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Founder: Gagan Biyani
TechCrunch Role: Mobile Writer
Capital Raised: $311.4M
Investors: Norwest Venture Partners
Stage: Public
Udemy is an online learning platform that helps students, companies, and governments gain the skills they need to reach their goals.
Founder: Evelyn Rusli
TechCrunch Role: Anchor Reporter
Capital Raised: $99.1M
Investors: FJ Labs
Stage: Series B
Yumi offers a science-based early childhood meal delivery program.
Founder: Gagan Biyani
TechCrunch Role: Mobile Writer
Capital Raised: $25.1M
Investors: First Round Capital
Stage: Series A
Maven empowers the world’s experts to offer cohort-based courses directly to their audience.
Founder: Ben Schaechter
TechCrunch Role: Web Developer
Capital Raised: $25M
Investors: Scale Venture Partners
Stage: Series A
Vantage is a cloud cost management and optimization platform that allows developers to analyze, report on, and reduce cloud costs.
Founder: Unity Stoakes
TechCrunch Role: Contributing Writer
Capital Raised: $24.3M
Investors: Masimo
Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed
StartUp Health is investing in a global army of Health Transformers to achieve health moonshots.
Founder: Steve Satoru Naito
TechCrunch Role: Contributor
Capital Raised: $24.3M
Investors: LAUNCH
Stage: Series B
Anyplace is a housing platform built for the work-from-anywhere movement.
Founder: Ouriel Ohayon
TechCrunch Role: Founder
Capital Raised: $24M
Investors: FJ Labs
Stage: Series A
ZenGo is a developer of a non-custodial cryptocurrency wallet, secure by default, with cutting-edge MPC cryptography and over 1 million customers and zero hacks.
Founder: Christopher Viagrande
TechCrunch Role: Invited Presentation
Capital Raised: $19.3M
Investors: National Science Foundation
Stage: Venture - Series Unknown
Kaden is a behavioral health company dedicated to solving the greatest healthcare challenges of our time with ground-breaking technology and unwavering humanity.
Founder: Edouard Gasser
TechCrunch Role: TechCrunch France Writer
Capital Raised: $20.9M
Investors: Elaia
Stage: Series A
Tilak built a series of fun medical games to change the way we monitor chronic diseases.
Founder: Erick Schonfeld
TechCrunch Role: Editor in Chief
Capital Raised: $55M
Investors: Accenture Ventures
Stage: Series A
Touchcast is building the complete stack for the Internet's next act. Offering companies a turnkey, cost-effective, lighting-fast, accurate and safe path for creating, publishing and distributing conversational, multimodal generative experiences.
Founder: Shriram Bhashyam
TechCrunch Role: Contributing Writer
Capital Raised: $11.3M
Investors: Draper Associates
Stage: Series B
EquityZen is a marketplace that connects buyers and sellers of private company shares.
Founder: Keith Teare
TechCrunch Role: Founding Shareholder
Capital Raised: $11.3M
Investors: Candou Ventures
Stage: Series A
SignalRank is a systematic investment platform with access to the best venture-backed early-stage companies.
Founder: Vineet Thanedar
TechCrunch Role: Lead Engineer
Capital Raised: $11.3M
Investors: Bowery Capital
Stage: Series A
Booking and software platform for moving companies - innovative technology and on-demand booking service helps moving companies scale faster, work smarter and create better futures.
Founder: Sheji Ho
TechCrunch Role: Contributing Writer
Capital Raised: $11.6M
Investors: SBI Ven Capital
Stage: Series A
HD offers healthcare financing solutions to increase access to affordable care and surgeries.
Founder: Steve Cheney
TechCrunch Role: Contributing Writer
Capital Raised: $14.5M
Investors: BoxGroup
Stage: Convertible Note
Estimote is a technology start-up, building a sensor-based Operating System for the physical world.
Founder: Sarah Lacy
TechCrunch Role: Senior Editor
Capital Raised: $4.2M
Investors: Greylock
Stage: Series A
PandoDaily is a web publication offering technology news, analysis, and commentary, focusing mainly on Silicon Valley and startup companies.
Founder: Mark Hendrickson
TechCrunch Role: Project Manager, Designer and Writer
Capital Raised: $4.7M
Investors: Fresco Capital
Stage: Seed
KITE Scouting helps Global 5000 companies better locate potential partners, investment or acquisitions. With KITE, extend your team with venture quality recesses.
Founder: Nick Gonzalez
TechCrunch Role: Research Analyst/Writer
Capital Raised: $4M
Investors: Red DAO
Stage: Seed
UNXD is a curated marketplace for the best of digital culture. Founded in 2021, UNXD is focused on providing collectors with the best items and experiences for these culturally significant works.
Founder: Frank Gruber
TechCrunch Role: Contributing Writer
Capital Raised: $2.5M
Investors: Tony Hsieh
Stage: Seed
Tech.Co, formerly Tech Cocktail, is a media company and events organization for startups, entrepreneurs, and technology enthusiasts.
Founder: Calley Nye
TechCrunch Role: UI Engineer
Capital Raised: $2M
Investors: Palm Drive Capital
Stage: Seed
Popularium was founded by an allstar team of gaming industry veterans responsible for the largest asset-based games and platforms in history.
Founder: Adam Fridman
TechCrunch Role: Crunch Network Contributor
Capital Raised: $1.1M
Investors: Motivate Venture Capital
Stage: Pre-Seed
ProHabits helps guide continuous, sustainable leadership development.
Founder: Kerem Ozkan
TechCrunch Role: Research Analyst
Capital Raised: $1.1M
Investors: Dean Bartosh
Stage: Equity Crowdfunding
Soar enables robust cellular vehicle-to-everything connectivity for aerial and ground vehicle companies.
Founder: Erick Schonfeld
TechCrunch Role: Editor in Chief
Capital Raised: $1.4M
Investors: IBOS ventures
Stage: Seed
Traction is a SaaS platform that automates the discovery and evaluation of emerging technologies across the enterprise.
Founder: Colin O'Donnell
TechCrunch Role: Contributing Writer
Founder: Tony Aubé
TechCrunch Role: Contributor
Founder: Adrianne Weir
TechCrunch Role: Speaker
Founder: Chio Paniagua
TechCrunch Role: Writer