Startups

Extra Crunch roundup: Think like a VC, CockroachDB EC-1, handle your stock options

StartupsJuly 16, 2021

Ants and camels are famously resilient, but when it was time to select a name for a startup that offers open-source, cloud-based distributed...

Digital lending platform Blend valued at over $4B in its public debut

FintechJuly 16, 2021

Mortgages may not be considered sexy, but they are a big business. If you’ve refinanced or purchased a home digitally lately, you may not...

Visualping raises $6M to make its website change monitoring service smarter

AIJuly 16, 2021

Visualping, a service that can help you monitor websites for changes like price drops or other updates, announced that it has raised a...

Construct Capital’s Dayna Grayson will be a Startup Battlefield Judge at Disrupt 2021

StartupsJuly 16, 2021

Dayna Grayson has been in venture capital for more than a decade and was one of the first VCs to build a portfolio...

INVEST Precision Medicine winner spotlight: Nia Therapeutics

Medical DevicesJuly 16, 2021

Memory is the stored collection of knowledge and experiences of life. However, age and injury can make recall of memories difficult. Startup...

India poised for record VC year as unicorns head for decisive IPOs

Private EquityJuly 16, 2021

In case you’ve not been paying attention, we’ll say it again: The global venture capital industry is on fire. The second quarter of...

Weekly VC Overview: All European startup funding rounds we tracked this week (July 12-16)

StartupsJuly 16, 2021

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How this Seattle entrepreneur went from running a food truck to leading a fast-growing crypto startup

StartupsJuly 16, 2021

More than a year after shutting down his popular Korean-Mexican food truck and catering business Bomba Fusion, Seattle entrepreneur Simon Yu checked in...

Outdoorsy co-founders detail how they expanded the sharing economy to RVs

AutomotiveJuly 16, 2021

Jen Young and Jeff Cavins were sitting in a beige conference room at a downtown Vancouver hotel, wasting away under fluorescent lights, an...

The Briefing: India’s Paytm Files For IPO, Genvid Raises $113M, And More

StartupsJuly 16, 2021

Here’s what you need to know today in startup and venture news, updated by the Crunchbase News staff throughout the day...

Give InKind, which aims to make giving easier, lands more funding to expand healthcare partnerships

StartupsJuly 16, 2021

Social giving startup Give InKind has raised another $500,000 as it inks deals with hospitals and healthcare systems. The Tacoma, Wash.-based startup hosts a...