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Whim Is A Dating App Focused On Actual Dates
There’s a new service called Whim for people who are tired of all the chatting in the current batch of dating apps.
To be sure, there are other online dating services that purport to focus on making real-world connections (rather than hosting awkward, back-and-forth messaging sessions that may or may not lead to actual dates or hookups) — that’s basically the… Read More
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Index And Connect Ventures Back Marvel To Let You Turn Sketches Into Mobile App Prototypes
Marvel, the U.K. startup that lets you turn sketches into mobile app “prototypes”, has picked up a new $2 million ‘seed extension’ round of funding. The company is also rolling out two new features: a user testing feature, and an online community where Marvel-created prototypes can be uploaded and shared. Read More
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Tenant King Creates Local Marketplaces Within High-Rise Buildings
One of the most frustrating things about living in an urban high-rise building is the close quarters you are forced to share with neighbors. However, one startup is trying to turn this annoyance into a benefit by letting you utilize your network of neighbors to acquire services and goods. Founded in NYC, Tenant King believes that by connecting a user with neighbors in high-rise buildings,… Read More
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Behold! The Laptop Butler That Holds Your Drink To Your Laptop
As we approach the New Age, a thousand portents churn on the horizon. Dogs and cats begin living together. A man has found something he mislaid months before in a place he has already looked. And, as was written in days of old, the Laptop Butler would rise to hold our drinks to our laptops. But what is the Laptop Butler? It is a drink holder that attaches to your laptop. Why? So you can put… Read More
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The Ticket Fairy Pays You To Bring Friends To Events
If you convince all your friends to go to a concert, shouldn’t the promoter give you a discount? Now they can with The Ticket Fairy, a full-stack events marketing and analytics suite coming out of stealth from Y Combinator today.
The Ticket Fairy’s goal is to make sure all its clients’ events sell out. Promoters let The Ticket Fairy Read More
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Tech808 Merges The Worlds Of Hip-Hop And Entrepreneurship
This past Saturday in Oakland, CA, about 120 underrepresented people in tech — ranging from aspiring entrepreneurs to BlackGirlsCODE students to tech leaders — gathered inside ImpactHub Oakland for Tech808, an intimate startup conference inspired by hip-hop.
“From the very beginning of hip-hop’s evolution as a culture and a music, it’s been entrepreneurial… Read More
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Custom Analytics Company Keen IO Goes Open Source With Its Data Explorer
Keen IO announced today that it’s open-sourcing one of its key features. The company allows customers to create their own analytics tools without having to develop the infrastructure from scratch. As you’d probably guess, it’s a fairly developer-centric product. The last time I spoke to co-founder and CEO Kyle Wild, he told me, “Our customers get to write code, so… Read More
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P2P Payments App Xendit Launches In Indonesia
Xendit, a money-transfer service geared toward Southeast Asian countries, is launching today in Indonesia.
The company is billing itself as a more private money-transfer service that’ll beat companies like Venmo to the market in Southeast Asia. Users can transfer money within private groups, as well as chat, but it’s not about making those transactions public, co-founder Moses Lo said. Read More
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Engineering Firm HappyFunCorp Eyes More Acquisitions
HappyFunCorp has been living up to its name, according to co-founder Ben Schippers — at least if you associate happiness and fun with profits, growth and acquisitions. Last year, I visited the design and engineering firm’s Brooklyn offices for the final episode of our Built in Brooklyn video series. Since then, Schippers said the company has continued to add new team members, with… Read More
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Where Vancouver’s Tech Ecosystem Goes From Here
Compass recently published its second report on the global startup ecosystem. The report is the result of more than 200 interviews with entrepreneurs from 25 different countries, 11,000 startup surveys and insight from data partners like CrunchBase, Deloitte and Dealroom, as well as more than 60 local partners. Our CEO, Ray Walia, was also quoted; he summarized Vancouver’s strengths in… Read More
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