NBA All-Star Carmelo Anthony and Stuart Goldfarb of Melo 7 Tech Partners to speak at TechCrunch Disrupt NY
TechCrunch is excited to announce next month New York Knicks Forward Carmelo Anthony and former NBC and Bertelsmann exec Stuart Goldfarb are speaking together at Disrupt NY. The pair started investing in tech startups together back in 2013 and have so far recorded several wins. The long-time family friends named their investment vehicle Melo 7 Tech Partners after Anthony’s jersey number… Read MoreOnly two days left to save $1,000 on Disrupt NY tickets
All right all you procrastinators out there — the time to act is now. You have just two days left to get your early-bird tickets to TechCrunch Disrupt NY and save $1,000 in the process. Early-bird pricing for the show ends on Friday, April 8, so you’d better head over to our ticketing page and get your tickets now. Read MoreCrossChx raises a $15 million Series C round from Khosla Ventures, Drive Capital and more
Healthcare identity startup CrossChx announced this morning that they raised a $15 million Series C financing round from Khosla Ventures, Drive Capital, Silicon Valley Bank, NCT Ventures and Moonshots Capital. This brings their total funding to $35 million since being founded in 2012 Read MoreTiE Global Chairman Venktesh Shukla Joins Fenox Venture Capital as General Partner
Fenox Venture Capital is bringing on TiE Global Chairman and the founder of TiE Angels, Venktesh Shukla, as General Partner. For the unfamiliar, TiE is a nonprofit mentoring network for entrepreneurs and promoter of entrepreneurship worldwide. Its annual conference, TiEcon, is in its 23rd year. According to Fenox VC partners, the firm will rely on Shukla to source deals in, as well as… Read MoreThrive Market brings its organic grocery store to Android
A company tapping into consumers’ growing desire for healthier food and organic products, Thrive Market is today bringing its online grocery store to Android users with the launch of a dedicated mobile application. The new app will allow users to shop for natural and organic products right from their phone, including its more recently launched private label items. Described as a… Read More
Marijuana deliverer Meadow rolls up $2.1M for dispensary sales software
Meadow already lets you get a prescription for medical marijuana over video chat and order from a nearby shop that delivers. Now it wants to be the backbone of the weed business, too. Pot dispensaries can’t use standard point-of-sale or inventory software because they aren’t compliant with the industry’s strict regulations. So over the last year, since graduating Y… Read MoreLydia is launching a bot to pay back your friends directly from Slack
Lydia and Slack are two charming services and I like using them. So when I learned the two of them were having a baby together, you bet I was excited. Lydia is a French payment app, a sort of Venmo for Europe like stealth startup Cookies. It lets you instantly send and receive money with your friends without paying any fee. And it’s Read MoreCookies teases its payment app that wants to become the Venmo of Europe
Cookies wants to become the Venmo of Europe with a consumer app to pay back your friends in no time and with no fees. The company promises a speedy onboarding experience and a great design. And today, the company is showing a bit more about the app. Read MoreThe Awl and other indie publishers are moving to Medium
Medium is releasing a new set of tools for publishers to convince them to drop their good old content management systems. And it seems to be working as a few independent publishers are going all-in on Medium, such as The Awl, Pacific Standard, Read MoreGone launches marketplace for verified, used electronics
Gone, the on-demand service for selling all your old crap, is making some changes to its business today, and launching a verified second-hand electronics marketplace. Usually, Gone will come and pick up your old stuff, list it on one of the many marketplaces already available out there, and try to get you the best price. Once the deal is done, they send you a check in the mail. But with… Read MoreTwitter signs deal with NFL to live stream Thursday Night Football
In a flurry of news this morning, it would appear that Twitter has won a deal with the NFL that gives the social network the right to stream Thursday Night Football live on the platform. Beyond the live stream of the game, the partnership will also include pre-game Periscope broadcasts from players and teams, as well as in-game highlights from TNF. Bloomberg first reported the news this… Read MoreVirool raises $12M for native video ads
Video ad startup Virool has raised $12 million in Series A funding. The company works with publishers including Mashable, Adweek and The Onion. It offers what it calls an Inline video ad unit, which has already been served across more than 2,000 online properties and which creates new ad inventory by launching video ads in the middle of articles and other editorial content. Does that sound… Read MoreLondon-based on-demand delivery service Jinn picks up $7.5M Series A
After months of rumours that the startup was raising, Jinn, the same-hour ‘shop on your behalf’ delivery app, is disclosing $7.5 million in Series A funding, money that it plans to use to expand to more UK cities — the service is currently in central London and most recently Manchester — and to reach Southern Europe. Read MoreKlarna and Modo announce a new strategic partnership at Money20/20 Europe
Unicorn eCommerce startup Klarna and digital payments startup Modo announced a new strategic partnership this morning at Money20/20 Europe. Under the terms of this new partnership Modo will provide Klarna with its Digital Payments Hub product to speed up implementation of Klarna’s checkout solution for their worldwide e-retail partners. Read MoreAccorHotels acquires Onefinestay for $170 million
AccorHotels is acquiring Onefinestay for around $170 million (£117 million). The company is also committing to a $70 million investment in Onefinestay (£50 million) over the next few years. Onefinestay is a London-based startup that provides an Airbnb for high-end homes combined with a hotel-like service for hosts and travelers. Read More- CRUNCH NETWORK
An insider’s handbook for IoT startups
Tips are everywhere. There’s an abundance of generic advice available for how to build teams and culture, how to fundraise, how to be productive, how to stay above the noise… But what about specific advice? Specific tips for what differentiates the leaders from the followers. And even more specifically, a guide to differentiate and succeed as a hardware startup. Read More
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