Innovation and the ‘new normal’
By Claudia Fan Munce, Venture Capital Group, IBM Great technology development is always seemingly swift and dramatic—but the velocity at which...
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Featured Startup Pitch: Handybook wants to end the frustration of finding and booking quality household service providers
Company: Handybook Website: www.handybook.com Founders: Oisin Hanrahan and Umang Dua Year Founded: 2012 Headquarters: Boston Investors: David...
Featured Startup Pitch: TeamSnap is a tool for managing youth sports activity built around ease-of-use and convenience
Company: TeamSnap Website: www.teamsnap.com Founder: Dave DuPont Headquarters: Boulder, Colorado Year Founded: 2009 Employees: 20+ Investors:...
Funding and Acquisitions Roundup: Redpoint pulls in $400M for early-stage startups; ChowNow lands $3M to enable more people to chow…now…through Facebook
This week’s early-stage startup funding and acquisitions news: Finance/Investment Redpoint Ventures raises $400 million fund for early-stage...
Perch has created an ‘ambient video’ app that helps families stay in better communication
A Q&A with Perch co-founder and CEO Danny Robinson. The Vancouver–based company was founded in 2012 and closed a $1 million Seed funding round...
Innovation is your business model, not your app
By Adam Lavine, FunMobility co-founder and CEO Many first-time entrepreneurs confuse features with business innovation. It’s easy to think that...
Featured Startup Pitch: Virally powers up social marketing efforts through a focus on deeper understanding of customer interests
Company: Virally Website: www.virallyapp.com Founders: Liam Gooding and Matt Spence Headquarters: Canterbury, Kent, UK Year...
Duetto Research is building a flexible, cloud-based big-data application for hotels, and some well-known VCs have bet big on its success
A Q&A with Duetto Research co-founder and CEO Patrick Bosworth. The San Francisco–based company was founded in 2012 and closed a $10 million...
Plizy, which raised $4M in Series A funding late last year, offers consumers a cloud-based media center for centralized video discovery
A Q&A with Plizy founder and CEO Jonathan Benassaya. The San Francisco–based company was founded in 2011 and closed a $4 million Series...
Featured Startup Pitch: True to its name, Karma brings an innovative approach to mobility by encouraging people to share wi-fi through ‘Social Bandwidth’
Company: Karma Website: www.yourkarma.com Founders: Robert Gaal, Steven van Wel and Stefan Borsje Headquarters: New York City Year...
With its first funding round in the bank, RobotAppStore seeks to advance the robotics industry through the apps store model
A Q&A with RobotAppStore founder and CEO Elad Inbar. The San Francisco–based company was founded in 2011 and closed a $250K first round of...
Sharetize seeks to disrupt advertising by creating an ad and publisher network for micro social networks
A Q&A with Sharetize founder and CSO James Faulkner. The Palo Alto–based company was founded in the Fall of 2011 and launched to the public the...
