Rdio Launches $3.99 Monthly Plan For Cost-Conscious Subscribers
In a bid to compete with rival streaming music services, Rdio has announced a new low-cost subscription program called Rdio Select. For $3.99 a month, users can download up to 25 new songs every day to play offline, which they can keep or swap out with new tracks once a day. Read MoreTencent Backs Mobile Gaming Company Pocket Gems
Pocket Gems announced today that it has taken an investment from Chinese Internet company Tencent. The funding will allow the mobile gaming company to expand globally, including into China. The companies did not disclose the size of the deal, but The Wall Street Journal reported that Tencent invested $60 million for 20 percent stake in Pocket Gems. Read MoreJérémie Berrebi Leaves Kima Ventures
After five very active years, Jérémie Berrebi has announced he is leaving Kima Ventures, the Paris-headquartered VC fund he co-founded with French telco and media entrepreneur Xavier Niel in 2010. Read MoreRing’s Smart Doorbell Gets A Smart Speaker
Ring, the connected doorbell with built-in video and two-way talking features, now has a partner in crime: Ring Chime, a Wi-Fi speaker that activates when a visitor presses your Ring, and which can use custom tones you can upload yourself through the Ring mobile app. The Ring Chime is available at a discounted price of $19.95 when it launches for pre-order at the start of June, and will cost… Read MoreOn-Demand Laundry Service Cleanly Hangs Up $2.3 Million In Seed Funding
Cleanly, the YC-backed on-demand company focused on handling your laundry (and dry-cleaning) as soon as you need it done, has today announced the close of a $2.3 million seed round. Investors include Ludlow Ventures, Initialized Capital, Paul Buchheit, Semil Shah from Haystack, Joe Montana, 500 Startups, Funders Club, Soma Capital, Altair Capital and Chloe Sladden from #Angels. Cleanly… Read MoreThe Muse Raises $10M From Aspect Ventures To Scale A Career Site For Millennials
It was only a few years ago that I met Kathryn Minshew, Alexandra Cavoulacos, and Melissa McCreery through Y Combinator. They were three women who set out to make a career site for other young women like them with rich, photo-intensive profiles of employers featuring interviews with their teams. Today that site, The Muse, sees more than 3 million active users per month and Minshew says the… Read MoreOur Four Favorite Companies At The 500 Startups Batch 12 Demo Day
Thirty companies pitched their products and business to investors in the press today, and they all had impressive stats for revenue, addressable markets, and growth. Still, some startups just hit the right buttons with their pitches and got gears turning in our heads. Read MoreYC’s Meadow Partners With Sidecar For Speedy Deliveries of All Your Medical Marijuana Needs
Meadow, a YC-backed startup in the medical marijuana space, is partnering with Sidecar to do quick medical marijuana deliveries throughout the city of San Francisco. It follows recent moves by much bigger companies like Google and Uber, which are diving headfirst into the delivery space with services like UberRush and Google Shopping Express. Read MoreWeWork Partners With Chase To Offer Discounted Payments Services To Members
WeWork, the NYC tech darling valued at $5 billion, has today officially announced a partnership with Chase to offer WeWork members discounted rates and premium customer service with Chase Commerce services (called Paymentech). Members who set up payments services for their businesses can bring in any three invoices from their current payments provider and WeWork, in conjunction with Chase… Read More
Credit Monitoring And Debt Management Service Credit Sesame Raises $16 Million
Personal finance company Credit Sesame is announcing today that it has raised an additional $16 million in an oversubscribed Series D round of funding, with plans to raise more – as much as $20 million – in the near future. The company, a prior TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield participant, was one of the first to market with solutions that allow consumers to monitor their credit… Read MoreMikMak Is The Smartphone-Based Reinvention Of The Infomercial
The word “infomercial” likely doesn’t inspire a lot of excitement out of you. But whether you’ll admit it or not, you (just like me) have been sucked into watching an infomercial or the Home Shopping Network (perhaps hosted by Mariah Carey) at least once. Read MoreSage Is On A Mission To Make Food Labels Smarter
Less confusing, more personalized and interactive food labeling is the worthy mission of a just launched data visualization platform called Sage. The idea spun out of New York-based designer, developer and founder Sam Slover’s personal interest in healthier eating. Read MoreEuropean Hardware Accelerator Woos Chinese Investors
Back in summer 2013 shiny new European hardware accelerator, Startupbootcamp HighTechXL, began the search for its first cohort of startups. The 11 teams in its second edition raised a total of $6.3 million on Demo Day and directly afterwards, it said today. Read MoreRocket Internet’s Carspring Is A Marketplace For Pre-Owned Cars
Rocket Internet, the German ‘startup factory’ and e-commerce behemoth, is de-cloaking its latest venture today. Founded by two ex-McKinsey management consultants, Peter Baumgart and Maximilian Vollenbroich, Carspring is a marketplace for pre-owned cars. Read MoreAlfred Purchases WunWun Tech, Employees In Fire Sale
After nearly three years delivering anything you want on-demand (in the greater New York City area), WunWun is shuttering. As part of the close, Alfred is purchasing assets, including key WunWun technology and parts of the WunWun team. Read MoreShervin Pishevar and Scott Stanford’s SherpaVentures Is Raising $175M For A Second Fund
SherpaVentures, the venture fund run by Shervin Pishevar and Scott Stanford, is raising a new $175 million fund, according to a filing with the SEC. This is the second fund from SherpaVentures for investing in startups at the Series A or Series B stage, and it is just a bit more than the $150 million it raised in Fund I. In addition to these main funds, Pishevar and Stanford have a $250… Read MoreWiith Is Like Tinder For Meeting New Friends, Not Dates
If you’re looking to meet new people but don’t want to explicitly commit to it being a date, as on Tinder, a new app called Wiith wants to help. The social app aims to connect nearby people who share the same interests and have them join up for local activities and events – like a more informal version of Meetup, perhaps. The idea that the younger, mobile generation… Read MoreBreezy HR Drops An iPhone App For Mobile Recruiters After Growing Its Revenue 100% Monthly Since December
Breezy HR, formerly Nimble HR, released a new iPhone app today, along with a video calling feature for its core recruiting product. TechCrunch last covered Breezy when it was called Nimble, and had raised a $250,000 seed round. The Florida-based company at the time told TechCrunch that it intended to raise a new round of capital — surprise — this summer. Presumably, the startup… Read MoreWinnow Scores Seed Funding For Its Food Waste Smart Meter
Winnow is on a mission to help the hospitality industry cut down on food waste by making the kitchen ‘smarter.’ It does this via the Winnow smart meter, a set of smart scales and accompanying tablet app that lets kitchen staff easily log what food is thrown away. That data is then uploaded to the cloud, analysed by Winnow’s algorithm, and disseminated so that food waste can… Read MoreGiphy Makes Email Slightly Less Horrendous With Giphy For Gmail Extension
We can all agree that email is the worst thing that’s ever happened to any of us. Sure, it made the postal service obsolete and it speeds up the rate of textual transmission by a factor of 200,000 or so, but that doesn’t mean that most of us aren’t drowning in promotions and newsletters. But there is hope. Friends: Giphy, the GIF search-and-share service we all know and love… Read More
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