobile, Facebook, Instagram, Microsoft, Los Angeles, Tech, Policy, Netflix, Porsche, Epic, Instacart, Devops, Rogers, Epic Games, Yc 65 people like this. Like Here are the 98 companies from Y Combinator’s Summer 2020 Demo Day 1August 24, 2020 at 6:31 PM  Tags: Google, Amazon, Python, TC, Y Combinator, Europe, UK, Indonesia, Mexico, India, New York City, Africa, US, Tech, ERP, United States 104 people like this. Like This YC-backed power couple launched a Patreon alternative for creators that's helped a horror movie actor boost his earnings by 30% during lockdownAugust 12, 2020 at 6:34 PM  Tags: Apple, Trends, Paypal, Netflix, Harvard, Seth Rogen, Patreon, Venmo, Yc, Roach, Whalen, Cui, Hwang, Karen Chen, BluRays, Jemi 118 people like this. Like Y Combinator President Geoff Ralston shares actionable advice for startup foundersAugust 10, 2020 at 6:20 PM Running a startup accelerator comes with a number of occupational hazards, but “skepticism is the easiest thing to fall into when you’ve seen too many companies,” said Y Combinator President Geoff Ralston, “and it’s the thing you have to avoid the most.”
Ralston joined me last week for an hour-long Extra Crunch Live interview where we talked about several topics, including how YC has adapted its program during the pandemic, why he has “never stopped coding” and what he sees changing in tech.
...Tags: Startups, TC, Y Combinator, Entrepreneurship, Events, Tech, Venture Capital, Airbnb, Yc, Don, Ralston, Geoff Ralston, Extra Crunch, Growth and Monetization, Extra Crunch Live, Hunter Walk Kirsten Green 19 people like this. Like Datafold is solving the chaos of data engineeringAugust 5, 2020 at 11:43 AM It seemed so simple. A small schema issue in a database was wrecking a feature in the app, increasing latency and degrading the user experience. The resident data engineer pops in a fix to amend the schema, and everything seems fine — for now. Unbeknownst to them, that small fix completely clobbered all the dashboards used by the company’s leadership. Finance is down, ops is pissed, and the CEO — well, they don’t even know whether the company is online.
For data engineers, it’s not just a recurr...Tags: Startups, Lyft, Enterprise, Tech, Data Science, Yc, Data Engineering, Datafold Datafold, Datafold, Gleb Mezhanskiy, Mezhanskiy 3 people like this. Like YC-backed Statiq wants to bootstrap India’s EV charging networkAugust 5, 2020 at 12:38 AM  Tags: Fundings & Exits, Startups, Y Combinator, Asia, India, Funding, Tech, Tesla, United States, Electric Vehicles, Delhi, Mumbai, New Delhi, GreenTech, Yc, Better Place 73 people like this. Like Daily Crunch: Microsoft-TikTok acquisition inches closer to realityAugust 3, 2020 at 6:19 PM Tags: Google, Social, Mobile, Facebook, Spacex, Microsoft, Satya Nadella, Tech, Nasa, Earth, Policy, Netflix, United States, Treasury, Federal Reserve, Donald Trump 63 people like this. Like YC-backed Artifact looks to make podcasts more personalAugust 3, 2020 at 9:00 AM Historically, podcasts have been focused on appealing to as many listeners as possible. But Artifact, a new YC-backed company launching today, has a different idea.
It all started when cofounder and CEO Ross Chanin lost his grandfather. He found himself wishing he’d spent more time asking him about his life. At the same time, he was mulling the audio revolution underway in the tech world after having cofounded Reputation.com and serving as COO at Euclid (acquired by WeWork).
Over a beer with his...Tags: TC, Tech, WeWork, Ross, Yc, Cindy, Euclid, George Quraishi, Chanin, Sean Bratches, Eric Kinariwala, Ross Chanin, Qurashi, Moncef Biaz CTO, David Lieb Founder of Bump, Google Photos Sander Daniels 19 people like this. Like YC is great but this startup turned down YC #ThreadMillJuly 30, 2020 at 1:15 AM Stepping back, it’s helpful to understand how YC helps companies. I participated in YC S14 as an employee.
YC helped us with:
Coursework — The basics of starting a company, hiring, fundraising, marketing.
Accountability — You’re forced to deliver results every week.
Network — I made friends with smart, ambitious founders.
Branding — YC is cool. It made it easier to hire, sell customers, etc.
Sales Leads — If you sell to startups, YC has a lot of them.
Fundraising — Demo Day allowed us ...Tags: Business, Tech, Yc, Thethreadmill, Twitter Network 15 people like this. Like Extra Crunch Live: Join our Q&A tomorrow at noon PDT with Y Combinator’s Geoff RalstonJuly 29, 2020 at 2:58 PM From Airbnb to Zapier, and Coinbase to Instacart, many of the tech world’s most valuable companies spent their earliest days in Y Combinator’s accelerator program.
Steering the ship at Y Combinator today is its president, Geoff Ralston . We’re excited to share that Ralston will be joining us on Extra Crunch Live tomorrow at noon pacific.
Extra Crunch Live is our virtual speaker series, with each session packed with insight and guidance from the top investors, leaders and founders. This live...Tags: Startups, TC, Y Combinator, Events, Tech, Fundraising, Venture Capital, Sam Altman, Airbnb, Instacart, Coinbase, Yc, Zapier, Ralston, Geoff Ralston, ECL 4 people like this. Like YC-backed Glimpse helps Airbnb hosts make money through product placementJuly 22, 2020 at 2:58 PM  Tags: Startups, TC, Ecommerce, Y Combinator, Advertising Tech, Tech, Airbnb, Yc, Purdue University, Raju, Glimpse, Akash Raju COO Anuj Mehta, Kushal Negi 106 people like this. Like Athlane looks to connect brands and esports streamers with a fresh $3.3 million in fundingJuly 7, 2020 at 9:00 AM Athlane, the YC-backed company from the Summer ’19 cohort, is today ready to launch with a fresh $3.3 million in capital. Investors include Y Combinator, Jonathan Kraft (New England Patriots), Michael Gordon (President of Fenway Sports Group, which owns the Red Sox and Liverpool Football Club), Global Founders Capital, Romulus Capital, Seabed VC, and more.
The startup originally positioned itself as the ‘NCAA of esports’ but, after some time in stealth, has taken a new approach. Athlane is looki...Tags: Startups, TC, Gaming, Y Combinator, Twitter, Entertainment, Funding, Tech, Ncaa, Esports, Red Sox, Yc, Athlane, Liverpool Football Club Global, Athlane Pro, Twitch Twitter Instagram 29 people like this. Like YC-backed Tango Builder wants to use aerospace engineering to build a houseJune 26, 2020 at 11:00 AM  Tags: Fundings & Exits, Startups, Y Combinator, Real Estate, California, Mexico, Funding, Tech, Ecuador, Tango, Tracy Young, Plangrid, Yc, Diz, Recent Funding, Martin Diz 82 people like this. Like |
