March 1, 2017
Snap explored selling a 360 camera
What comes after Spectacles for the “camera company”? Snap has explored 360 cameras as a future product, according to three sources familiar with the matter. Snap brought in…
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February 28, 2017
Reflect drops public beta to power developer-first data visualization
Data visualization has been done — there are publicly traded, interactive, real-time and, heck, even artificially intelligent companies promising data visualization. But despite all the noise, Portland-based Reflect is making…
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Breather wants to save you from unwanted office distractions with the Nope button
In what is clearly a marketing ploy from workspace rental service Breather, the company is launching a Chrome plug-in called the “Nope Button.” The idea here, according to…
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Lux Capital closes $400 million fund to back startups “inventing the future”
Lux Capital’s portfolio companies sound like they ripped their product concepts from the pages of science fiction. Among these are self-driving car startup Zoox, a company gathering oceanographic…
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Pypestream raises $15M for its customer messaging platform
Pypestream is announcing that it has raised $15 million in Series A funding. When the startup launched more than a year ago, founder and CEO Richard Smullen was…
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Verst is a blogging platform with all the optimization tools you need
Meet Verst, a brand new product from the company that brought you DWNLD. It’s a blogging platform like WordPress or Squarespace, but with all the optimization and analytics…
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Dubuc Motors gets SEC approval for equity crowdfunding
Dubuc Motors, makers of the Tomahawk all-electric supercar prototype, recently announced that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) had approved its filing for equity crowdfunding under the US…
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PebblePost raises $15M to combine online data and old-school mail
PebblePost is betting that there’s a big marketing opportunity in printed postcards and catalogs. The startup is announcing that it has raised $15 million in Series B funding. The…
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Dubset raises $4M to legalize remixes for Spotify and Apple Music
Record labels refuse to allow streaming of remixes and hour-long DJ sets unless copyright owners get paid for every little sample. Dubset just raised $4 million to handle…
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Hater, an app for finding someone who dislikes the same things as you, to expand beyond dating
Bonding over the things you hate can be more powerful than bonding over what you like, studies have shown. Now, a new dating app called Hater can help…
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