EveryTeam raises $3M to create a living internal company lexicon
As companies get bigger and bigger, all the critical information about a company — even its mission and culture statements — can get lost in
Aclima sucks in $24M to scale its air quality mapping platform
Aclima, a San Francisco-based company which builds Internet-connected air quality sensors and runs a software platform to analyze the extracted intel, has closed a $24
Digital campaigning vs democracy: UK election regulator calls for urgent law changes
A report by the UK’s Electoral Commission has called for urgent changes in the law to increase transparency about how digital tools are being used
Oh, the things I would do to get this cardboard-style Nintendo Switch
Nintendo is building on its strange but wonderful cardboard Labo platform with some sweet Mario Kart integration and a truly fabulous limited edition Switch with
iOS 12 is all about making your phone work better
The pace of iOS innovation has been so intense that even Apple couldn’t keep up. In some ways, iOS 11’s main feature was that it
Apple just released the first iOS 12 beta to everyone
This is your opportunity to get a glimpse of the future of iOS. Apple just released the first public beta of iOS 12, the next
Jay-Z has a new venture fund and a Silicon Valley partner
Jay-Z is behind a new venture fund called Marcy Venture Partners that is being launched with Walden Venture Capital managing director Larry Marcus and longtime
Meru Health wants to make mental health care more accessible
Getting mental health services can be burdensome. And if you’re already going through a tough time, you’re probably looking for help sooner than later. But
Winnie raises $4 million to make parents’ lives easier
An app that has the needs of modern-day parents in mind, Winnie, has now raised $4 million in additional seed funding in a round led
BigID scores $30 million Series B months after closing A round
BigID announced a big $30 million Series B round today, which comes on the heels of closing their $14M A investment in January. It’s been
India’s PolicyBazaar raises $200M led by SoftBank’s Vision Fund
India’s PolicyBazaar, which runs a digital insurance business of the same name and a lending marketplace called PaisaBazaar.com, is the latest company to join SoftBank’s
Tact $27M Series C attracts Amazon, Microsoft and Salesforce
It’s not often you can get three cloud giants like Amazon, Microsoft and Salesforce to agree on much of anything, but today they were all
Uber is in court to appeal London license loss by claiming it’s changed
Uber is in court in the UK today to try to overturn a decision by London’s transport regulator last fall to withdraw its license to
Meituan, the Tencent-backed ‘one-stop super app,’ files for IPO in Hong Kong
After months of speculation, Meituan, the largest service booking app in China, confirmed that it has filed for a public offering. The company’s IPO application
Fintech friends: Monzo partners with TransferWise for international payments
“So what’s going on here then?” I ask. “Two good friends just got even better [friends],” replies TransferWise co-founder Kristo Käärmann laughing, while Monzo co-founder
Open source sustainability
Open source sustainability has been nothing short of an oxymoron. Engineers around the world pour their sweat and frankly, their hearts into these passion projects
Are scooter startups really worth billions?
It’s been hard to miss the scooter startup wars opening fresh, techno-fueled rifts in Valley society in recent months. Another flavor of ride-sharing steed which
How backups, backups, backups protect NYC’s cellular infrastructure
The infrastructure that underpins our lives is not something we ever want to think about. Nothing good has come from suddenly needing to wonder “where
Konsus looks to give companies a way to get specially designed documents in under a day
Fredrik Thomassen as a consultant used to have the resources to offload the annoying project tasks — like making PowerPoint presentations — but now that
Facebook mistakenly leaked developer analytics reports to testers
Set the “days without a Facebook privacy problem” counter to zero. This week, an alarmed developer contacted TechCrunch, informing us that their Facebook App Analytics
WordPress.com parent company acquires Atavist
Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, WooCommerce, Longreads, Simplenote and a few other things, is acquiring Brooklyn-based startup Atavist. Atavist has been working on a content
Lime scooters are live in Paris
Lime is the hot new thing in San Francisco, but will it work in other countries? The company just launched its electric scooter service in
Sphero acquires a music education startup
It’s hard to say precisely how Sphero’s pivot to education is going in these early stages, but it recently got an infusion of funding and
Facebook prototypes tool to show how many minutes you spend on it
Are you ready for some scary numbers? After months of Mark Zuckerberg talking about how “Protecting our community is more important than maximizing our profits”,
Citymapper lets you find Ofo, Mobike and scooters around you
Urban transportation app Citymapper quietly rolled out an app update that lets you find many alternative mobility services in the app. You can now find
Security, privacy experts weigh in on the ICE doxxing
In what appears to be the latest salvo in a new, wired form of protest, developer Sam Lavigne posted code that scrapes LinkedIn to find
Transfer.sh is an instant sharing tool for programmers
File sharing tools are a dime a dozen these days. There’s Dropbox, Google Drive, and iCloud. But what if you want to share something quickly
Bag Week 2018: Why I still love the Peak Design Everyday Backpack
Welcome to Bag Week 2018. Every year your faithful friends at TechCrunch spend an entire week looking at bags. Why? Because bags — often ignored
Messenger Kids expands outside the U.S., rolls out ‘kindness’ features
Facebook’s kid-friendly messaging app, Messenger Kids, is expanding to its first countries outside the U.S. today, with launches in Canada and Peru. It’s also introducing
Twitter buys a startup to battle harassment, e-cigs are booming, and a meditation app is worth $250M
Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week TechCrunch’s Silicon Valley Editor Connie