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AppDirect Acquires Data Visualization Company Leftronic
Business app marketplace AppDirect announced today that it has acquired Leftronic, a data visualization startup that launched four years ago. Leftronic allows businesses to build custom dashboards visualizing important data. AppDirect co-CEO Daniel Saks told me that by integrating Leftronic’s visualizations, AppDirect can give its customers a dashboard for monitoring the status of… Read More -
As A Cohort of Bus Startups Emerge, Chariot Looks To Source New Routes Through Crowdfunding
After Uber and Lyft emerged to fundamentally challenge taxis and change on-demand transit, a wave of bus startups has cropped up to address group and scheduled transportation. Chariot, a bootstrapped San Francisco-based startup that got off the ground earlier this year with a line from the Marina to downtown is taking a slightly novel approach to generating ideas for new routes. Read More -
DogVacay, Airbnb For Dogs, Nabs $25M In Funding
DogVacay has just raised $25 million in Series B1 funding, according to a report from Fortune. DogVacay confirmed the funding to TechCrunch. The company, which provides a service to replace kennels for dog owners, has been operating since 2012 and has now raised a total of $47 million. One year and one month ago exactly, in October 2013, DogVacay raised a $15 million Series B led by… Read More -
SimplePrints Brings A Fast Photo Book Maker To Android
Outside of industry behemoths like Shutterfly, very few photo book makers are able to grow beyond a niche audience. San Francisco-based SimplePrints is hoping to buck that trend, having now grown its iOS photo printing app to a million installs, and hitting a milestone of nearly 100,000 orders and millions in revenue over the past 18 months. Now it’s expanding its service to Android. A… Read More -
Kidizen, A Mobile Marketplace For Secondhand “Kids’ Stuff” Raises Half A Million
Minneapolis-based Kidizen has raised just over half a million in funding for its mobile, peer-to-peer marketplace which allows parents to buy and sell their children’s clothing, toys, shoes and other easily shippable items. The idea is similar to secondhand clothing marketplace ThredUP and several more online consignment shops aimed adults – and typically women – like… Read More -
Boop Lets You Send Self-Destructing Animated Messages
Today sees the launch of Boop, a fun take on the self-destructing messaging idea. Namely, messages received via the iOS and Android app are displayed in animation form, one word at a time. Read More -
Business Collaboration Platform JANDI Raises $2M To Expand In Asia
Does the world need yet another enterprise collaboration tool? Startup JANDI thinks so, and SoftBank Ventures and Cherubic Ventures agree. The two firms have just led a $2 million angel round in the Korean-based startup. The capital will be used for product development and market expansion in Asia. Read More -
99.co Wants To Make Property Searches In Singapore’s Lucrative Real Estate Market Easier
Despite having a population of just 5.4 million, Singapore is one of the top 10 real estate markets in the world. New startup 99.co wants to grab a slice of the pie with a site that it says makes listings more transparent and navigable for potential renters and buyers. Read More -
ReservationHop Ditches Restaurant Reservations, Launches Scheduling Tool OK Shift
Hey, remember ReservationHop? You know, the much-criticized service that promised to sell restaurant reservations to users? Well, founder Brian Mayer is officially abandoning the idea. The service seemed to attract the hatred of pretty much every tech journalist on Twitter (or at least the ones I follow) back in July — in fact, it spurred our own Josh Constine to write a post asking… Read More -
Drawbridge Now Supports Connected TVs With Its Cross-Device Ad Targeting
Ad tech startup Drawbridge has been talking about its vision for targeting users across devices for a couple of years, but now it’s adding another device to the mix — Internet-connected TVs. This follows Drawbridge’s earlier announcement that it supports video ads. Co-founder and CEO Kamakshi Sivaramakrishnan told me that while connected TVs are a “niche” platform… Read More
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