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New Technology And Big Data Help You Breathe Fresh Air
Breezometer was conceived because CEO Ran Korber wanted to buy a house. He knew that air pollution caused health problems and he knew that in his native Israel — as with most developed countries — pollution is measured in real time, often at a street-by-street level. Yet, while local school and tax information was available in exhaustive detail for property buyers, there was no… Read More -
Ex-Beats Music CEO’s New App “Chosen” Is A Mobile-First American Idol
Sing, yodel, or shred guitar into your phone, and get famous. That’s the idea behind performance competition platform Chosen, founded by former Gracenote, MOG, and Beats Music CEO David Hyman. The startup’s been in stealth since its formation late last year, but Hyman agreed to give me the first details about what Chosen’s actually up to. First off, Chosen’s just raised… Read More -
Limdesk Is A Customer Support Center In A Box
Okay, not really in a box because that would be cruel to the support personnel but still putting customer support people in boxes would probably be more efficient if you put some holes in the box and fed them. But that’s not what we’re talking about. We’re talking about Limdesk.com. Based in Poland, the software allows you to create a simple client-management system… Read More -
London Startup CheckoutSmart, A Grocery Cashback App Similar To Groupon’s Snap, Scores £1.5M Funding
London-based CheckoutSmart, a cashback app for UK supermarket shoppers — and similar to Groupon’s Canada and U.S.-only Snap — has raised a £1.5 million round of funding. Not only is the startup founded by Chris Howarth (who previously founded and exited retail analytics company Retail Insight) but the list of backers is also noteworthy, given their experience in the… Read More -
Thanx Gets $4.7 Million From Sequoia, Partners With Visa And MasterCard
Customer loyalty program startup Thanx launched today with both a Visa and MasterCard partnership and $4.7 million in Series A funding from Sequoia Capital. An earlier seed round from SoftTech VC of $1.3 million brings the total funding raised to $6 million. Read More -
Intel Capital Leads $35M Investment In Social Login Service Gigya
Gigya, a company that helps online businesses and publishers manage customer logins, is announcing that it has raised $35 million in a funding round led by Intel Capital. CEO Patrick Salyer told me that this was a strategic investment from Intel. It’s too early to get specific about how the two companies plan to work together, he said, but on a broad level, Salyer argued that the idea… Read More -
BeON Home’s Smart Lightbulbs Aim To Out-Smart An Intruder
Currently being crowd funded on Kickstarter, the BeON Burglar Deterrent is a set of LED-lightbulbs based on the premise that crime prevention is favourable over crime detection. Read More -
Paracosm Raises $3.3M From Atlas, iRobot To Turn Our World Into A 3D Holodeck
The rise of immersive headsets like the Oculus VR, innovations in gaming and mapping, and advances in robotics have put a spotlight on three-dimensional technology, whose algorithms and visualizations will be a key to whether all this new hardware and video-based software is realistic and useful enough to win over users. That’s having a knock-on effect how 3D startups are… Read More -
Fear And Laundry In London As Rocket Internet’s ZipJet Launches In The U.K. Capital City
If there’s one thing likely to cause fear amongst European startup entrepreneurs, it’s when Rocket Internet — the Samwer brothers’ incredibly well-funded German startup factory — enters a burgeoning market. That’s just happened for the on-demand laundry space with the launch of Rocket Internet-incubated ZipJet, which now competes with a number of young… Read More -
Cocoon Is A Smart Home Security Device That Uses Infrasonic Sound To Detect An Intruder
Consumer home security devices usually consist simply of an Internet-connected camera of sorts, combined with motion detection and a supporting cloud service and smartphone app to ping you when a potential intruder is detected. Debuting on IndieGoGo today, however, is Cocoon, which adds ‘infrasound’ into the mix. Read More
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