CrunchWeek: Messenger Adds Payments, Lyft’s Financials, And TechCrunch Does SXSW
Welcome back to our temporary CrunchWeek set as we rebuild Video Land here at TCHQ. This week Sarah Lane, Ryan Lawler and myself dug into the week’s most important topics: Facebook’s work to bring user-to-user payments to Messenger, the inside scoop on how fast Lyft is growing, and what was the big new thing at this year’s SXSW festival. Read MoreMinibar Liquor Delivery Startup Acquires Competitor Booze Carriage
Minibar, an on-demand liquor-delivery platform operational in 13 cities, has announced the acquisition of one of its biggest competitors, Booze Carriage. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. Minibar launched in February of 2014 and has since grown to 13 cities, with 50 percent month-over-month user growth, though the company won’t be much more specific than that. Minibar says… Read MoreKickpay Is A Marketplace For Invoices That Helps SMEs Get Paid Quickly
Nothing puts a strain on finances quite like waiting 30, 60 or 90 days for your money, and that’s not even mentioning the resources spent following up and chasing down payment. That’s where Kickpay, a startup that is graduating from Y Combinator’s latest batch, hopes to make a difference. Read MoreFormer eBay Exec Chris Payne Is A Match For New Tinder CEO
After an announcement months ago that Tinder founder Sean Rad would be stepping out of the CEO role and into a more presidential position, the decision has finally been made on a new CEO for the growing dating app. Christopher Payne, most recently head of eBay North America and formerly of Microsoft and Amazon, will be taking over as CEO. Read MoreAndreessen-Backed uBiome Is Now Doing An Indiegogo Campaign To Check Out Dental Bacteria
Have you ever been curious about the bacterial flora and fauna in your gut? Or how about your teeth? uBiome, a YC-backed bio startup that went on to raise funding from Andreessen Horowitz, is launching a second campaign looking at the dental biome. A biome is the entire ecosystem of trillions of bacteria that live in and on our bodies. Even though the human body is made up of 10 trillion… Read MoreSlideMail Is An Intelligent Email App For The Rest Of Us
A new email application launching today called SlideMail is designed to help those of us with bad email habits sort through our inbox, while also intelligently organizing our messages and alerting us to important meetings and other events. While other email apps focus on presenting power users with a “priority inbox” containing their most important emails, SlideMail’s take is… Read MoreAfter Being Shunned By Dragons’ Den, RightClinic Picks Up Backing From Forward Partners
Back in late 2012, SendmyBag was, well, sent packing live on national television by investors on the BBC TV show Dragons’ Den, but almost immediately scored an angel round from Lough Shore Investments. And now another Dragons’ Den reject has gone onto better things. Read MoreYC-Backed Taskpipes Is SaaS To Simplify Using Lots Of (Other) SaaS Platforms
If there was a neat label for startups whose raison d’être is to take the strain out of dealing with other startup services then Taskpipes would be wearing that badge proudly on its lapel. The YC backed, U.K. founded b2b startup is attacking what it says is a growing data-management problem for businesses — created by the proliferation and adoption of SaaS platforms. Read MoreAfter 350,000+ Beta Sign-Ups, ProtonMail Takes $2M To Scale Its Encrypted Email
Swiss based encrypted email provider ProtonMail, which we covered last summer during a crowdfunding campaign where it was promising a “zero access architecture” fit for our post-Snowden paranoia, has taken in its first tranche of VC funding — announcing a $2 million round from Charles Rivers Ventures and Swiss not-for-profit incubator FONGIT. Read MoreBooze Delivery Startup Thirstie Raises $1.1M
On-demand alcohol startup Thirstie has raised a $1.1 million seed round. At this point, there are a bunch of startups that want to help bring booze to your doorstep. Just in the past few months, we’ve written about Minibar and Swill. Read MoreYC -Backed Akido Labs Provides A Standardized API Layer For Hospital App Developers
Many hospitals in America have made the switch to electronic health records (EHR) systems to manage patient medical information in the last couple of decades. This is supposed to make record-keeping easier and more efficient, but the systems are different for each hospital and often can’t communicate with each other. This makes it hard for health app developers to design apps that run… Read More
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