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Streetography is a pictorial block party app for inquisitive photographers

streetography-splash Imagine if you could see a map of the city around you based on the photos that best represent the area. That’s the concept of Streetography, a brand new photography app for iOS launched this week. The app uses various sources of photo content, showing the map of the world around you seen through the lens of photographers who’ve explored the area before you. Read More

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Toronto is poised to become the next great producer of tech startups

toronto skyline, financial district I’ve spent a fair amount of time in Toronto and learned there’s more to this city than Drake calling it home and the recent successes of their professional sports teams. We made one investment there in 2015 and the experience — with the company specifically and the city generally — has been overwhelmingly positive. Indeed, the city has all the markings of a world-class… Read More

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500px Revamps Its App To Better Appeal To The Instagram Crowd

500px1 500px, the online photo-sharing community that recently raised another $13 million to challenge Flickr and Getty, is today rolling out a significant change to its mobile application. Beginning with an update on iOS, the company has completely redesigned and rebuilt its app from the ground up, in an effort that’s focused on making its app appeal to a more mainstream consumer base. Read More

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500px Raises Another $13M To Take On Getty And Flickr

Screen Shot 2015-07-21 at 12.48.53 As Facebook continues to add more advertising features to Instagram, another photo-sharing platform is expanding its commercial and global ambitions with a new round of funding. 500px — a Toronto-based startup where users post and share, as well as buy and sell photos — has raised $13 million. The Series B is led by a strategic investor, the Visual China Group, and included… Read More

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500px Announces Adobe Creative SDK Integration

500px iOS Photo-sharing service 500px announced today that it’s one of the first developers participating in the public beta of Adobe’s Creative SDK, which allows app developers to integrate Creative Cloud services into their mobile apps. This will allow 500px iOS users to edit photos using tools from the Photoshop and Lightroom apps for iOS and upload to the cloud for further editing on… Read More

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