Biotech Startup Pembient Is Making Rhino Horns, Sans Rhino
10:20 am PDT • April 27, 2015
There’s a startup called Pembient that is 3D printing rhinoceros horns in a lab on the far edge of San Francisco. These are not horns that look like rhino horns.…
The 22 Best Apple Watch Health And Fitness Apps
9:25 am PDT • April 24, 2015
The Apple Watch, Apple’s first step into the world of wearables, starts shipping to consumers today. The Watch marks an interesting time in the wearable fitness space, in particular. Health and…
If you were curious about potential consolidation in the fitness space (which I’m sure you were), look no further than this very article. ClassPass, the subscription service for unlimited monthly…
Amazon’s Q1 Beats As Revenue Rises 15% To $22.72 Billion, EPS Loss Of $0.12
2:09 pm PDT • April 23, 2015
Today following the bell, Amazon reported its first quarter 2015 financial performance, including revenue of $22.72 billion and negative earnings per share of $0.12. The street expected Amazon to lose…
Media & Entertainment
Razorfish’s Jeff Dachis Launches One Drop, An App For Diabetics To Log And Share Info With Each Other
7:00 am PDT • April 21, 2015
Co-founder of digital marketing agency Razorfish Jeff Dachis has a new app for diabetes called One Drop, which just launched in the App Store today. Dachis has always been a…
Biotech & Health
Y Combinator-Backed Health Insurance Startup SimplyInsured Pulls In $1.75 Million In Seed Funding
10:49 am PDT • April 20, 2015
Online health insurance for small businesses platform SimplyInsured has raised a total of $1.75 million in seed funding from Starling Ventures, Altair, NerdWallet co-founders Jake Gibson and Tim Chen, Amee…
Biotech & Health
Heal Wants To Be The ‘Uber’ For Doctors Making House Calls
5:01 pm PDT • April 19, 2015
These days you can take yourself to the doctor or teleport the doctor to you from a mobile device. Now Heal, a startup out of Los Angeles, wants to take…
CrunchWeek: Yahoo+Foursquare, Etsy’s IPO Goes Boom, And Slack Raises Another Chunk Of Capital
1:26 pm PDT • April 17, 2015
We hope you accomplished enough this week. If not, you won’t be saving your productivity this Friday afternoon, so we’re here to CrunchWeek with you. This time around Sarah Buhr,…
Media & Entertainment
Etsy Closes Up 86 Percent On First Day Of Trading
1:04 pm PDT • April 16, 2015
It turns out Wall Street investors like those homespun crafts. Etsy, the online marketplace for handmade goods, went public today. Shares opened at $31 on the NASDAQ, popping up 94…
Stationary Bike Startup Peloton Expands Production And Distribution With $30M In New Funding
6:30 am PDT • April 16, 2015
Peloton, the stationary bike startup with a built-in tablet for live streaming cycling classes, has raised $30 million in Series C funding in order to expand brick-and-mortar retail locations and accelerate bike production.…
Nestdrop Goes Back To Delivering Weed, Adding 9 Locations Along The West Coast
2:14 pm PDT • April 15, 2015
Marijuana delivery startup Nestdrop is back in operation today, this time in 9 cities spread across the entire West Coast, including in Seattle, Portland, and 7 California locations. This now makes Nestdrop the…
Biotech & Health
Online Pharmacy Startup PillPack Pushes Drug Delivery To California
3:56 pm PDT • April 14, 2015
PillPack, the online medication delivery service out of New Hampshire, is now available in California. This is the 47th state in the U.S. to receive the green light to allow…
Rakuten Is Looking To Acquire PopSugar For $580 Million
4:24 pm PDT • April 13, 2015
We’ve heard PopSugar is the latest online content company that Japanese conglomerate Rakuten is about to snap up. These things could always fall apart, but should the deal go through, we’re told it…
Planet Labs Rockets To $118 Million In Series C Funding To Cover The Earth In Tiny Satellites
10:55 am PDT • April 13, 2015
Planet Labs, a startup that has pledged to cover the Earth in tiny satellites, announced the close of $118 million in Series C funding today. The International Finance Corporation (IFC),…
Hillary Clinton Tweets Her 2016 Presidential Bid After Aide’s Email Ruined The “Surprise”
1:26 pm PDT • April 12, 2015
It’s official – Hillary Clinton is running for president. Clinton announced her bid for the 2016 U.S. presidential race on Twitter this afternoon, ending years of conjecture over what many…
