JustWatch Debuts A New Search Engine For Cord Cutters
More people than ever are cutting their ties to big cable, and opting to either cut the cord, or just dramatically pare down their cable TV packages. According to Nielsen’s data, the top 40 cable channels have lost an average of 3.2 million subscribers over the past four years. That leaves room for startups catering to the needs of these viewers, who have either replaced or now… Read MoreAfter Raising $1.3M On Indiegogo, Airtame Closes $1.4M Seed Funding To Scale Up Wireless HDMI Dongle
Investors are wont to follow. It therefore shouldn’t be a surprise to see Airtame pick up a VC round of funding. Read MoreTrialReach Raises $13.5M Series B To Match Patients To Clinical Trials
TrialReach is an interesting startup on a number of fronts. Firstly, the company is based in London but does most of its business in the “fast-moving” U.S. healthcare market. Secondly, and more significantly, it’s using technology to solve a very human problem and one of the biggest obstacles in medical research: matching the right patients with the right clinical trials. Read MoreHeartThis Lets You Shop All Your Favorite Stores From Just One App
A new mobile application called HeartThis wants to make shopping across multiple retailers more convenient for smartphone users. The app, which is making its official debut later today on stage at StartX’s Demo Day, puts over 330 stores in one place, allowing you to buy from places like Dillard’s, Nordstrom, Kohl’s, J Crew, Target, and many more, as well as see if there… Read MoreHey Kids, Restream Lets You Stream Your Gaming Sessions To Multiple Video Sites At Once
Enter Restream.io, a self-funded startup from Ukraine that’s built a cloud service to let you stream your video gaming sessions (or any video feed) to multiple video sites all at once, without the additional CPU and bandwidth overhead that is normally required. Read MoreIndustrial Toys Launches Midnight Star, Its Mobile Reinvention Of The First-Person Shooter
For the past couple of years, the team at Industrial Toys has been talking about building mobile games for the “core” gaming audience — the kind of player who’s more interested in shooting aliens on their Xbox than flinging Angry Birds on their iPhone. Today, the company is launching its first game, Midnight Star. Alex Seropian is Industrial Toys’ CEO —… Read MoreTechCrunch Meetups Are Coming To Atlanta And Boston
The TechCrunch Meetups in Atlanta and Boston are approaching rapidly, which means that you need to move fast if you don’t want to be left out. In case you haven’t heard of the TC Meetups before, here’s a quick refresher: We’ve been running regional TechCrunch Meetups for the past three years in various cities across the globe. The purpose is to bring together the… Read MoreCemetery Drones And On-Demand Cookies: Meet 500 Startups’ New Batch
Diversity of ideas and founders is the 500 Startups way. So it’s fitting that the accelerator’s 11th Mountain View batch would feature an extraordinarily wide range of companies; from those tackling huge problems like recruiting and health in the Arab world, to more “niche to win” businesses focused on picture framing or cookie delivery. Investors I spoke to… Read MoreGroupAhead Gives Member-Based Organizations Their Own Mobile App
There are a number of ways member-based organizations can network online – Facebook, shared calendars, Meetup.com, etc. – but these groups today still struggle to keep members engaged and informed about upcoming events and other activities. A startup called GroupAhead is working to solve those challenges by introducing a platform that allows any organization to have their own… Read MoreVilynx Can Now Insert Super-Short Video Ads Into Its Super-Short Video Previews
Startup Vilynx pitches itself as a way for publishers to attract more eyeballs for their videos through a unique preview format. Now it’s trying help those publishers make money, too, through advertising. The exact look of the previews can vary, but the basic idea is that instead of just using static thumbnail images, Vilynx creates a five-second video preview that can, for example… Read MoreHomeLight Raises $3M More To Help Homebuyers And Sellers Find Real Estate Agents
HomeLight, a startup to help those trying to buy or sell their homes find the right real estate agent, has raised $3 million in new funding. The startup, which launched in November 2012, analyzes home sales data to determine an agent’s strengths and weaknesses. It then uses that information to deliver recommendations when you search based on things like city, neighborhood, property type… Read More
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