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CaterWings, Rocket Internet’s Latest Food Startup, Targets Corporate Catering Industry
Rocket Internet has its fingers in pretty much every part of the online food ordering and delivery pie. Heck, it even has a special division, the unimaginatively-named Global Online Takeaway Group, where its rolled up a number of those companies. But one slice it has yet to serve is corporate catering — until now, that is. Read More
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Shelfie Is Shazam For Your Bookshelf
If you’re like me, you have a lot of Mad Magazine books from the 1970s, a classic copy of Oui from 1979, and three Hungarian cookbooks. In other words, you’re a well-read individual. But how do you get those books onto your reading device? Shelfie, that’s how. Bumpn Uses 3D Touch To Let Users Show How Much They Like A Photo
3D Touch may have just found its killer use case.
Now on the App Store, bumpn is a photo-sharing app that will let users take advantage of 3D Touch to show how much they “like” a photo. Instead of simply clicking the like button, users can give a photo anywhere between 1-100 hearts. Read More
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Padlet Raises $1.2 Million For Its Easy-To-Use, Collaborative Website Builder
While there’s no shortage of online website builders today, most are focused on providing professionals or small business owners with an easy-to-use set of tools to quickly create their own web page without having to hiring an outside development firm. A company called Padlet, however, has gone in a different direction. Its simple and collaborative website creation platform can be used for… Read More
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Clover Health, A Data-Driven Health Insurance Startup, Raises $100M
Clover Health, an insurance startup based out of San Francisco, is hoping that with its data-driven approach it can rebuild healthcare for senior citizens from the ground up. It wants that by tracking all the inputs of a person’s medical history from insurance claims and determining who the highest-risk patients are. Clover Health then works with those patients to help them become… Read More
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Recruiting Startup Hired Has A New CEO
There’s been a bit of a leadership shuffle at Hired: President Mehul Patel has been promoted to CEO, while the previous CEO, founder Matt Mickiewicz, has become chief productive officer. Patel (who has also worked at Lyft, Oracle, CNET and Kaggle, and who joined Hired two years ago), told me this isn’t as big a deal as you might think. In fact, he said there was a longtime… Read More
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Servy Raises $800K To Let Restaurants Offer Discounts In Exchange For Feedback
Servy, an app that lets restaurants offer a partial discount in exchange for private feedback, has just closed $800K in seed funding. Investors include RiverPark Ventures, Beacon Fund, Food-X, DreamIt Ventures, and Nick Kenner, CEO and Founder of Just Salad. Most online restaurant reviews are either written because of a fantastic or awful experience. Either way, these reviews live online… Read More
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Airbnb’s Joe Zadeh Talks Product Direction And Keeping Things Simple
Airbnb’s had a busy summer. It rolled out an Apple Watch app, hit 1 million guests staying in an Airbnb in a single day, and over the summer Airbnb members hosted 17 million guests. But the company still has to ensure that it hires the right people that continue to scale up while keeping its products simple. We sat down with Airbnb’s VP of product Joe Zadeh to find out more about… Read More
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LogMeIn Co-Founder Debuts Caret, An Address Book That Tells People If You’re Available To Chat
Ever since our contact lists moved out of Rolodexes and onto our smartphones, mobile app developers have been trying to improve upon the built-in – and typically, very basic – address book apps that ship with our devices. To date, we’ve seen everything from simple makeovers of the address book app aimed at improving ease-of-use to smarter, “connected” address… Read More
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Fundera Picks Up $11.5 Million In Series B Funding
Fundera, the online credit marketplace that helps small business secure loans started by GroupMe cofounder Jared Hecht, has today announced the close of a $11.5 million Series B funding round led by Susquehanna Growth Equity with participation from existing investors including QED Investors, Khosla Ventures, and First Round Capital. Alongside the funding, SGE’s Scott Feldman and… Read More
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