Gone, The App To Sell Your Old Junk, Acquires Yardsale Inc., FOBO
Gone, the app that helps you sell your old crap, has announced the acquisition of FOBO and former marketplace company Yardsale Inc. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. Gone launched back in June of 2014 to change the way you sell your old junk. With Gone, you simply take a picture of the item, put in some quick info about it, and Gone handles the rest. Through algorithms, the service… Read MoreCuracity Offers A Booking Portal So Travel Media Sites Don’t Have To Build Their Own
There is no shortage of sites that help you book your travel, whether it be Expedia or Orbitz or Priceline. But the inspiration for that travel often comes from content created by travel experts in the media business. Curacity, a new startup formed by EveryDay Health cofounder Michael Keriakos, aims to change that with a fresh $1.4 million seed round, led by Greycroft. SBNY, Pinnacle… Read MoreSquad Expands Your Social Circle With Group-On-Group Action
Squad is betting that the best time to meet new people is when you’re already out and about with friends, primed to meet other groups of friends. The New York City startup is officially launching its iOS app today, and it’s also announcing that it has raised $1.7 million in seed funding from Lerer Hippeau Ventures and First Round Capital. To use the app, you form a squad with… Read MoreAttune Technologies Gets $10M Series B To Expand Its Healthcare Software Beyond India
Attune Technologies, a startup that makes cloud-based software for hospitals and labs, will tackle markets outside of India after scoring a $10 million Series B round from Qualcomm Ventures and returning investor Norwest Venture Partners. Read MoreListen To Lost My Name CEO Talk Side Project To Startup, Choosing An Investor, And What’s Next
Earlier this week I jumped on a call with Asi Sharabi (pictured third from left above), co-founder and CEO of London-based startup Lost My Name, the self-descibed “full-stack” publisher that makes personalised pictures books for kids. Read MoreWork Applications, One Of Japan’s Largest Enterprise Software Makers, Launches In The U.S.
Work Applications is one of Japan’s largest enterprise software companies, but it’s still unknown in the United States. The Tokyo-based company is hoping to change that with the launch of AI Works, a cloud-based enterprise resource planning platform that uses artificial intelligence to make data entry less tedious, faster, and more accurate. Read MoreWibbitz Enlists US Publishers For Its Video News Summaries
Wibbitz, a startup that helps online publishers create video summaries of their articles, is announcing its first big push in the US market, starting with partnerships with USA Today Sports, Hearst and ViralNova. Wibbitz analyzes the text of a story, creating a summary that’s turned into a voiceover (you can go with a real human or a computer voiceover) accompanied by photos, graphics… Read MoreEverything You Need To Know About The DraftKings/FanDuel Scandal
It’s been a crazy few weeks in the world of daily fantasy sports. What originally started as a data leak from DraftKings has now morphed into a federal investigation and total ban across the state of Nevada. Feel like you don’t know the story? You’re not alone. Read on to get caught up on the insanity that is daily fantasy sports. Read MoreFlipboard Launches A New Targeted Ads Product Based On Its Interest Graph
Flipboard today is opening up some better targeting to its advertising partners in the form of the advertising based on the interest graphs it has built for its users. Here’s an example: an advertiser that chooses to advertise with coffee topics may also have their ads shown with craft beer topics. The reason behind that, Flipboard head of advertising products Dave Huynh said, is… Read More
Lively Turns Your iPhone 6S Live Photos Into GIFs And Videos
Yet another app has sprouted up that wants to take the Live Photos from your iPhone 6S/6S Plus and turn them into videos and/or GIFs. Because what is beauty — nay, what is art — without the ability to share it? Lively, an app from Tiny Whale, lets you turn your all-too-locked-up Live Photos into GIFs or videos with control speeds for the GIF, ranging from 0.5x to 2.0x. But… Read MoreTime Inc. Acquires Hello Giggles
Time Inc., the New York-based publishing company with over 90 magazines in its stable, has announced the acquisition of a lifestyle, pop culture and beauty website called Hello Giggles. Though the terms of the deal weren’t publicly disclosed, the WSJ reports that one source puts the deal in the $20 million range. Hello Giggles was launched in May 2011 and was founded by none other than… Read MoreStreetHub Raises Further $2.6M, Launches Trouva To Curate And Sell Items From Indie Shops And Boutiques
StreetHub, the U.K. startup that’s helping independent shops and boutiques be discovered and sell online, has raised a further $2.6 million in funding. It’a also launching a new brand and consumer-facing offering: Trouva is an e-commerce site that promises to curate and make available items to buy from its 350-strong network of independent shops and boutiques. Read MoreMolotov Signs Deals With French TV Networks, Launches Beta In November
Molotov has been quite secretive over the past two years. The French startup wants to revolutionize your TV experience and partners with existing French networks. This is no small feat as you need to negotiate with many different companies one by one. That’s why today’s news is important as the startup just announced deals with most French networks, with a notable exception… Read MoreHeadBox Is An Online Marketplace In The U.K. For ‘Inspiring Spaces’
HeadBox is a newly-launched marketplace in the U.K. for ‘creative, inspiring and off-site spaces’. It enables corporate, SME, and private bookers to find and book spaces for things like launch events and parties, off-site meetings, workshops or basically any kind of occasion that requires a setting that moves slightly beyond the everyday. Read MoreZomato Closes Its Cashless Payments Service Following A Trial In Dubai
Following up on a big round of layoffs earlier this week, Zomato said it is shutting down its cashless payments system — a system that it had trialled in the Middle East at the beginning of this year. Read More- CRUNCH NETWORK
A Look At The Internal Memos Of Twitch And Periscope
Bessemer is actively investing in consumer video startups. It’s a space we’ve been focused on for a while now. We invested early in Twitch in 2012 following the company’s pivot from JustinTV (which sold to Amazon last year for ~$1 billion) and were one of the first seed investors in Periscope (which was acquired by Twitter earlier this year while their product was still in beta). Read More Target Teams Up With Techstars To Create A Retail-Focused Startup Accelerator
Target is the latest big company to launch its own startup accelerator. This will a partnership between Target and Techstars, and it’s being led by West Stringfellow, former chief product officer at Big Commerce and Rosetta Stone. (There are plans to hire a managing director as well.) Stringfellow said this was one of his initial ideas when he joined Target’s entrepreneur in… Read More- CRUNCH NETWORK
Bank Loans Are A Better Financing Option Than You Might Think
Today’s startup scene is all about raising VC money — as much as possible, as fast as possible. The market celebrates VC fund-raising, cheers unicorns and makes it seem like VC-backed startups are the holy grail of innovation. And so my fellow entrepreneurs were somewhat surprised to learn that when my VC-backed startup needed another cash injection, I resorted to the oldest trick… Read More - CRUNCH NETWORK
Programming Hate Into AI Will Be Controversial, But Possibly Necessary
In the last few years, the topic of artificial intelligence (AI) has been thrust into the mainstream. No longer just the domain of sci-fi fans, nerds or Google engineers, I hear people discussing AI at parties, coffee shops and even at the dinner table: My five-year-old daughter brought it up the other night over taco lasagna. When I asked her if anything interesting had happened in school… Read More Scoot Unleashes New Four-Wheeler Quad Cars On San Francisco Streets
Scoot, the San Francisco-based electric scooter ride share network, has teamed up with Nissan to create a four-wheeled two-seater enclosed vehicle onto the streets of San Francisco. Starting today, Scoot members have the option to rent one of these adorable little cars to get them anywhere in the 7×7. Known as the Scoot Quad, this is an all-electric vehicle that you can turn on with the… Read More
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