Sam Altman Names Y Combinator’s New “Board Of Overseers”
Sam Altman, president of Y Combinator, has just posted a blog post announcing the Board of Overseers at the world’s most successful accelerator. The list includes Airbnb co-founder Brian Chesky, Homejoy’s Adora Cheung, John and Patrick Collison of Stripe, Dropbox’s Drew Houston, longtime partner and co-founder at YC Jessica Livingston, Weebly founder and CEO David Rusenko… Read More-
Dinner Lab Raises $2.1 Million For Its Modern-Day Supper Club
Dinner Lab, an exclusive supper club that lets up-and-coming chefs test their recipes by preparing multi-course meals for a private audience, has just raised its first outside funding. The previously bootstrapped New Orleans-based company has scored $2.1 million in a seed round led by Dr. John B. Elstrott, the Chairman of the Board of Whole Foods, alongside other angel investors. Read More -
FiveStar Finds The Best Products On Amazon From Any Category On Any Budget
Do a lot of Amazon shopping? Then you’re going to dig this: a new website called FiveStar helps you uncover the best products on Amazon in any category and organized by budget. So for example, you can find the best coffee makers that are $10 and up, then see the best that are $20 and up, then $30, $40, $50, and so on. To determine what constitutes something being the… Read More -
Smart Driving Assistant Comes To Android With Safety-Focused “Do Not Disturb” And Crash Alert Features
Automatic, the smart driving assistant that combines a small hardware device that plugs in your car and a mobile app that provides drivers with data about their vehicle and their driving habits, is now available on Android. Previously an iOS-only application, this release also delivers a couple of new features as well, including an Android-exclusive “do not disturb” mode and a… Read More -
Glance Is A Smartwatch That You Can Use With Your Existing Watch
Smartwatches have a problem: They mostly appeal to people who already enjoy wearing watches, but they take up valuable wrist space that those same people would probably rather use for their actual timepiece. Glance, a new Kickstarter project from the team behind Kiwi Wearables, wants to give users the smarts of the smartwatch without making them ditch their basic clocks. What Glance offers is… Read More -
Personalised Travel Startup Nezasa Raises $800K
Zurich-based travel startup Nezasa, which offers a “one-stop shop” to design and book your personalised travel itinerary, has closed an $800,000 second round of funding from an unnamed family office, various business angels and existing investors. Read More -
If Baking Is A Science, The $99 Drop Scale Is Your Lab Assistant
They say cooking is an art and baking is a science, and “they” are right. I once tried to make a half-portion of cheesecake that ended in catastrophe. Luckily, a new startup out of Ireland has plans to simplify the science of baking. Using a special Bluetooth-connected scale, and an accompanying app, Drop promises that you don’t need measuring cups anymore. And because… Read More -
Popular Task-Management Software ToDoist Releases Its First Enterprise Product
As it promised earlier this year, ToDoist has launched a version of its popular cross-platform task-management software for enterprise users. ToDoist For Business includes the support for collaboration and real-time sync it added back in January, as well as a host of other features. Read More -
SeeMe, Which Lets Members Create T-Shirts With All-Over Designs, Launches Its First App
SeeMe, a design community that claims more than a million members, has launched its first mobile app on iOS, which can be used to take photos and turn them into T-shirts. To be sure, there are tons of DIY T-shirt design companies out there, but SeeMe hopes to differentiate with its shirts, which feature all-over designs. Read More -
Radio Physics Solutions Raises £700K To Detect 3D Printed Guns
Radio Physics Solutions, makers of a security scanner that’s able to detect plastic firearms manufactured with a 3D printer, has raised £700,000 from equity crowdfunding platform SyndicateRoom. Read More
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Home Deco Site Houzz Raises $150M At A $2.3B Post-Money Valuation
Looks like home-remodelling and design site Houzz is upsizing. Filings that the startup made at the end of May in Delaware, uncovered by the folks at VCExperts, indicate that it is raising a Series D round of $150 million, at a post-money valuation of just over $2.3 billion on a fully-diluted basis. What’s striking is that the documents show that in its last round, in January 2013 when… Read More -
UK Analytics Startup Formisimo Raises £350K To Make Online Forms Suck Less
Formisimo, the UK-based web form analytics startup, has raised a £350,000 seed round. Backers include the North West Fund, two unnamed London angel investors, and pan-European accelerator Seedcamp (of which Formisimo just graduated). Read More -
Prime Takes On The Challenging Task Of Bringing Your Health Records To Mobile
The founders of Prime, a mobile app promising an easier way to securely collect all your health records from various physicians into a single interface, didn’t have a background in the health care industry when they began working on the idea over a year ago. But they’ve quickly gotten up to speed on things like HIPAA and the health care’s rules and regulations in the many… Read More -
TechCrunch Meetups Invade Austin And Seattle In One Week, Get Tickets Now!
One week. We have exactly one week until TechCrunch invades Austin and Seattle with the TC Meetups and Pitch-Off competitions, where a few lucky startups will have a chance to pitch their product to a panel of local VC judges and an audience of hundreds. Read More -
Mitro Access Lets You Give Someone Temporary, Limited Access To Your Online Accounts
Mitro, a company that helps corporate companies and SMBs manage shared passwords, has recently introduced a new extension of their platform called Mitro Access, which grants temporary access (with restrictions) to your various online accounts. Here’s how it works: Read More -
OneSky’s Platform Makes Translating Apps Easy
App translation and localization service OneSky’s best-known clients include Scribd and QuizUp. With so many app translation providers out there, however, how does OneSky differentiate? Co-founder Loki Ng says the startup, which is based in Hong Kong and will open a San Francisco office soon, gives clients an easier workflow by providing a translation management platform that lets… Read More -
YellowSchedule Raises €600K So That You Never Miss A Therapist Appointment Again
Dublin and Limerick-based YellowSchedule, which offers an online service to help therapists and clinics manage appointments and client records, has raised €600,000 from various angel investors, along with the taxpayer-funded Enterprise Ireland. Read More -
Two Dots, The Sequel To Betaworks’ Dots, Is A Beautiful Monster
My highest score on Dots — the original Dots — is 414. I achieved this respectable, albeit relatively average, score about a year ago, just after Dots was first released. When I open up the app now, I never play for more than a few tries. I can never get anywhere close to 400. I can’t even get close to 300. Which brings me to Two Dots, the latest generation of the… Read More -
As Software Eats Up Jobs, Startups Need To Consider Ethics Of Marketplaces
Anger can be a deeply chilling emotion when coursing through politics, and we have witnessed our fair share of it over the past few years. In San Francisco, we watched as protesters blocked buses, broke Google Glasses and demanded billions in compensation in front of tech executives homes. Nationally, we have seen the frustration of millions across the country through the Tea Party and Occupy… Read More -
Stanford Asks Students To Learn From Snapchat Founder’s Mistakes. We All Should.
Following the leak of sexist, crude emails sent by Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel during his time at Stanford, the university’s Provost John Etchemendy has issued a memo to students imploring them to “learn something from this.” “We can choose to turn a blind eye to such statements and chalk them up to youthful indiscretion,” Etchemendy wrote. “Or we can be… Read More
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