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Reading Rainbow Has More Backers Than Any Kickstarter Campaign Ever
Ever since Reading Rainbow went off the air in 2006, LeVar Burton has been working to bring it back. In 2012, he launched a tablet app program, and just recently, he launched a Kickstarter campaign asking for $1 million to develop Reading Rainbow programming across all platforms, which will be provided to classrooms for free. Flash forward to today, and the Reading Rainbow Kickstarter… Read More -
Mail Digitization Startup Outbox Relaunches As Able, A Collaborative Small Business Loan Provider
In January, the intriguing but ultimately unsuccessful startup Outbox announced it was shutting down its service that digitized U.S. postal mail. However, the team said at time that they weren’t done yet – having raised a $5 million Series A round just last summer, the founders were going to focus their efforts on a new product, they explained. Now we know what that new product… Read More -
Mobile, Social News Startup NowThisNews Acquires Video Distribution Platform Cliptamatic
New York-based NowThisNews, a startup looking to reinvent video journalism for the mobile and social era, has acquired a company in a similar space, Cliptamatic, a platform which helps premium content owners distribute video to social media in real-time. Terms of the deal were not disclosed but the acquisition was for equity. Cliptamatic had raised north of $2 million a few years… Read More -
Zap Zap Fractions Makes Learning Math Fun
Zap Zap Fractions is an iPad and iPhone math app for children that manages to be both instructional and beautiful. When I saw the game demoed by its creators, Malaysia-based Visual Math Studio, at the recent Echelon event, I was impressed by its illustrations of aliens and spaceships, as well as its entertainment value. The concept behind the game, which teaches kids the basics of fractions… Read More -
StartupDocuments Brings Incorporation Documents To Founders At A Fraction Of The Cost
Law firms continue to break out the more commoditized ends of their businesses. Leila Banijamali, a startup lawyer whose firm Bedrock has worked with companies like Foodspotting, AdStack and RewardMe, just launched StartupDocuments. It’s an online incorporation service and document generator for startups. From anywhere from $79 for a basic certificate of incorporation to slightly more… Read More -
KelDoc Raises $1.4 Million To Make It Easier To Find A Doctor
French startup KelDoc is raising $1.4 million (€1 million) from Alven Capital and business angels. KelDoc is what you could call a ZocDoc for Europe. But managing doctor appointments is a very regulated market, and KelDoc has a deep understanding on how this kind of service needs to be adapted to the French and European markets. At heart, KelDoc is a website and smartphone app to look and… Read More -
#Love: Pride
I’ve been gay since I was… well, born. At seven years old, I knew something was different when I felt an overwhelming affection for my 19-year-old basketball coach, Cathy. By the time I figured out how sex worked, I had also learned that my Southern Baptist private school and religious community weren’t cool with the whole “gay” thing. At 13, despite truly… Read More -
Startups And The Un-Banking Of America
Historically, when looking for opportunity in the financial industry where technology can have the greatest impact — for investors and entrepreneurs — the best place to start has been with one of our oldest institutions: banks. However, while critical to our economy, banks are generally inefficient, have high fixed costs and don’t exactly elicit happy thoughts from the… Read More -
VCs Don’t Think We’re In A Tech Bubble — Yet
Andreessen Horowitz managing partner Scott Kupor argued that there doesn’t seem to be a bubble in tech at the PreMoney 2014 conference in San Francisco this morning. In a presentation that lasted a bit over ten minutes, Kupor laid out a series of trends that indicate things aren’t quite as exuberant as some fear. Read More -
Backed By Science Inc., FreeGameCredits.com Offers Exactly What Its Name Suggests
Startup FreeGameCredits.com doesn’t have the problem of an ambiguous name — just as you’d guess, it allows mobile game developers to run promotions offering in-game credits. The company is announcing today that it has raised an undisclosed amount of seed funding from Los Angeles-based “startup studio” Science Inc. It’s also launching its first promotion… Read More
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