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SumoMe Is An App Store For Tools To Grow Your Online Traffic
“The first app store for websites” — that’s how AppSumo co-founder Noah Kagan describes the company’s new-ish product SumoMe. What does that actually mean? Basically, Kagan aims to create a one-stop shop (yes, it’s a cliché, but one I feel justified using since it’s a literal store) where people can find tools to improve their websites. Just add just… Read MorePinterest Adds A Few Tools To Integrate More Easily With Squarespace
Squarespace users this afternoon will get a set of tools that will enable them to more easily publish content to Pinterest and gather data about the traffic those pins are driving to their site. Previously, adding Pinterest tools like the Pin It button would require a small amount of code added directly to the site, but the new integration has built it into the user interface of the… Read MoreAirbnb Hopes To Have Almost A Million Stays A Night By Summer
Over 500k people are staying in an Airbnb tonight. And the company hopes to have nearly 800k staying in one by this summer. CEO Brian Chesky gave these numbers at Code today, revealing his wide-eyed plan for the housing yield-management startup. In addition to wanting there to be a million stays by summer, Chesky expressed his desire for Airbnb to own all experiences around a vacation. Read MoreHow To Practice Good Design
I love design and startup and I firmly believe magical companies emerge when these two meet, e.g. Braun, Apple, Airbnb, Medium, YouTube, Square, and Nest. The critical mass of combined business, design and technical skills have made these companies incredibly successful. But I always feel people overcomplicate design with their multiple principles and frameworks. Read MoreEllen Pao Says Silicon Valley Isn’t A Meritocracy. It’s Not.
Reddit CEO Ellen Pao took the stage today at the Code Conference in Southern California. Though she is currently the CEO of popular news aggregator Reddit, which has 170 million monthly active users, Pao is perhaps best known for bringing to trial a gender discrimination and retaliation lawsuit against her former employer, Kleiner Perkins, this spring. Read MoreFoursquare Ups Recommendation Game With Latest Update
Foursquare has today released an update that is meant to improve recommendations for users. Though it doesn’t look all that different, the app has been given an under-the-hood makeover. Foursquare is now using even more information about you — places you’ve been, liked, saved, tastes, and people you follow — to determine what your homescreen should show you each time… Read MoreOnline Auto Sales Startup Carvana Is Raising $300 Million To Expand Nationwide
Used car sales are heating up online, with huge amounts of cash pouring into an industry that has yet to be disrupted by technology. A company called Carvana is in the process of raising a huge round of growth funding as it seeks to improve the process and reduce the price of buying a used car online. Read MoreMobile Banking Startup Monese Picks Up Backing From Seedcamp, SmartCap, And Spotify’s Shakil Khan
Now news comes of another U.K. banking startup: Monese is a soon-to-launch mobile banking service for immigrants and expats who might otherwise find it difficult to open a bank account outside of their originating country. Read MoreBellabeat Starts Shipping The Leaf, A Health Tracker Designed For Women
Bellabeat, a company that makes a line health trackers and other devices aimed at women, including especially moms and moms-to-be, today begins shipping its first wearable: a piece of “smart jewelry” called the Leaf. The device, which can be worn as a brooch, necklace or bracelet, allows women to record their activity, sleep, stress and reproductive health with the help of an… Read More
Speakers At The Europas Conference And Awards Reflect Europe’s Diversity, June 16, London
The Europas Conference & Awards for European Tech Startups, on June 16 in London, is an annual celebration of Europe’s brightest tech companies. From a small bar in central London in 2009, it’s become a fixture of the European scene, with its highly curated daytime speakers and audience, which combines the key startup players in Europe, as well as the hottest newcomers… Read MoreShift Messenger, Designed To Help Co-Workers Share Schedules, Raises $1.5M Seed Round
Managing and trading shifts is one of the most onerous tasks faced by retail employees, especially since many don’t have set hours. Shift Messenger, a Y Combinator alum, launched earlier this year to give workers a communication tool specifically designed to help them manage their schedules. Now the startup has raised a $1.5 million seed round. Read MoreAirware And DJI/Accel Launch Drone Investment Funds
Airware makes a flexible drone operating system. DJI makes the top consumer drones. But they need to bundle up with industry-specific hardware and software makers to sell whole commercial drone packages to big construction, oil, and insurance companies. So by some cosmic coincidence, both are separately launching commercial drone investment funds today. Airware is announcing the Commercial… Read MoreYC-Backed Gradberry Unveils A Recruiting AI That Analyzes Engineering Candidates And Their Code
How much of the hiring process can you automate? That’s a question that a couple of YC-backed companies are striving to answer in the technical recruiting space. Gradberry, a recruiting platform that counts 3,000 engineers as users, is launching TARA, an artificial intelligence engine that scans candidates’ code and shortlists worthy ones automatically. “The whole idea… Read MoreCampanda, The Booking Platform For RVs, Scores €5M Funding
Berlin-based Campanda, which offers an online booking site for RVs (that’s motorhomes and trailers, to you and me) has raised €5 million in further funding. Read MoreLocation-Based Marketing Startup Ubimo Gets $7.5M To Create Ad Campaigns Using Real-Time Data
Many brands now rely on location-based marketing, which sends consumers ads based on which stores or venues are nearby. Founded by former Googlers, Ubimo incorporates additional data points, including weather and local events, to make ads more relevant and result in higher conversion rates. Read MoreAs Agriculture Tech Heats Up, Farm Management Startup VitalFields Scores Further $1.2M Funding
Perhaps spurred on by Monsanto’s acquisition of Climate Corporation in 2013, the agriculture tech (or agtech) space looks set to continue heating up, not leasts in the eyes of investors. Today, Estonia-based farm management startup VitalFields has raised an, albeit modest, Series A round of $1.2 million. Read MoreBusiness Currency Exchange Startup Kantox Raises $11M Series B
Another London-headquartered fintech startup, albeit one with a development and marketing team in Spain, has raised more capital of its own. This time it’s the turn of Kantox. Read MoreThe TechCrunch Meetup + Pitch-Off Is Coming To Austin And Seattle In June
TechCrunch is headed to Austin and Seattle on June 23 and June 25 respectively, and we’re stoked to see what some of our favorite cities have to show us. We’ll be holding the world famous TechCrunch Pitch-Off, where about ten companies will have exactly sixty seconds to pitch their product live on stage. Alongside the input of the audience, local VCs and TechCrunch editors will hold… Read MoreNotion Pulls In $2M For Its Connected Home Sensors
Home sensor startup Notion, which last fall Kickstarted its first batch of sensors for in-home monitoring, has pulled in a $2 million seed investments from Draper Nexus Ventures, Gabriel Investments, Galvanize Ventures, Foundry Group Angels and TechStars. Read MorePitch Your Startup Live In The TC Radio Pitch-Off On Sirius XM
Today is Tuesday, which means that we’ll be making our usual trek up to the Sirius XM studios to go live with TechCrunch Radio on Sirius XM Insight 121. That also means that the weekly TC Radio Pitch-Off is going down tonight at 630pm, with five companies taking 60 seconds each to pitch their product to a panel of judges, including myself, Anthony Ha, and a special guest VC judge. But… Read More
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