Peruse Reads Your Spreadsheets So You Don’t Have To
The time-consuming tedium of file search is San Francisco-based startup Peruse’s jumping-off point. It’s aiming to simplify locating files by changing how people search so they don’t have to remember exactly where to look or exactly what the file was called. Peruse’s fix for this age-old tech problem is to use a natural-language question-and-answer interface, rather than… Read MoreShoCard Is A Digital Identity Card On The Blockchain
Meet ShoCard, a startup that stores your identity onto bitcoin’s blockchain so that you can prove your identity whenever you need to. ShoCard wants to replace cumbersome bank and credit card identification processes with something much more secure and practical. The startup is launching on stage today at Disrupt NY. Read MoreRecruit Acquires Majority Stake In European Hair And Beauty Marketplace Wahanda For $171M
Wahanda, the European hair and beauty marketplace, has seen an exit of sorts. Japan’s Recruit Holdings, which already owned 10 percent of the London-based startup, has acquired a further 70 percent share for £112.5 million (~$171m), in a deal that sees Wahanda’s other backers cash out. Read MoreContainerShip Wants To Help You Move Your Containerized Apps Between Clouds
Today at Disrupt NY, ContainerShip took the stage to show off its technology built to help companies better deploy containerized applications to different hosting services. ContainerShip is part of a larger wave of containerization companies that want to make it simpler to place apps onto, for example, various cloud providers. Read MoreRelevancy Data Improves Ad Targeting By Analyzing The Content Of Online Videos
I bet we’ve all had moments when we’ve stared at a random, irrelevant ad and wondered: “Why the heck am I being forced to watch this?” Well, a company called Relevancy Data is working to make those moments a thing of the past, and it’s taking the stage today as part of the Startup Battlefield at Disrupt NY. The mission, said founder and CEO Michal Hubschmann, is… Read MorePangea Delivers Data-Over-Voice Infrastructure In Emerging Markets
One of the most interesting problems facing the technology industry is getting the billions of unconnected people around the world online. Facebook and Google think aerial drones are the answer, with plans to put hundreds or thousands of flying robots in the atmosphere to beam down data rather than building expensive infrastructure in remote regions. Given the periodic updates we get on… Read MoreParibus Can Save You Money When Online Prices Drop
A new startup called Paribus, launching today at TechCrunch Disrupt NY, wants to help online shoppers get money back when prices drop. Today’s consumers know that prices change more often on e-commerce sites than they do in brick-and-mortar stores. Amazon alone makes roughly 80 million price changes every day. But what many don’t realize is that there’s actually a way to… Read MoreNucleus Scientific Launches To Revolutionize Batteries
How long does it take to recharge an iPhone? A few hours, right? Nucleus Scientific revealed a solution onstage today at TechCrunch Disrupt NY that can charge a phone in minutes. With this technology, a Tesla can be fully recharged in the amount of time it takes to pump a tank of gas. Read MoreDigitalGenius Brings Artificial Intelligence To Customer Service Via SMS
Imagine you’re dreaming of buying a new car. You see a commercial on TV with a phone number where you can text your questions, but the answers aren’t coming from a human. They come from a smart system fueled by artificial intelligence and neuro-linguistic programming (NLP). That’s what DigitalGenius, which presented onstage at Disrupt NY, can do. The tool carries on a… Read More
Bitfusion Helps Developers Get More Power Out Of Their Existing Hardware
While our computers today are often extremely fast, most applications aren’t optimized for the hardware platform they are running on. Libraries are often compiled for a generic platform and can’t make use of the specific features of a given CPU, for example. Read MoreLyft Wants To Provide The Perfect Transportation Option For Everyone
Lyft co-founder and CEO Logan Green took the stage at Disrupt NY to update everyone on the company’s current focus. Lyft has been iterating quickly for the past few months, and our own Ryan Lawler gave him the opportunity to explain what makes Lyft different from its competitors, and in particular Uber. Read MoreVive Aims To Make Everyday A Great Hair Day
Getting a blowout is standard operating procedure for many folks out there; yet the process of booking those appointments (not to mention the high cost of weekly blowouts) makes the experience relatively painful. But Vive, a company launching onstage today at Disrupt NY, is looking to simplify the blowout booking process. With a model almost identical to ClassPass, Vive lets users pay… Read MoreRebelMouse CEO Paul Berry Talks Publishing Platforms And Content Startups
RebelMouse founder and CEO Paul Berry joined us at Disrupt NY to talk about how the company has evolved from its early days as a social media aggregator. “The product was always headed where we are now,” Berry said. He added that the company has built “an enterprise class CMS that’s solving for media companies — like startups that are venture-backed and large… Read More500 Startups Aims To Be The Largest VC Shop In The World
Dave McClure, the founding partner of 500 Startups, wants his investment shop to be the biggest venture capital shop in the world and is confused that the firm is now larger than 500 startups. It’s more like 1,000 startups, he said. What might be hubris coming from any other investor is a simple statement of fact for McClure. “We intend to be the largest VC firm on the planet in… Read MoreMan Repeller Founder Leandra Medine Talks About Building A Brand Around Fashion Women Love And Men Hate
Man Repeller is a fashion blog that aims to write content around the kind of clothes women love but men hate. Like formless jumpsuits. Site founder Leandra Medine took to the stage at Disrupt NY in one such formless jumpsuit to chat with our own Alexia Tsotsis about her future plans for the brand. Read MoreWith 100 Million People Watching Vine Videos Every Month, Jason Mante Says Monetization Still Isn’t The Focus
Twitter now owns Vine, which has a large, vibrant user base. And still, there are no plans to make money off of it just yet, Vine’s head of user experience Jason Mante said on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt NY. “Would we like to make money sometime? Sure, of course,” Mante said. “With Vine we’re focused on making sure we make an amazing product. We’re just… Read MoreAutomated Savings Startup Digit Raises $11.3M From General Catalyst
It’s only been a few short months since automated savings startup Digit opened to the public, but it’s already garnered serious interest from consumers who want more money in their bank accounts, as well as investors who think the service could eventually be a huge hit. Digit operates a simple platform for helping consumers to save money, by simply connecting to their bank accounts… Read MoreWeWork’s Adam Neumann On The Importance Of Community, Which Helped Build A $5 Billion Business
WeWork co-founder Adam Neumann said the word “community” at least a dozen times onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt NY. It’s a mantra of the company that he kept hammering away over and over and over — and, unsurprisingly, that part of WeWork’s massive network of co-working spaces seems to be one of the driving forces of the company’s success. It turns out… Read MoreSnapchat Tries To Jumpstart Discover By Letting You Send Clips To Friends
Snapchat’s Discover feature feels like the awkward guy in a nice suit at a casual party. Discover’s professionally made content from CNN, Comedy Central, Food Network, and others is too polished to be naturally bolted onto the app. But Snapchat’s not giving up on Discover despite reports that viewership is down 30 percent to 50 percent since its launch in January. Today… Read MoreLinqapp, Which Lets You Get Real-Time Language Answers From Real People, Launches On iOS
The last time I enrolled in a Mandarin language program was back in 2007, light years away in terms of technology. I considered myself lucky because I had a Besta CD-618 electronic dictionary and a weekly language partner to answer questions about slang and other words that weren’t in my (very dry) textbooks. If Linqapp had existed back then, however, I would have passed out with joy. Read More
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