Facebook Hires Both Founders Of Video Startup Switchcam
Facebook's mobile video feature is pathetic. No multi-shot recording, multi-clip uploads, stabilization, or editing. Hopefully it will get an update soon, though, as a source has tipped me off that last month Facebook hired the founders of Switchcam, a startup that specialized in video sharing. The founders Chris Hartley and Bret Welch both now list Facebook as their employer, and Switchcam has… Read More-
CrunchWeek: Net Neutrality, Big Late-Stage Raises, And Snapchat’s Latest Features
This week is all about CrunchWeek East, as we're bringing this episode to you from AOL HQ in New York. Anthony Ha, Jon Schieber and myself dive into the most recent madness in the industry, including but not limited to the new proposals around net neutrality law, major late-stage raises from companies like Uber, Airbnb, Pinterest, and others, as well as the latest Snapchat features that take… Read More -
This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: WunWun, Samsung, Cheap Phones, Amazon, And More
We had trouble narrowing down podcast topics this week, which means that we're kind of all over the place. But the upside is that there's plenty to learn during this week's discussion. We start out with a lively conversation around Amazon's speedy shipping, and then move on to chat about WunWun, an on-demand delivery service based in New York. Meanwhile, Samsung is sending out invitations for… Read More -
ShopDrop Alerts You To Local Sales From Major Retailers To Small Boutiques
A new shopping and sale finder app called ShopDrop, also the Audience Choice winner from our recent TechCrunch NYC pitch-off, is now live on the iTunes App Store. Today the service helps users, mainly New Yorkers, find nearby sales, both at larger retailers and smaller boutiques, but the company plans to expand its coverage to more major cities in the future. At launch, ShopDrop’s online… Read More -
Sharethrough Takes On Crappy Native Ads With Its New Content Quality Score
Native advertising is sometimes hyped up as being just like regular content — but I think it's fair to say that isn't always the case. In fact, Dan Greenberg, the CEO of ad company Sharethrough, told me that there's "a little bit of a battle for the web" shaping up, with one side pushing for native ads that contain genuinely good content, and the other trying to slap the native label on… Read More -
SweetLabs Rolls Out An App Recommendation Platform For Android, Windows OEMs
Building on the success of Pokki, a lightweight app store and Start Menu replacement originally built for Windows, SweetLabs today announced its new “App Install Platform,” a service with an aim to help hardware manufacturers (OEMs) increase their per-device revenue. App recommendation is a massive market. Facebook and Twitter make gobs of revenue from ads pushing high grossing… Read More -
Dear Montebourg, Please Don’t Kill French Startup Acquisitions
Arnaud Montebourg has a huge responsibility now. He’s France’s minister of the economy, industrial renewal, and the digital economy. He just signed a decree that allows the government to prevent acquisitions of French companies by foreign firms in multiple industries, including “electronic communications”. As a reminder, he’s the one who killed Dailymotion’s… Read More -
The TechCrunch Pitch-Off Is Coming To Austin And Seattle, Apply To Compete Now!
Hold on to your butts! TechCrunch is coming to Austin and Seattle in less than a month and we’re looking for the best and brightest startups in each area to compete in the TechCrunch Pitch-Off. Our events usually attract thousands of members of the local tech community, who want to learn about what’s cool in their area. About a dozen startups will compete in the pitch-off, where… Read More -
OTTO Is A Raspberry Pi-Based GIF Camera That Says We’ve Reached Peak Hipster
Most cameras take either photo, video or both – but the OTTO, a new Kickstarter project, is a piece of dedicated hardware that actually captures animated GIFs. It uses a hand-crank to do it, and comes in a brightly colored, vaguely retro design, and is basically the most hipster creation of all time. It’s aiming to ship in December, so I give it two months max after that before it… Read More -
New Google Glass App Lets You Nod To Pay With Bitcoin, Will Add Dollars This Summer
While Google may be working on adding Google Wallet to Glass, and other big payment players are “eyeing up” (!) ways of integrating into Google’s computing headgear, a Dutch startup has beaten them to the punch. Eaze is a new app, out in beta today, that uses voice and image recognition to activate the service, and nodding head gestures to confirm and complete… Read More
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Baoku
- Size $10M
- Round A
- Investors CBC Capital
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in2nite
- Size $2.8M
- Round Unattributed
- Investors IDG Ventures
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Advanced Cardiac Therapeutics
- Size Not available
- Round Unattributed
- Investors New Enterprise Associates, NBGI Ventures
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AdRoll
- Size $70M
- Round C
- Investors Foundation Capital, Institutional Venture Partners, Northgate Capital ... See More
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Birchbox
- Size $60M
- Round B
- Investors Viking Global Investors, First Round Capital, Accel Partners, Aspect ... See More
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Airbnb
- Size $450M
- Round D
- Investors TPG Growth, Dragoneer Investment Group, T. Rowe Price, Sequoia Capital
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Biosport Athletechs
- Size $100K
- Round Unattributed
- Investors Not available
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Placester
- Size $8.2M
- Round Partial
- Investors Not available
