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Dipsea raises $5.5M for short-form, sexy audio stories

sudshr47 February 26, 2019 Startups

Dipsea, a mobile platform for erotic audio stories, is backed by Bedrock Capital and Thrive Capital

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Startups Weekly: Spotify gets acquisitive and Instacart screws up

sudshr47 February 9, 2019 Startups

This week in startups: Turvo takes center stage, a mental health unicorn emerges and Reddit rakes in cash.

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Daily Crunch: Spotify buys Gimlet and Anchor

sudshr47 February 6, 2019

The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe here: 1. Spotify buys Gimlet and Anchor in podcast push, earmarks $500M for more deals Spotify is going after podcasts in a major […]

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VCs like what they are hearing out of the podcasting sector

sudshr47 June 3, 2018

Podcasts are television for the earbud generation. And although many podcasters make money, typically through sponsorships, the podcasting industry (such as it is) hasn’t received much in the way of venture funding — until quite recently.

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Wondery wants to become Hollywood’s podcast dream factory

sudshr47 March 29, 2018

When Hernan Lopez, the former chief executive of Fox International, started the podcast network Wondery roughly two years ago with a seed investment from his former bosses at Fox Networks Group, podcasting was still emerging as a media platform. Now, with voice ascendant, and podcasting proving to be a breeding ground for new narratives that […]