Startup Q&As

SocialNightlife offers a comprehensive management and social marketing platform for restaurant and club owners, managers, and promoters

A Q&A with SocialNightlife co-founder and CEO Artin Nazarian. The Los Angeles-based company was founded in January and just launched to the...

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February 7, 2013

Startup Pitches

Featured Startup Pitch: ToddlerTrunk is a social marketplace for Canadian parents to buy, sell and trade used children’s items

Company: ToddlerTrunk Website: www.toddlertrunk.com Founders: Jennifer Scace, Steve Cho, Amy Rae Headquarters: Toronto, Ontario Year Founded:...

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February 6, 2013

Startup Pitches

Featured Startup Pitch: Sverve connects bloggers with brands to increase readership, visibility and revenue

Company: Sverve Website: www.sverve.com Founders: Rohit Vashisht and Vikas Gupta Headquarters: Edison, New Jersey Year Founded: 2012 Twitter:...

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February 5, 2013

Thought Leaders

PBS’s acclaimed history series American Experience takes on Silicon Valley’s origins

A Q&A with filmmaker Randall MacLowry, producer and director of American Experience’s Silicon Valley, a documentary about the history of the...

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February 5, 2013

Startup Q&As

TechStars graduate Distil is on a mission to help content producers stop theft, bots, and web scraping

A Q&A with Distil co-founder and CEO Rami Essaid. The Arlington, Virginia–based company was founded in 2011 and closed a $1.8 million Seed...

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February 4, 2013

Startup Pitches

Featured Startup Pitch: FreeBike Project has developed a new and innovative channel for marketers to reach college students

Company: FreeBike Project Website: www.freebikeproject.com Founders: Kim Sanderhoff and Johan Bender Headquarters: Los Angeles Year...

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February 4, 2013

Funding & Acquisitions News

Funding and Acquisitions Roundup: Open Table buys food discovery app Foodspotting; Sports results notification app 365Scores lands $1.2M in Series A

This week’s early-stage startup funding and acquisitions news: Mobile OpenTable chows down on Foodspotting for $10M (via VentureBeat) 365Scores...

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February 2, 2013

Startup Pitches

Featured Startup Pitch: Maestro Market applies the ‘sharing economy’ to expertise

Company: Maestro Market Website: www.maestromarket.com Founder: Ian Shea Headquarters: San Francisco (with an office in New York City) Year...

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February 1, 2013

Startup Pitches

Featured Startup Pitch: Krakow-based Brainly’s social learning networks help facilitate better student collaboration

Company: Brainly.com Website: www.brainly.com Founders: Michał Borkowski, CEO; Łukasz Haluch, CSO and CMO; Tomasz Kraus,...

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January 31, 2013

Startup Q&As

InternMatch is using its recently-raised $1.2 million in funding to expand its service beyond just internships

A Q&A with InternMatch co-founder and CMO Nathan Parcells. The San Francisco–based company was founded in 2009 and closed a $1.2 million...

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January 30, 2013

Startup Q&As

With $3.3M in new funding recently secured, Paris-based Mailjet is using the Cloud to solve email deliverability issues

A Q&A with Mailjet founder and CEO Julien Tartarin. The Paris–based company was founded in 2010 and closed a $3.3 million in new funding in...

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January 29, 2013

Startup Q&As

BlueKite is taking on the difficult task of changing the way payments are made by the unbanked or under-banked across the world

A Q&A with BlueKite co-founder and CEO Bobby Aitkenhead. The Miami–based company was founded in 2012 and closed a $1.5 million Seed funding...

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January 29, 2013