Startups
Unseen, An Anonymous Photo Sharing App For Colleges, Raises $2.1 Million
An Austin-based company called Bearch has raised
$2.1 million in seed funding for its anonymous photo-sharing app Unseen,
which has been trending on college campuses. Investors in the round
include Rackspace co-founder Dirk Elmendorf, Indeed.com CEO Rony Kahan,
CEO of Woodbolt International Doss Cunningham, and several other angel
investors. Read More
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Which Apps Are Eating Your Battery? Normal Will Tell You.
Somewhere, somehow, maybe less than a year after I got the latest version of my iPhone, its battery would mysteriously deplete in about half a day. I wasn’t really sure why. But now I can find out. There’s a new app called ‘Normal’ out from a pair of Stanford Ph.Ds in computer science named Adam Oliner and Jacob Leverich, who are turning some postdoctoral research into… Read More -
A Q&A With SmartThings CEO Alex Hawkinson After Selling To Samsung For $200M
As you might have heard, Samsung loosened up the purse strings yesterday with a ~$200 million acquisition of SmartThings, a platform that sells starter kits for entirely personalized smart home customization. For a few hundred dollars, SmartThings can help pretty much anyone get started building out a smart, connected home, with more than 100,000 different devices (from light switches to… Read More -
Yahoo Acquires Ad Startup ClarityRay
Israel-based ad startup ClarityRay announced on its website that it has been acquired by Yahoo. A Yahoo spokesperson sent me the following statement confirming the deal: Read More -
Yo Guys, Postmates Built BurritoCannon For Me
BurritoCannon is real, and you can use it. At least for the next few hours. Hella. After I published my truly revolutionary post yesterday calling for a new burrito-delivery service that I tentatively named BurritoCannon, I trotted over to Postmates’ digs after its CEO Bastian Lehmann asked if I could drop by. Our offices are next door, so I slipped over to say what for. Read More -
Why Seattle Is Not Like Silicon Valley
The stories of Silicon Valley millennials competing, succeeding, and failing spill out of the region faster than most journalists can type. The region excels in the churning out of startups, thanks to the abundance of venture capitalists, the plethora of reporters, and the proximity of like-minded techies. Read More -
InboxCube App Lets You Visualize Your Email Attachments, Photos And More
A number of startups lately have taken on the somewhat hefty challenge of rethinking email for the mobile-first era. But many of these are centered around task management and triage, like Dropbox-acquired Mailbox, for example. A newer company called InboxCube instead is focused on putting the content inside emails first, allowing you to visually search through and access different… Read More -
YC-Backed Zen99 Makes Life Easier For Freelancers With Finance And Insurance Tools
Freelancers and contractors are a rapidly growing part of the workforce. Without benefits, however, many struggle with issues like figuring out how much of their earnings to withhold for taxes and finding insurance providers. A new startup called Zen99 wants to help contractors with a free service. Backed by Y Combinator, Zen99 lets users sign up for health insurance, track earnings and… Read More -
One Codex Wants To Be The Google For Genomic Data
As hospitals and public health organizations switch to using genomic data for testing, searching through genomic data can still take some time. Y Combinator-backed startup, One Codex, wants to help researchers, clinicians and public health officials, who have sequenced more than 100,000 genomes and created petabytes of data, to search this data. Read More -
GoGoVan Raises $6.5M Series A To Expand In Asia
Hong Kong-based GoGoVan, an app that connects van drivers and users for on-demand delivery services, announced today that it has completed a $6.5 million Series A led by Centurion Private Equity. The company, which launched in July 2013 and currently has access to 18,000 registered commercial vehicles, plans to use the funding to add more features and expand into new markets in Asia. Read More
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