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YC-Backed Jopwell Is Building The Apparently Missing “Pipeline” Of Diverse Candidates For Tech Jobs
Behind the repetitive and apologetic acknowledgment that there is a lot more “work to do” on diversity at companies like Facebook, Google and Twitter is the idea that there isn’t a sufficiently large enough “pipeline” of minority candidates that are qualified to take these jobs.
A YC company called Jopwell is taking aim straight at the “pipeline” question. Read More
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With 100 Million Annual Users, Imagine Easy Launches A New Research Tool For Students
If you’ve had to write a research paper in the last 10 years, chances are the free online bibliography tool you used is operated by Imagine Easy. The edtech company has flown under the radar for the past 14 years since it was started by two high school students, Neal Taparia and Darshan Somashekar. It’s gradually grown to over 100 million annual users and over $12 million in… Read More
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TVShow Time Releases Sleek New App For Its Community Of TV Addicts
At first, TVShow Time was just a calendar to keep track of your favorite TV shows. Now, TVShow Time is one of the best community of TV addicts on the Internet. The French startup is well aware of that, and just launched a major 5.0 update to its mobile app to showcase the best content created by its community. “We want our users to open the TVShow Time app after watching an episode and… Read More
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Connected Car Company Zubie Rolls Out An API For The “Internet Of Cars”
Zubie, a company that sells a device allowing drivers to tap into their car’s onboard computer and then sync vehicle diagnostic data to their smartphone, is today expanding its footprint with the introduction of an open API that will now allow developers to build on top of this platform. Called “ZinC” – or, “Zubie for the Internet of Cars” – the… Read More
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Omaze, The Democratized Fundraising Platform, Picks Up $9 Million In Series A
Omaze, the charity platform that democratizes traditionally pricey prizes so that everyone can participate, has today announced the close of a $9 million Series A led by FirstMark Capital. A number of Omaze’s early seed and angel investors also participated in the round, including Michael Eisner’s Tornante Company, Vayner/RSE, Warby Parker co-founder and co-CEO Dave… Read More
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Mailjet Raises Another $11 Million To Scale Its Unified Marketing And Transactional Email Service
French startup Mailjet just raised $11 million (€10 million) from existing investor Alven Capital as well as Iris Capital and Seventure Partners. As a reminder, Mailjet is an email delivery service that works for both marketing campaigns and transactional emails. Mobikon Raises $2.3M To Dish Up Marketing Software For Restaurants In Asia
Mobikon, a Pune- and Singapore-based software developer that has its sights set on Asia’s food and beverage industry, has received $2.3 million in new funding led by returning investor Jungle Ventures. The startup, which makes cloud-based software to help restaurants manage almost all aspects of their business, is targeting growth in India, Manila, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, and Dubai. Read More
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The Difference Between FitBit And GoPro
Today, the technology industry is caught in a landslide of hype about “unicorns” — the term adopted by many to describe the rare class of startup that soars in value to $1 billion or more. And just like their namesake, many tech unicorns will turn out to be fantasies. Stop Trying To Make Sense Out Of The Reddit Saga
Why does reddit exist? How does reddit exist? Who are all of these people who participate? Who knows? They’re anonymous. How does something like reddit attract $50 million in funding? I have no idea, and a lot of the people I’ve been speaking to in tech circles over the past week don’t know, either. Read More
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Streak Looks To Build A Development Kit For The Gmail Platform
Gmail has hundreds of millions of users checking it multiple times every day. And if Aleem Mawani has his way, it’ll have a development platform that’s as big as Facebook. Mawani heads up Streak, a company that builds a software development kit for applications that integrate with Gmail. Streak’s InboxSDK integrates with extensions in Chrome and automatically updates… Read More
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