Instagram accounts are worth stealing. Now at 400 million users including celebrities, brands, and artists making a living, it’s time to add another lock to its doors. In November I wrote that “Seriously, Instagram Needs Two-Factor Authentication”, and a tipster just told me they’ve spotted it in testing. Today, Instagram confirmed to me that it’s beginning to… Read More
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A new 500 Startups batch means new diversity stats. In the startup accelerator’s 15th batch, 44% of the founders are international, 33% are female, 15% are black and 10% are Latino, 500 Startups Founding Partner Dave McClure announced today at demo day. 500 Startups has generally been pretty good around investing in female founders. To date, more than 400 startups in the 500… Read More
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There is a battle raging for curated social media supremacy. When big things happen, each of these apps wants to be where you see the best of and behind the scenes. They’ve all created their own features that take the work off your hands. Just sit back and watch, swipe or scroll. Read More
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The Boston and Atlanta Meetups are but a week away, and we have finally confirmed the companies pitching in the Pitch-Offs. These startups will have exactly sixty seconds to pitch their product to a panel of expert VC judges, and after each presentation they will be subject to a quick Q&A. At the end of all the pitches, the judges will determine the winners. First place gets a table in… Read More
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A growing number of e-commerce businesses today are assisting their customers over SMS and mobile messaging. There are even SMS-based services, like Magic, Operator, GoButler, and others targeting the emerging “conversational shopping” market. Now, e-commerce platform Shopify is aiming to help its merchants better serve their customers via mobile messaging with the launch of… Read More
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Who has time to swipe Tinder these days? Or wade through the seven circles of weird messaging hell on OKCupid? Too many people, evidently, which is why the whole online dating thang can feel more like being forever stuck in digital dating limbo. But never fear! A bootstrapping London-based startup is preparing to fix this problem — for a fee. Read More
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Reedsy has been unbundling traditional publishing houses one step at a time. At heart, Reedsy remains a marketplace to find an editor, copy editor, cover illustrator and more. And now, Reedsy also provides a book editor to seamlessly interact with your editors and produce a final book. Read More
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There are apps that promise to help you free up space on your smartphone by backing up then deleting your photos. There are apps that help you organize your photos into albums, and share them with friends. And there are apps that aim to simply move photos off your phone into the cloud for safe-keeping. A growing startup called Everalbum, however, wants to do it all. The company, which now… Read More
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Naritiv, the platform that connects brands and advertisers with influencers on Snapchat, has today announced the close of a $3 million Series A led by Third Wave Digital.
Investors in the round Disney, Luminari apital, Deluxe Entertainment, Wavemaker Partners, and Matthew Anderson (CMO of Roku. Naritiv launched out of the Disney Accelerator, powered by TechStars, in 2014.
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Zoomdata, a company that’s trying to transform business intelligence by connecting to both modern and traditional data sources at scale, announced a $25 million Series C round today. The investment was led by Goldman Sachs’ Principal Strategic Investments Group. New investor Comcast Ventures also participated along with prior investors Accel, Columbus Nova Technology Partners… Read More
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