La Belle Assiette Grabs Another $1.5 Million For Its On-Demand Chef Service
French startup La Belle Assiette just raised another $1.5 million (€1.3 million) to expand its services. The company has become a leading on-demand chef service in Europe, and is now looking at other opportunities in the events catering industry. Read More“Think Of Foursquare More Like comScore Than Instagram” -Fred Wilson
Foursquare is not a consumer social app business, it’s a data company. And only when it admitted that to itself and revalued as such was it able to pull in more capital and keep chugging. Today at LA’s Upfront Summit, Foursquare’s lead investor from Union Square Ventures Fred Wilson stuck up for the startup while trying to make people understand how it’s… Read MoreMeet The Presenters For The 9th Annual Crunchies Awards
We’re gearing up for the 9th Annual Crunchies Awards, which will take place at the War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco on Monday, February 8th. Think of the show as an “Oscars for startups and technology.” Chelsea Peretti will host the event, and we have some fabulous tech figures on stage to present the winning startups and individuals with their Crunchies. Read MoreMast Mobile, The Mullet Of Carriers, Offers Business Up Front And A Party In The Back
Once, long ago, my personal phone number became my business phone number. The result? I now get business calls all day long and no one I know calls me just to chat. This could be an issue between myself and my diminishing circle of friends but it could also be a solution for Mast Mobile. This new carrier, powered by Virgin Mobile USA, lets you have two phone numbers on one phone. Callers to… Read MoreWestern Union Brings Money Transfer And Its Tricky Fees To Chat Apps
Remittance has always been a shady business. Migrant workers need to send money they earn home to their families, but get hit with fine print fees so less cash comes out the other side than they might assume. Remittance companies earn extra by keeping the margin between their own made up exchange rate and the real one. Western Union is the best known remittance company, with 500,000… Read MoreMeet The Organizations Vying For The Crunchie Award For Biggest Social Impact In 2015
It’s that time of year again. With the passing of January into February the 9th Annual Crunchies are almost upon us. Next week, on February 8, some of the best minds of our generation will descend bedecked, bedazzled, and (some of them at least) bespectacled on San Francisco’s War Memorial Opera House for one of San Francisco’s biggest bashes to celebrate the tech… Read MoreApplause Connects Brands With Livestream Stars
We’ve seen startups helping brands tap influencers to promote themselves on social media platforms like Vine and Instagram, so it might be time for a new influencer marketing startup, Applause, that’s focused on live video — particularly Twitter’s Periscope app. It’s certainly a platform that CEO Jon Jacques is familiar with. In addition to working for a couple… Read MoreStudents, Time To Get Your Tickets To Disrupt NY 2016
Are you an undergraduate or graduate student looking to attend the hottest conference in startups and technology? We have set aside a number of tickets to TechCrunch Disrupt NY exclusively for students, and you can snag one for just $300 with a valid university ID and your current transcripts. Read MoreThe Bouqs Gains A $12 Million Bushel in Series B Financing To Grow The Business
We’re a week-and-a-half away from Valentine’s Day, one of the biggest days for flower purchases everywhere and probably the best time for The Bouqs, an on-demand-ish flower startup to announce it pulled in $12 million in Series B financing. The Bouqs is not a name that rolls off the tongue, but it promises better pricing and next day shipping with flowers that last longer. Read More
Fast Dining Startup Allset Comes To New York City
Lunch breaks! They’re great, right? But they can also turn into a huge time sink — I’ve definitely had moments where I’m frantically flagging down a waiter because everything’s taken longer than expected, leaving me to try to pay the check and get to my next meeting in just a few minutes. One (sad) solution is to eat at your desk, but Allset is taking a… Read MoreCrypter Encrypts Your Facebook Chats For Maximum Security
Imagine you’re Edward Snowden with a Facebook profile. You text an ace reporter at the Guardian and have a new bit of information to share: you totally found a great new coffee place in the heart of Moscow where the CIA can’t poison you with thallium. How do you send that news securely over Facebook Messenger? Crypter is the answer. Created by a Max Mitchell, a student at… Read MoreReview: Doppler Labs AR Listening System Signals The Future Is Here
For years now, we’ve though of Augmented Reality in the context of our vision — Google Glass started the trend, and the Microsoft HoloLens enforced it. But the folks at Doppler Labs believe the future of augmented reality starts with the ears. It’s Here. The Doppler Labs Here buds, live in-ear audio tuners that let you tune and tweak your own hearing experience, have… Read MoreGeofeedia Raises $17M To Help Businesses Tap Into Social Location Data
Geofeedia, a startup that pulls real-time, location-based data from social media, has raised $17 million in Series B funding. Co-founder and CEO Phil Harris said the company “invented a new way of organizing social data” — most other analytics tools allow businesses to look at the data based on things like keywords and hashtags, while Geofeedia is focused on location. The… Read MoreOhlala, An Uber For Escorts, Launches Its ‘Paid Dating’ Service In NYC
New Yorkers sick of the uncertainties of the urban dating scene can now turn to a new app designed to reduce the complexities of dating to dollars and cents. Ohlala, a controversial dating app popular in Germany, is launching its services today in its first American market, New York City. Read MorePetcube Scoops Up $2.6 Million So You Can Entertain Your Pet From Anywhere
Petcube, which is part of Y Combinator’s Winter 2016 class, is a young startup that wants to bring together pet care and the connected home to improve the lives of our pets. To do this, the company has raised $2.6 million for their first product, the Petcube Camera. Read MoreLegacy 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 More
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