Jack Erwin wants to reinvent the men’s shoe business with an ‘honestly-priced’ direct-to-consumer model
A Q&A with Jack Erwin co-founder Lane Gerson. The New York City-based direct-to-consumer shoe manufacturer and retailer announced in early...
Startup Q&As
Varsity News Network completes a $3M funding round to give big-time high school athletic programs a big-time web presence
A Q&A with Varsity News Network co-founder Matthew Anderson. The Grand Rapids, Michigan-based startup, which offers a web publishing and...
Safello raises $600K to broaden bitcoin participation to the masses
A Q&A with Safello founder and CEO Frank Schuil. The Stockholm-based bitcoin exchange that is built to appeal to a broad audience, last week...
With $1.1M in new funding in the bank, Easy Social Shop wants to show that social commerce can be a boon for SMBs
A Q&A with Easy Social Shop co-founder and CEO Nissim Lehyani. The Tel Aviv-based startup, which offers a social commerce platform for small- and...
Screwpulp seeks to disrupt book publishing with a new take on ebook discovery and pricing
A Q&A with Screwpulp founder and CEO Richard Billings. The Memphis, Tennessee-based startup, which is an ebook publisher with an innovative...
Led by an experienced team and backed by big-name investors, Confide enables off-the-record mobile messaging for professionals
A Q&A with Confide co-founder and president Jon Brod. The New York City-based startup, which is a mobile app built for business people and...
Slovakia’s Datamolino wants to make accounting less painful by cutting out the manual data entry
A Q&A with Datamolino founder and CEO Andrej Glézl. The Bratislava, Slovakia-based startup, which offers software that turns invoices and...
atVenu gets $1.1M in Seed funds to move live event merchandise sales and management off of Excel and on to mobile platforms
A Q&A with atVenu co-founder and president Ben Brannen. The Sausalito, California-based startup, which offers a multi-platform event merchandise...
Guardly wants to disrupt the corporate security market through its real-time mobile app-based platform
A Q&A with Guardly co-founder and CEO Josh Sookman. The Toronto, Ontario, Canada-based startup, which has designed a corporate security platform...
Singapore-based Klinify gets $600K to migrate doctors to electronic records without interrupting their workflow
A Q&A with Klinify co-founder and CEO Surendran Krishanthan. The Singapore-based startup last week announced the closing of a $600,000 Seed...
Y Combinator alumn Statwing wants to democratize statistical analysis, and challenge Excel’s dominance
A Q&A with Statwing co-founder Greg Laughlin. The San Francisco-based startup, which offers software built to make data analysis easier for both...
With funding from the Omidyar Network and the Knight Foundation among others, Versa’s contextual featured op-ed platform is a native ads solution for revenue-starved news publishers
A Q&A with Versa founder and CEO Keya Dannenbaum. The New York City-based startup, which offers a paid ‘contextual op-ed platform’ for news...
