Men’s Style Startup Dash Hudson Raises $400K Led By Former Groupon CTO Paul Gauthier
Dash Hudson, a startup aiming to make twentysomething men a little less clueless about style, is announcing that it raised $400,000 in seed funding. More impressive than the amount of funding was who participated — co-founder and CEO Thomas Rankin said the round was led by Paul Gauthier, Groupon’s CTO from 2010 to 2013, as well as founding CTO at search pioneer Inktomi. Other… Read More-
Online Clothing Resale Store Twice Rolls Out Same-Day Pickup With Twice Local
Online fashion marketplace Twice, which buys gently worn, quality women’s clothing from consumers then resells it via its own website, mobile and tablet applications, is today expanding into the offline world with the launch of a new service called Twice Local. Following a similar trend among “push button services” that allow you to call up everything from black cars to… Read More -
Restaurant Payments App Cover Raises $5.5 Million From Spark Capital
Cover wants to facilitate the process of paying your check at the end of the meal, removing friction and encouraging more restaurants to accept mobile payments. To get more restaurants — and users — signed up, the company just raised a $5.5 million Series A round of financing led by Spark Capital. Read More -
Publishing Startup Tablo Raises $400,000 Seed Round
Tablo.io, a publishing platform built by 21-year-old Ash Davies, has raised $400,000 from Y Combinator partner Kevin Hale and Paul Reining. The company offers a Wattpad-like self-publishing experience – albeit with a superior design aesthetic – and a friction-free way to publish to Amazon and iBooks from your finished book. Read More -
Vaavud Takes To Kickstarter Again For A New Smartphone Wind Meter That Tracks Direction
Kickstarter has been around long enough that the Kickstarter double-dip is now a well-established thing – basically it’s the practice of a company returning to the crowdfunding well to secure the resources for a new product launch. The original Vaavud was a wind meter that required no power and plugged into your smartphone’s 3.5mm stereo input jack, but that actually… Read More -
Email Marketing Company PulseConnect Becomes PostUp, Founder Joshua Baer Returns
Email marketing company PulseConnect is getting a new name, PostUp, while at the same time reconnecting with its roots — specifically with founder Joshua Baer, who’s joining PostUp’s board of directors. The company has a rather convoluted history. It was founded as Skylist back in 1996, then acquired by digital marketing company PulsePoint in 2005. At the beginning of this… Read More -
SoundCloud Lands On Sonos
Sonos has today announced yet another way for you to listen to the music you love, wirelessly of course, in your home. SoundCloud, the social sharing platform for audio, has joined Sonos as a music partner and goes live today as a beta for Sonos users. For those of you who are not familiar with Sonos, the company sells a wireless hifi speaker system taht includes multiple speakers and a… Read More -
Finally, A Way To Find Movies Worth Watching On Netflix
Netflix is like the candy dish at your grandmother’s house. Most of the movies are crap, but you know, buried somewhere in there, is something worth your time. A Better Queue is a site dedicated to finding the Werther’s Originals in Netflix based on Rotten Tomatoes ratings. Read More -
HotelQuickly Raises $4.5 Million To Double-Down On Last Minute Hotel Booking In Asia-Pacific
Last-minute hotel booking app HotelQuickly — whose founding team includes two ex-Rocket Internet executives — has raised a further $4.5 million in funding as it doubles-down on the Asia-Pacific market — and, perhaps in the longer-term, keep San Francisco-based and heavily-funded HotelTonight at bay when and if it enters the region. Read More -
mNectar Raises $7M For New Kinds Of Mobile Ads That Let People Test-Drive Apps
First, there were teeny mobile banner ads pioneered by companies like AdMob, which Google bought for $750 million. Then there were full-screen interstitial ads. Those gave way to mobile video ads and then Facebook’s behemoth of a targeted mobile ad network. So what’s next in mobile advertising? Read More
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Googler, And Former DARPA Director, Regina Dugan Joins Zynga’s Board Of Directors
Zynga is announcing a new addition to its board of directors — Regina E. Dugan, vice president of engineering and head of the Advanced Technology and Projects group at Google. In a memo sent to the company’s employees, CEO Don Mattrick said Dugan will be “a true catalyst for creative thinking at Zynga.” As highlighted at the recent Google I/O developer conference… Read More -
Tinder’s Sean Rad To Join Us At Disrupt SF 2014
Sean Rad, the co-inventor of the hottest dating game in the land, will be joining us onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2014 to chat about the success of Tinder and its plans for monetization. Tinder is also currently the subject of a lawsuit served by its former VP of Marketing Whitney Wolfe, which we have covered here. The app in its present iteration has been around since 2012, but… Read More -
Burned
It’s hard to write a story without a protagonist, but here goes. In the past week, Tinder’s former VP of Marketing Whitney Wolfe filed a complaint with the California courts claiming that she was sexually harassed and discriminated against at work, stripped of her co-founder title, and pushed out of the company unfairly. The challenge in telling this story, as is very common… Read More -
Polymo’s New iPhone App Helps You Pre-Organize Your Photos
A number of tech companies over the years have attempted to solve the challenges around organizing our ever-growing photo collections. Some offer better tools at curating or sharing photos with friends, while others have focused more on the storage aspects. Now a startup called Polymo is aiming to address the problem from a mobile perspective, with a new app that introduces the concept of… Read More -
Expect Labs Releases API For Better Voice Controls And Content Discovery
TechCrunch Startup alumni Expect Labs has just released a turnkey solution to allow developers to add a voice interface with just a few lines of code. Called MindMeld, the API leans on the company’s extensive work with voice search and natural voice analysis. Building a recipe app and want an easy way for your users to search for potato salads? The MindMeld API can help. Read More -
Urban Airship CEO Steps Down Amid Sexual Assault Allegations
Scott Kveton, the co-founder and CEO of push notification company Urban Airship, has stepped down amid allegations of sexual assault. In a memo sent to employees, and also posted here on the Urban Airship website, Kveton writes that he had been considering leaving the company for a while, and an exec search firm was already looking for his replacement. However, this situation accelerated… Read More -
David Tisch’s Stealthy Mobile Commerce Product, Spring, Closes $7.5M Series A
David Tisch has been quietly working on a project called Jello Labs for over a year. He hasn’t said much about what the product will be, other than that it involves mobile commerce. However, today we can shed a bit more light on the super stealth project. For one, the product is actually called Spring, with Jello Labs being more of a company name or a placeholder name. Read More -
DIY Website Builder Wix Launches Email Newsletter Service
Wix has built a nice business for itself by giving people an easy way to build their own websites without the need to know HTML. Until now, however, if those users wanted to also send a newsletter, they had to go to services like MailChimp. Starting today, however, Wix users will be able to use the service to send email newsletters, too. Read More -
137 Ventures Raises $137M Second Fund To Offer Early Liquidity To Startup Execs
Secondary investment firm 137 Ventures is announcing that it has raised a $137 million new fund. (That number has to be intentional, right?) When the firm was founded in 2010, it was pitched as an alternative to selling stock on the secondary markets. Instead, it offered to make loans to founders and early employees, with their stock as collateral. Read More -
Zynstra Raises Another $8.4M In Funding To Bring Hybrid Cloud To SMEs
Zynstra, which offers ‘hybrid cloud’ solutions for small and medium sized enterprises, has raised a further $8.4 million of funding in a Series B round. This brings the total amount raised to just over $14.4 million. Read More
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