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The White House Is Ready For Tech To Step Up In Government
It’s no secret that the tech community has historically reacted with hesitation at the thought of collaborating with the public sector, what with the red tape, bureaucratic processes, lengthy sales cycles and a generally poor standard of implemented technology (remember Healthcare.gov before Marketplace Lite?). Clashes with Uber and Airbnb have created an image of our government as… Read More - CRUNCH NETWORK
Raise Your Seed Round By Treating Investors As Team Members
The psychology of seed-stage investing is complex. As the one raising money, it’s easy to fall into the trap of treating the process like a transaction. But at the seed stage, neither investors nor the startups can make accurate predictions on numbers alone. Investors look for other data points to evaluate the opportunity, such as the strength of the team and who else has already… Read More Angaza Raises $4M To Make Clean Energy Affordable For World’s Poorest
Often, off-grid rural villages in places like Africa have their electricity generated by energy devices, like solar panels and batteries, donated by non-profit organizations and charities. The problem, however is that model is not sustainable and relies of yet more charitable hand-outs. What’s required is to make clean energy scale in self-supporting way. Luckily the rise of the mobile… Read MoreLe Tote’s Clothing Rentals App Lets You Seek Out New Outfits From Your iPhone’s Search Screen
Online shoppers looking to spice up their wardrobe on a more regular basis can now download a new app from Le Tote, a “Netflix-for-clothing” type of service backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Google Ventures and others, which launched to the public this week. From the app, you’ll be able to access Le Tote’s online catalog of over 150,000 pieces of clothing and… Read MoreOpenClassrooms Premium Is Now Free For Unemployed People In France
OpenClassrooms is one of the leading MOOC platform in France, and it signed an interesting deal with the French Government. Starting today, if you are unemployed, you get a free premium account on OpenClassrooms. Read MoreSolid Automates Your Meetings To Get The Most Out Of Them
Meet Solid, a brand new service to help you with your meetings, before, during and after they take place. Coming from the team behind Wisembly, Solid is perfect for smaller meetings and smaller companies. Read MoreDoorman, A Startup Eliminating Missed Package Deliveries, Comes To Chicago And, Soon, New York
Doorman, a company tackling the problem of missed deliveries by allowing consumers to schedule their own deliveries as late as midnight, has now gone live in Chicago and is preparing to soon launch in New York. The expansion comes on the heels of Doorman’s seed funding round from earlier this summer, which saw the company adding $1.5 million to its coffers in order to grow its… Read MoreWith Never Eat Alone, Never Eat Alone
Never Eat Alone started with a simple idea, but it’s a potentially very lucrative business. If you work in a big corporate environment, chances are you always have lunch with the same people in your department. And when they’re not around, you end up eating in front of your computer, like hundreds or thousands of others in your company. Never Eat Alone puts an end to this. Read MoreBlaBlaCar COO Nicolas Brusson To Talk About France’s New Unicorn At Disrupt London
It seems like nothing can stop BlaBlaCar. The company has been building a global ride-sharing marketplace for long distance rides. And it’s working, as it recently raised €180 million at an insane valuation of €1.4 billion (or $200 million at a $1.6 billion valuation). That’s why we are excited to announce that Nicolas Brusson will join us on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt London… Read More
Nigeria-Based Printivo Wants To Become The Vistaprint Of Africa
Vistaprint has been around for twenty years, so if you live in the U.S. or Europe, ordering printed material online might not seem like a big deal. In Nigeria, however, getting business card and flyers are still a pain that requires multiple visits to a brick-and-mortar shop, says Printivo founder Oluyomi Ojo. Read MoreAirConsole Is A Browser-Based Gaming Platform Where Your Smartphone Is The Controller
Gamers with a penchant for old school gaming have another platform to add to their entertainment mix: AirConsole is a recently launched browser-based games platform that repurposes players’ smartphones as controllers. Read MoreBoombox Helps Publishers Add An Interactive Touch To Their Content
Quizzes! Lists! Quizlists! Okay, I made the last one up. My point is, it seems like publishers are always trying something new to keep visitors clicking and reading. But if you don’t have a giant pile of cash from investors, it can be tough to keep up. Hence the launch of a new product called Boombox was created by a Lehi, Utah-based startup called Movement Ventures (note: not actually… Read MoreSeatGeek Embraces Paperless Tickets
Ticket sales startup SeatGeek is the latest company joining the move to paperless tickets. Thanks to a new feature, when you buy a ticket on SeatGeek, you’ll no longer have to print out a PDF or (shudder) wait for someone to put your physical tickets in the mail. Instead, the tickets will be delivered through the app, giving you a mobile barcode that will be scanned when you reach the venue. Read More- CRUNCH NETWORK
Do Fantasy Sports Spell The End Of Corruption In Athletics?
Sport is about triumph, passion, pain and belonging. Yet it loses every iota of truth and meaning for fans when dirty money corrupts the players and referees. Unfortunately, in 2015, it’s hard to think of a sport left untouched by the spindly fingers of organized crime and match fixing. It doesn’t matter if you’re into sumo wrestling, NBA, boxing, college football or the… Read More Some Finnish Engineers Would Like You To Put This Tiny Square Computer In Your Pocket
Solu is a coaster-sized cloud-based portable computer that fits in your pocket. A team of Finnish engineers behind the device hope Solu will change the way we think of using our digital operating systems. Sure, we already have our portable computing devices such as iPads and smartphones, but Solu founder Kristoffer Lawson wants us to stop lugging all our heavy laptops and notebooks around… Read MorePitch Your Startup In The TC Radio Pitch-Off On Sirius XM
Happy Thursday, dear readers. Once again I come to you with news about TechCrunch Radio, our weekly radio show on Sirius XM where John Biggs and I discuss everything new in the world of tech. But that’s not all! Each week on the show, we hold a TC Radio Pitch-off, where five companies get exactly 60 seconds to pitch their startup to a panel of judges, including a guest VC. After a… Read MoreListen To Hoxton’s Hussein Kanji On How To Spot A Unicorn, Europe Vs Silicon Valley, And More
Earlier this week I took a call with Hussein Kanji, who, along with Rob Kniaz, is founding partner of London-based VC Hoxton Ventures, a relatively new fund that already has a growing reputation as one of the more ambitious new kids on the VC block. Read MoreClutter, The On-Demand Storage Service, Raises $9M Series A From Sequoia
Clutter, the storage service that uses professional movers to load and unload your stuff, has today announced the close of a $9 million in Series A funding, led by Sequoia. As a part of the deal, Sequoia partner Omar Hamoui, who led the round, is joining the Clutter board. Clutter operates under a simple premise. Instead of spending capital on it’s own storage facilities, it leases… Read MoreStaffjoy Launches From YC Fellowship, Helping Businesses Automate Their Workforce Scheduling
Scheduling shifts in the workplace has always been a difficult, rigid process. Balancing both employer and employee needs is always key, but getting everything to fit neatly, while ensuring that the business is properly staffed, has generally left employees most inconvenienced. Staffjoy is aiming to automate the process of scheduling shifts for businesses to help managers staff effectively… Read MoreShyp Overhauls Its Look, And Brand, With A Big App Update
Gone is the little wing in Shyp’s logo. The company is going through a major overhaul that not only changes the look and feel of the app, but also the way the entire company looks. It’s essentially a rebranding geared toward better demonstrating the company’s core competencies, CEO Kevin Gibbon said. “We’ve been working on this for over a year, and the reason… Read More
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