In the past year, New York has reached a tipping point as consumer-facing startups proliferate and similarly Los Angeles is gaining notice with the success of Snap and Dollar Shave Club among others.
Resy, a New York-based restaurant reservations app looking to go up against OpenTable, has just announced that it has secured $2 million in seed funding to make sure you don’t have to wait to si
<a target="_blank" href="http://www.lererventures.com/">Lerer Hippeau Ventures</a>, the New York-based investment firm whose portfolio includes BuzzFeed, Chartbeat, and Warby Parker (<a target="_blank
<a target="_blank" href="http://www.caspersleep.com">Casper</a>, a startup that says it's developing a "vertically integrated" approach to the mattress industry, is announcing that it has raised $1.6
As crowdfunding swings into the mainstream, the folks at <a target="_blank" href="http://www.crunchbase.com/company/betaworks">betaworks</a> are dreaming up new and creative ways to leverage the power
<a target="_blank" href="http://intothegloss.com/">Into The Gloss</a>, an editorial beauty website based out of New York, has raised $2 million in venture capital funding led by Forerunner and Lerer V
<a target="_blank" href="http://www.skift.com">Skift</a>, the travel industry-focused site that was <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/07/30/paidcontent-founder-rafat-ali-launches-travel-news-site-s
Today at Disrupt NY, Ken Lerer and Ben Lerer took the stage to talk about Lerer Ventures and their respective entrepreneur stories. One thing that caught the attention of the audience is when Ken Lere
<a target="_blank" href="http://www.lererventures.com/">Lerer Ventures</a>, one of the better known seed stage venture capital funds based out of New York, is raising a $30 million fund, according to
You need a ride, someone else has a car and could use the cash, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.side.cr/">SideCar is the app</a> that will bring you together. New instant peer-to-peer rideshare-fi
If you want to see what your friends or contacts are up to, you can check out Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, or Instagram for a realtime feed. But what if you want to read news <em>about</em> your frien
As <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/person/chris-dixon">Chris Dixon</a> wraps his conversation with <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/company/thrillist-com">Thrillist</a> co-founder and <a hre
In this episode of Founder Stories with host<a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/person/chris-dixon"> Chris Dixon</a>, <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/company/thrillist-com">Thrillist</a> co-founder
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One of the best-performing technologies in online advertising right now is retargeting—everyone from <a href="https:/
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On the Web, we have links, which makes all media trackable. But on TV there are no links. So how do you track the
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<a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/person/christopher-poole">Christopher Poole</a>, aka Moot, the founder of <a href
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Today, jewelry flash-sale site <a href="http://baublebar.com/">BaubleBar</a> officially launched. Previously known as E