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Jan 30, 2019 • 4min
YC-backed Oxygen raises seed to bring digital banking to freelancers
Few things are easy in our financial system if you don’t have regular employment. It’s hard to prove (regular) income, which makes applying for a credit card or personal loan much more difficult and time-consuming. That’s particularly tough, since freelancer income is variable, and these sort of income smoothing tools can be critical to make ends meet. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jan 29, 2019 • 5min
The new Parsley Health Center in NYC doesn’t feel like a doctor’s office
Parsley Health has just opened up a new, fully redesigned space on Fifth Avenue in New York City, marking the first true Parsley Health Center. Since launch, the startup has been operating out of clinics in New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles. But TechCrunch got the chance to check out Parsley’s new Fifth Ave location, which marks the company’s first space designed from the ground up as Parsley Health. Founded by Dr. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jan 28, 2019 • 5min
Sequoia-backed NEXT gets $97M as investment in logistics heats up
Despite its “unsexy” reputation, the logistics industry is attracting massive investment from venture capitalists. With a fresh $97 million in Series C funding, NEXT joins a fleet of heavily funded logistics platforms, including Flexport, Huochebang and Convoy. The company, which connects shippers and carriers through an online marketplace, raised the capital fromBrookfield Ventures, with participation from Sequoia Capital and logistics solutions provider GLP. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jan 25, 2019 • 4min
Verizon’s unlimited data carrier Visible starts selling iPhones, announces Android compatibility
When Verizon stealthily launched a new startup called Visible last year, it operated under a bring-your-own-device model — to sign up, you needed to already have an unlocked iPhone, and Visible would send you a new SIM card. Today, however, Visible is announcing that it’s partnering with Affirm and Apple to sell iPhones with 0 percent APR financing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jan 25, 2019 • 9min
After an abrupt shutdown, Munchery’s small business vendors are the ones picking up the bill
Munchery’s vendors claim the food delivery startup took advantage of them in its final hours, knowingly allowing them to continue making deliveries it couldn’t pay for. Earlier this week, Munchery surprised customers with an email announcing it wouldcease operations, effective immediately. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jan 24, 2019 • 6min
How we’re finding the best lawyers for early-stage startups
We’re nearing 1,000 submissions from startup founders and leaders in Silicon Valley and across the world about the best early-stage tech lawyers to work with. As we’ve sorted through survey responses and begun scheduling interviews with the first qualified nominees, we’ve gotten a bunch of questions. We love questions. First of all, why are we creating a living list of great tech startup lawyers?Lawyers don’t create startups, but they can help great startups succeed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jan 24, 2019 • 6min
The Pill Club raises $51M as VCs find new opportunities in women’s health
Through telemedicine and direct-to-consumer sales platforms, startups are streamlining the historically arduous process of accessing contraception. The latest effort to secure a significant financing round is The Pill Club, an online birth control prescription and delivery service. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jan 23, 2019 • 6min
Roger Dickey ditches $32M-funded Gigster to start Untitled Labs
Most founders don’t walk away from their startup after raising $32 million and reaching 1000 clients. But Roger Dickey’s heart is in consumer tech, and his company Gigster had pivoted to doing outsourced app development for enterprises instead of scrappy entrepreneurs. So today Dickey announced that he’d left his role as Gigster CEO, with former VMware VP Christopher Keane who’d sold it his startup WaveMaker coming in to lead Gigster in October. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jan 22, 2019 • 3min
UK startup veteran and investor Wendy Tan White joins Alphabet X as Vice President
Wendy Tan White, a veteran of the U.K. startup scene — including founding SaaS website builder Moonfruit, which exited to Yell Group for $37 million — is joining Alphabet X (formerly Google X), TechCrunch has learned. According to sources, Tan White was approached by Google late last year, as she weighed up a number of other options, including raising a VC fund of her own dedicated to “deep tech”. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jan 21, 2019 • 6min
Following a record year, Illinois startups kick off 2019 on a strong foot
Jason Rowley Contributor Jason Rowley is a venture capital and technology reporter for Crunchbase News. More posts by this contributor SoftBank’s Vision Fund inches closer to $100B The top 10 cities for $100M VC rounds in 2018 so far Illinois’s startup market in 2018 was very strong, and it’s not slowing down as we settle into 2019. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
