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Shipping Startup Shyp Raises $10M Led By SherpaVentures, Plans Expansion To New York City
On-demand shipping startup Shyp only officially launched in San Francisco just a few months ago, but it’s already looking to expand to new markets. First, though, the company raised $10 million in new capital, led by Shervin Pishevar and Scott Stanford’s SherpaVentures. The funding follows $2.3 million in seed funding that Shyp had raised from Homebrew Ventures and a large number… Read More
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Evoke Is A New Induction-Based Vaporizer That Looks And Feels Like An Old-School Pipe
The Evoke is the latest electronic vaporizer to grace the industry with its presence, and I sincerely mean that. From the looks of things, the Evoke (from LotoLabs) is one of the first vaporizers I’ve seen that looks to the past for design inspiration, with a wooden, hefty look to it not unlike the tobacco pipes of the olden days. The company touts that its induction-based vaporizer… Read More
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Y Combinator May Be Worth One Billion Dollars. Here’s The Math
Y Combinator’s president Sam Altman dropped some big stats about his prestigious startup accelerator today. But there’s a few he left out that can be estimated based on his announcement that the combined market cap of all YC companies exceeds $30 billion. Specifically, you can use that number to approximate how much YC’s stake is worth. The ballpark answer? Around $1.05 billion. Read More
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Pond5 Raises $61 Million Series A Led By Accel Partners, Stripes Group
Pond5, Shutterstock’s rival in the digital media and video world, has today announced that the company has closed a $61 million round of funding led by Accel Partners and Stripes Group. HandUp Raises $850K For A Platform That Lets Donors Lend A Hand To The Homeless
Homelessness in the United States is such a tremendous and multi-faceted problem that no single approach can fix it. But that means that there can be a mix of ways to help out homeless people, from federal assistance to local non-profit programs. San Francisco-based HandUp marries tech to individual charitable donations through a platform that allows donors to give to specific people. I… Read More
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Metromile Launches Per-Mile Car Insurance That Could Save Californians 40%
Plug Metromile’s free gizmo into your car and you can stop overpaying for car insurance if you’re amongst the 70% of people who drive under 10,000 miles a year. Today Metromile expands its per-mile car insurance to California following success disrupting traditional insurance in Oregon, Washington, and Illinois. It’s also revamping its free app that can tell you if something… Read More
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Happn Is A Dating App Powered By Real Life Interactions
It’s a sunny Wednesday afternoon, you’re sitting outside at a café in Paris. You see this beautiful person who is about to leave, and you get a warm fuzzy feeling. Unfortunately, you don’t have time to introduce yourself, they’re already gone. Until now, the only thing you could do was maybe post something in the missed connections section of Craigslist or the local… Read More
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VCs Find Fertile Ground In Women’s Health
Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and investors may be predominately male, but they’re fully attuned to the women’s health market. Mobile health apps have become increasingly popular as consumers seek to monitor every aspect of their lives through their mobile devices. In the past few quarters, apps targeting women’s health are topping the charts in terms of popularity and… Read More
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Harnessing Big Data For Social Good, YC-Backed Nonprofit Bayes Impact Launches
Andrew Jiang, Paul Duan and Eric Liu, the three founders of Y Combinator’s latest nonprofit, Bayes Impact, aren’t your typical entrepreneurs. The three data scientists had previously worked on some of the toughest problems facing all technology companies in the Internet era — how to get more people to click on more stuff. But in recent years they’d turned their… Read More
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With A Mobile App, MTailor Offers Custom-Fit Tailored Shirts For Just $69
Custom shirts aren’t not cheap — going to a tailor to get a shirt fitted and made costs real money. MTailor wants to change that by offering affordable, custom-fit clothing. It can do that because it removes much of the cost associated with taking customers’ measurements by measuring them via mobile apps. Read More
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