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American Aerogel
- Size $2.5M
- Round Partial
- Investors Not available
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Mission Control Technologies
- Size $4M
- Round Debt_round
- Investors Not available
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WebCurfew
- Size $450K
- Round Debt_round
- Investors Not available
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RF Surgical Systems
- Size $15M
- Round Unattributed
- Investors Oxford Finance Corporation
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Zapstitch
- Size Not available
- Round Seed
- Investors Anupam Mittal
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Caspida
- Size $2M
- Round Unattributed
- Investors Not available
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BioPharmX
- Size $1.5M
- Round Partial
- Investors Not available
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CarNinja
- Size $2.3M
- Round Unattributed
- Investors Not available
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Encounter Collaborative
- Size $500K
- Round Debt_round
- Investors Not available
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Mirage Endoscopy Center
- Size $108K
- Round Unattributed
- Investors Not available
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Nova Towers Holdings I
- Size $19.6M
- Round Partial
- Investors Not available
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PaxVax
- Size $6M
- Round Debt_round
- Investors Not available
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Tyrogenex
- Size $8.2M
- Round Partial
- Investors Not available
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Xcovery
- Size $2.4M
- Round Partial
- Investors Not available
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X2 Biosystems
- Size $2.5M
- Round Debt_round
- Investors Not available
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Smava
- Size $5.5M
- Round B
- Investors Earlybird Venture Capital, Neuhaus Partners
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Contract Live Raises $1.4 Million, Because Signing Contracts Sucks
French startup Contract Live raised $1.4 million from Ingenico founders, Jean-Marc Tassetto, Arnaud Vaissié, Bruno Deschamps and more. Contract Live lets you manage and sign your contracts in a webmail interface. Instead of having to fight with paperwork, it feels like using Gmail and sending emails. “We launched our platform in May of last year. Now, we work with more than 3,000… Read More -
Watch A Myo-Controlled Humanoid Robot Lay The Groundwork For Real-World ‘Real Steel’
The Thalmic Labs Myo gesture controller is already in the hands of some early developers, and it’s producing some pretty interesting looks at what might be possible using the gadget. The device is an armband worn on the forearm that detects electrical impulses and translates that into input for computing devices. The Myo has strong possibilities for interacting with robots in particular, and… Read More -
Nuzzel Releases An iPhone News App With Simple Setup And Personalized Alerts
For those of us who have been following social news startup Nuzzel, there's been a long wait for the startup today's iPhone launch. I first spoke about Nuzzel with founder Jonathan Abrams (who also founded Friendster) back in September 2012. Since then, Nuzzel has been a browser-and-email product, although Abrams told me recently that the iPhone app was "95 percent done." Now I guess they've… Read More -
Giphy, The Betaworks-Backed Gif Search Engine, Is Raising $2.5 Million In Series A
Giphy has raised a $2.4 million Series A round of funding, according to the SEC website and an official blog post announcing the round. betaworks led, with participation from Lerer Ventures, RRE Ventures, and CAA Ventures. Giphy launched out of betaworks in February of 2013 with about $1 million in seed funding from the indefinable incubator-startup studio hybrid run by John Borthwick. Today, the… Read More -
PeopleDoc (Née Novapost) Raises $17.5 Million To Digitalize HR
Formerly known as Novapost, French startup PeopleDoc raised a $17.5 million round led by Accel Partners. Existing investors Alven Capital and Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet’s Kernel Investissements also participated. PeopleDoc lets you paperlessly manage all your HR documents. The main solution is a unified platform for every document from job offers to digital payslips. It isn’t just a… Read More -
Social Media Scheduling App Buffer Adds Content Feeds In Dashboard Play
Buffer, the social media scheduling app with 1.5 million users, picked up a bit of notoriety when it got hacked and its users started sending out weight-loss spam to followers, but also kudos for its generally transparent approach to business. Today, it is announcing a pivot of sorts. The company is adding two new features – a feed-reading service and curated content suggestions —… Read More -
Reissued Brings Vintage Shopping To Mobile
Today, there are a number of ways to shop from your mobile phone ranging from big companies like Amazon and eBay down to individual e-commerce retailers. But a new application called Reissued, launching this morning, wants to make it easy for you to shop for vintage items. The company offers a curated marketplace featuring only vintage, rare and other one-of-a-kind items across a number of… Read More -
Former About.com CEO Darline Jean Joins Ad Tech Company PulsePoint
PulsePoint, a startup offering tools for automated ad-buying and selling, announced today that it has hired Darline Jean as its chief operating officer. Jean spent the past decade at About.com, which she joined as vice president of finance in 2003. She also served as the company's chief finance officer and chief operating officer before becoming president and CEO in September 2011. During her… Read More
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