This Wearable Game For Visually Impaired Kids Aims To Help Cognitive Development
A Mexican educational psychologist duo has teamed up to build toys for blind or visually impaired kids. The first device they’re building is a wearable game called Smash-a-ball — pictured above in prototype form — which is being designed to help kids’ cognitive development. Read MoreMcDonald’s Teams With General Assembly For Employee Training Pilot
McDonald’s announced a partnership with General Assembly today at South by Southwest. They are launching a pilot program in which a small subset of McDonald’s employees can take one of two GA courses and receive a monthly stipend for the duration of the courses. Interested employees will have to take an aptitude test to determine their fitness for the program, but once… Read MorePinterest Raises $367 Million, Pushing It Past $1 Billion Mark
Remember Pinterest’s massive $200 million Series F round last year? They’re coming back for more — lots more. According to a just-released filing, Pinterest is looking to raise over half a billion dollars — and it’s already over halfway there. The company has already raised $367 million dollars in this latest round and they’re still open to raising another…Read MoreFriendsy Is Tinder For College Students Only, Created By Two Princeton Students
During his freshman year at Princeton, Michael Pinsky went to the student lounge to watch a Yankees game. Knowing there were plenty of other fans on campus, he was certain it would be packed. But the lounge was empty except for Vaidhy Murti, another fan, sitting on an adjacent couch. The two began to talk, becoming fast friends. But the pair realized it doesn’t always work that… Read MoreShift Labs Launches Out Of Y Combinator To Make Medical Devices For Healthcare’s Future
Shift Labs is a small startup launching this spring out of Y Combinator with a lofty tagline: to be “the Nest of medical devices.” But as ambitious as that goal may sound at first, when you take a closer look at Shift Labs, it doesn’t sound that crazy after all. In fact, it seems almost inevitable. If you’ve spent any time in a hospital, you’ve likely noticed that… Read MoreBuzzFeed’s CEO Says Modern Media Is About Pushing Actual Content, Not Links
“Because so many publishers build their businesses on banner ads, they have to get people back to their site to make money” says BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti. But that misses much of the value of social media. “You should be using this distribution channel to show them content, not just a pointer to some other space.” During his talk to a massive SXSW crowd, Peretti… Read MoreFintech Startup And YC Alum GoCardless Loses Second Co-Founder
Fintech startup and Y-Combinator alum GoCardless, which offers a simple way for online businesses to set up and accept direct debit payments (that is, money that comes straight out of your bank account), has lost another of its three original co-founders. Read MoreYC-Backed Industrial Microbes Is Engineering Bacteria To Produce Chemicals From Natural Gases
The trio of synthetic biologists behind Industrial Microbes, a new East Bay-based startup backed by Y Combinator, have had years of experience in working with biofuels. They met at LS9, a biofuels startup that took more than $80 million of venture investment through the height of the cleantech wave and sought to create fuels from specially engineered bacteria. From a venture perspective, LS9… Read MoreYC-Backed Pakible Makes It Dead Simple For Businesses To Design, Ship Packaging
With e-commerce startups breaking into eyewear, beauty, shaving, monthly subscriptions products and more, there will be plenty of need for boxes and packaging. That’s where Pakible, a Y Combinator-backed startup, is hoping to come in. Founded by Nick Carson and Phillip Akhzar, who used to work for iPhone and iPad repair startup iCracked, the company makes it simple for any business… Read MoreOnboardIQ Simplifies Hiring For On-Demand Startups
OnboardIQ streamlines the process of hiring the thousands of people needed to get a baseline of quality service in a city at an on-demand startup. Launching as a private beta today, OnboardIQ’s team takes your onboarding funnel and automates what it can, leaving HR with more time to spend on looking through applications and interviewing candidates.Read MoreAtlas Wants To Pay You To Name Its New $200M Tech Fund
Jeff Fagnan of Atlas Ventures has announced a new $200 million fund dedicated exclusively to financing technology startups. The fund is currently operating as FKA (“formerly known as”) and will be the first time that Atlas Ventures has split its tech/life sciences fund into two separate funds, with life sciences keeping the Atlas Ventures brand name. But the fund won’t be… Read More
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