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  • TheHighFlyers helps you join the mile-high chat club

    TheHighFlyers helps you join the mile-high chat club

    When friends Eli Byers, Chad Fegley, Amrita Chawla, and Mari Lliguicota fly they’re usually bored. They spend a lot of time in the air and they wanted something that would make the miles go by faster. Their solution? TheHighFlyers.club. This clever Disrupt hackathon hack lets you see when you’re passing cool stuff outside of the plane and even chat with other people on the flight. Read More
  • Diagnose your plant’s health with your smartphone camera and Plantbot

    Diagnose your plant’s health with your smartphone camera and Plantbot

    There’s plenty of information online to help people figure out whether their plants are healthy and what they need to do to make them better. But they can be distributed far across the Internet and sometimes hard to find, and aren’t necessarily available on demand, according to MartĂ­n Capeletto. That’s why the team, a bunch of plant nuts (though they wouldn’t tell… Read More
  • App platform Kinetise aims to bring app building to the enterprise

    App platform Kinetise aims to bring app building to the enterprise

    Kinetise, an app building platform and Disrupt hackathon favorite, aims to democratize the the the process of creating native mobile apps for iOS and Android in the enterprise. Using a drag-and-drop interface, the system essentially lets you build and deploy native apps, visually. In this way, non-developers are able to create and deploy mobile apps. The company originally focused on selling… Read More
  • Rebecca Minkoff’s Fashion Week show uses augmented reality to help real women shop the look live

    Rebecca Minkoff’s Fashion Week show uses augmented reality to help real women shop the look live

    Not only is augmented reality helping us capture all the PokĂ©mon, it’s also made its way to Rebecca Minkoff’s fall preview show at Fashion Week this Saturday. About 350 fashion-forward individuals will get an up-close look at the new line in person, but those not able to snag a ticket can feel like they are right there with a 360 live experience provided at the show. And… Read More
  • Ford backs massive bike-share expansion in the San Francisco Bay Area

    Ford backs massive bike-share expansion in the San Francisco Bay Area

    At a press conference in San Francisco today, Ford Motor Co. president and CEO Mark Fields announced that the company had both acquired a rideshare startup called Chariot and made a significant investment in expanding the region’s bike-share program. Ford’s sponsorship will see the Bay Area’s supply of shareable bikes expand from 700 to 7,000 by 2018, with 1,350 bikes going… Read More
  • Rover is closing a $40M round that values the pet-sitting startup at nearly $300M

    Rover is closing a $40M round that values the pet-sitting startup at nearly $300M

    Seattle-based Rover is in the process of closing a $40 million round of funding, according to sources with knowledge of the deal. The Series E round would value Rover at nearly $300 million, and it comes from existing investors Menlo Ventures, Madrona Venture Group and Foundry Group. The company had previously raised more than $50 million. When we reached out to Rover for comment, a… Read More
  • Beeswax raises $11M for customizable adtech

    Beeswax raises $11M for customizable adtech

    Beeswax, a startup founded by a trio of former Google ad executives, has raised $11 million in Series A funding. The company offers what it calls a bidder-as-a-service — a set of customizable technologies that allows customers to participate in real-time bidding for ad inventory. Beeswax’s offerings include access to inventory, bidding algorithms and analytics, but CEO Ari… Read More
  • Restaurant tech startup Salido raises $2M

    Restaurant tech startup Salido raises $2M

    Salido, a startup that describes itself as “the restaurant operating system,” is announcing that it has raised $2 million in additional funding. This round from strategic investors doubles the $2 million in seed funding that Salido announced last year. Phil Suarez, who partnered with French chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten to launch well-known restaurants including ABC Kitchen and… Read More
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