WeWork Partners With Chase To Offer Discounted Payments Services To Members
WeWork, the NYC tech darling valued at $5 billion, has today officially announced a partnership with Chase to offer WeWork members discounted rates and premium customer service with Chase Payments services (called Paymentech). Members who set up payments services for their businesses can bring in any three invoices from their current payments provider and WeWork, in conjunction with Chase… Read MoreLily Wants To Be The Personal Drone You Buy For Selfies
Lily is marketing to the family who wants an extra hand for documenting gatherings. Read MoreGilt Groupe Founder Kevin Ryan Unveils His Latest Startup With Kontor, A Houzz For Office Design
Serial entrepreneur Kevin Ryan has founded a number of businesses, including Gilt Groupe, Business Insider, database firm MongoDB, and wedding registry startup Zola. That experience has given him more insight than the average CEO as to what goes into designing and setting up a new office space. And today, that insider knowledge is being translated into Ryan’s latest company: a visual… Read MoreTherapy-By-Text Startup Talkspace Raises $9.5M Led By Spark Capital
Therapy startup Talkspace has spent the past year seeking to help users connect with mental health professionals through the company’s web and mobile apps. To continue growing its business, the company has raised a $9.5 million Series A round led by Spark Capital, with participation from SoftBank. Read MoreDuet Display Now Lets Your iPad Act As A Second Screen For Windows
Duet Display has added a feature that I frankly never thought it would get: Windows support! That means with the app and a Lightning cable you can use your iPad as a secondary display for your Windows PC or tablet. The app supports devices running either Windows 7 or Windows 8, letting you relish the extravagant advantage of multiple screens on the go even if you’re not cool enough to own… Read MoreFormer Facebook PM Who Had Attempted Everest Summit Raises $40K For Nepalese Villages
Parts of the tech community in San Francisco and New York are still reeling from the loss of Google’s Dan Fredinburg, a gregarious and idealistic engineer who was trying to summit the Mount Everest for the second time when a major earthquake struck, killing him. However, on a more hopeful note, one person who did survive the avalanche at Everest Base Camp has been traveling through… Read MoreApple Leads The Pack In Greenpeace’s 2015 Clean Tech Update
Apple continues to be a leader in environmental initiatives among tech companies, according to a new report issued by watchdog agency Greenpeace. Among the top 13 tech companies listed, Apple is the only one to score 100 percent on the Clean Energy Index, which includes all of its planned data centre expansions. This past year, Apple has announced plans to build a new data HQ in Arizona… Read MoreDocuSign Raises $233M Series F At $3B Valuation
DocuSign, a company best known for its work with secure identity and authentication, has raised a $233 million Series F round of capital, at what a source said was a roughly $3 billion valuation. The dollar amount — the company has now raised over $440 million — may seem staggering, but not to DocuSign’s CEO Keith Krach, who described DocuSign’s addressable business… Read MoreCredit Monitoring And Debt Management Service Credit Sesame Raises $16 Million
Personal finance company Credit Sesame is announcing today that it has raised an additional $16 million in an oversubscribed Series D round of funding, with plans to raise more – as much as $20 million – in the near future. The company, a prior TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield participant, was one of the first to market with solutions that allow consumers to monitor their credit… Read More
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Biotech Accelerator IndieBio Bumps Funding To $250K Per Startup To Give Founders More Runway
San Francisco-based biotech accelerator IndieBio has pledged to raise the funding per startup accepted into its program from $50,000 to $250,000 going forward. Each startup will now get $200,000 in cash plus $50,000 worth of co-op lab space to work with in order to give each startup a longer runway. That’s not just a significant raise from IndieBio, but one that topples Y… Read MoreChat App Tango Launches In-App Commerce Powered By Walmart And Alibaba
Mobile messaging app Tango is taking a leaf out of the Asian playbook with the launch of an in-app commerce service called Tango Shop. Read MoreMikMak Is The Smartphone-Based Reinvention Of The Infomercial
The word “infomercial” likely doesn’t inspire a lot of excitement out of you. But whether you’ll admit it or not, you (just like me) have been sucked into watching an infomercial or the Home Shopping Network (perhaps hosted by Mariah Carey) at least once. Read MoreSkype Translator Preview Now Available To All
Skype has removed the sign-up requirement for its Skype Translator Preview program, letting anyone download the app to their Windows 8.1 or Windows 10 preview-powered PC. Previously, you had to be approved to get the app, but now you can start using it right away without any special permissions required. Read MoreTunnelBear Packages Its VPN Service Into A Handy Google Chrome Extension
TunnelBear, the company responsible for one of the better looking and easiest to use VPNs, is making its service even more accessible after it introduced an extension for Google’s Chrome browser. Read MoreMaker Faire Goes Online With A New Social Network For Makers Called MakerSpace
There’s Maker Media, MakerCon, MakerShed, Make: magazine and 131 Maker Faire events that take place throughout the world. Now the founders of all these Makers want a way to connect what they refer to as the “maker movement” online. So Maker Media created a social network called MakerSpace, a Facebook-like social network that connects participants of Maker Faire in one… Read MoreSage Is On A Mission To Make Food Labels Smarter
Less confusing, more personalized and interactive food labeling is the worthy mission of a just launched data visualization platform called Sage. The idea spun out of New York-based designer, developer and founder Sam Slover’s personal interest in healthier eating. Read MoreFiftyThree Adds Think Kit, A New Toolset For Enterprise Users, To Its Paper App
FiftyThree, a startup focused on unlocking creativity on the iPad, is rolling out a new set of tools that it hopes will address a whole new set of users. With the introduction of its new Think Kit toolset in its Paper app, FiftyThree will extend its reach from creatives into business or education applications. Read MoreGoogle Says Its Self-Driving Cars Drive Better Than You
Google has been testing self-driving cars for years. Six years in fact, with a fleet of 20+ self-driving cars, which have self-driven almost a million miles over that period — and are now averaging around 10,000 self-driven miles per week. Read More
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