New U.K. Government Focuses On Startups And Spooks
The U.K. voted in a General Election on Thursday. The result ends five years of coalition government, and ushers in five years of true blue Tory rule. Here’s a quick round up of a few of the tech issues and areas that are going to be in play over the course of this Parliament.Read MoreBrooklyn On Tech Helps Local High Schoolers Learn Coding And Professional Skills
TechCrunch TV talked to a long list of New York startups during Disrupt NY, but we were also joined by a local nonprofit called Brooklyn on Tech. As co-founders Jessica Santana and Evin Robinson explained in the video above, they both grew up in Brooklyn themselves.Read MoreSimCity Creator Will Wright’s New App Wants To Create A Graphic Novel Of Your LIfe
The creator of SimCity, Will Wright, has come out with a new app called THRED — and it isn’t a game. Instead, Wright describes it as a natively built way to browse “the World Wide Web” in a more pure sense. The THRED app is essentially a collection of pieces of content that range anywhere from games, photos, locations and such strung together in a thread in a cover… Read MoreMobile Sales Startup Immediately Raises $2M
Immediately, a startup building mobile tools for salespeople, is announcing that it has raised $2 million in funding. Here’s the pitch, from the funding release: “We believe the future of sales is not CRM, but a beautiful data-driven, highly automated, and platform-agnostic integrated sales experience.” Read MoreRewind’s New App Lets You Create Photo Timelines That Disappear After A Day
Spotted this week at TechCrunch Disrupt NY’s Startup Alley, was the newly launched social photo-sharing app Rewind. As its name implies, the idea with this app is to give you and your friends a way to look back on your most recently shared photos and posts, which you can do quickly by sliding your finger to scroll through Rewind’s “timeline” feature. But the twist… Read MoreJust Eat Snaps Up Menulog For $687M To Enter Australia And New Zealand
Online meal delivery company Just Eat has agreed to purchase Menulog for £445 million (about $687 million), marking its entrance into New Zealand and Australia. Menulog, which has 5,500 restaurants on its platform and 1.4 million active users, claims to be the largest food delivery business in those two countries. Read MoreIndian Online Tutoring Platform Vedantu Nabs $5M From Accel And Tiger Global
Vedantu, an online tutoring platform, disclosed today that it has raised a $5 million series A from Accel Partners and Tiger Global Management. Test preparation is a big market in India as more students gear up for the exams they need to ace in order to score a place at a prestigious university. The Bangalore-based startup’s announcement comes one day after Toppr, another test prep… Read MoreMattress Startup Casper Plans To Open Pop-Up Stores In San Francisco, Austin and Washington, D.C.
Casper is known for bringing the mattress buying experience online, but it’s also trying out new approaches to brick-and-mortar retail. In fact, co-founder and CEO Philip Krim said that over the next two months, the startup will be opening pop-up stores in San Francisco, Austin and Washington, D.C. Krim revealed his plans while on-stage our Disrupt NY conference — and yes, the… Read MoreFitbit Files For $100M IPO
Fitbit just filed an S-1 declaring its plans to go public. The filing states that the fitness-tracking company aims to raise $100 million in its initial public offering (that number could be a placeholder that will change). It also says the company will list on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “FIT”. Read More
Former YC Partner Harj Taggar Is Building The New Technical Hiring Pipeline With TripleByte
Harj Taggar, one of Y Combinator’s earliest partners, is very familiar with the pain of hiring for new CEOs. “When founders start companies, they’re not really sure how to put hiring practices in place. They’re not sure which questions to ask or how to handle technical interviews,” he said. So while he was at the early-stage firm, he started building out systems… Read MoreFormer ExactTarget Execs Back Millennial-Focused Media Startup The Odyssey
The Odyssey, the site that popularized the idea of “The Dad Bod,” is announcing that it has raised $3 million in seed funding. A number of executives from ExactTarget (a marketing company acquired by Salesforce.com for $2.5 billion) participated in the round — investors include founder and former CEO Scott Dorsey, former CFO Traci Dolan and former CMO Tim Kopp. Read More500 Startups Accelerator Announces Its Thirteenth Batch Of Companies
With their twelfth batch of companies set to demo to investors and the press next week, 500 Startups is announcing the thirteenth batch of companies to go through its accelerator.Read MoreRetail Expert Francine Della Badia Joins Bonobos As New CEO
Former Bonobos CEO Andy Dunn is “stepping up” to Executive Chairman of the company and will be replaced by retail expert Francine Della Badia. Dunn will become a brand ambassador and media face for the company while Della Badia will handle day-to-day business and manage the company’s Bonobos, AYR, and Maide lines. “It was a huge decision,” said Dunn. “I… Read MoreZero-Fee Stock Trading App Robinhood Nabs $50M From NEA To Go Global
In case you thought paying $7 to $10 to trade a stock in the US was bad, it costs $65 in Australia. So now that its zero-fee stock trading app is thriving stateside with hundreds of thousands of users, Robinhood is planning to go international, starting in Australia. A $50 million Series B cash infusion from NEA will fuel that expansion, as well as hiring and development of… Read MoreToppr.com Grabs $10M To Help Indian Students Prepare For Entrance Exams
Toppr.com, a Mumbai-based startup that helps students prepare for entrance exams, has raised $10 million from Fidelity Growth Partners India, SAIF Partners, and Helion Ventures. Founded in 2013, Toppr.com helps students study for entrance exams to engineering and medical schools, including the Indian Institutes of Technology (public universities that are considered the most prestigious… Read MoreEx-Skypers Launch Virtual Whiteboard Deekit
Deekit, which exits private beta today, is a virtual and collaborative whiteboard to help remote teams work smarter. Read MoreBanjo Scores $100M Series C Led By Softbank To Analyze Events As They Happen
Banjo, a startup that analyzes data about events and breaking news in real-time, has pulled in a $100 million series C led by Softbank with participation from returning investor BlueRun Ventures. The deal marks one of Japan-based Softbank’s largest investments in a U.S. startup. Read MoreAnd The Winner Of TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2015 Is… Liquidity
This year’s Disrupt NY Startup Battlefield was amazing. At the very beginning, there were 24 great companies presenting in front of multiple groups of industry leaders serving as judges. The startups were competing for $50,000 and the highly coveted Disrupt Cup. After hours of deliberations, TechCrunch editors pored over the judges’ notes and narrowed the list down to seven… Read MoreRockYou Buys Mobile Ad Network PlayHaven
Gaming and advertising company RockYou has acquired mobile ad network PlayHaven from startup studio Science Inc. PlayHaven actually changed hands last fall, when Science bought it from Upsight, the company created from the merger of PlayHaven and Kontagent. By acquiring a mobile ad network, CEO Lisa Marino said RockYou can do a better job of making money from mobile games like Kitchen Scramble… Read MoreMeerkat Launches Developer Platform To Differentiate From Periscope
How did it feel getting cut off by Twitter with just 2 hours notice? “It sucked” says Meerkat founder Ben Rubin. That’s why it’s determined to treat developers with more respect. In the nine weeks since Meerkat launched, 37 developers have built companion experiences to the livestreaming apps on its unofficial, private API, including stream discovery, automatic uploads… Read More
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