Bumble Dating App Tops 1 Million Unique Conversations
Bumble, the dating app founded by ex-Tinder employees, announced that its female users have started more than one million conversations on the platform. Bumble is a dating app that prescribes to the Sadie Hawkins style of dating. Men and women swipe left or right on each other, just like on Tinder, but once a match is established, only females can initiate conversations. This takes the… Read MoreGin Lane Creative Studio Opens Joint Venture Arm
You might not have heard of Gin Lane, but chances are you’ve come into contact with their work. The design and development studio helps some of the biggest consumer brands in the world build products, and today Gin Lane is taking more of a stake in those products. The company announced that it will open up a joint venture segment in its own shop, taking as much as 20 to 50 percent of… Read MoreOculus Shows Flagship Games Like Space Shooter EVE Valkyrie, Will Invest $10M Into Indie Titles
Oculus today announced its Rift headset will ship with an Xbox One controller. To make sure you’ll have something to play with it, Oculus worked with EVE Online developer CCP Games to make EVE Valkyrie, a spaceship shooter, Gunfire Games to make atmospheric RPG Chronos, and Insomniac Games to make snow world exploration title Edge Of Nowhere. Oculus says it’s working with a wide… Read More8tracks Closes $2.5 Million Debt Line, Signs More Direct Licensing Deals With Music Labels
Music streaming service 8tracks has been profitable since 2012, but wants to move faster. For its new round of funding, the company chose to secure a $2.5 million debt financing from Silicon Valley Bank. As a reminder, 8tracks is a library of modern mixtapes, as anyone can create and listen to user-generated playlists based on genres and moods. The company recently moved into direct… Read MoreHomeSuite Raises $2.3M To Provide Corporate Housing A Quarter At A Time
HomeSuite CEO David Adams wants to give people forced to move an easy way to stay somewhere nice for the duration of their visit or acclimation to a new city. His startup focuses on finding furnished and corporate housing for users, who typically sign up for leases of four to five months. Read MoreVettery Raises $1.7M And Officially Launches Its Job Marketplace
As companies vie for top-tier talent, New York City startup Vettery is offering an alternative to the traditional recruiting process. Although Vettery is officially launching its marketplace today, a beta version has already been up and running for a couple of months, and the company has already worked with companies that are well-known in the local scene, including Jet, Casper, Etsy, Blue… Read More- CRUNCH NETWORK
Startups Are Hard In 100 Different Ways
The most important part of your startup is your brain. If your brain is not okay, then you are not okay and your startup will also not be okay. As a founder, your brain’s most common state will be stressed out. Anxiety, worry, and sleeplessness are expected. This is because you are trying to do something big with limited resources and time. Read More Menlo Ventures Brings On Matt Murphy
Matt Murphy, who left his role as a general partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers earlier this year, is joining Menlo Ventures as a managing director. Murphy will be focusing on enterprise infrastructure and mobile first apps that apply to either consumer or the enterprise. In terms of the “mobile first apps” part, he pointed to applications like Slack and DocuSign as… Read MorePersonali, A Service That Works To Optimize Discounts Online, Raises $12M
Personali, an online service that retailers can use to adjust prices and discounts in real time, said it has raised $12 million in a round led by Norwest Venture Partners. Retailers can integrate Personali code into their online commerce presence. When a customer visits a page, the retailer will check with the rules that Personali has created for a specific product, which is based on things… Read More
The Austin And Seattle Meetups Are In Two Weeks, So SUIT UP!
You don’t really need to put on a suit, but you do need to hurry. Tickets are selling out quick and I don’t want you to miss out. TechCrunch is headed to Austin and Seattle and the pitch-off applications are closed, which means that there is one thing left for you to do: Buy tickets. We’ll hit up Austin on June 23 and head to our usual spot, Palm Door on Sixth Street, at… Read MoreHotelTonight Expands Location-Based Offers With GeoRates And HT Escape
Today HotelTonight announced the launch of two new features, HT Escape and GeoRates. HT Escape is a simpler way to book a quick driving-distance getaway. While you could always manually view rates at cities nearby, the new feature will curate hotels from a selection of cities that are both nearby and offering low upcoming prices. Read MoreAndroid Game Console Maker Ouya In Talks To Be Acquired By Razer
We’re hearing that Razer, which creates laptops and other gaming hardware, is in the process of acquiring Kickstarter-backed Android console maker Ouya. TechCrunch couldn’t learn the terms of the deal, which we’ve heard are still in flux, but the acquisition would bring to a close the tale of a very early first-mover in the market of set-top gaming consoles outside of… Read More- CRUNCH NETWORK
Data, Startups And Doing Things That Matter
Prominent voices in technology journalism are criticizing the global startup community for building software products and services that cater to the 1% or have zero societal value. They claim that curated shopping services are not really revolutionary; that food delivery services aren’t changing the world; and that ridesharing is nice but not exactly earth shattering. And, clearly… Read More Local ID Raises $1.9M To Help Big Chains Get Smarter About Their Local Marketing
Marketing startup Local ID is announcing a $1.9 million seed round. The company was founded last year and, according to CEO Alex Nocifera, aims to help large businesses manage their marketing across many individual locations. He said that even for a large chain, it’s often the local data that matters: “Major chains love local.” Read MoreIndian Programmer Exposes Code Injection, Gets A Cease And Desist From The Injectors
In an exciting example of the Streisand Effect, an Indian Airtel customer, Thejesh GN, discovered that the carrier had begun using Flash Networks Layer8 “monetization” (read “ad injection”) solutions. The code, which appeared on most mobile webpages downloaded via Airtel’s network, consists of a pair of basic JavaScript injectors. Thejesh published the code…Read MoreFashion Discovery And Shopping App Voonik Gets $5M From Sequoia And Seedfund
India is Asia’s fastest-growing e-commerce market and shoppers there face an increasingly unwieldy array of options from different sites. Voonik wants to make shopping for clothes and accessories easier by combining multiple stores on its platform and letting shoppers check out all items in a single transaction. The app just raised a $5 million series A from Sequoia Capital and… Read MorePax Labs Heats Up With $46.7 Million In Series C Funding
Pax Labs, the folks responsible for the Pax botanical vaporizer, have today announced a massive round of funding. The company is receiving $46.7 million in Series C financing led by existing investors, including Tao Capital and Sand Hill Angels, with participation from Fidelity Management & Research Company, Sivia Capital, and many more. The company plans to use the funding to expand… Read MoreDuolingo Raises $45 Million Series D Round Led By Google Capital, Now Valued At $470M
Duolingo, the free language learning service co-founded by reCAPTCHA inventor Luis von Ahn, today announced that it has raised a $45 million investment round led by Google Capital. The company’s previous investors, which include the likes of Union Square Ventures, NEA and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, as well as Ashton Kutcher and Tim Ferris, also participated in this round. Read MoreQuantcast Appoints Stephen Collins As Its New CFO
Online measurement and advertising company Quantcast has hired a new chief financial officer — Stephen Collins, former CEO at Bazaarvoice. Collins has also served as CFO at Bazaarvoice and DoubleClick, and he’s had an advisory role at Quantcast since 2012. He’s replacing Peter Kuipers, who became CFO at the end of last year. Quantcast says Kuipers “has left the company… Read MoreVine Updates Search Results To Include Actual Vines, Not Just Hashtags And People
Vine has today updated its app to include even better search results. When you go over to the Explore Tab, Vine will serve up the top results and the most recent posts for your search. Before, Vine would only return hashtags and usernames, but the new version of search shows actual content, including the most popular and the most recent posts that fit your criteria. It’s a minor update… Read More
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