Mobile App Letgo Raises $100 Million From Naspers To Take Over Classifieds In The U.S.
Can a mobile classified app topple the behemoth that is Craigslist? A company called letgo aims to find out. Its app, which lets users buy and sell items locally, has quietly grown to over 2 million downloads since its launch earlier this year. And today, the company is announcing having raised $100 million in Series A funding from South African media company and tech investor Naspers… Read MoreEstimote Creates An Indoor Location System Using Beacons And “Nearables”
The dream of indoor location sensing has always been just that – a dream. The difficulty of Wi-Fi tracking and other technologies has made it hard for anyone – from businesses to regular users – to figure out where they were in a venue. But the folks at Estimote, a Polish beacon company, may have just cracked the code. Using something they’re calling… Read More- CRUNCH NETWORK
Technology And Data Are Spurring A Clash Of Travel Titans
There’s no way to put this gently, so here it goes: The rapid advancement in digital technology is transforming the cozy world of travel retail into an all-out war for customers. And that’s a good thing for you and me as travelers, because it will ultimately mean more selection, better customization and, potentially, lower prices. Read More Databox Raises $3.3M Seed Round To Help Marketers Understand Key Metrics
Businesses of all sizes now have access to reams of data about their performance, but it can be difficult to read the story behind the numbers. Boston-based startup Databox’s goal is to make data relatable. Its mobile app draws in data from different analytic platforms, analyzes it, and then presents the results in customized reports. Read MorePinterest Brings On A New Head Of Its Advertising Partner APIs
Pinterest has brought on a new executive to manage the technology its marketing developer partners use to power advertising campaigns on Pinterest. Michael Akkerman, formerly a vice president at Kenshoo, will help manage the technology and relationships with the company’s advertising partners that are using its APIs. The company started its Marketing Developer Program earlier this… Read MoreAirbnb Rolls Out An Apple Watch App
Airbnb has found its way onto the Apple Watch. The company is releasing a new Apple Watch app today that’s centered around lightweight communication between hosts and guests. Hosts and guests can use it to get notifications as well as read messages and respond to messages. Hosts can also accept booking requests straight from the watch. Read MoreClashem Is An Epic Video Battle App
Advances in technology over the past few years has made access to video (both creation and consumption) as simple as pulling your smartphone out of your pocket. And with those advances come a whole crop of video sharing apps, not least of which is a new video battle app called Clashem. Launching out of the Red Bull Media House, Clashem pairs two videos (which may have absolutely nothing to do… Read MorePre-Owned Luxury Clothes Marketplace Vestiaire Collective Scores $37M Series D
Vestiaire Collective, the French pre-owned luxury clothes marketplace, has picked up a $37 million Series D round as it aims to bed down on recent expansion to the U.S. and continue to expand to further European markets. Read MoreRon Johnson Will Discuss His New Approach To Tech Shopping And Support At Disrupt SF
In just a few weeks, I’ll be onstage with the man who spearheaded the creation of Apple’s friendly, futuristic retail stores. Ron Johnson spent more than a decade as the company’s senior vice president of retail operations, a decade that saw the launch of the first Apple Stores and their rapid expansion. (He was also an executive at Target and, after Apple, had a… Read More
Clips Offers Easy Video Editing On Your iPhone
I could try to tell you about Clips. I could explain how it was created by startup Fly Labs, or I could describe how it makes it easy to combine clips on your iPhone into a single video, then add music, voiceover and effects. But you know what sounds more fun? Going to the park with CEO Tim Novikoff, helping him to shoot some footage and watching him edit it all together with Clips. Read MoreLyft Line’s Express Re-Route Feature Aims To Get You Where You’re Going Faster
Lyft has quietly added a new feature to Lyft Line, its service that lets passengers share rides with other people heading their same direction for a lower price, called Express Re-route. With this new feature, which officially rolled out exactly one week ago, Lyft Line may reassign you to a driver with a passenger whose route more closely aligns with yours. Read MoreSnapchat Hires A New Growth Lead
Snapchat has hired a new growth lead from Facebook as it continues its trek to becoming one of the most valuable social networking companies in the world. Anthony Pompliano, a product manager that led growth and engagement for Facebook pages, has joined the company to lead Snapchat’s growth team, he said in a tweet earlier today. Snapchat confirmed the hire, saying Pompliano will be… Read MoreA Look At Open Bionics’ 3D-Printed Robotic Hands For Amputees
Open Bionics, a startup out of the U.K. that makes bionic hands, figured out how to dramatically lower the cost of prosthetics using a combination of open-sourced 3D printing software and robotic sensors. Nearly 2 million people live with the loss of a limb in the U.S., according to Amputee Coalition. The most common amputation is partial hand or arm loss. Read MorePitch Your Startup In The TC Radio Pitch-Off On Sirius XM
I’m often told I have a face for radio, which works out well given that TechCrunch has its own radio show on Sirius XM each week. On Tuesdays, John Biggs and I head to midtown to host TechCrunch Radio on Sirius XM Insight 121, which includes the patented TC Radio Pitch-Off. Five companies get exactly sixty seconds to pitch their wares to a panel of judges, followed by a short… Read More- CRUNCH NETWORK
The Green Rush: Finding Tech Business Opportunities Within The Cannabis Sector
Cannabis, marijuana, pot, weed, ganja, Mary Jane, doobage. Whatever you call it, it has taken center stage in the world of investment. It’s getting the 15 minutes of fame it rightfully deserves, and it’s getting it right now. Traditionally, whenever anyone mentioned the words “cannabis” and “entrepreneur” together in one sentence, it meant one thing… Read More On-Demand Parking Startup ZIRX Gets Funding From BMW’s Venture Arm, Eyes Integration In BMW Cars
On any given day in downtown San Francisco, you’re bound to see people zipping around on push scooters, wearing either blue jackets or yellow shirts. Their jobs are basically the same, which is to provide on-demand parking services, but they work for one of two competitive startups: Luxe or ZIRX. In a move that should help ZIRX further differentiate itself from Luxe… Read MoreSocial CRM Provider Capillary Technologies Raises $45M, Acquires MartJack
Capillary Technologies, the Singapore-based social CRM company, has raised a $45 million Series C to fuel its evolution into an omnichannel retail platform. The round was led by Warburg Pincus with participation from returning investors Sequoia Capital and Norwest Venture Partners and brings Capillary’s total funding so far to $79.1 million. Read MoreNewsCred Raises $42M As It Sets Its Sights Beyond Content Marketing
NewsCred is announcing that it has raised $42 million in additional equity funding. Founded in 2008, the company started out as a system for readers to rate the credibility of every online publication and story. It shifted focus a couple of times before settling on helping brands find content for their marketing efforts, first by licensing articles from big-name publications, then by… Read MoreLudacris Partners With Delivery App Roadie And Joins The Flood Of Entertainers Getting Into Startups
Roadie, the Atlanta-based shipping marketplace that’s angling to tap drivers already on the road to deliver packages, is adding some star wattage to its team with the announcement that music star Ludacris (aka Chris Bridges) is partnering with the company. Read MoreWi-Fi Sharing Community Instabridge Locates $3M Series A
Instabridge, the Wi-Fi sharing community and mobile app, appears to be on somewhat of a roll, including (and perhaps unsurprisingly) finding a lot of traction in developing markets where the draw to Wi-Fi over cellular data is particularly prevalent. All of which hasn’t gone unnoticed by investors. Read More
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