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Featured Startup Pitch: Spin for Good was built to enable charities to tap into the big money in online gaming
By Amee Kamdar, Spin for Good co-founder Elevator Pitch: Spin for Good combines social online gaming and charitable giving in a simple and...
TechStars Seattle graduate FlexMinder wants to help patients and businesses get maximum value from flexible healthcare spending accounts
A Q&A with FlexMinder founder and CEO Lowell Ricklefs. The Seattle-based startup, which offers Software-as-a-Service that allows administrators...
Vaavud follows its successful Kickstarter raise with $375K in Seed funding for its smartphone-based wind meter
A Q&A with Vaavud co-founder and CEO Thomas Helms. The Copenhagen-based startup, which has built an electronics-free smartphone-based wind meter,...
Featured Startup Pitch: Timesly’s iPad-based facial recognition time clock could mean the end of ‘buddy punching’ and time theft in the workplace
By Marc Aptakin, Timesly founder and CEO Elevator Pitch: Timesly is the first-of-its-kind facial detection time clock app for iPad. Using...
Through cloud-based collaboration, Upverter wants to upend the way hardware engineering is done
A Q&A with Upverter co-founder and CEO Zak Homuth. The Toronto-based startup, which offers a cloud-based hardware engineering platform, announced...
Keys to startup success: Passion, drive…and the right IT plan
By Dan Tully, Conduit Systems What Makes A Successful Startup? To be successful, startups need the passion, drive, commitment, and resolve to work...
Scandit closes a $5.5 million funding round to bring mobile barcode scanning to the mainstream
A Q&A with Scandit co-founder and CEO Samuel Mueller. The Zurich-based startup, which offers a barcode scanning software development platform...
Featured Startup Pitch: Househappy is working to improve real estate search with a photo-centric approach
By Kevin McCloskey, Househappy founder and CEO Elevator Pitch: Househappy is a free, photo-driven real estate search for buyers and brokers to...
TapShield’s personal safety platform utilizes mobile technology and crowdsourcing for more rapid response and emergency notification
A Q&A with TapShield founder and CEO Jordan Johnson. The Orlando, Florida-based startup, which has built a mobile device-centric security...
Just-launched Curberry wants to help prospective home buyers find out what’s really happening in a neighborhood
A Q&A with Curberry co-founder and president Andrea Manes. The Vacaville, California-based startup, which is a neighborhood lifestyle information...
With a significant new funding infusion, Pley seeks to disrupt the toy business—beginning with LEGOs
A Q&A with Pley co-founder and CEO Ranan Lachman. The San Jose-based startup, which offers a LEGO toy rental service, announced in mid-February...
