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Snapchat Plans Music Feature, Acquired QR Scan.me For $50M And Vergence Eyeglass Cam For $15M,
Leaked emails from the Sony Pictures hack have uncovered several acquisitions made by Snapchat, as well as plans for a music feature and meetings to discuss partnerships with Twitter. According to emails between Snapchat, Sony Entertainment CEO Michael Lynton, and Snapchat board member Mitch Lasky, Snapchat bought a QR scanning and iBeacon startup called Scan.me for $14 million in cash, $3… Read More
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NowThis Media Raises Another $6M To Deliver Video News Stories In Less Than A Minute
NowThis Media, which covers the news with videos that are usually around 15 or 30 seconds long, is announcing that it has raised $6 million in Series C funding. NowThis was founded by Kenneth Lerer (chairman at BuzzFeed and co-founder of the Huffington Post) and Eric Hippeau (former CEO of the Huffington Post), with backing from their firm Lerer Hippeau Ventures. The startup launched in 2012,… Read More
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Profitable SaaS Startup Buffer Breaks Down How It Spends Its Revenue
Buffer, a startup that provides social media management tools, today posted a breakdown of how its spends its revenue on salaries, servers and other expenses. The post is sufficiently detailed and worth examining, as it includes a number of data points that we, the public, tend to lack about private companies. Read More
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Goal-Tracking And Self-Improvement App Lift Adds Personal Coaching, Raises $1.1M More
Lift, the mobile app incubated by Twitter co-founders’ Obvious Corp., launched last year to help people build healthier habits and achieve their goals by offering a simple way to track your progress while supported by a social community who provide pushes, motivation and positive reinforcement to keep users on track. Today, Lift is expanding its set of support options to focus on… Read More
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Dots Spins Out Of Betaworks With $10M Series A From Tencent, GreyCroft
Dots, the mobile gaming studio responsible for two dead-simple but beautiful games, is today announcing the close of a $10 million round, as well as the official spinout of Dots as its own company, separate from betaworks. The series A round is co-led by Greycroft Partners and TenCent, which Dots cofounder and CEO Paul Murphy reminded TechCrunch is the largest gaming company in the world based… Read More
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Home Maintenance Startup Happy Home Company Is Waiving Fees For Bay Area Residents With Storm Damage
We’ve heard about startups that, intentionally or not, take advantage of bad weather and worse, so it’s nice when a new company actually offers to help out without making a profit. Last week, I wrote about The Happy Home Company, a startup that helps home owners manage their repairs and maintenance. Well, after the recent storms in the San Francisco Bay Area (which, yes, generated… Read More
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Following Canada, Homejoy Also “Pauses” Operations In France
Homejoy, the U.S. domestic cleaning startup that’s backed by the likes of Google Ventures to the tune of $38 million, is putting another of its international operations on hold. Following news earlier today that its Canada-based business is being “paused”, TechCrunch has learned that Homejoy’s activities in France have been met with the same fate. Read More
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How To Speak Startup
Hang with startup kids long enough, and you’ll notice that they have their own language. No, bro, it’s a SaaS play in the on-demand food space. Think of it as the Uber for gluten-free Whole Foods delivery, ok? It never ends: We’re actively raising, but really want to make sure that we hit investor-board fit before product-market sync, you know? Read More
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TodayTix Stages A Mobile Coup Of The $50 Billion Theater Ticket Business
Concerts! Sports! Theater? Event startups have largely ignored musicals and plays but the fact is they’re an enormous business driven by high-spending theater addicts “whales”. That’s why TodayTix built an app for them, and now that it’s selling 2% to 3% of tickets for most Broadway shows in New York City, it’s raised a $6.1 million Series A to bring its app… Read More
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Cord Project Launches Voice Messaging App That Borrows The Good Parts Of Texting
With the Cord Project, a pair of former Googlers are aiming to encourage people to use their smartphones for something a little unusual — talking to other people. You know, with your voice.
Now, the obvious question here is, “Uh, can’t I already do that with my phone? Isn’t that, like, the whole point?” Read More
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