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Wunderwalk App Let’s You Quickly Map An Urban Outing
Wunderwalk is an app that helps you find cool stuff to do in your city — or on your next city break — by combining Foursquare and Google Maps to let you search for a series of activities and have the app plot a route on the map, threading through the necessary stop offs and watering holes. Read More
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Amid ‘Right To Try’ Debate, myTomorrows Raises €4.5M To Give Patients Access To Development-Stage Drugs
myTomorrows, the Dutch startup that wants to disrupt the way patients with unmet medical needs access development-stage treatments — drugs that are still undergoing clinical trials and working their way through a lengthy regulatory approval process — has raised €4.5 million (~$6m) in new funding. Read More
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Spotify Now Lets You Use A Phone Or Tablet As A Remote For Your Desktop Music
Many people, like me, were wondering when Spotify would use its Connect feature — which launched just over a year ago — to connect their phone and desktop devices. Well, I’m please to say that this #firstworldproblem has been itched today, and you can now use your phone or tablet as a remote control for the tunes playing on your desktop. Read More
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Twitter Will Open Hong Kong Office To Target Advertisers
In Asia, Twitter is up against rivals like Sina Weibo and the ubiquity of messaging apps like Line, WhatsApp, and WeChat. But the region is still an important one for the microblogging platform, a point it underscored today by announcing plans to establish an office in Hong Kong. Twitter’s vice president for Asia Pacific, the Americas, and emerging markets, Shailesh Rao, told WSJ that… Read More
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Home Depot Hackers Also Snagged 53 Million Customer Email Addresses
Remember that Home Depot hack? The one where 56 million credit cards were stolen? Of course you do. Hell — if you’re anything like me, you’re probably still in the middle of updating your various accounts to point to the replacement credit card. Alas, things are a bit worse than previously believed. Read More
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Zuckerberg Answers Big Questions About Facebook, Forced Downloads Of Messenger, And Page Reach
Today at his first public Q&A, Mark Zuckerberg boldly responded to some of the top gripes and questions about his company. Here’s a look at the top questions and a summary of the Facebook CEO’s answers. Read More
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Trends That Will Revolutionize The Retail Industry
In retail, innovation is the name of the game. Increasingly, retailers are staying ahead through unique in-store experiences that inspire shoppers through social lifestyles. Take a look at STORY, a Manhattan retailer that continually changes everything in store, from products to fittings to events based upon different themes like “Love” or “Made in America.” They… Read More
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Former Space X Employee Arrested For Alleged Silk Road 2.0 Involvement
The alleged operator of the Silk Road 2.0, Blake Benthall, has been arrested by the FBI in San Francisco after federal agents shut down the site on Wednesday. The site was a copy of the original Silk Road, a secure black market site allegedly run by Ross Ulbricht. The FBI announced the arrest on its New York Twitter feed. Read More
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Never-Before-Seen Photos Of Steve Jobs From 1985-2000
It was 1985. Apple had just forced Steve Jobs out. He was starting to build the NeXT computer, the same desktop station that Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau would use to build the first web server software. Little did anyone know back then we were on the precipice of the digital revolution. Read More
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Motorola Starts Selling Moto 360s with Metal Bands For $50-$80 More
If the only thing keeping you from picking up a Moto 360 was that your only choice for the watch-band material was leather (and not that Android Wear is still a bit wonky) — good news! After quite a few leaks suggesting as much, Motorola is now officially selling the Moto 360 with metal bands. One thing to note: the metal bands hike the price up a bit, up to $300 from the $250 price that… Read More
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Odysee Automatically Saves Your Mobile Photos And Videos To Your Home PC
A new application launching today called Odysee offers a different way for consumers to back up photos and videos from their smartphones. Instead of backing up to the cloud, which can be both pricey and sometimes even insecure, with Odysee, content is backed up to your home computer. For free! Well, it’s free until next year when the $5/year pricing plan kicks in. It’s like… Read More
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Former Lyft Exec Denies Taking Confidential Data With Him To Uber
Uber executive Travis VanderZanden says allegations that he stole confidential documents from former employer Lyft are “ridiculous.” In a series of tweets posted this morning, the ex-COO of Lyft denied taking any confidential data with him to rival Uber and claims to have deleted all files he was accused of having in his possession. Read More
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Let’s Call The Amazon Echo What It Is
This morning, Amazon announced a new device called Echo. With a built-in, cloud connected, “always on” microphone, the Echo can listen for your voice “from across the room.” You can ask it about the weather. You can tell it to set an alarm. It’s a personal assistant in a tube! But lets be clear here on what this thing is beyond that – or what it will be. Read More
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Why Are My Facebook Page’s Posts Getting Bundled Together?
