Sevenhugs bets on smartphone-free connected home future with $14.6M Series A
French startup Sevenhugs closed a $14.6 million Series A today led by Xerys on a quest to better integrate smart home technology. Sevenhugs has already developed a sleep tracker and is nearing completion on development of a universal smart-remote. Sevenhugs joins Misfit, Hello, and others with its hugOne sleep-tracker. When it launches, the remote will let users simply point to control… Read MoreTwilio prices its IPO at $15 per share, above its previous target
Twilio today said it would price its initial public offering at $15 per share, which would value the company at around $1.23 billion. That would value Twilio above its previous $1 billion valuation from its last financing round. With the pricing, the company expects to raise around $150 million, with an option for another 1.5 million shares to be purchased. It’s also a higher price than… Read MoreTwilio’s IPO festivities will include live coding from the New York Stock Exchange
There are plenty of reasons to keep an eye on Twilio‘s initial public offering, like whether or not it will open the door for more tech IPOs. Here’s a small-but-fun one: The company has organized a live coding event from the New York Stock Exchange. Tomorrow morning, Twilio will bring three developers to the NYSE floor, where they’ll be trying to build as many apps as they… Read More- SPONSORED
Banks And Fintech - Friends Or Foes?
Despite the vast differences in organizational culture, banks and startups in the field of Fintech are a successful combination, when the main beneficiary of this cooperation is the customer Read More Tend.ai trains your robot to operate dozens of 3D printers and laser cutters at a time
If you’ve got more than a handful of 3D printers or other devices running at a time, it’s a full-time job keeping them going — removing and packaging products, tweaking settings, pushing “OK” after minor errors, that sort of thing. Why not have a robot do it for you? Read MoreSimple Habit is an app to squeeze mindfulness into your busy day
The stress of running a startup guided founder Yunha Kim to her next idea: a mindfulness app called Simple Habit, offering audio meditations as short as five-minutes so that busy people can squeeze a little tranquility into their day. Read MoreDropbox launches a new way to scan documents with your phone, and other sharing features
Dropbox today is releasing a slew of new enterprise features as it continues to try to woo larger businesses in an effort to build a strong new line of business. The most interesting new feature is probably a tool in its mobile application that allows business users to scan documents and upload them directly into Dropbox. The idea is that there is still a lot of activity and business… Read MorePeerStreet lowers barriers for accredited investors who want access to real estate debt
Vive la révolution financière! PeerStreet co-founders, Brew Johnson, Brett Crosby, and Alex Perelman, have been working alongside famed investors like Dr. Michael Burry to provide investors access to real estate debt. Dr. Burry is famous for having been portrayed by Christian Bale in The Big Short. Historically, the only way to get exposure to real estate debt was to either make the… Read MoreRelax surfers, Dorsal’s crowdsourced shark reporting app is now available in the USA
Dorsal is a mobile app that lets anyone who sees a shark in the ocean file a report (complete with geolocation). The same app can also provide alerts for sightings. Sort of the “Waze of shark spotting”, this app and crowdsourced ecosystem aims to arm beachgoers, surfers and other water recreationists with the latest, verified reports of shark sightings before they get into the water. Read More
YouNow goes beyond the live stream by letting you share interesting moments
YouNow has quite an explicit startup name. The live streaming startup lets you stream yourself, now. But with more than 150,000 live streams per day, how can you be sure that you didn’t miss a funny or heartwarming moment when you were away? YouNow has a new update that lets you seamlessly share your favorite moments. Rewatching live streams is nothing new. You can jump back in time… Read MoreThe TC Meetup + Pitch-off hits Tel Aviv TONIGHT!
Tonight is the night! After about a week of meeting as many Israeli startups and VCs as possible, it’s time to really get down to business at the TC Meetup + Pitch-off in Tel Aviv. If you don’t already have a ticket, I’m very sorry to say that we are completely sold out. In fact, we even had to close the waitlist. In other words, ticket-holders need to show up as promptly… Read MoreKwik raises $3 million to take on Amazon Dash buttons
Amazon Dash buttons have been gaining traction and Kwik thinks there is room for a competitor. The Tel Aviv-based startup has designed a similar product and is working with Domino’s, Budweiser, Huggies and other brands to make ordering a pizza as easy as pressing a button — literally. And the team is announcing that Norwest Venture Partners is leading a $3 million seed round to… Read MoreAustin police are now impounding drivers in the peer-to-peer ridesharing group
Austin’s transportation saga just keeps getting more interesting. Last week, we wrote about a 30,000 member Facebook group that had formed in Austin to help facilitate ride requests in the absence of Uber and Lyft. Riders posted requests, drivers responded, and people got where they needed to go. One problem – the drivers and riders were not using an official service to… Read More- CRUNCH NETWORK
Resolving homelessness in the digital era
The explosion of tech companies setting up headquarters in major cities has encroached on the homeless population. Like San Francisco, the tech industry is growing rapidly in Seattle, and we too have the same dilemma. But unlike San Francisco, we have the opportunity to get ahead of this issue and truly make a difference. Read More An excerpt from Eliot Peper’s cyberpunk novel Cumulus
Eliot Peper has been lauded as the heir to William Gibson’s throne. He is a writer and entrepreneur based in San Francisco and is latest book, Cumulus, has become an online hit. The energy of his writing and the strength of his characters is palpable throughout the story — a world in which surveillance is constant and inescapable is fast coming true. What follows is an excerpt… Read MoreGradifi partners with Radius Bank to offer MasterCard to ease student loan debt
Gradifi founder Tim DeMello doesn’t have an outbound sales team. That’s how big the student loan problem is. When Boston-based Gradifi first launched its student loan paydown plan, 456 companies reached out wanting to sign up for the benefit. Employers want to attract and retain employees and, unfortunately, one of the best ways to do that right now is by offering student loan… Read MoreNever leave Slack with message button bots for using Kayak, Trello, and more
Now you can approve expenses, assign deadlines, check flights, and interact with other enterprise tools from inside Slack with its new Message Buttons. Slack is vying to become your always-open portal to work with the biggest update to its API since its December launch. For example, just type “/kayak flights from NYC to BOS on 6/23” and you’ll get shown flight options with… Read MoreJuniqe, the European marketplace for curated art, closes €14M Series B
Juniqe, the European marketplace for curated art, has closed €14 million in Series B funding. Leading the round is growth venture fund Highland Europe — which has been very active of late — alongside existing investors Vorwerk Ventures, High-Tech Gründerfonds, and Redalpine. Read MoreTo drum up deals internationally, Fenox VC launches Startup World Cup with $1 million prize
San Jose-based Fenox Venture Capital is launching a series of pitch competitions called the Startup World Cup, with a $1 million investment prize, in an effort to identify top entrepreneurial talent in 11 international markets, according to the firm’s CEO and General Partner Anis Uzzaman. Uzzaman said talks with founders inspired the firm to launch this initiative. “As we… Read More
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