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SavingGlobal Raises Further €20M To Crack Open The European Savings Deposit Market
SavingGlobal launched in early 2014 to enable German savers to access the best fixed deposit rates in Europe, not just from banks in their home country. However, the plan was always to offer the same service to anyone in Europe, thereby creating a true single European market for the savings deposit market. Read More
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An Inside Look At The First-Ever White House Demo Day
Yesterday, President Barack Obama invited 30 companies to the White House (on his birthday, no less) to participate in the first-ever White House Demo Day. The purpose of the event was to accelerate diversity in the U.S. tech sector, and as a supporter of that very goal, TechCrunch showed up to hear what the president had to say. If you want to read our full coverage of the event, check out… Read More
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‘Watching People Do Stuff’ Is A Business Model And Sywork Is The Twitch For Illustrators
Watching people play video games. Check. Watching people play with apps. Check. Watching people do earnings. Check. Watching people draw things? Check. Now, anyways. Today, a company called Sywork (shorthand for “Show Your Work”) launched its new live-streaming service for artists and illustrators. Ever wonder what the process is behind beautiful oil paintings? Comic books? Well… Read More
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FutureAdvisor’s FutureGift Removes The Awkwardness Of Giving Kids Cash For College
Gifting a child money for future education expenses is nothing new. However, giving cash is almost always awkward, plus the giver misses out on the chance to show off a physical gift.
Just launched by wealth management startup FutureAdvisor, FutureGift is a new product that solves these problems by allowing parents to create campaign pages where all money is contributed to a college savings… Read More
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Streaming Video Startup Pluto TV Nabs Spotify’s Chief Content Officer
Pluto TV, an L.A.-based video streaming startup targeting cord cutters, has just made a significant new hire: the company is bringing on Ken Parks, previously the chief content officer at Spotify, to serve as Pluto TV’s executive chairman. Bucket Transforms Text From The Web Into A Visual Travel Planner
Bucket, a service that transforms unstructured text based on travel recommendations into a page of cards with information from places like Yelp and Frommer’s, is launching into an open beta today.
Bucket takes strings of text, whether that’s pulled from the web through a Chrome extension or just manually imported, and extracts information about places and recommendations for travel. Read More
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Graava Is A $249 Action Camera That Edits Highlight Videos For You
Your GoPro is great until you have to edit all those hours of footage to find the cool moments. Graava does that automatically. Starting pre-orders today for $249 (eventually $399), the Graava action camera uses motion, audio, accelerometer and GPS sensors plus voice cues to detect the highlights of your footage. Choose how long you want your highlight reel to be, Graava’s app edits… Read More
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Tinder’s First Non-Dating Feature Is Speed Networking For Forbes’ 30 Under 30
Tinder is tiptoeing into the friend zone and the work place. After years of saying “We want to overcome all the issues of meeting new people”, not just dating them, today Tinder will announce its first explicitly non-romantic feature. But it won’t be in Tinder’s app. And it will only be available to the 2,000 or so young movers and shakers who’ve made Forbes’… Read More
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Amplitude Raises $9M For A New Approach To Analytics And Pricing
Mobile analytics startup Amplitude has raised $9 million in Series A funding. When we wrote about Amplitude last year, we noted that it’s trying to undercut competitors like Mixpanel with lower prices and a freemium product. Today it’s going even further in that direction with a new plan that offers Amplitude’s basic features for free, as long as you’re tracking fewer… Read More
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Vernox Labs Mines Unstructured Data To Help Developers, Contractors Reduce Construction Costs
Urban construction and development is about as far as you can get from an easily scalable business.
Designs from architects are usually bespoke or one-off. Land-use politics are unpredictable. Individual construction sites are uniquely sized and materials can change from building to building Read More
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