VCs Find Fertile Ground In Women’s Health
Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and investors may be predominately male, but they’re fully attuned to the women’s health market. Mobile health apps have become increasingly popular as consumers seek to monitor every aspect of their lives through their mobile devices. In the past few quarters, apps targeting women’s health are topping the charts in terms of popularity and… Read More-
Harnessing Big Data For Social Good, YC-Backed Nonprofit Bayes Impact Launches
Andrew Jiang, Paul Duan and Eric Liu, the three founders of Y Combinator’s latest nonprofit, Bayes Impact, aren’t your typical entrepreneurs. The three data scientists had previously worked on some of the toughest problems facing all technology companies in the Internet era — how to get more people to click on more stuff. But in recent years they’d turned their… Read More -
With A Mobile App, MTailor Offers Custom-Fit Tailored Shirts For Just $69
Custom shirts aren’t not cheap — going to a tailor to get a shirt fitted and made costs real money. MTailor wants to change that by offering affordable, custom-fit clothing. It can do that because it removes much of the cost associated with taking customers’ measurements by measuring them via mobile apps. Read More -
TellApart Buys Freshplum To Chase You With Personalized Shopping Discounts
Promo codes are dangerous. Rather than seducing customers, people already planning to buy will find and use them to knock a few dollars off a retailer’s profits. But Google Ventures-backed startup Freshplum lets ecommerce sites offer personalized, exclusive discounts just to visitors who look like they wouldn’t make a purchase otherwise. Today, adtech powerhouse TellApart… Read More -
Announcing ‘The Road To Disrupt’ Video Series
Three times per year, TechCrunch activity converges in a flurry around the Disrupt conference for a few jam-packed days showing off the best and brightest in tech. The mornings at Disrupt are filled with sit-down interviews with some of the tech industry’s biggest established minds as well as its rising stars. And every afternoon, the Startup Battlefield gives the audience a glimpse into… Read More -
cPulse Is An Android Smartphone Case That Packs 128 Multicoloured And Programable LED Lights
As smartphone makers look to bring innovation even to the backside of our phones, adding all sorts of extra functionality to otherwise dormant real-estate, it’s perhaps no surprise to see third-party case-makers think along similar lines. But Codlight’s cPulse, which kicks off its Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign today, has to be one of the more ambitious and garish efforts to date. Read More -
Airfy’s Beacon Wants To Make The Smart Home Smarter
Berlin-based Airfy, maker of the Airfy WiFi router that our very own John Biggs called one of the sexiest Wi-Fi routers he’d ever seen (and the man has doubtless seen a lot of WiFi routers), is launching a crowdfunding campaign for a new product today. Rather than tackling the ugliness and (often) stupidity of WiFi routers, the Airfy Beacon is an attempt at making the smart home… Read More -
WunWun Slashes Pricing To Compete With Other On-Demand Delivery Services
Going up against big players like PostMates, Uber Rush, and even Seamless, WunWun is looking to make even more of a dent in the on-demand delivery space with a switch-up on pricing. WunWun is a mobile app that asks you what you want, where you want it to be delivered, and simply asks you to push a button. WunWun helpers will get whatever you request, text you throughout the process with… Read More -
Minuum Demos Non-Annoying Text Entry On An Android Wear Watch
The Android Wear devices currently available let you respond to texts as well as read them – but they employ either voice-based input or canned responses to do so, and neither is entirely ideal. A whole host of alternative keyboard makers will likely try to deliver alternate solutions, but Minuum is among the first to offer a working solution. In the video above, you can see how it… Read More -
Snapchat Adds Geofilters For Quick Image Location Tags, And A New Revenue Possibility
Snapchat has added a new feature to its app starting today that will offer special image filters depending on your location. All you need to do to activate them is swipe right from the preview screen after you take a photo, and you’ll receive a text or graphic sticker overlaid on your pic. The location-based filters were drawn up specifically for locations in LA and NYC to begin with… Read More
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Tok Tok Tok Hires Former Carrefour CFO Eric Reiss To Head The European Delivery Startup
Conventional wisdom has it that Tok Tok Tok is an idea that can’t work. In a few taps, you can order anything you want in Paris, but it will cost you between €5 or €10 depending on where you are. So why would you order a fine burger from Big Fernand if there is a 30 percent premium on the final price? Some users already order dozens of times per month, but the startup has bigger… Read More -
MedXT’s Platform Brings Medical Imaging In Line With Today’s Cloud Technology
Today MedXT launches its cloud platform for medical imaging, which brings the workflows of radiologists and technicians in line with the rest of us by bridging imaging equipment already installed at hospital and clinics with our electronic health records. Read More -
Flat Club Launches ‘Priceline For P2P Rental’, Allows Guests To Post Requests
Appartment rentals and sharing startup Flat Club has launched a radically new function which we think is pretty cool. It’s created a sort of ‘Priceline for peer to peer rentals’ called LiveDemand. Instead of hosts posting listings, guests post requests for accommodation and hosts then can pick and choose which guests to make offers to. Peer to peer marketplaces like… Read More -
Squink Lets You Print A Circuit Board For The Price Of A Cup Of Coffee
3D printing has changed the way engineers test products, allowing them to cut down on time and costs. But what about 3D printing the components that go into most of these products? Read More -
Toonimo Raises $2.5M To Liven Up Websites With Custom Cartoons
Toonimo, a startup that says it can make websites more engaging and lucrative by adding custom animations, is announcing that it has raised $2.5 million in funding. The idea is that online visitors might appreciate having a cartoon character who can point out the important parts of a website and walk them through some of the trickier bits — and that, in turn, can lead to increased sales. Read More -
Floret Is A Gamified Dating App For Virtual Romance
There’s surely no shortage of dating apps out there, but for those of us who wish to arm ourselves with every weapon in the potential arsenal, might I introduce Floret. Floret is a new dating app that focuses on a common problem known as the Stable Marriage Problem, which essentially means that elements in a group are matched based on preferences, without any two elements in the… Read More -
Save $9, Here Are The TechCrunch Staff’s Email Addresses
I hate email. But there’s one thing I hate even more: people selling my email address. Currently trending at the top of Product Hunt, Pressfarm is an email database for tech journalists — and it’s not free. After creating an account, you can pay $9 a month to get access to a curated list of email addresses of people working for publications such as Business Insider, Re/code… Read More -
Please Join Us For The 9th Annual August Capital Party In Silicon Valley
TechCrunch’s annual summer soirée is almost here. As in years past, August Capital will host TechCrunch and hundreds of local investors, founders and developers at its sunny office on Sand Hill Road. All are welcome to the August 1 event, but space is very limited. Read More -
With $1 Million In Funding, Sr.Pago Is Ready To Serve Mexico’s Unbanked
A startup called SrPago wants to serve unbanked residents of Mexico with a mobile point-of-sale system that includes a Square-like card reader, mobile apps for managing payments they receive, and a prepaid debit card that gives them instant access to funds that they’re paid. Read More -
The LifeTip Doesn’t Need To Touch You To Know Your Heart
You can’t swing a dead cat around without hitting a new wearable fitness tracker, and the latest to join the herd is called the LifeTip. Recently launched on Indiegogo, the LifeTip doesn’t require any contact with the skin to work, and hooks into a woman’s bra or a man’s shirt. It reads all the standard stuff — activity, calories burned, and steps — but… Read More
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