Startups

Drink-a-day startup Hooch adds a perk-filled premium membership plan – TechCrunch Hooch, the subscription startup that allows members to claim one free drink per day from hundreds of different bars and restaurants, is adding a new membership level called Hooch Black. Signing up for Hooch Black will cost you significantly …

Locked Out of Coinbase: Why Are Wyoming’s Bitcoin Users Still Waiting? For over two years, Coinbase users in Wyoming have been unable access their cryptocurrency. “I’d venture to guess I lost $100,000 to this bullshit law,” one resident complained on Reddit. It was out of the blue, too, when in …

Q&A with Lilium’s new Head of Product Design – TechCrunch Munich-based Lilium, the super ambitious company developing an electric vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) jet and accompanying “air taxi” service, continues to hire top talent to make its vision a reality. The latest new recruitment is car design veteran Frank …

$125 Million: Orchid Is Raising One of 2018’s Biggest Token Sales Orchid Labs is raising $125 million in a SAFT sale, filings from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) reveal. According to a Form D published on April 20, Orchid has raised roughly $36.1 million out of a planned $125.59 …

Indian lending platform Capital Float raises $22M Series C extension from Amazon – TechCrunch Capital Float, the fintech startup that says it is India’s largest online lender, announced today that it has raised $22 million in new funding from Amazon. At the end of last year, reports surfaced that Amazon …

RapChat raises $1.6 million to help you make and share your def jams – TechCrunch The first thing to understand about media sharing app RapChat is that co-founder Seth Miller is not a rapper and his friend, Pat Gibson, is. Together they created RapChat, a service for making and sharing …

Slite raises $4.4M to create a smarter internal notes tool – TechCrunch Slack exposed the demand for a dead-simple internal communications tool, which has inspired a wave of startups trying to pick apart the rest of a company’s daily activities — including Slite, which hopes to take on internal notes …

Deliv now offers same-day delivery for Shopify retailers – TechCrunch Deliv, which partners with retailers like Macy’s, Best Buy and Petsmart to offer same-day delivery, is enabling Shopify retailers to offer scheduled, same-day delivery to customers. This is thanks to a partnership with Zapiet, a store pickup and local delivery plug-in for …

Let’s meet today in New York for some ICO talk – TechCrunch I’ll be helping build a larger meetup focused on pre-ICO companies in New York on April 23 and I’d love to see you there. It will be held at Knotel on April 23 at 7pm and will feature …

Netflix looks to raise $1.5 billion in debt financing – TechCrunch In the span of 20 years, Netflix has gone from a (super convenient) Blockbuster knockoff to one of the most powerful players in media. Partially, that’s credited to Netflix’s technology, bringing streaming content to the mainstream. But Netflix’s success …