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TC Makers: Check Out The Georgia Tech Invention Studio Where Students Build The Future
When you give Dr. Craig Forest an inch, he takes a mile. The mild-mannered Assistant Professor of Bioengineering at Georgia Tech helped set up the Invention Studio on the first floor of a nondescript engineering building at the heart of the university's verdant campus. Founded in 2009, the 3,000 square-foot space grew and grew, eventually taking over the entire lobby and multiple workshops. The… Read More
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Keen On… Success: Why 99.9% Of Tech Companies Aren’t WhatsApp or Instagram
Reggie Aggarwal, the founder and CEO of Cvent, describes himself as a "15 year overnight success". Read More
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Embarcadero Launches AppMethod, A New Multi-Device Development Platform For Native Apps
Embarcadero Technologies is announcing AppMethod, a new multi-device development platform for PC, Mac, iOS, Android and -- in the long run -- wearables. The platform brings together an IDE with design tools, UI elements, connectors to cloud and on-premise databases and built-in support for popular mobile backend as a service platforms like Kinvey, Parse, App42 and others. Read More
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Convo Refreshes Its Android App, Launches Chrome Extension
Convo, a social tool for companies to collaborate in real-time, today released new tools for its growing userbase: A Chrome extension, and a refresh of its Android application. As an app, Convo is something that I've known for a long time. Through a chunk of my tenure at The Next Web we used Convo -- even back when it was known as Convofy, of all things -- and as the company trumpets on its… Read More
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As Flipkart Hits $1B GMV Milestone, Indian E-Commerce Becomes The Next Frontier For Amazon, eBay
Flipkart, India’s biggest e-commerce company, has just hit the billion dollar milestone in annual GMV (Gross Merchandise Value), a goal the founders had forecast to achieve only by 2015. In an internal note sent to employees, Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal, the former Amazon employees who founded Flipkart in 2007, said this reflects 100x growth since March 2011 when the company was doing… Read More
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Facebook Rolls Out Simplified News Feed That Leaves Content And Ads Alone
Facebook has gone through many iterations, and some growing pains, in its quest to find a happy balance between an interface that people love to use, and that will serve the best business purpose for ad-funded the social network. Starting today, Facebook will be embarking on another chapter in that story, with the rollout of a new look for its News Feed -- announced last year but never launched. Read More
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QuizUp Is Now Available On Android
Quiz Time! Which super popular trivia game that was previously iOS-only just launched on Android? A) Quizzington Alley B) QuizUp C) Greg's Quiz Cabin D) Angry Bird? I don't know. What is smart phone. If you picked B — hurray! You're right. Read More
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ShowEvidence
- Size $50M
- Round Unattributed
- Investors Follett Corporation
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Trusper
- Size $6.2M
- Round A
- Investors DCM, Charles Schwab
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OnDeck
- Size $77M
- Round E
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Transgenomic
- Size $7M
- Round B
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Navidea Biopharmaceuticals
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- Round Post_ipo_debt
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iCardiac Technologies
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- Round Unattributed
- Investors Norwest Venture Partners
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Optio Labs
- Size $10M
- Round A
- Investors Allied Minds
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Kapture Audio
- Size $680K
- Round Seed
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Emotient
- Size $6M
- Round B
- Investors Seth Neiman, Intel Capital
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DigitalOcean
- Size $37M
- Round A
- Investors Andreessen Horowitz, IA Ventures, CrunchFund
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SplashThat
- Size $1.5M
- Round Seed
- Investors Maveron, Lerer Ventures, BoxGroup, PROfounders Capital, Red Sea Venture ... See More
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Sailogy
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- Round A
- Investors AGIRE, Fabio Cannavale
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CityAds Media
- Size $5M
- Round Unattributed
- Investors Klever Internet Investments Limited
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Egress Software Technologies
- Size $3.3M
- Round Unattributed
- Investors Albion Ventures
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Green Shoots Distribution
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- Round Unattributed
- Investors Pergament LOHAS Fund
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Quantenna Communications
- Size $14M
- Round Debt_round
