Jonathan Shieber
Jonathan works at TechCrunch. Previously he worked as a senior reporter for Dow Jones & Co., covering venture capital and private equity investment from New York and Shanghai.
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Seahawks QB Russell Wilson gets billionaire backing for his new app connecting celebrities and superfans
Russell Wilson, the superstar quarterback helming the Seattle Seahawks, has a pretty enviable life. His wife is the musician Ciara. He’s hung out with the Obamas at the White House. And he’s won a Super Bowl (he’s also, apparently, a huge fan of Chinese food after a trip there last year). All pretty great stuff. Well, Wilson wants to give superfans a curated look behind… Read More
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Maestro gives big brands new tools to manage and control their live streams
From Twitch to Facebook to Periscope, live streaming is a growing phenomenon that’s making some decent money for the people who own the platform. For the actual people recording the streams and making things happen, not so much. Maestro, a Los Angeles-based company with a toolkit for capturing data and analytics, and engaging with viewers in live streams, has raised $3 million in a new… Read More
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New battery technologies are getting a charge from venture investors
Venture capital investors once again are getting charged up over new battery technologies. The quest to build a better battery has occupied venture investors for nearly a decade, since the initial clean technology investment bubble of the mid-2000s. Now, some of those same investors are returning to invest in battery businesses, drawn by the promise of novel chemistries and new materials that… Read More
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VR company Upload settles sexual harassment suit, though some still feel unsettled
Upload, formerly UploadVR, the virtual reality startup at the center of a sexual harassment and wrongful termination lawsuit filed earlier this year, has settled the case with its former employee and is aiming to put the ensuing damage behind it. The lawsuit, filed against the startup and its co-founders by former director of digital and social media Elizabeth Scott, alleged that the company… Read More
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After Harvey, ignore the climate debate and focus on building better, more efficient cities
As Tropical Storm Harvey made its second landfall near the border of Louisiana and Texas this week, New Orleans marked the 12-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Read More
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Monitoring construction sites for building safety nets Pillar Technologies $2.75 million
The New York-based company, a former graduate of TechCrunch’s CES Hardware Battlefield 2017 is the latest tech startup working to bring technology to the construction business — one of the industries most resistant to the kind of on-the-job improvements that technology can provide through better monitoring and management tools. Read More
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Bestow joins the ranks of startups pitching life insurance, because we’re all going to die
Life insurance. Everybody needs it, but these days fewer and fewer folks actually get it. It’s a no-brainer as far as insurance goes, because unless you live (and have died) beyond “The Wall”, or live with the Walking Dead, you’re going to face the second of Ben Franklin’s certainties at some point. Bestow joins the ranks of startups that are purporting to… Read More
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Neighborly is working with California to return bond financing to individual investors
Looking to increase local participation in public financing, the State of California is adding early stage startup Neighborly as a certified bond seller to make municipal bond investments available to any and all backers. Over 100 years ago, when the Golden Gate Bridge was just a glimmer in an urban planner’s eye, residents from all walks of life banded together to buy municipal bonds… Read More
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Amazon slashes prices for its Music Unlimited service for students
Amazon has a gift for the back-to-school set in the form of drastically reduced prices on its subscription music service. Amazon Music Unlimited (for students) is available in the U.S. starting today for the low-low price of $4.99 per month. That’s less than the $7.99 per month that Amazon charges its Prime Subscribers or the $9.99 per month for non-Prime customers. For students who… Read More
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Phone fraud detection service Next Caller raises $5 million
Fraud detection is a huge problem for retailers and the banking industry. But as companies fortify their defenses against fraudsters, the criminal element finds new weaknesses to exploit. The latest tactic has been phone spoofing, and fraud at the call center itself. Helping to ward off the latest wave of fake accounts is Next Caller, a Y Combinator-backed startup based in New York. Read More
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Geronimo imagines a better outlook for the inbox
It’s a constant refrain. Today’s email is a tragedy and a travesty. There’s no way to sort information in personally relevant ways, few tools that can organize the mass of messages rolling in through an increasingly ubiquitous scroll of information in a vertical list format. Erik Lukas, the founder of Jumpin Labs, has a different vision for what email should look like. Instead… Read More
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Panda Pop passes 100 million users as Jam City readies for an IPO
The flagship game from Los Angeles-based mobile game developer Jam City, Panda Pop, has reached over 9.3 million monthly active users and climbed above its 100 millionth download. The tentpole game for Myspace founder Chris DeWolfe’s latest LA-based juggernaut of a company has certainly had its moment. Read More
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Billionaires and big ag are joining venture investors to fund lab-grown meat
The future of food is going to get weird. Read More
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Cambridge Cancer Genomics offers a better way to gauge effective cancer treatments
Through a combination of new sensing technology and machine learning, Cambridge Cancer Genomics has developed a technique that can identify how well cancer treatments are working. That’s incredibly important for getting different therapies to market faster, and for ensuring that targeted therapies are working the way they’re supposed to. Read More
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Elucd’s polling pushes for greater community accountability for police
From his time working as the wunderkind pollster for Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign to the launch of his new startup, Elucd, Michael Simon has believed in the power of community feedback. At Elucd, which is graduating from the latest batch of Y Combinator startups, Simon is looking to take the skills he’d honed on the campaign trail and apply them to one of the… Read More
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Covetly gives collectors a better way to buy and sell the things they covet
Collecting is at the heart of most human endeavors… and it’s why the three founders of Covetly, one of the companies graduating from Y Combinator’s latest accelerator batch, launched their business — to make collecting even easier. Read More
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For its latest trick, watch this Tesla Model X smoke a Lamborghini supercar
The “Ludicrous” Teslas are ludicrous indeed. And this video posted to YouTube by DragTimes is just the latest in a series of evidentiary exhibits that proves it. In the video, a Tesla Model X P100D crossover SUV is pitted against a $530,000 Lamborghini Aventador. Spoiler alert: the Tesla beats it by .05 of a second, leaving the Lambo crying “Mercy”. At 5,4000 pounds… Read More
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Tracking viewer responses to media, Cinemmerse wants to set the stage for ‘responsive’ entertainment
Wendy Dent has a dream. The Australian founder, chief executive and sole employee of Cinemmerse wants to change the way folks think about how they watch everything from advertisements to art films. Read More
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Teenage bitcoin millionaire is back with a better Botangle
Erik Finman gained notoriety and a certain fame as a 14-year-old entrepreneur and bitcoin investor who’d managed to turn a $1,000 investment in the cryptocurrency into more than a million dollars and a chance to never see the inside of a college institution. Now, several years after its sale, Finman is buying back his original startup: Botangle. Read More
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Watch the Australia Post Regional Pitch Finals right here, right now
It was only a year ago that Di Somrville held the first Regional Pitchfest in the can’t-be-really-named-but-is-really-named town of Wagga Wagga. At the time, the event founder and entrepreneurially minded Somerville had no idea that the eyes of Australia Post were on her, and eager to help grow the pitch competition into a national event. Now, only a year later, all of you night owls… Read More
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