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Listen to select TechCrunch articles on startups coverage—who's raising, who's exiting, who's changing the world.
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Jul 21, 2022 • 7min
Casavo, an Opendoor-style proptech from Italy, raises $410M to expand its instant buyer platform across Europe
Opendoor opened the door, so to speak, to the idea of applying technology to the concept of house flipping to both scale the opportunity and make it considerably more efficient. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jul 20, 2022 • 7min
Charles raises $20M to bring conversational commerce to WhatsApp in Europe
Conversational commerce isn’t exactly a new phenomenon, with countless companies using live chats, messaging apps, chatbots, voice assistants and more to encourage consumers to part with their cash. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jul 20, 2022 • 5min
Japanese e-commerce enabler AnyMind raises funding in equity, debt for acquisitions
The pandemic has triggered more demand for online shopping and fueled many smaller retailers to establish their own online offerings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jul 19, 2022 • 4min
X1’s income-based credit card is finally available to the public
The credit card market has become increasingly crowded, with consumer fintech startups like locked in a fierce competition to differentiate their offerings through branding, rewards programs and even crypto compatibility. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jul 19, 2022 • 6min
This niche cryptographic technique could transform privacy in web3
Privacy is a core concern in crypto. Once you know a crypto wallet address corresponds to a certain individual, you can track all the transactions that individual has made through their wallet on any public blockchain, including Bitcoin and Ethereum. Some cryptographers think the solution to crypto’s privacy concerns lies in zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs), a […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jul 18, 2022 • 5min
Canvas Medical, ‘the Tesla of EMRs,’ raises a $24 million Series B round
When Andrew Hines started Canvas Medical in 2015 he couldn’t have predicted that telehealth would go from niche to norm or that a pandemic would inspire entrepreneurs to launch a new fleet of digital health startups that needed fresh infrastructure. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jul 15, 2022 • 6min
Medusa’s open source e-commerce tool for JavaScript developers aims to take on Shopify
Medusa aims to offer APIs beyond the standard marketplaces ones for merchants to build more advanced features like fulfillment, subscriptions or a wholesale channel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jul 15, 2022 • 6min
Meet the all-electric RV startup steered by Tesla alumni
What started as a pet project to electrify food trucks in the San Francisco Bay area — an enterprise inspired by the cacophony of generators that greeted Ben Parker every day during his lunch break at Tesla — has evolved into a much larger, complex and potentially more lucrative undertaking. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jul 14, 2022 • 3min
Kindly Health makes hormonal health care more approachable
Hormonal healthcare can be intimidating, since it touches on the most intimate parts of our lives. Kindly Health wants to make it accessible to more people, with a combination of at-home diagnostic tests (including semen tests and tests for polycystic ovary syndrome), telehealth consultations and supplements. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jul 14, 2022 • 6min
Deci lands $25M for tech that makes AI models more efficient
Deci, a startup company with 50 employees who are developing a platform to build and optimize AI-powered systems, today announced that it closed a $25 million Series B financing round led by Insight Partners. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