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Synergy Biomedical
- Size $611.9K
- Round Partial
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GuideSpark
- Size $15M
- Round B
- Investors New Enterprise Associates, Storm Ventures, IDG Ventures
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Lotame
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- Round D
- Investors Sozo Ventures, TrueBridge Capital Partners, Battery Ventures, Emergence ... See More
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CloudBees
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Blend Systems
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- Round Seed
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Lean Startup Machine
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Reaching Our Outdoor Friends (ROOF)
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- Round Grant
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TrackDuck
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- Round Seed
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AppsFlyer
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Solvoyo
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Auction.com
- Size $50M
- Round Private_equity
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BioTime
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- Round A
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Peek.com
- Size $5M
- Round Unattributed
- Investors Montage Ventures, Todd Kimmel, Brad Gerstner, Jeff Fluhr
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Canary
- Size $10M
- Round A
- Investors Khosla Ventures, Bobby Yazdani, Two Sigma Ventures
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Newly Updated “Inbox Pause” Utility Lets You Check Email On Your Schedule, Not Theirs
How do you deal with email overload, and the incessant pings of incoming email alerts? Baydin, the company behind a suite of productivity tools for busy workers, has a solution: just stop checking your inbox so darned much. Of course, this is easier said that done: Humans seem to have a Pavlovian response to our “new email!” notifications. But now, the company says it has revamped its… Read More
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Splash, The Party Scientists Stealing Big Business From Eventbrite
People don’t want ads, they want memories. To shift from spammy marketing to providing experiences, companies like Anheuser-Busch, Spotify, NPR, and Wired promoted 80,000 events in 2013 with a little startup called Splash. In co-founder Ben Hindman’s first in-depth interview, he tells me how Splash's event platform is challenging bland incumbents with its beautifully designed party websites. Read More
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After 2 Years In Beta, Findery Launches Its Geo-Tagged Story Sharing App On iOS Worldwide
Findery is launching worldwide on iOS today to bring these things out of purely the oral history and into the digital world. The app lets you take photos and notes from specific locations and tag them on a map anywhere in the world for other people to see and discover. Findery founder and CEO Caterina Fake stopped by TechCrunch headquarters to give us a demo the app in person, and you can watch… Read More
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Now At PayPal, Braintree Again Courts Startups By Waiving The First $50K In Processing Fees
In October 2012, payments company Braintree set aside $2 million from its Series B to court startups to its platform by waiving the processing fees for the first $50,000 in transactions. At the time, the promotion was limited to 1,000 sign-ups. Now a part of PayPal following its acquisition, Braintree is at it again, only this time, that same offer is open to anyone as part of Braintree’s… Read More
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Amazon Debuts An Official Mobile App For Amazon Sellers
Amazon quietly launched a new mobile application designed for Amazon Sellers, the individuals and businesses who leverage Amazon’s scale to reach the company’s millions of shoppers by listing their products on Amazon’s site. Amazon Seller, as the app is simply called, offers a suite of mobile tools that allow sellers to search and scan barcodes of items, check prices, sales… Read More
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Trusper Raises $6.17M For Tips Based Social Networking App
New mobile app developer Trusper has just launched with $6.17 million to bring the knitting circle and the farmers almanac into the age of the iPhone. The Los Gatos based company is the brainchild of Jack Jia, a serial entrepreneur and investor with ties to GSR Ventures, and the Sino-U.S. accelerator InnoSpring. For the $6.17 million Series A, Jia turned to DCM, another venture investor with a… Read More
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Vimeo Announces $10M Fund For Filmmakers Who Distribute Through Vimeo On Demand
Vimeo says it's making a big financial commitment — a new $10 million fund— to films distributed exclusively (for a limited window of time) through Vimeo On Demand. The IAC-owned video site launched Vimeo On Demand a year ago, allowing creators to charge for access to their content. It then offered $10,000 advances for exclusive distribution rights to films at the Toronto International Film… Read More
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