Pinterest Debuts A New “Pin It” Button Designed To Speed Up Bookmarking
Last summer, Pinterest acquired a visual discovery site called Icebergs, and today that team is showing off what it’s been up to, having since relocated from Spain to San Francisco. While over the past several months, Pinterest’s focus has been on improving search and discovery on its site, the former Iceberg team members have been working to improve the process involved with… Read MoreZappRx Raises $5.6 Million In Series A Funding To Expand The Company
Pharmacy coordination platform ZappRx announced it has raised $5.6 million in Series A funding today. The new financing will go to further build upon ZappRx’s prescription data automation technology and help to scale operations for the startup. ZappRx solves a unique dilemma in the prescription medication industry. Read MoreCodeFights Scores $2.4 Million To Turn Coding Practice Into A Game
A startup that turns practicing your programming skills into a game, CodeFights, has just raised $2.4 million in seed funding to further develop its real-time, social game where developers can participate in “code battles” versus either a timed clock or other opponents directly. While the site has only been live for around six months, already 70,000 users have shown up and have… Read MoreConceivable’s New App Puts A Fertility Clinic In Your Pocket
For women struggling to conceive, in vitro fertilization can be a successful, but also fairly expensive, option. At approximately $15,000 per cycle, and requiring two cycles on average before it works, it’s still beyond the reach of many couples. A new app called Conceivable, launching today, is offering a different option. This subscription-based service delivered through a mobile… Read MoreRithm Music Messenger Transitions Into A Legit Streaming Service
Nearly two years ago, MavenSay pivoted focus away from its main personal recommendations app to something a bit more musical in the form of Rithm. Rithm is a standalone app that lets users send each other music-based messages, with clips from searchable songs, pics, text, and even animated dancing emojis. Today, Rithm is getting an update that transforms it into a lightweight music… Read MoreAn Ex-Googler Launches An In-Home Care Startup Called Honor And Raises $20 Million
Seth Sternberg, who sold a messaging service to Google for around $100 million, is launching a new startup centered around in-home care — and has raised a ton of money to build it. Honor, a combination of an online service that connects in-home caregivers, seniors and their families, has raised $20 million from what reads like an A-list of Silicon Valley. The company raised $15… Read MoreVia Raises $27M For Its Flat-Rate $5 Urban Carpool-Style Ride Sharing Service
Uber‘s growth has taken the company into many categories of transportation, from simple car services for individuals through to courier deliveries. Now, a startup out of New York called Via has raised $27 million to take Uber on in one specific area: ridesharing services for people in urban areas. With a flat rate of $5 for prepaid rides (and $7 for those you order on the fly)… Read MoreHudl Scores $72.5M From Accel To Rally Teams To Its Sports Video Coaching Tool
You might not have heard of Hudl, but it’s how 100,000 sports teams spent $30 million last year to review game tape on mobile. Hudl never raised institutional funding since starting in 2006, but it’s quietly amassed 1 billion video clips and 3.5 million users across 40 countries. Now it’s ready to trounce its competitors with a jaw-dropping $72.5 million round of funding led… Read MoreLondon’s Startups Hit A High Of $682M In VC Funding In Q1 2015
Startups in Silicon Valley, the epicenter of the tech world, and the U.S. overall have seen an unprecedented amount of investment as consumers and businesses buy into more online services, and investors flock to fund the next big thing. But the ripples of that trend are being felt elsewhere, too. A new report says that London chalked up a record $682.5 million of investment in the first… Read MoreCommunity-Based Car Rental Service Drivy Grabs Another $8.6 Million, Acquires Buzzcar
French startup Drivy raised $8.6 million (€8 million) from Bpifrance, Via-ID as well as existing investors Index Ventures and Alven Capital. The company is also acquiring its smaller competitor Buzzcar for an undisclosed amount. As a reminder, Drivy lets you rent a car from anyone, usually for less than what it would cost you in a brick-and-mortar car rental agency. In addition to spending… Read MoreFormer Motionloft CEO Jon Mills Sentenced To 24 Months In Prison For Wire Fraud
Founder and former Motionloft CEO Jon Mills has been found guilty on two counts of wire fraud, and ordered to serve 24 months in jail. In addition, he was ordered to pay $6,000 in fines and to pay restitution to his victims in the amount of $572,039. Read More
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