December 10th, 2012

OrderAhead, The Mobile Ordering Platform Backed By $2.5M From Adam D’Angelo & More, Launches In LA; Orders Rise 2.4x

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Back in August, we introduced you to OrderAhead, a Y Combinator grad and mobile ordering solution that had just raised $2.3 million from Facebook co-founder Adam D’Angelo, Ignition Partners, Matrix Partners, Menlo Ventures, Eric Schmidt’s Innovation Endeavors and SV Angel, among others. Today, along with some strong growth trends seen over the last few months, the startup is announcing that it has… → Read More

April 17th, 2012

Setster Gives All Daily Deal Companies Their Own Groupon Scheduler

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As the daily deal space has become increasingly crowded over the last two years, local merchants increasingly feel pressured to run deals, but for many reasons, they end up overwhelmed by the prospect of managing those deals from start to finish, and the big deals players are failing to help them.

So, Setster has decided to do what LivingSocial, Woot, Gilt, and other deal providers are either… → Read More

February 28th, 2012

Float Does Simple Scheduling For Teams (And Simple Is Hard!)

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Float (no, not that Float – what is with the duplicate names for startups lately?), is a new, minimilist scheduling application for teams. The software comes from the New York-based startup Pixel Paddock, whose three co-founders have some 30 years of combined digital agency experience behind them. They know first-hand what agencies need, and designed the software to suit. But agencies aren’t the… → Read More