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After Raising $1.3M On Indiegogo, Airtame Closes $1.4M Seed Funding To Scale Up Wireless HDMI Dongle
Investors are wont to follow. It therefore shouldn’t be a surprise to see Airtame pick up a VC round of funding. TrialReach Raises $13.5M Series B To Match Patients To Clinical Trials
TrialReach is an interesting startup on a number of fronts. Firstly, the company is based in London but does most of its business in the “fast-moving” U.S. healthcare market. Secondly, and more significantly, it’s using technology to solve a very human problem and one of the biggest obstacles in medical research: matching the right patients with the right clinical trials. Read More
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HeartThis Lets You Shop All Your Favorite Stores From Just One App
A new mobile application called HeartThis wants to make shopping across multiple retailers more convenient for smartphone users. The app, which is making its official debut later today on stage at StartX’s Demo Day, puts over 330 stores in one place, allowing you to buy from places like Dillard’s, Nordstrom, Kohl’s, J Crew, Target, and many more, as well as see if there… Read More
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Industrial Toys Launches Midnight Star, Its Mobile Reinvention Of The First-Person Shooter
For the past couple of years, the team at Industrial Toys has been talking about building mobile games for the “core” gaming audience — the kind of player who’s more interested in shooting aliens on their Xbox than flinging Angry Birds on their iPhone. Today, the company is launching its first game, Midnight Star. Alex Seropian is Industrial Toys’ CEO —… Read More
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TechCrunch Meetups Are Coming To Atlanta And Boston
The TechCrunch Meetups in Atlanta and Boston are approaching rapidly, which means that you need to move fast if you don’t want to be left out. In case you haven’t heard of the TC Meetups before, here’s a quick refresher: We’ve been running regional TechCrunch Meetups for the past three years in various cities across the globe. The purpose is to bring together the… Read More
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Cemetery Drones And On-Demand Cookies: Meet 500 Startups’ New Batch
Diversity of ideas and founders is the 500 Startups way. So it’s fitting that the accelerator’s 11th Mountain View batch would feature an extraordinarily wide range of companies; from those tackling huge problems like recruiting and health in the Arab world, to more “niche to win” businesses focused on picture framing or cookie delivery. Investors I spoke to… Read More
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GroupAhead Gives Member-Based Organizations Their Own Mobile App
There are a number of ways member-based organizations can network online – Facebook, shared calendars, Meetup.com, etc. – but these groups today still struggle to keep members engaged and informed about upcoming events and other activities. A startup called GroupAhead is working to solve those challenges by introducing a platform that allows any organization to have their own… Read More
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“Dining Concierge” App Reserve Launches Out Of Beta, Arrives On Android
Reserve, a mobile application offering a different take on restaurant reservations, is today exiting its beta period which saw it limiting access by way of a waitlist, and is expanding the service to diners who use Android devices. The previously iOS-only app now works in San Francisco, New York, L.A. and Boston, allowing customers in these markets to use Reserve’s “dining… Read More
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Liftoff Raises $5 Million To Help App Makers Acquire Engaged Users, Not Just Installs
Mobile application marketers have traditionally chased new users through campaigns designed to prompt app installations. But a company called Liftoff is focused on helping companies acquire a more valuable customer base – those who take action beyond the install. That is, it helps target customers who do things like make purchases, renew subscriptions, reserve a hotel room, or whatever… Read More
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Fixed, The App That Fights Parking Tickets, Raises $650K More And Heads To Oakland
Fixed, the mobile app fights parking tickets on your behalf, which has been before today only available in San Francisco, is now expanding to the neighboring city of Oakland. It then plans to add on a new city at a rate of about one per month, the company says. The startup is also announcing an additional round of $650,000 in seed funding from a number of investors including Dave… Read More
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