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Meet The Judges For The TechCrunch Pitch-Off In Austin
Howdy, y’all. As a Texan myself, I’m thrilled to announce the judges for our Austin Pitch-Off going down next week at Palm on 6th St. (BTW, tickets to the Austin Meetup are still available but are running out quickly so grab one here before it’s too late). Read More -
Chic By Choice Is A European Take On RentTheRunway
Rent The Runway has made a splash as a way for women to literally rent high fashion. Now a new startup hopes it can reproduce that success with a similar model, which has a new take on the idea, with the goal of bringing a large variety of luxury rentals to all major markets in Europe. With Chic By Choice, you hire designer dresses curated by boutiques and department stores. Read More -
Profitero Raises $8M From Polaris Partners To Scale E-Commerce Intelligence
Profitero, a SaaS provider of online insights and e-commerce intelligence for retailers and brands, has raised $8 million from Polaris Partners. It will use the funds to double its 40-strong engineering team and expand its presence in North America and abroad. Profitero says it want so be the “Nielsen for online global retailers and brands.” Read More -
Product Hunt Is The Social News Site Of Tech Products Read By Influential People
Meet Product Hunt, a small experiment that is increasingly becoming the center of the conversations of product-oriented people working in tech. You can call it the Reddit of tech products, the Hacker News of product launches, but none of these descriptions really capture what Product Hunt is. “It initially started with friends of mine and entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley,” Product… Read More -
Fleksy Third-Party Keyboard Is Already On iOS 8 In Beta
Fleksy wasted no time in getting its third-party software keyboard onto iOS 8, after Apple announced it would be supporting outside input software system-wide. The startup is also accepting beta tester applications now, so if you’re running the pre-release build of Apple’s mobile OS, you can apply now to try it out on your device. The Fleksy keyboard is unique because it aims… Read More -
Local Marketing Company Yext Raises $50M More
Yext, a company that helps businesses synchronize their data across local search services and their own websites, is announcing that it has raised $50 million in Series F funding. Co-founder and CEO Howard Lerman described this as “pre-IPO financing.” He didn’t get much more specific than that, but he did say that Yext “makes most sense as an independent company”… Read More -
Looksery Launches On Kickstarter With An App That Makes You Look Better (Or Just Funnier) On Video Chat
While I don’t tend to write about mobile apps undergoing crowdfunding campaigns because – well, just code the thing already – I’m going to make an exception for Looksery. Announced today on Kickstarter, this new mobile video communications startup is working to introduce a clever application that lets you change your facial features, add funny effects, or transform… Read More -
Slidebean Launches To Give Prezi A Run For Its Money
If you’re looking for an easier way to turn the content in your head into a beautiful presentation, Slidebean has launched to give users presentation tools right on the web. Of course, such tools have been around for years and years, but Slidebean is different in that it’s one of the only presentation builders that separates the content from the format. Read More -
Kobalt Raises $140M To Scale Up Its Digital Royalty Collection Business
Apple’s $3 billion acquisition of Beats Electronics, a possible IPO from Spotify and a review of music licensing rules by the Justice Department are some of the big developments that have put the streaming music industry into the spotlight of late, but also highlighted some of the complexities of it. Now, a company that has developed a platform to help artists and songwriters… Read More -
Gild, The Service For Finding And Hiring Engineers, Raises $13.5M Series B Funding
Gild, the startup that has built a service that helps companies find and hire software engineers, has closed on $13.5 million in a new round of funding. The new round, which is Gild’s Series B, brings the company’s total funding to around $27 million. The round was led by Menlo Ventures, with the inclusion of Steve Anderson of Baseline, Globespan Capital Partners, SAP Ventures… Read More
Wednesday, June 4, 2014
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