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Outdoorsy co-founders detail how they expanded the sharing economy to RVs

Jen Young and Jeff Cavins were sitting in a beige conference room at a downtown Vancouver hotel, wasting away under fluorescent lights, an endless PowerPoint and a pair of sad Styrofoam cups of coffee

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Taste intelligence startup Halla closes $4.5M Series A1 to predict which grocery items shoppers will buy

Halla wants to answer the question of how people decide what to eat, and now has $4.5 million in fresh Series A1 capital from Food Retail Ventures to do it.Headquartered in New York, Halla was founded

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Nym gets $6M for its anonymous overlay mixnet to sell privacy as a service

Switzerland-based privacy startup Nym Technologies has raised $6 million, which is being loosely pegged as a Series A round.Earlier raises included a $2.5M seed round in 2019. The founders also took i

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Cleo Capital’s Sarah Kunst explains how to get ready to raise your next round

TechCrunch virtually sat down with venture capitalist and Cleo Capital managing director Sarah Kunst at our latest Early Stage event last week. Kunst joined us to chat about preparing for raising capi

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'Dramatic' Perseids meteor shower starts tonight - here's how to watch in the UK

If you find yourself struggling to sleep over the next month, you could catch a glimpse of a stunning meteor shower if you head outside.

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Reporter's Diary: Overdose of fruits and my favorite Aksu person

CGTN's reporter Wei Lynn Tang at Awat County, Aksu Prefecture, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. /CGTNEver felt like you might have an overdose of fru

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Britons urged to count butterflies amid fears cold and wet spring has hit numbers

Conservationists warn that the UK is experiencing an increasing number of extreme weather events as a likely consequence of climate change, and they need the public's help to measure the impact on butterflies and moths.

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Daily Crunch: Gap year student secures last open seat for Blue Origin’s first human spaceflight

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here.Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for July 15, 2021. Good news from

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Announcing the agenda for the Disrupt Stage this September

Disrupt 2021 stands to be the best Disrupt yet. We have an incredible lineup of speakers both on the Disrupt Stage and the Extra Crunch Stage. And, of course, we can’t forget the Startup Battlef

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Emergence Capital’s Doug Landis explains how to identify (and tell) your startup story

How do you go beyond the names and numbers with your startup pitch deck? For Doug Landis, the answer is one simple compound gerund: storytelling. It’s a word that gets thrown around a lot of late in S

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Streamlabs launches Crossclip, a new tool for sharing Twitch clips to TikTok, Instagram and YouTube

The company behind ubiquitous livestreaming software Streamlabs is introducing a new way for streamers to share their gaming highlights to platforms well beyond Twitch. Streamlabs calls the new tool C

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Lightyear nabs $13M Series A as online network procurement takes shape

It seems like everything is being pushed online now, but network procurement stubbornly has remained an in-person or phone-based negotiation. Lightyear, an early-stage New York City startup, decided t

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American Express taps startup BodesWell for expansion into financial planning

American Express is branching out into financial planning, with a little help from a seven-person startup called BodesWell.This week, the credit card giant launched a pilot of its first self-service d

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How engineers fought the CAP theorem in the global war on latency

CockroachDB was intended to be a global database from the beginning. The founders of Cockroach Labs wanted to ensure that data written in one location would be viewable immediately in another location

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Norwest’s Lisa Wu explains how to think like a VC when fundraising

At the TechCrunch Early Stage: Marketing and Fundraising event last week, Norwest Venture Partners‘ Lisa Wu took the stage to discuss how founders can think like venture capitalists in all facet

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Olympic recognition pushing climbing to new heights in Germany

02:56 The two 14-year-old girls scale the Olympic-regulation 15-meter wall, bouncing from foothold to foothold, while their hands grasp at any protruding polyurethane hold, known as a "

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Butlr Technologies, developing anonymous people sensors, inks $7.9M seed round

A new $7.9 million seed round boosts Butlr Technologies’ ability to apply its real-time people-sensing technology beyond commercial real estate and retail uses to monitor falls and other movements for