Cohort S23 consists of 10 companies, built by 25 founders across three countries and 12 cities. Unlike Y Combinator, Beacon doesn’t only select companies that are the most nascent.
We’re only in the second week of 2023, but demo days have already begun as founders try to keep momentum alive in the ever-changing crypto market. Beacon, a web3-focused early-stage accelerator prog
Now that equity is getting increasingly expensive as investors are deploying more conservatively after last year's fever, Upper90's strategy could become more useful to founders than ever.
When I first met Garrett Camp in March 2007 on a reporting assignment, it was at the San Francisco-based offices of StumbleUpon, a web-discovery tool that had registered more than 2 million users and
Everyone knows the holiday season means three things: family, friends and interconnected low-energy Bluetooth devices connected using a simple mesh network. Estimote, a beacon company, has given us th
Another tech startup seeking to transform aviation has closed its doors. Beacon sought to bring an all-you-can-fly option to business and leisure travelers starting on the East coast. The company’s
A project to probe the viability of using low power Bluetooth Beacon technology as an aid for indoor navigation -- with a special focus on helping blind and visually impaired people get around indepen
Beacon, a subscription flight service founded by former Surf Air CEO Wade Eyerly (and two other Surf Air Co-founders), announced that the company has raised $7.5 million in Series A funding. The rou
Estimote, maker of hardware beacon devices and a platform for managing software that uses beacon connections, such as Apple’s iBeacon system, has just launched its Indoor Location features. The
Now this is a startup crowdfunding campaign that I can get behind.
<a target="_blank" href="http://www.beaconreader.com">Beacon</a>, a <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2014/02/12/beacon-y-combinator
Mannequins that send details of the clothes they're displaying to nearby shoppers' phones are being trialled in three UK bricks-and-mortar stores.
<a target="_blank" href="http://www.beaconreader.com/">Beacon</a>, part of the current batch of startups incubated by Y Combinator, gives readers another way to support (and get access to) high qualit
With the goal of closing the gap between retailers and shoppers, the SaaS startup <a target="_blank" href="http://www.swirl.com/">Swirl Networks, Inc.</a> is rolling out a system of in-store beacons t
A <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2011/11/03/motorola-unveils-the-xoom-2-and-xoom-2-media-edition/">handful</a> of new Android tablets can take control of your television thanks to their built-in IR b
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All our whining, for once, accomplished something. Facebook’s controversial Beacon feature can now be completely turned off by going into your privacy settings. (Beacon would announce on your ne