CrunchWeek: Apple Built A Watch, Zynga Recycles CEOs, And HBO Cuts The Cord
1:21 pm PDT • April 10, 2015
[tc_aol_on code=”518759962″] Welcome to another Friday and another episode of CrunchWeek. This week we had a treat in that two-thirds of our staff’s Sarahs sat down to dig in and rake…
Biotech & Health
Maven Launches The First Telemedicine Platform Made For Women With $2.2 Million In Seed
8:30 am PDT • April 9, 2015
Maven, a telemedicine app that caters to the healthcare needs of women, launched out of beta today with $2.2 million in seed funding. Investors include Great Oaks Venture Capital, BoxGroup,…
We Asked Rock Health Founder Halle Tecco About The Future Of Digital Medicine
4:44 pm PDT • April 6, 2015
[tc_aol_on code=”518749737″] Health technology is becoming a big topic in 2015. We’re seeing wearable technology that can automatically upload our health data to the cloud, cellphones are becoming tools to connect us…
Startups
Publishing Platform RebelMouse Nabs $6 Million In An Extended Series A Growth Round
10:50 am PDT • April 6, 2015
Content publishing platform RebelMouse has raised $16 million in Series B funding from previous investors Softbank Capital and Oak Investment Partners, with additional participation from Buddy Media’s Mike Lazerow. An…
Google Capital Leads A $60 Million Series B Round To Help ZenPayroll Serve Larger Businesses
4:30 am PDT • April 6, 2015
Cloud-based payroll processing startup ZenPayroll has closed on a $60 million Series B round, led by Google Capital. Emergence Capital Partners and Ribbit Capital also participated, along with existing investors…
Startups
CrunchWeek: Shyp’s Fundraising, Microsoft’s Surface 3 And GoDaddy’s Massive IPO
3:19 pm PDT • April 3, 2015
[tc_aol_on code=”518746558″] Welcome to another episode of CrunchWeek — a special one, as our brand-new reporter Matt Lynley joins us for the first time. We’re incredibly happy to have him on…
Startups
SeatGeek Raises $62 Million In A Series C Led By Technology Crossover Ventures
6:39 pm PDT • April 2, 2015
Online ticket sales startup SeatGeek has raised $62 million in Series C funding. Co-founder Jack Groetzinger confirmed to TechCrunch that the round was led by Technology Crossover Ventures, with participation…
Startups
Y Combinator-Backed PicnicHealth Nabs $2 Million In Seed To Build Out A Virtual Healthcare Records Platform
3:58 pm PDT • April 2, 2015
PicnicHealth launched out of Y Combinator last summer with a service that promised to help chronically ill patients gather all their records from all their doctors and put them in…
Biotech & Health
ZappRx Raises $5.6 Million In Series A Funding To Expand The Company
8:59 am PDT • April 2, 2015
Pharmacy coordination platform ZappRx announced it has raised $5.6 million in Series A funding today. The new financing will go to further build upon ZappRx’s prescription data automation technology and…
Media & Entertainment
Tapingo Orders Up $22 Million In Series C Funding To Grow Beyond The College Market
8:55 am PDT • April 2, 2015
There are at least 12 on-demand food startups within the Bay Area – two of them focus solely on delivering cookies. And there are plenty more beyond the borders of…
Startups
Former Motionloft CEO Jon Mills Sentenced To 24 Months In Prison For Wire Fraud
5:30 pm PDT • April 1, 2015
Founder and former Motionloft CEO Jon Mills has been found guilty on two counts of wire fraud, and ordered to serve 24 months in jail. In addition, he was ordered…
Ron Conway, Sean Parker Go To Washington (Again)
6:00 am PDT • March 31, 2015
A new bipartisan think tank with a focus on creating better opportunities for startups and small businesses is launching in Washington, D.C. today with backing from Silicon Valley. Sean Parker,…
Tanium Nabs An Additional $52 Million In Funding From Andreessen Horowitz
5:59 am PDT • March 31, 2015
Tanium is an enterprise security and system management startup which lets IT control an entire network using natural language in a search engine-like interface. It raised a significant $90 million from Andreesen…
Meerkat And Periscope Aren’t Sure What To Do With Their Hands
1:11 pm PDT • March 29, 2015
What is it about us that makes us do weird things on new apps? Just two days into the launch of the new live streaming app Periscope and showing off…
Vines just got bigger with a higher quality video upgrade today. A new post on the company blog announced a technical change that allows Vine users to upload the higher-resolution…
