Category: Startups
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With MIXhalo, Incubus guitarist Mike Einziger aims to deliver studio-quality sound at live events
[ad_1] Most of you have probably been to concerts where the sound sucked, where all of the music was blown out and you couldn’t make out a single word of the lyrics. Now, you might have had a great time regardless (concerts are funny that way), but bad sound isn’t exactly a selling point. It can be…
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Here’s how likely your startup is to get acquired at any stage
[ad_1] Jason Rowley is a venture capital and technology reporter for Crunchbase News. More posts by this contributor: Let’s say you randomly selected 1,000 seed-stage startups based in the United States. How many of those would go on to raise a Series A? Of companies that go on to raise a Series A, how many…
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The Shade Room is profitable and not interested in acquisition
[ad_1] Angelica Nwandu, creator of The Shade Room, joined our own Anthony Ha on the stage of TechCrunch Disrupt to discuss the growth of her Instagram-first gossip blog. Despite growing The Shade Room to 9.3 million Instagram followers and profitability, Nwandu says she has no interest in an acquisition. Nwandu attributes her success to meme culture —…
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Todoist launches a deep integration with Google Calendar
[ad_1] Todoist is quite a powerful task manager, but it didn’t communicate with your calendar until now. If you’re a Google Calendar user and want to check your tasks and events for tomorrow, you currently have to check both Google Calendar and Todoist. This is about to change as Todoist is launching a deep two-way…
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Appear Here, a marketplace for short-term retail space, raises $12M Series B
[ad_1] Appear Here, a marketplace for short-term retail space that originally launched to ride the ‘pop-up’ shop craze, has raised $12 million in Series B funding. Leading the round is Octopus Ventures, with participation from Simon Venture Group, and existing investors Balderton, MMC, Meyer Bergman and Playfair Capital. It brings total funding for the company…
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Forest is the administration interface to rule them all
[ad_1] If you work for a startup, chances are that you use four different software-as-a-service platforms to mange your orders, clients and products. French startup Forest started as part of eFounders’ startup studio and wants to unify all these administration interfaces into a single platform so that you don’t have to switch back and forth…
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There’s no shame in a $100M startup
[ad_1] Joseph Flaherty Contributor Joe Flaherty is director of Content & Community at Founder Collective. More posts by this contributor: The era of unicorn startups has created a distorted view of entrepreneurial success. All the talk about billion-dollar exits has inflated the numbers that define a win. Starting and selling a company for $100 million…
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These are the five finalists in the TechCrunch Disrupt NY Startup Battlefield
[ad_1] Over the past two days, 20 companies have taken the stage at TechCrunch’s Startup Battlefield, where they presented their products and took questions from our expert judges. Now, with the help of those judges, we’ve selected five startups to compete tomorrow in the Battlefield finals. They are: Collider Collider‘s flagship printer Orchid, which is still…
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Cadre and Point are betting that the best way to win in real estate is to disrupt the market
[ad_1] On the stage of TechCrunch Disrupt, the founders of two of the hottest startups in real estate, Cadre and Point articulated the inefficiencies of today’s real estate markets and expressed optimism in their ability to use innovative markets to benefit investors and homeowners respectively. Cadre is an exclusive startup that connects real estate investors to top deals while Point enables…
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Fintech unicorn TransferWise reaches profitability, planning ‘new financial services’
[ad_1] What’s more mythical than a unicorn? A unicorn that is profitable. Six years after launch, TransferWise, the London-headquartered international money transfer startup, which was most recently valued at a reported $1.1 billion, has announced that it has finally reached profitability this calendar year and is “cash-generating”. Breaking this down a little, the company says…
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Apple is shoring up Siri for its next generation of intelligent devices
[ad_1] Apple once led the pack with its intelligent assistant Siri, but in just a few years, Amazon, Microsoft and Google have chipped away at its lead. Siri is a critical component of Apple’s vision for the future, so integral that it was willing to spend $200 million to acquire Lattice Data over the weekend. The startup was working to transform…
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Leverage is building a project management application with outsourced virtual assistance built in
[ad_1] Using outsourced help – whether that’s using a virtual assistant to help you book travel or hiring a development firm to build your website – is something that nearly all businesses need from time to time. But finding a qualified person to do that job from freelance job boards on online recommendations can be difficult.…
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A unicorn wanders through Startup Alley
[ad_1] Another Disrupt, another Startup Alley. In this exciting video I wear a unicorn head, stare dumbfounded at a founder who told us to go away, and talk to Co-Sender, Marvelmind, API.live, BoostHQ as we wander the variegated halls of Disrupt New York 2017. Read More [ad_2] NewsSource
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The Partnership on AI adds Intel, Salesforce and others as it formalizes Grand Challenges and work groups
[ad_1] Intel, Salesforce, eBay, Sony, SAP, McKinsey & Company, Zalando and Cogitai are joining the Partnership on AI, a collection of companies and non-profits that have committed to sharing best practices and communicating openly about the benefits and risks of artificial intelligence research. The new members will be working alongside existing partners that include Facebook, Amazon, Google,…
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Deep Science AI monitors security feeds for masks and guns to quicken response times
[ad_1] You’re working late at the 7-Eleven when a masked man comes through the door with a gun. You raise your hands, follow his instructions, empty the cash register and throw some burners in the bag. As he runs out the door, you note his height, collect yourself and call 9-1-1. Unless you don’t need…