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7 Mar 2014
By John Jackovin, Bawte founder and CEO Elevator Pitch: Bawte is support you’ll love for the things you own. Product/Service Description At Bawte, we believe owning things should be simple. We believe that you should be able to go to one place and one place only to find out anything you Read more →
6 Mar 2014
Today’s early-stage startup funding and acquisitions news: Travel Sailogy Snags $1.15M To Expand Its Yacht Chartering Marketplace (via TechCrunch) Video Vobile acquires YouTube analytics startup Blayze, opens office in Los Angeles (via GigaOm) Social Media Lifestyle tips app Trusper launches with 5M users, $6.17M funding (via VentureBeat) Marketing Russian advertising platform Read more →
6 Mar 2014
A Q&A with Fundera co-founder and CEO Jared Hecht. The New York City-based startup, which is a marketplace that connects small businesses with alternative (non-bank) growth funding sources, announced the closing of a $3.4 million Seed funding round in early February. Investors are a group of heavyweights that include Khosla Read more →
6 Mar 2014
By George Deeb, managing partner, Ensemble and Red Rocket Ventures Last summer, I introduced StartUp Beat readers to Ensemble’s ‘startup excubator’ model for ‘do-it-for-me’ entrepreneurs. In the last six months, we started to get calls from do-it-yourself entrepreneurs with their in-house teams saying: “What about us? We could use your help too!” This led Read more →
5 Mar 2014
Today’s early-stage startup funding and acquisitions news: Social Media Yahoo buys Vizify, firm that visualizes social-media data (via CNET) Travel Boxever reveals $6m in funding to accelerate growth (via tnooz.com) Jack Dorsey-backed Peek raises $5M, plans Latin America launch for 2014 (via VentureBeat) HomeAway buys customer hospitality co Glad To Have Read more →
5 Mar 2014
A Q&A with Memeoirs co-founder and CEO Giacomo Miceli. The Povo, Italy-based startup, which has built a platform that takes online conversations and turns them into a physical book, announced in mid-February the closing of a $300,000 Seed funding round from Pozzoni Group. It is also getting up to €200,000 Read more →
5 Mar 2014
By Caleb Manscill, eBusinessPlan COO Elevator Pitch: At eBusinessPlan, we offer the world’s first completely web-based business plan software, providing everything entrepreneurs need to attract investors and get the funding needed to build their company. Product Description eBusinessPlan is a completely web-based business plan software. Offered for free, eBusinessPlan has Read more →
4 Mar 2014
Today’s early-stage startup funding and acquisitions news: Health Bioinformatics Startup Recombine Raises $3.3M For Genetic Testing (via TechCrunch) Enterprise/Customer Service Influx.com raises $250,000 to help online businesses excel at customer service delivery (via VentureBeat) Commerce CALGARY’S SLYCE RAISES $10.75 MILLION FROM BEACON SECURITIES AND MORE (via BetaKit) (See Slyce’s Featured Startup Read more →
By George Deeb, managing partner, Ensemble and Red Rocket Ventures Last summer, I introduced StartUp Beat readers to Ensemble’s ‘startup excubator’ model for ‘do-it-for-me’ entrepreneurs. In the last six months, we started to get calls from do-it-yourself entrepreneurs with their in-house teams … [Read More...]
By Max Chopovsky, Chicago Creative Space founder We have highlighted some cool offices on Chicago Creative Space. Slides, bars, zip lines, graffiti, tattooed floors, you name it. Despite visiting dozens of companies, from startups to large corporations, I am still amazed at their innovation in … [Read More...]
By Tal Chalozin, Innovid co-founder and CTO My friends and I love video games. We also love drinking beer. One day, I was playing Guitar Hero with some buddies and thought: “Life would be perfect if we could combine the two simultaneously.” So, we set out to turn this fantasy into a reality. We … [Read More...]
By Kyle Gerrity, Slader co-founder Every day, millions of websites are born on the web, vying for consumer attention. Sites like Buzzfeed or Pinterest are just two of the latest to take up space in the minds of the Internet audience—each with more than 177 monthly uniques combined (130 million … [Read More...]
By Alan Lobock, serial entrepreneur and co-founder of SkyMall and Worthworm Many entrepreneurs dream about a Pinterest- or Uber-like round of funding, maybe even a big exit or IPO like Tumblr and Twitter. However, the reality is that most startups fail. For entrepreneurs preparing to seek … [Read More...]
