Google Wallet Is Coming To Glass
Google Wallet is coming to Glass soon. According to a source close to the company, Google is currently testing a way for Glass users to send money to their friends through Wallet by simply using their voices to ask Glass to "send money." The company is testing this service internally right now, but chances are it will launch to all Glass users in the near future. Read More-
Oculus CEO Says Selling To Facebook Convinced Big Developers To Build For It
"Do we want to be Game Boy, or iPhone or Android?" That's how Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe says his team considered the acquisition by Facebook. Without the financial backing, Oculus may have had to scale back its ambitions. But now, big developers are flocking to build for the Oculus virtual reality platform. Read More -
Tom Hadfield Is Trying To Make Fetch Happen To Improve Mobile Shopping
Fetch, a mobile app that connects users with personal shopping assistants, launched today onstage at Disrupt New York. Users can simply open Fetch and type what you want, record yourself saying what you want, or take a picture. Fetch has trained assistants on the other end who will look at your request, find the best price for the product you want, and order it for you. Read More -
CEO Shane Smith Says He Wants VICE To Be 10 Times Bigger Than CNN
VICE Media seems to be getting more journalistically legit, particularly with its international coverage, but CEO Shane Smith said today that he doesn't consider himself a journalist, and doesn't want to be a journalist. "I think if you look at the failure of journalism in the modern age, then I don't want to be called a journalist," Smith said today while on-stage at TechCrunch's Disrupt New… Read More -
Mink Is A 3D Printer For Makeup
3D printing is all the rage these days, but for now, it's mostly centered around little plastic doo-dads. The Mink, launching today on the Disrupt NY stage, is a bit different. The little printer lets users choose any color on the web, or in the real world, and using simple already-existing software, print that color into a blush, eye shadow, lip gloss or any other type of makeup. Read More -
Vurb’s Contextual Search Engine Blows Away Those Stupid Lists Of Links
Search is outdated. Google steers you to right section of the library, but doesn't answer your question or compile that answer with others to help you make a decision. Luckily, today Vurb is launching its reinvention of search results in the form of a web and mobile contextual search engine. Rather than requiring multiple searches in different tabs, Vurb collects all the relevant info on one page. Read More
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Baoku
- Size $10M
- 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
- Investors Foundation Capital, Institutional Venture Partners, Northgate Capital ... See More
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Birchbox
- Size $60M
- Round B
- Investors Viking Global Investors, First Round Capital, Accel Partners, Aspect ... See More
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Airbnb
- Size $450M
- Round D
- Investors TPG Growth, Dragoneer Investment Group, T. Rowe Price, Sequoia Capital
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Biosport Athletechs
- Size $100K
- Round Unattributed
- Investors Not available
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Placester
- Size $8.2M
- Round Partial
- Investors Not available
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American Aerogel
- Size $2.5M
- Round Partial
- Investors Not available
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Mission Control Technologies
- Size $4M
- Round Debt_round
- Investors Not available
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WebCurfew
- Size $450K
- Round Debt_round
- Investors Not available
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RF Surgical Systems
- Size $15M
- 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
- Investors Not available
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BioPharmX
- Size $1.5M
- Round Partial
- Investors Not available
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CarNinja
- Size $2.3M
- Round Unattributed
- Investors Not available
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Encounter Collaborative
- Size $500K
- Round Debt_round
- Investors Not available
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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
- Investors Not available
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PaxVax
- Size $6M
- Round Debt_round
- Investors Not available
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Tyrogenex
- Size $8.2M
- Round Partial
- Investors Not available
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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
- Investors Not available
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Smava
- Size $5.5M
- Round B
- Investors Earlybird Venture Capital, Neuhaus Partners
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Jobr Wants To Be Like Tinder For Your Job Hunt
Jobr is a moile app that takes the Tinder "swipe left, swipe right" model and extends it to searching for a job. Officially launching today, Jobr seeks to connect job seekers and recruiters in a way that speeds up the process for both. On the side of the job seeker, the app gives a simple interface for reviewing various employment opportunities quickly. Read More -
Surprise! That Wild Rumor About Apple EarPods With Biometrics Sensors Was A Fake
Shocking, just absolutely shocking: the wild rumor claiming that Apple was developing new “EarPods” headphones that included integrated heart rate and blood pressure sensors, which had everyone buzzing, turns out to be fake. According to an anonymous Tumblr from the Secret post’s creator (he/she verified this within Secret, linking to Tumblr using the original poster’s… Read More -
Snakable’s New USB Charging Cable Will Never Need Duct Tape
If you’ve ever owned a USB charging cable (and if you’re reading TechCrunch, odds are you have), then you’ve encountered the problem that Snakable wants to solve. That is, after repeated use, the cable breaks, the wires are exposed, and then, more often that not, the cable itself becomes unreliable, requiring you to jiggle it in order to get your device to start charging. Read More -
VC Fred Wilson: By 2020 Apple Won’t Be A Top-3 Tech Company, Google And Facebook Will
Fred Wilson of New York's Union Square Ventures, one of the top tech investors around, believes that by 2020, the biggest tech company in the world -- Apple -- will cease to be the most important, and won't even be in the top three. Read More -
Website Testing Company Optimizely Raises $57M Round Led By Andreessen Horowitz
Looks like Andreessen Horowitz sees a big opportunity in A/B testing — the venture firm is leading a $57 million Series B round of funding in Optimizely. Andreessen partner Scott Weiss (co-founder and former CEO of Cisco-acquired security company IronPort) is joining the Optimizely board of directors. Read More -
PayPal Strategy Exec ‘No Longer With The Company’ After Sending Inappropriate Tweets
PayPal's new director of strategy Rakesh "Rocky" Agrawal is interviewing. The company publicly confirmed that the relatively new hire is "no longer with the company" after sending a series of bizarre and insulting tweets last night. Read More -
With IPO Hopes Fading, Square And Box Face Reality Of Commodity Products
Square and Box would seem to be the very epitome of every startup founder’s dream of reaching the pinnacle of entrepreneurial success. Take a kernel of an idea and turn it into a massive, multi-billion-dollar company that publicly debuts in an IPO. For the founders involved, the exhilaration and elation of that drive to the top must be deeply palpable, and at times it probably seems as though… Read More -
How Burrowing Owls Lead To Vomiting Anarchists (Or SF’s Housing Crisis Explained)
Today, the tech industry is apparently on track to destroy one of the world’s most valuable cultural treasures, San Francisco, by pushing out the diverse people who have helped create it. At least that’s the story you’ve read in hundreds of articles lately. It doesn’t have to be this way. But everyone who lives in the Bay Area today needs to accept responsibility for making… Read More
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