Ryan Lawler

Hello, the company behind sleep sensing monitor Sense, is ready to start shipping. Over the next week or so, the company will make its sleep-tracking hardware and software generally available…

There’s no shortage of lunch delivery options in San Francisco these days, but there’s always room for another one. While most of the options out there are focused on serving…

It was just 18 months ago that Hunter Walk and Satya Patel formally launched Homebrew Ventures, a $35 million venture fund focused on investing in what they called the “bottom-up”…

EasilyDo, the app that automatically helps busy people manage their calendar, contacts, and to-do lists, has a new trick up its sleeve. The app now has features it hopes will…

Digit, the startup that automatically saves cash for users, has been operating in a kind of invite-only beta over the last nine months or so. Thanks to a banking partnership…

YouTube is the leader in ad-supported video online, but there are always new ways it can work with its content partners. Today at the CODE/Media Conference in Southern California, YouTube…

Ev Williams thinks Internet companies should be judged on more than just their monthly active user numbers. In an interview this morning at the CODE/Media conference, the founder of Blogger,…

With the latest update to its app and launch of what it calls “Washio Now,” customers will be able to place an order and have their laundry or dry cleaning…

Onfido enables companies to quickly verify the identity of workers and run criminal and other necessary background checks. Instead of doing manual checks like most traditional agencies, Onfido has created…

A new product called the Ray Super Remote was designed to change all that. The device takes the form of a touchscreen universal remote and takes all the ease and…

San Francisco-based Fitmob has enabled customers to sign up for a monthly subscription to attend classes or visit gyms in cities around the country. With the acquisition of Gymsurfing, the…

Car-for-hire startup Lyft is going back to investors for another round of funding. As earlier reported by the New York Times, the company is looking to raise another $250 million…

ESPN fans will be happy to learn that today the “worldwide leader in sports” is introducing the first version of its mobile news app that will work on iPad, unifying…

Two-factor authentication startup Duo Security recently raised a $12 million round of funding to quickly grow its business and customer base. To help with that, the company hired seasoned tech…

Online furniture marketplace Move Loot offers a place where buyers can find affordable pre-owned goods and where sellers can get rid of things they no longer want or need. In…

Cloud storage company Dropbox announced today it has hired Vanessa Wittman as its new finance chief, who will be replacing longtime CFO Sujay Jaswa. Wittman brings some public company experience,…

As the entire world moves on-demand, it’s not a huge surprise that professional services like massage will soon become part of that trend. And so just as people are ordering…

Flipboard is finally coming to the platform where most digital publishers start. After providing readers with beautiful, personalized mobile magazines on their mobile devices, the company is re-launching its web…

When we talked to media veteran Fred Seibert a few months ago about his new venture, a little thing called Thirty Labs, he was holding his cards pretty close to…

Over the last few years, restaurants have used a little app called NoshList to communicate with and provide estimated wait times to their customers, but it found that same functionality…

“Invest in what you know.” That’s a common piece of advice given to new investors that Calvin Broadus, Jr. (a.k.a. Snoop Dogg, a.k.a. Snoop Lion) seems to be taking to…

Software giant Microsoft is in the process of trying to reinvent itself, and part of that reinvention evidently involves acquiring startups that have created products that compete with its own.…

Even as other industries adopt technology to improve productivity and make them more efficient, there are some like construction that are still locked into old, mostly manual processes for project…

Last year, a couple of guys launched an app called Confide to enable ephemeral messaging for business users. The idea was to bring off-the-record mobile messaging into the enterprise but…

If you’re an enterprise SaaS salesperson, a new company called MightySignal wants to help you find better leads based on information they can find by crawling the web. It was…

500 Startups’ mobile-focused micro-fund has made its first investment, putting some cash into a startup that plans to bring mobile apps to the desktop. The company’s investment is in Andy…

Epoxy was founded with the idea of helping YouTubers to engage with audiences and track their reach on platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Vine. Today the company is announcing…

Eero hopes to change the way we think about wireless routers. It hopes to make an affordable, smart wireless networking system that will do to WiFi routers what Nest did…

Groupon founder and former CEO Andrew Mason wants to help tourists and locals in San Francisco to wander around and discover parts of the city they’ve never fully explored. After…

The 8th Annual Crunchies Awards Ceremony is just a few days away, which means it’s time to start thinking about out what you’ll be wearing to the big event. This…