CrunchWeek: iOS 9 Is A Hit, Facebook Has Empathy, & Snapchat’s Rainbow Barfers
Hello fellow disrupters, and welcome to another episode of CrunchWeek, TechCrunch’s weekly roundup show where we talk the biggest things in tech. This week we’re chatting about iOS 9 landing, WatchOS2 not, Facebook’s working on a not-dislike emoji button and people are rainbow barfing all over Snapchat. Also, we invite Ahmed to join us in the TechCrunch studio the next time… Read MoreHow Will Pandora Survive Apple Music? Co-Founder Tim Westergren Will Tell Disrupt SF
Pandora put radio on the Internet, but now startups like Spotify and giants like Apple are trying to knock it out of the three comma club. When every music app is building its own radio feature on top of on-demand listening, how will Pandora get by on algorithmic suggestions alone? I’ll ask Pandora co-founder Tim Westergren on-stage at TechCrunch Disrupt SF. Read MoreA Year In Review: The Disrupt Startup Battlefield 2014
It’s been a year since 2014 Disrupt SF Startup Battlefield companies took the stage to compete for the coveted Disrupt Cup, a $50,000 prize, and the attention of media and investors. This is how far they’ve come in a year. Read MoreCaterWings, Rocket Internet’s Latest Food Startup, Targets Corporate Catering Industry
Rocket Internet has its fingers in pretty much every part of the online food ordering and delivery pie. Heck, it even has a special division, the unimaginatively-named Global Online Takeaway Group, where its rolled up a number of those companies. But one slice it has yet to serve is corporate catering — until now, that is. Read MoreShelfie Is Shazam For Your Bookshelf
If you’re like me, you have a lot of Mad Magazine books from the 1970s, a classic copy of Oui from 1979, and three Hungarian cookbooks. In other words, you’re a well-read individual. But how do you get those books onto your reading device? Shelfie, that’s how. Read MoreBumpn Uses 3D Touch To Let Users Show How Much They Like A Photo
3D Touch may have just found its killer use case. Now on the App Store, bumpn is a photo-sharing app that will let users take advantage of 3D Touch to show how much they “like” a photo. Instead of simply clicking the like button, users can give a photo anywhere between 1-100 hearts. Read MorePadlet Raises $1.2 Million For Its Easy-To-Use, Collaborative Website Builder
While there’s no shortage of online website builders today, most are focused on providing professionals or small business owners with an easy-to-use set of tools to quickly create their own web page without having to hiring an outside development firm. A company called Padlet, however, has gone in a different direction. Its simple and collaborative website creation platform can be used for… Read MoreClover Health, A Data-Driven Health Insurance Startup, Raises $100M
Clover Health, an insurance startup based out of San Francisco, is hoping that with its data-driven approach it can rebuild healthcare for senior citizens from the ground up. It wants that by tracking all the inputs of a person’s medical history from insurance claims and determining who the highest-risk patients are. Clover Health then works with those patients to help them become… Read MoreRecruiting Startup Hired Has A New CEO
There’s been a bit of a leadership shuffle at Hired: President Mehul Patel has been promoted to CEO, while the previous CEO, founder Matt Mickiewicz, has become chief product officer. Patel (who has also worked at Lyft, Oracle, CNET and Kaggle, and who joined Hired two years ago), told me this isn’t as big a deal as you might think. In fact, he said there was a longtime transition… Read More
Servy Raises $800K To Let Restaurants Offer Discounts In Exchange For Feedback
Servy, an app that lets restaurants offer a partial discount in exchange for private feedback, has just closed $800K in seed funding. Investors include RiverPark Ventures, Beacon Fund, Food-X, DreamIt Ventures, and Nick Kenner, CEO and Founder of Just Salad. Most online restaurant reviews are either written because of a fantastic or awful experience. Either way, these reviews live online… Read MoreAirbnb’s Joe Zadeh Talks Product Direction And Keeping Things Simple
Airbnb’s had a busy summer. It rolled out an Apple Watch app, hit 1 million guests staying in an Airbnb in a single day, and over the summer Airbnb members hosted 17 million guests. But the company still has to ensure that it hires the right people that continue to scale up while keeping its products simple. We sat down with Airbnb’s VP of product Joe Zadeh to find out more about…Read MoreLogMeIn Co-Founder Debuts Caret, An Address Book That Tells People If You’re Available To Chat
Ever since our contact lists moved out of Rolodexes and onto our smartphones, mobile app developers have been trying to improve upon the built-in – and typically, very basic – address book apps that ship with our devices. To date, we’ve seen everything from simple makeovers of the address book app aimed at improving ease-of-use to smarter, “connected” address… Read MoreSneaker Website Campless Relocates To Detroit Following Investment By Dan Gilbert
What started as a hobby is now a serious tool for those buying and selling sneakers. Today, Campless is announcing an investment by Detroit Venture Partners and the launch of a new product that will allow Campless users to build an online database of their sneaker collection and track the value overtime. Read More- CRUNCH NETWORK
Uniting The CEO And The Board
Cat people and dog people. East Coasters and West Coasters. Capitalists and communists. They all look at the world so differently. Now consider venture capital board members and CEOs. Sure, they all have the same goal: to ensure that the company succeeds. Yet this dynamic can be adversarial, sometimes even hostile. And it really doesn’t have to be that way, even in the worst of times. I… Read More Chat.Center Reports Really, Really, Ridiculously Good-Looking Growth
Chat.Center, a project by friend of TechCrunch Keith Teare, has successfully navigated the shoals of freemium and is now steaming steadily through solid growth. Teare announced numbers at DEMO Traction in Boston. Chat.Center is a one-stop-shop for chatting.Read MorePlume Air Report Is A Weather Forecasting App For Urban Air Pollution
It’s easy to resign yourself to accepting pollution. While you won’t stop giant factories, you can do something to reduce the risk of having pollution-related health issues — avoid excessive exposure at peak times. Plume Labs has developed a free iOS and Android app to do just that. Plume Air Report tells you if it’s safe to run, bike, go out with your children or…Read MoreStacklist Launches As A Way For Entrepreneurs To Recommend The Best Enterprise Software, Tools
Serial entrepreneur Amanda Moskowitz has been running into this problem for 10 years. After starting company after company, she always needed to consult other founders for the best software, payroll and HR tools. Today, she’s launching a platform to solve this exact problem. Stacklist is a recommendation platform for enterprise software tools culled from interviews and surveys with… Read MoreFundera Picks Up $11.5 Million In Series B Funding
Fundera, the online credit marketplace that helps small business secure loans started by GroupMe cofounder Jared Hecht, has today announced the close of a $11.5 million Series B funding round led by Susquehanna Growth Equity with participation from existing investors including QED Investors, Khosla Ventures, and First Round Capital. Alongside the funding, SGE’s Scott Feldman and… Read MoreOvertime Is A Social Network For The Sports Obsessed
Overtime, a social network for sports fans created by the team behind viral game studio OMGPOP, is launching today to provide a better outlet for fans to create, share and debate all things sports. Amidst a sports media world dominated by network TV, Overtime wants to give all fans the ability to create and consume their favorite sports content in the form of 10-second videos and… Read MoreZenPayroll Is Now Gusto, Adds Benefits To Take On Zenefits
Payroll startup ZenPayroll changed its name to Gusto today and is moving beyond payroll, into benefits such as health insurance and workers compensation. Sound familiar? We’ve heard that cloud HR benefits company Zenefits plans to roll out a payroll service similar to the startup formerly known as ZenPayroll. Read More
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