It’s your fault. You’ve “liked” too many pages, and now Facebook has to do something about it. Sure you might be following 50+ pages on Facebook, but do you really interact with all of them? You don’t. And Facebook knows it. Read More
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CloudScreener Helps You Decide Which Cloud To Use, Raises 600,000 Euros
What cloud should you host your applications on? That question is getting harder and harder to answer as more players join the fray and as existing companies continually add new features and change their prices. CloudScreener wants to help you by asking you a couple of basic questions about your needs. It then combines that with the performance data it gathers from all of the different services… Read More
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Vainglory Launches On iPhone And iPad Later This Month
Vainglory, the multiplayer online battle arena shown off on-stage at this year’s iPhone announcement, just got solid release dates in every region but China, Japan and Korea. Read More
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Droid Turbo Review: Motorola’s Amped-Up Moto X Excels Where It Counts
Motorola barely let the 2014 Moto X sink in before announcing essentially a beefed-up version of the same. The Verizon-exclusive Droid Turbo is a Moto X with a better battery and a better camera, but in a package that’s hard to describe as an “improvement” on the original. Where the Verizon phone excels, however, it really excels, which makes it a tempting proposition for… Read More
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Feet-On With Boosted Boards’ New Faster And Cheaper Electric Skateboards
If you want to ride a magic carpet, the Boosted Board is the closest you’ll get until they make that hoverboard run on asphalt. And now there’s an even more powerful model for climbing epic hills or hitting 22mph, and a stripped down model for casual boarders on a budget. Y Combinator-incubated Boosted Boards launched it Kickstarter back in November 2012 and finally shipped its… Read More
Recent Funding Data by
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Meekan
- $870K Seed
- HQ: Tel Aviv
- Categories: Mobile Enterprise, Mobile, Online Scheduling, Productivity Software, Email ... See More
- Investors: Not available
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Spitfire Athlete
- $118K Seed
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Fitness
- Investors: Not available
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Electrochaea
- Not available Series A
- HQ: St Louis, MO
- Categories: Clean Technology
- Investors: Not available
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Fit Body Club, Co.
- Not available Seed
- HQ: Washington
- Categories: Health and Wellness, Fitness, Nutrition
- Investors: Not available
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ROCKI
- $118K Seed
- HQ: New York, NY
- Categories: Music, Consumer Electronics, Audio, Music Services
- Investors: Not available
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Codeanywhere
- $213K Seed
- HQ: Palo Alto, CA
- Categories: Software, File Sharing, Enterprise Software, Web Development
- Investors: Not available
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cortical.io
- $1.2M Series A
- HQ: Vienna
- Categories: Artificial Intelligence, Enterprise Search, Natural Language Processing, ... See More
- Investors: Not available
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Chartcube
- $4.0M Series A
- HQ: Burlingame, CA
- Categories: Curated Web, Freemium, Mobile, Data Visualization, Collaboration
- Investors: Not available
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OrthAlign
- $15M Series C
- HQ: Irvine, CA
- Categories: Health Care
- Investors: Not available
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Banyan Water
- $1.5M Debt Financing
- HQ: San Francisco
- Categories: Renewable Energies
- Investors: Not available
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HashCube
- $684K Series A
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Social Games, Games, Internet
- Investors: Not available
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STREAMROOT
- $118K Seed
- HQ: Paris
- Categories: Video, Content Delivery, Video Streaming, Peer-to-Peer
- Investors: Not available
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Colatris
- $118K Seed
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Emerging Markets, Enterprise Software, Mobile, Mobile Software Tools, ... See More
- Investors: Not available
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Edtrips
- $118K Seed
- HQ: Providence, RI
- Categories: Travel, Education
- Investors: Not available
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GreenMantra Technologies
- $17M Venture
- HQ: Toronto, ON
- Categories: Manufacturing
- Investors: Not available
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Keek
- $5.0M Post IPO Equity
- HQ: Toronto, ON
- Categories: Social Media, Networking, iPhone, Android
- Investors: Not available
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Tekkie Town
- $65M undisclosed
- HQ: Cape Town
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Not available
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Headtalk
- $118K Seed
- HQ: Cambridge, MA
- Categories: Health and Wellness
- Investors: Not available
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Polyglotte, Inc.
- Not available Seed
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Not available
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Prositions
- $2.0M Venture
- HQ: Urbandale, IA
- Categories: Human Resources
- Investors: Not available
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DreamQii
- $460K Venture
- HQ: Toronto, ON
- Categories: Drones, Robotics
- Investors: Not available
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Skylight
- $500K Angel
- HQ: New York, NY
- Categories: Search, Apps
- Investors: Not available
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Confluent
- $6.9M Seed
- HQ: Mountain View
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Not available
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FORTIFIED Bicycle
- $118K Seed
- HQ: Boston, MA
- Categories: Sporting Goods
- Investors: Not available
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FabTask
- 80K EUR Seed
- HQ: Copenhagen
- Categories: Internet, Task Management
- Investors: Not available
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Prostate Management Diagnostics
- $1.1M Venture
- HQ: San Francisco
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Not available
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cloudscreener.com
- 600K EUR Angel
- HQ: Paris
- Categories: Infrastructure, Consulting, IaaS, Cloud Computing
- Investors: Not available
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iCarsClub
- $60M Series B
- HQ: Singapore
- Categories: Consumers, E-Commerce
- Investors: Not available