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Oct 8, 2018 • 3min
Flutterwave and Ventures Platform CEOs will join us at Startup Battlefield Africa
Flutterwave and Ventures Platform CEOs will join us at Startup Battlefield Africa Startup Battlefield is returning to Africa this December. TechCrunch will be hitting Lagos, Nigeria, bringing with it our Battlefield competition and a day’s worth of panel discussions, focused on topics facing the city’s startup scene. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Oct 5, 2018 • 4min
JFrog lands $165 M investment as valuation jumps over $1 billion
JFrog wants to change the way we deal with software updates. Instead of large numbered updates you have to manually download, it sees a future of continuous delivery where software is delivered as binaries and updated in the background. Investors must like that vision very much because they showered the company with a $165 million Series D investment today, which the company reports pushes its valuation past the billion dollar mark. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Oct 5, 2018 • 3min
Product Hunt Radio: The evolution of Y Combinator, and counter-intuitive advice for founders
Ryan Hoover Contributor Share on Twitter Ryan Hoover is the founder of Product Hunt and host of Product Hunt Radio. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Oct 4, 2018 • 5min
N26 is launching its bank in the U.K.
Nearly a year after German fintech startup N26 announced that it would launch its service in the U.K., the company is launching in the U.K. N26 is already quite popular in the Eurozone with over 1.5 million customers. In this new market, it will face tough competition from existing players, such as Revolut, Monzo, Starling and many others. N26 is going to roll out its product in multiple phases. Some lucky few will be able to open an account right away. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Oct 4, 2018 • 3min
KZen raises $4 million to bring sanity to crypto wallets
KZen, a company run by former TC editor Ouriel Ohayon, has raised $4 million in seed to build a “better wallet,” obviously the elusive Holy Grail in the crypto world. Benson Oak Ventures, Samsung Next, Elron Ventures invested. Ohayon, who has worked at Internet Lab and founded TechCrunch France and Appsfire, wanted to create an easy-to-use crypto wallet that wouldn’t confound users. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Oct 3, 2018 • 3min
Subscription startup Bespoke Post is creating its own brands and products for men
Subscription startup Bespoke Post is creating its own brands and products for men Bespoke Post says it has more than 100,000 subscribers signed up to receive a monthly “box of awesome” (that’s what it calls its bundles of curated men’s products). Next up: Creating brands and products of its own. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Oct 3, 2018 • 5min
Cover collects $16M to insure your gadgets, pets… anything
People procrastinate about buying insurance because it’s such a boring and complicated chore to compare policies. But Cover combines plans from 45 insurance companies into a single marketplace so it’s easy to find the best one for your car, home, rental, business, personal property, pets, jewelry and more. Now Cover is building powerful onboarding tricks like a driving school that earns you lower car insurance rates, and a way for Shopify merchants to sell warranties for their items. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Oct 2, 2018 • 3min
Ettitude targets eco-conscious shoppers with its organic bedding
Ettitude, recently graduated from the ERA accelerator, is looking to ride the growing wave of e-commerce by offering eco-friendly sheets. The company offers bamboo lyocell sheets and pajamas, which feel like a hybrid between silk and cotton, and stay cool longer than cotton or other fabrics. Bamboo lyocell fabric is essentially organic fabric made from weaving together tiny fibers of organic bamboo material or pulp. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Oct 2, 2018 • 7min
Why Blissfully decided to go all in on serverless
Serverless has become a big buzzword of late, and with good reason. It has the potential to completely alter how developers write code. They can simply write a series of event triggers, while letting the cloud vendor worry about providing whatever amount of compute resources are required to complete the job. It represents a huge shift in how programs are developed, but it’s been difficult to find companies who were built from the ground up using this methodology because it’s fairly new. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Oct 1, 2018 • 6min
Ne-Yo wants to make Silicon Valley more diverse one investment at a time
Dressed in a Naruto t-shirt and a hat emblazoned with the phrase “lone wolf,” Ne-Yo slouches over in a chair inside a Holberton Schoolclassroom. The Grammy-winningrecording artist is struggling to remember the name of “that actor,” the one who’s had a successful career in both the entertainment industry and tech investing. “I learned about all the things he was doing and I thought it was great for him,” Ne-Yo told TechCrunch. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
