Startups

BoldVoice wants to help nonnative English speakers find (and flaunt) their voices

EdTechJuly 27, 2021

When Anada Lakra and Ilya Usorov first moved to the United States, they struggled to find their voices. They both knew and understood...

What I’ve learned after 5 years of buying common stock in startups

Private EquityJuly 27, 2021

Jamie Goldstein Contributor Jamie is the founding partner of Pillar VC, a Boston-based seed-stage venture capital firm....

HackerNoon & The Wild West of Startups

PublicationsJuly 27, 2021

@podcastPodcastTune in to Listen to Tech Stories from Hacker Noon 2-3 times a week! Amy Tom chats with David Smooke (co-founder and CEO...

DataRobot lands $300M and acquires Seattle machine learning startup Algorithmia

StartupsJuly 27, 2021

Seattle startup Algorithmia has been acquired by DataRobot, a Boston-based startup and leader in the machine learning operations sector. Founded in 2013, Algorithmia builds...

Monte Carlo’s Barr Moses will join us at TC Sessions: SaaS

SaaSJuly 27, 2021

Monte Carlo’s Barr Moses joins the data panel at TC Sessions: SaaS. See you there! As the clock ticks down on TechCrunch’s upcoming SaaS-focused...

African startups join global funding boom as fintech shines

Private EquityJuly 27, 2021

The Exchange is on a trip around the world, poking our heads into various startup markets to better understand how different geographies are...

After landing NBA jersey sponsorship deal, crypto startup StormX raises $9M

StartupsJuly 27, 2021

Seattle cryptocurrency startup StormX raised $9 million from Optimista Capital to fuel growth of its platform that lets users earn cryptocurrency rewards when they...

The RapidSOS EC-1

StartupsJuly 27, 2021

Three digits, so little time. Numbers can take on profound cultural significance, but few numbers have quite the resonance as 911, the emergency number...

Smoking pizza ovens and pilfered dollar bills, or the early story of RapidSOS

StartupsJuly 27, 2021

The irony of 911 is that it’s a number that everyone knows (at least in the United States), and yet, no one really...

RapidSOS learned that the best product design is sometimes no product design

StartupsJuly 27, 2021

Sometimes, the best missions are the hardest to fund. For the founders of RapidSOS, improving the quality of emergency response by adding useful data,...

How RapidSOS used creative tactics to build partnerships and a BD engine at scale

StartupsJuly 27, 2021

One of the most challenging aspects of leading a startup is the seeming impossibility of building partnerships and executing business development. Large companies...