What Google’s Favorite Bay Area Nonprofits Would Do With A $500K Grant
Yesterday, Google announced its finalists for the Bay Area Impact Challenge, its latest effort to assist nonprofits in the region through grants and support from Googlers willing to volunteer their time. The company is letting anyone vote for their favorite nonprofits among the finalists. On June 3, it will announce which four received the most votes, and offer them each a $500,000 grant… Read More-
Twitter Closed At $30.50 Today, Its Lowest Conclusion So Far As A Public Company
Twitter closed out regular trading this afternoon at $30.50 per share. That’s its lowest end-of-day tally yet in its history as a public company. The company traded below the $30 mark earlier this month, but managed to end May 7 at $30.66. The decline of Twitter’s value is impressive. The company ‘s 52-week high — it hasn’t been public that long, keep in mind… Read More -
If Jawbone Were For Sale, Who Would Buy It?
Is Jawbone in play? That’s a question that has been bounced around the rumor mill lately, likely driven by a few other huge recent acquisitions in the hardware space. Over the last few days, the TechCrunch tips line has lit up with anonymous notes about Jawbone being acquired by Google in a multi-billion-dollar deal. (For what it’s worth, we’ve heard we’re not the only… Read More -
CrunchWeek: Secret’s Massive Expansion And Why Apple Wants Beats
This week our inimitable boss Alexia Tsotsis took to the Round Table with Kyle Russell, one of our latest hires, and your humble servant to dig into the intersection of technology and the personal. Secret, an application that recently expanded to Android and the whole world, is controversial given its consistent dose of public vitriol it fosters. Alexia isn’t leaving TechCrunch. Our… Read More -
The Kairos Mechanical Smartwatch Blends Tradition And High Tech
As a watch fan I’ve seen them all: the Fossils, the Rolexes, the Omegas, and now the Kairosii. Created by a team of engineers, designers, and entrepreneurs, these watches feature a standard automatic mechanical watch (the kind you wind) behind a tinted crystal that can show notifications right on the surface. How does it work? The mechanical portion is a standard Miyota Japan 82S7… Read More -
Microsoft Confirms Windows With Bing
Surprising a grand total of zero people, Microsoft confirmed the existence of Windows with Bing today, and its post on the matter is deliciously vague. The core bit, in keeping to earlier reports, is that Windows with Bing will ship on low-cost devices — Paul Thurrott reported that devices under $250 will be eligible — bringing Windows 8.1′s cost profile better in line… Read More -
Panda Reveals A Web Dashboard For Developer And Designer News And Inspiration
A new website (or Chrome extension, if you prefer) called Panda is offering entrepreneurs, developers and designers an easy way to keep up with industry news and inspiration from a variety of sources in one interface. Currently, the site features sources like Hacker News, Dribbble, Behance and Designer News, for example, which you can toggle on and off to customize your view. The idea for… Read More
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Baoku
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- Round A
- Investors CBC Capital
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in2nite
- Size $2.8M
- Round Unattributed
- Investors IDG Ventures
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Advanced Cardiac Therapeutics
- Size Not available
- Round Unattributed
- Investors New Enterprise Associates, NBGI Ventures
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AdRoll
- Size $70M
- Round C
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Birchbox
- Size $60M
- Round B
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Airbnb
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- Round Unattributed
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Placester
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- Round Partial
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American Aerogel
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Mission Control Technologies
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WebCurfew
- Size $450K
- Round Debt_round
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RF Surgical Systems
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- Round Unattributed
- Investors Oxford Finance Corporation
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Zapstitch
- Size Not available
- Round Seed
- Investors Anupam Mittal
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Caspida
- Size $2M
- Round Unattributed
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BioPharmX
- Size $1.5M
- Round Partial
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CarNinja
- Size $2.3M
- Round Unattributed
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Encounter Collaborative
- Size $500K
- Round Debt_round
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Mirage Endoscopy Center
- Size $108K
- Round Unattributed
- Investors Not available
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Nova Towers Holdings I
- Size $19.6M
- Round Partial
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PaxVax
- Size $6M
- Round Debt_round
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Tyrogenex
- Size $8.2M
- Round Partial
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Xcovery
- Size $2.4M
- Round Partial
- Investors Not available
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X2 Biosystems
- Size $2.5M
- Round Debt_round
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Smava
- Size $5.5M
- Round B
- Investors Earlybird Venture Capital, Neuhaus Partners
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Dating App Coffee Meets Bagel Ditches Twilio With New IM Features
When I wrote about the Coffee Meets Bagel dating service more than two years ago, I hoped (but didn’t quite believe) that it would last this long. Yet, here we are. The company has received $2.8 million in funding and is today launching the biggest update yet to the app. Coffee Meets Bagel takes a different approach to online dating. Instead of offering up a buffet of potential matches… Read More -
Google Close To Snapping Up Satellite Startup Skybox Imaging For $1B+, Say Sources
Google made a play for the skies in April when it swept in and acquired Titan Aerospace amid reports that the drone maker was being pursued by Facebook. But Google’s interest in hardware companies that provide primary sources of data is not ending there. Google is closing in on a deal for Skybox Imaging, a satellite company that specialises in recording very detailed… Read More -
Apple Wants Beats Music Because Transitioning iTunes To Streaming Could Kill Download Sales
Why would Apple buy Beats when it could just evolve iTunes into a streaming music service? Well, it wants the talent of Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre. But according to a source with direct knowledge of iTunes’ executive strategy, by buying and operating an external streaming service like Beats, Apple can coin off a smooth transition without cratering the record business. The record labels… Read More -
Apple’s Beats Deal Is Happening, And It’s A Dre Acquihire
A well-placed source has confirmed rumors that Apple’s acquisition of Beats “is happening” but was close to falling apart multiple times. The source said with “70% certainty” that Apple’s planned multi-billion-dollar acquisition of headphone maker Beats will go through. But Apple isn’t buying Beats for the technology; it’s buying the… Read More -
Foursquare Co-Founder Naveen Selvadurai Joins Expa Startup Studio As NY Partner
Foursquare co-founder Naveen Selvadurai is joining the Expa startup studio, founded in May 2013 by former Uber and StumbleUpon founder Garrett Camp. Selvadurai joins Expa as a partner focused on New York operations for the organization, which is not to be confused with your standard accelerator, incubator, or investment firm. Instead, Expa runs much more similarly to a betaworks… Read More -
AppGyver Launches Composer, A Drag-And-Drop Tool For Building HTML5 Apps
Until now, AppGyver was mostly known for its app prototyping tools and Steroid.js, a command-line based tool for quickly building HTML5 apps. Today, the company is bringing both of these ideas together with the public beta launch of Composer, a drag-and-drop HTML5 app builder that can work with data from any REST API and integrates with popular backend services and tools like… Read More -
That Guy Who Built His Own Wolverine Claws? He Just Built Shoes To Walk On The Ceiling
Remember the crazy gent (Colin Furze) who built the fully automatic Wolverine claws in his garage? He promised more preposterous DIY X-Men themed hackery in the coming days, and he just came through in a big way. This week’s absurdity: shoes that magnetically let him walk across the ceiling, in honor of Magneto. Maybe it’s not quite as cool as full control over anything metal… Read More -
Stealthy Timeful Raises $7M From Khosla To Help You Manage Your Time
A few months ago, we reported on the pending launch of Timeful, a new startup that wants to be an intelligent time manager. Although still in stealth, the company is revealing a Series A round of funding ($6.8 million) led by Khosla Ventures, with participation by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Greylock, Data Collective, Pitango, Ashton Kutcher’s A-Grade Investments, among… Read More
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