Legacy Republic Unveils Studio, A Portable Scanner For Family Photo Albums
Legacy Republic is removing a big hurdle in its photo digitizing process — putting albums in the mail. YesVideo launched its Legacy Republic initiative back in 2014. The idea is to recruit a freelance workforce of so-called Legacy Makers who help families digitize their photos. Through digitization, the company says it can preserve memories and make it easier to share those pictures… Read MoreImage Recognition Invades Shopping As Curalate Raises $27.5M
Pinterest. Instagram. Tumblr. The future of the web is visual, but how does anyone make money on that? By understanding what’s in the images people post and connecting them to where you can buy what you see. That’s Curalate’s job. The image recognition marketing startup just raised $27.5 million led by NEA, bringing it to $40 million in total funding. Read MoreSiftery, A Database Of What Services Companies Are Using, Raises $4M
When companies have to pick what kinds of services they want for their operation — like marketing or human resources — they can easily be paralyzed by choice. That’s why Vamshi Mokshagundam and Ayan Barua decided to start Siftery, a database of sorts where companies list their software stacks. The company just raised $4 million from Felicis Ventures, Founders Fund, and… Read MoreTrueBill Wants To Help You Manage Your Online Subscriptions
When Yahya Mokhtarzada got a $40 bill from Gogo, he started taking a closer look at the subscriptions on his bank statement. It turned out that he had been subscribed to the service for more than a year — which racked up to a substantial amount of money. “I called them to give me a refund on it, which was nice, but I said how many people are out there that have these subscriptions… Read MoreNYC Saw $291M In Seed Deals In 2015 (According To NextView Ventures)
If you’re wondering about the seed-stage investment landscape in New York City, a new report from NextView Ventures could be a good place to start. Pulling data from a number of sources (including AngelList, CrunchBase and Mattermark), NextView principal Tim Devane found that there were 175 seed-stage deals (defined as rounds of less than $4.5 million) in New York City last year… Read MoreConcert Subscription Startup Jukely Is Now On Android
Jukely, a monthly concert subscription service, says it’s breaking records (and not the vinyl kind.) Though it didn’t want to say how many members are currently on the platform, founder Bora Celik did say it would soon be able to get a crowd to fill New York’s Madison Square Garden (capacity for the concert venue is 18,200, for reference). That growth also means adding in… Read MoreTheFamily Grabs $6.6 Million To Become A Key Startup Accelerator All Over Europe
Back in October 2013, I had dinner with a dozen people in a good-looking Parisian loft. Part of them were working for TheFamily, part of them were entrepreneurs. It was a nice, small dinner talking about startups and the French tech ecosystem. Read MorePoncho Launches An Alarm App So You Can Wake Up To Weather Forecasts
Poncho, the text/email-based weather service with personality, has today launched an iOS app that acts as an alarm clock to wake you up. Poncho launched out of betaworks in 2013 with a very simple premise: deliver the weather in a way that makes sense to the user. Instead of launching a fancy-shmancy weather app, the team launched a text and email service where the ‘Weather Cat’… Read MoreAHALife Acquires Bradford Shellhammer’s Design Marketplace Bezar
Bezar, the design ecommerce platform led by Fab cofounder Bradford Shellhammer, has today announced that it will be acquired by Australian ecommerce site AHALife. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. AHALife has been around since 2011, offering users hard-to-find, luxury design products. They ship to 200 countries and have more than 3,000 handpicked designers and artisans selling their… Read More
Stellar Partners With Oradian To Bring Instant Money Transfer To Nigeria
Stellar, the Stripe-backed open-source payment network, has launched its first major integration in the form of a partnership with Oradian, a company that sells cloud-based software to micro finance institutions (MFIs) in developing countries. As a refresher, Stellar is a non-profit foundation with the goal of connecting different financial systems around the world. Started by the… Read MoreModsy Raises $8M Series A As It Gears Up For Public Launch
Pencil + Pixel wants to use bleeding edge technology to upgrade your digs. Eventually. Called Modsy, the service still isn’t publicly available but the company is today announcing it raised an $8 million Series A to push its mission towards a public launch. Read MoreRocket Internet’s Spotcap Raises Further €31.5M To Lend To Small Businesses
Spotcap, the Rocket Internet-founded fintech startup that operates an online lending platform for small businesses, has beefed up its coffers with €31.5 million in new funding. The round, which is the company’s third in 18 months, having previously raised €18 million, is being led by Russian private equity firm, Finstar Financial Group, with participation from previous investor… Read More- CRUNCH NETWORK
Let’s Fix Startup Board Meetings
I spend a lot of time in board meetings. Specifically, private company startup board meetings. Rooms filled with some of the most talented, bold, daring and dedicated people on the planet, devising solutions to some of the economy’s toughest problems. More often than not, however, most of these board meetings fail. Despite the good intentions and great experience in the room, the… Read More Watch This Trained Eagle Take Down A Flying Drone
As more and more civilians start flying drones, there will probably be an exponential rise in situations where authorities need to quickly take down a poorly-navigated drone hovering above a stadium or government building. But, since drone companies have yet to provide any sort of backdoor to manually takeover the device’s controls, authorities are on their own in figuring out… Read MoreBoon + Gable Hopes To Bring Personal Shoppers To The Masses
Online shopping continues to rise in popularity, but it’s still tough to know if the items you pick out on a website will work as an outfit in real life. New startup Boon+Gable hopes to change that by sending a personal shopper to your house. Startups like StitchFix and Le Tote act as virtual personal shoppers, sending you recommended items through the mail on a monthly basis. But… Read MoreNorwegian P2P Car Rental Marketplace Nabobil.no Pulls In $600K Seed
Norway’s Nabobil, which opened its doors four months ago, is disclosing that it’s raised a $600,000 seed round. Read MoreWebsite UI Design Marketplace And Optimization Platform Kaizen Raises $8M
Kaizen, a Tokyo- and San Francisco-based user interface marketplace and testing platform, plans to increase its presence in the United States after raising an $8 million Series B. Read More- CRUNCH NETWORK
Africa’s Tech Gold Rush
Africa is on the verge of something big. This seems to be a quiet, cautious consensus in some investment communities. The past year has been peppered with stories of tech startup hubs emerging across the continent, from Lagos to Kigali to Agadir. The model of American tech entrepreneurship looks to be slowly sparking a renaissance in the Silicon Sahara. Read More The League’s Amanda Bradford Is Not Impressed By Stanford Student’s Criticism
Well, that’s one way to respond when someone doesn’t like your startup. After a Stanford student spotted an internship opening at The League, they declared that they were “totally and utterly ashamed that this dating service came out of Stanford,” and asked, “Is it possible to get any more elitist than this? Does it even cross your mind that you are endorsing… Read More- CRUNCH NETWORK
Don’t Mortgage Your Startup
The last 5-10 years have been an extraordinary time for early stage tech founders to raise money. But easy access to capital has ingrained some bad habits among founders. There has always been the risk of over-funding your company or not being able to find a funder for your next round, but now it’s far more common to see founders blithely accepting deal terms that could kill their… Read More
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