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Andreessen-Backed uBiome Is Now Doing An Indiegogo Campaign To Check Out Dental Bacteria
Have you ever been curious about the bacterial flora and fauna in your gut? Or how about your teeth? uBiome, a YC-backed bio startup that went on to raise funding from Andreessen Horowitz, is launching a second campaign looking at the dental biome. A biome is the entire ecosystem of trillions of bacteria that live in and on our bodies. Even though the human body is made up of 10 trillion… Read More
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SlideMail Is An Intelligent Email App For The Rest Of Us
A new email application launching today called SlideMail is designed to help those of us with bad email habits sort through our inbox, while also intelligently organizing our messages and alerting us to important meetings and other events. While other email apps focus on presenting power users with a “priority inbox” containing their most important emails, SlideMail’s take is… Read More
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YC-Backed Taskpipes Is SaaS To Simplify Using Lots Of (Other) SaaS Platforms
If there was a neat label for startups whose raison d’être is to take the strain out of dealing with other startup services then Taskpipes would be wearing that badge proudly on its lapel. The YC backed, U.K. founded b2b startup is attacking what it says is a growing data-management problem for businesses — created by the proliferation and adoption of SaaS platforms. Read More
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Booze Delivery Startup Thirstie Raises $1.1M
On-demand alcohol startup Thirstie has raised a $1.1 million seed round.YC -Backed Akido Labs Provides A Standardized API Layer For Hospital App Developers
Many hospitals in America have made the switch to electronic health records (EHR) systems to manage patient medical information in the last couple of decades. This is supposed to make record-keeping easier and more efficient, but the systems are different for each hospital and often can’t communicate with each other. This makes it hard for health app developers to design apps that run… Read More
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Miguel de Fontenay Joins TheFamily As Partner
Former Global Consulting Managing Partner at Mazars Miguel de Fontenay is joining Paris-based accelerator TheFamily as a full-time partner. He will be in charge of handling relationships between TheFamily’s startups and France’s biggest public companies. These big French companies present two opportunities for TheFamily. First, when it comes to finding investors, TheFamily is… Read More
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Giphy’s First Acquisition, Nutmeg, Is A Big Step Towards Mobile
Giphy, the betaworks-backed Google of gifs, has today announced its first acquisition.
Nutmeg, an Gif messaging app, will be joining the Giphy squad. The terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Giphy founder Alex Chung says that Nutmeg will remain alive with the entire Nutmeg development team joining Giphy.
Giphy’s focus moving forward is mobile, according to Chung. Read More
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Slack Gets A Standalone Windows App
If you use Slack on Windows, you’ve probably found yourself feeling a bit… unloved. Despite making up over a quarter of Slack’s user base, using Slack on Windows has always meant running it in a browser tab — unlike with OS X, Android or iOS, there was no dedicated Windows app.
Well, today’s your day. Slack has, at long last, released a Windows app. Read More
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Clearpath Raises $11.2 Million To Automate Warehouses In A Decidedly Non-Creepy Way
Unlike the robots in Five Nights At Freddy’s, Clearpath’s new products won’t sneak up on you in the dark while you’re guarding an abandoned warehouse. In fact, their products are aimed at making warehouse workers’ lives easier and decidedly non-scary. The company, which recently raised an $11.2 million ($14 million CAD) Series A from RRE Ventures after six years… Read More
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Accel Bets Big On Startup-To-Startup APIs
Uber isn’t just Uber. It’s Google Maps, Checkr background checks, Braintree payments, and Twilio texts. The best way to do business isn’t to build it all in-house. Top companies are increasingly piecing together a composite of APIs from specialized startups. That lets them concentrate on their unique value-add rather than reinventing the wheel. Now, those building blocks… Read More
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