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Sources: Magic Is Raising $12M From Sequoia At A $40M Valuation
Magic, an SMS-based on-demand delivery service that started as a YC company’s weekend project, is raising $12 million in Series A funding led by Sequoia, according to sources. Sources also…
Easel To Shut Down Nine Months After Being Acquired By GitHub
Back when GitHub acquired Easel, a collaborative, What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get HTML web design tool, Easel’s blog post on the matter implied that it would be sticking around. “Easel continues to run as…
Google Shuts Down TalkBin, A Feedback Platform For Businesses It Acquired In 2011
TalkBin, a customer feedback platform for businesses that was incubated at Y Combinator and then acquired by Google in 2011, is being shut down on July 31, citing “dwindling usage.”…
Pinterest Acquires Coding Challenge Site Hackermeter Right Out Of The Gate, Will Shut It Down
If you were looking forward to boasting about your Hackermeter score as a means of getting your next coding gig, you’re gonna have to make new plans: the two-month old…
Kivo Uses Git To Make Collaborating On Documents Easier, Starting With PowerPoint
Most collaboration software these days seems to focus on real time, but Kivo, a new Y Combinator-backed startup out of the accelerator’s current class, is taking a different approach.
Estimote Creator Talks About Building An “OS For The Physical World”
Estimote’s first prototype looked like a parrot. They designed it to sit in stores and count the humans entering and leaving the location and could register their paths through the…
YC-Backed Backlift Launches A Back-End Service For Front-End Developers
Backlift, a Y Combinator-backed startup that’s launching today, describes itself as a back-end service for front-end developers. The service takes all of the work of setting up a server environment…
Groupon Acquires Realtime Location-Aware Service Glassmap To Help You Find Deals
Y Combinator company Glassmap, a location-aware app that was big back in the day (last year), has just announced that is has been acquired by Groupon. A representative from Groupon has…
Anticipating a Blended Classroom Boom Led by Education Startups
As kids head back to school this month and next, some will find a rather new arrangement greeting them: blended classrooms. These don’t feel like the ways that many of…
Y Combinator S12 Demo Day Batch 1: Meet 9GAG, Double Robotics, Hubchilla, SmartAsset And More
Paul Graham kicked off his accelerator Y Combinator’s 15th Demo Day saying that though 75 startups will present today, this summer 2012 class has the “smallest percentage of applicants that…
Y Combinator-Backed Profig Launches An Affordable, Feature-Rich Instant Phone System
Profig, a new Y Combinator-backed startup, just launched its instant virtual phone system for small and medium businesses. The service is geared toward companies and individuals looking for a professional…
Y Combinator Backed Startup Authy Wants To Help You Prevent A Dropbox Style Security SNAFU
In response to a security breach, Dropbox promised to add an optional new layer of security known as two factor authentication. If you want to add two factor authentication to…
FundersClub is going to change how companies get funded. Today it launches a website designed to let anyone with as little as $1000 make equity investments in startups and earn…
Y Combinator-Backed Sponsorfied Launches Tech That Matches Brands With Events Seeking Swag
Today, Y Combinator Summer 2012 startup Sponsorfied launches its tool that connects and manages the relationship between brands and the events or influencers they want to sponsor. See, we’re all…
YC Price Guide Startup Priceonomics Raises $1.5M Seed From Andreessen Horowitz, SV Angel
How much should you pay for a used iPhone, TV, or bicycle? Spark Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, SV Angel and more think you need to know, so they’ve invested $1.5 million…
Ark People Search Raised $4.2 Million Seed Round Instead of a Series A to “Keep Complete Control”
“The series A is essentially dying. If I can get an amazing valuation at a seed round, not give up a board seat, and keep complete control of the company,…
The startups that presented at Y Combinator’s Demo Day last week were remarkable in their own right, but perhaps the most striking thing was the sheer number of them. With…
Find Everyone You Can’t Google Or Facebook With YC’s Ark People Search
Google and Facebook can’t help you find which of your friends are single, or live in New York and like Radiohead, but Ark can. Today Y Combinator-backed Ark.com sails into open…
Y Combinator Startup Priceonomics Tells You How Much To Pay For Any Used Product
You want the best price on things you buy second hand, but finding out how much you should pay is a hassle. Removing this friction from a lucrative part of…
DrChrono Makes The iPad A Doctor's Best Friend In The Exam Room
As medical records move online, doctors are increasingly bringing laptops into the exam room to take notes, write prescriptions and more. But laptops can be cumbersome, and the iPad has…
SEC Watch: Start Fund Raises First Round, Totaling Nearly $6.5 Million
Remember Start Fund, the investment vehicle established by DST’s Yuri Milner (as an individual) and Ron Conway’s angel fund, SV Angel? A couple of weeks ago, we broke the news…
AnyLeaf Aggregates And Delivers Personalized Grocery Store Deals
For decades, my mother and grandmother have both religiously scanned the weekly coupon books and circulars that arrive in the weekend newspaper. While clipping coupons can be tedious, grocery stores’…
ReadyForZero Raises $260K To Help Cleanse Consumers Of Credit Card Debt
Y Combinator-backed startup ReadyForZero is announcing a $260,000 seed round of funding from a number of well-known angel investors including Steve Chen, the co-founder of YouTube; Dave McClure, Benjamin Ling,…
Ycombinator's WePay Partners With GroupSpaces To Let Groups Collect Cash
Hands across the water everyone! It appears that pulling together a combination of European and U.S. investors is creating some interesting synergies for young startups. UK-startup GroupSpaces, which recently announced…
"Good On Video" Is The New "Good On Paper" With YC-Funded Hirehive And YCommonApp
“Good on paper” just became “good on video” with the latest double launch from the Ycombinator crew. With Hirehive, founders Dave Albert and Nick Bergson-Shilcoc are attempting to replace at…
The Difference Engine Brings TechStars/YCombinator Mentality To UK
The Difference Engine is shaping up to be the kind of raw, Web 2.0 incubator the UK has lacked for some time. Whereas Seedcamp tends to take more fully formed…
YC-Funded Data Marketplace Is An Amazon For Structured Information
There has always been a vibrant ecosystem around financial data. Financial institutions, such as hedge funds and investment banks, pay thousands of dollars for quantitative tabular data (financial data in…
Qwisk Brings Your Social Networks To The Browser
Qwisk, which is launching today at the Real-Time CrunchUp, is an innovative new way to add a social twist to your browser. The site, which is a product of Y…
Startup School 2009: 37 Signals has some lessons for European startups
Y combinator’s annual startup school event was held in Berkeley last Saturday and featured a stellar lineup of speakers including the founders of Twitter, Facebook and Zappos. The founders speaking…
RentHop: Easier Apartment Hunting, Without The Broker Fee
Anyone who has tried to use the immensely popular ‘housing’ section of Craigslist to do some apartment hunting is well aware of its limitations: aside from breaking listings into basic…