Vouch Helps Lower Interest Rates On Loans By Leveraging Your Social Network
Vouch Financial, a social lending startup founded by ex-PayPal and ex-Prosper alumni offering customers loans with lower interest rates, has raised $3 million in new funding, according to an SEC filing. The company also confirmed the investment details to us, noting that the round, led by Alex Rosen of IDG Ventures, actually closed last year but had yet to be disclosed. Other investors… Read MorePeeple Is A Smart Peephole To Upgrade Your Door With Caller ID
Meet Peeple, a connected peephole to screen who is knocking on your door. Whenever someone knocks on your door, Peeple snaps a picture and send it to your phone. This way, whether you are home or away, you can monitor who is passing by your home. Peeple is competing in our Hardware Battlefield at CES. Read MoreLive With TechCrunch At CES 2015
Press day is over. The monster companies — Samsung, LG, etc. — have had a chance to say their piece. And now, we focus on what’s really exciting: the little guys looking to make it big in the hardware game. Read MoreFandango Brings Its Web Video Series To Hulu
Fandango is known to most users as a web and mobile ticketing service, but it’s also been creating its own web TV shows. Today, at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, it’s announcing that those programs are coming to Hulu, in what Fandango says is its first partnership with a subscription video-on-demand service. The new channel on Hulu will feature Fandango’s… Read MoreSingaporean Data Analytics Startup TookiTaki Raises $1M To Expand In Asia-Pacific
TookiTaki, a Singaporean data analytics startup, announced today that it has raised $1 million in seed funding led by Jungle Ventures, with participation from Rebright Partners and Blume Ventures. The capital will be used to expand its service-as-a-software platform into new markets in Southeast Asia, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand.Read MoreiGrow Hair-Growth Helmet Looks Cool, Feels Totally Not Real
Bald and/or balding folks, listen up! A new company called Apira Science is ready to use low-light therapy to make your hair grow, or soon, make your face more beautiful. Sounds unreal? I felt the same way, and then I checked out the iGrow and the iDerma. The company says that the technology is approved by the FDA and has undergone extensive testing to verify its validity. All that said, the… Read MoreRyan Seacrest Pitches His Mobile Keyboard Startup Typo
TV and radio star Ryan Seacrest was at the Consumer Electronics Show tonight to talk about Typo, the mobile keyboard startup that he co-founded with CEO Laurence Hallier. Typo is showing off its upcoming keyboards for the iPad Air and iPad Mini, but my conversation with Seacrest focused more on the broader vision for the company and his experience with his first startup Read MoreTales Of CES: We Were Promised Flying Cars, We Got Washing Machines Instead
My first CES started a little bit more than 24 hours ago for me. As I wrote yesterday, I want to share my impressions of the show. I’ve been following CES for years, but seeing it in person is a much different experience — starting with press day. Press day at CES means that all the big names from Samsung to LG, Panasonic, Sharp are holding a press conference to announce their… Read MoreFacebook Acquires Wit.ai To Help Its Developers With Speech Recognition And Voice Interfaces
Facebook today acquired Wit.ai, a Y Combinator startup founded 18 months ago to create an API for building voice-activated interfaces. Wit.ai already has 6,000 developers on its platform who have built hundreds of apps. Wit.ai’s platform will remain open and free, which makes it seem that Facebook wants to use the technology to draw developers into its Build-Grow-Monetize loop where they… Read MoreTube Centrex Aims To Build Video Apps For YouTube Stars, Luxury Brands, And Others
Billing itself as “the world’s first cross device mobile and digital platform,” startup Tube Centrex is planning to help YouTube stars, media companies, and others build and monetize apps for their online videos Tube Centrex is led by Fahad Khan, previously founder of social marketing company One Public (where his younger brother Adil Khan is now president and CEO). Khan told… Read MoreKeith Rabois Leads $1.5 Million Round For “Even,” An Interest-Free, Mobile Alternative To Payday Loans
A startup whose first product is a mobile money management application called Even, designed to offer low-income workers interest-free credit to help them make ends meet in between paychecks, has raised $1.5 million in a seed round led by Keith Rabois of Khosla Ventures, with participation from other investors. The service is meant to offer hourly, and generally part-time workers an… Read More
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