February 14th, 2012

Soup.me lands $530,000, lets you aggregate your digital life (or something)

SpeedInvest, an “early-stage super angel fund” headquartered in Austria, has injected $530,000 into Soup.me, which is the reboot service (sounds way nicer than ‘pivot’) of micro-publishing tools maker Soup.io.

The service is invite-only, and I haven’t had the chance to check it out yet, but the description(s) given to Soup.me is actually quite confusing to me. → Read More

February 14th, 2012

Meanwhile In Europe … (Runtastic, TechCrunch Baltics, SecretSales, Cabify, Soup.me)

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Here’s a roundup of recent stories on TechCrunch Europe:

— On-demand car service startup Cabify – which I likened to the ‘Uber of Europe’ – is starting to gain momentum in its hometown (Madrid, Spain), but plans to expand to 15 more European cities in 2012.

— In the UK, private sales club SecretSales has raised £6.3 million in funding to double down on its expansion in the… → Read More