business
Auto Added by WPeMatico
Daniel Gross of Apple leaves to become Y Combinator’s newest partner
Daniel Gross, the founder of YC-backed Cue, a search engine for personal content, is joining Y Combinator as a partner. Coming hot off a stint as a Director at Apple focusing on machine learning, Gross will be bringing some fresh AI flair to to YC’s existing team. Gross first found his way to Apple after Cue, formally called Greplin, was acquired by the company for $40 million back in… Read More
Powered by WPeMatico
Trigger tells you when Trump tweets about your stocks
Very few people can move financial markets with their tweets, but like it or not, President-elect Donald Trump is one of them. And while you can’t do anything to prevent the madness, you can keep up with it using a new tool from Trigger Finance.
Originally a class project at Cornell Tech, Trigger makes it easy for users to set up real-time alerts when news drops about their stocks. Read More
Powered by WPeMatico
Lawsuit claims Snap Inc. hasn’t been honest about its pre-IPO performance metrics
Against the backdrop of an imminent public offering, one former Snap Inc. employee is claiming in a lawsuit that the company inflated its performance metrics to lure investors.
Anthony Pompliano, the one-time head of Snap’s growth and user engagement team, is seeking an injunction and monetary relief after being fired just three weeks into his tenure. Mr. Pompliano, now a venture… Read More
Powered by WPeMatico
Italian incubator H-Farm prepares for a new crop with a campus slated to open in 2018
There’s a farm outside of Venice, Italy, that cultivates tech talent the way other farms grow crops. This bed with built-in subwoofer, TV, lamp and power outlets may be your last purchase, ever
Furlenco’s new “Pod” might just be the most outrageous product hitting the market this holiday season. The Bangalore, India based furniture rental startup has always had a penchant for targeting the millennial subset, but this is something else entirely — because as any 20-something knows, adding a bed to things makes them universally more practical. The Pod includes… Read More
Powered by WPeMatico
The 10 largest Series B rounds of 2016
Let’s face it, if you’re an investor, you were probably priced out of these insanely large rounds. If you’re a founder, you’re swooning at the mere prospect of making such a statement. But no matter who you are, a lot can be gleaned from analyzing investment trends. Looking at B rounds provides a nice balance between the somewhat predictable success stories of… Read More
Powered by WPeMatico
Airbnb’s plan to compromise with cities as regulatory challenges pile up
Airbnb looks to be making a key strategy change with regards to its global lobbying efforts. After a failed lawsuit that made the company little progress in the State of New York, Airbnb is rallying behind an age old political tool — the compromise. Any good negotiation comes with table strategy. In Airbnb’s case, this takes the form of a prescriptive list of policy… Read More
Powered by WPeMatico
Ruvento raises new seed fund to invest in hardware across Singapore, China and the U.S.
Today, Ruvento is announcing a new $25 million seed fund for hardware startups in need of capital from Singapore, China and the U.S. The fund, managed by Slava Solonitsyn and Alex Toh, will write 70 percent of its checks between $100k and $500k. The rest of the capital will be reserved for follow-on investments of up to $2 million. Ruvento is not the first investor to take a… Read More
Powered by WPeMatico
Impraise lets you tell your coworkers what a good job they’re doing
“We’ve come a long long way together, through the hard times and the good. I have to celebrate you baby, I have to praise you like I should using a 360-degree feedback tool sold as as SaaS by founders who went through Y-Combinator in S14 and have offices in New York and Amsterdam,” Fatboy Slim once wrote and nowhere are these words truer than when used to describe Impraise.… Read More
Powered by WPeMatico
AWS Snowball Edge offers 100TB of storage and compute functionality
Amazon’s popular Snowball storage container got a major update today at the company’s re:invent conference. Though largely overshadowed by the new batshit crazy AWS Snowmobile, the aforementioned Snowball will be getting a storage increase to 100 terabytes in addition to computing functionality. Users of the new Snowball Edge will be able to perform basic analysis on their data… Read More
Powered by WPeMatico