May 22, 2015
Switch, With $2 Million In Seed Funding, Is Tinder For Jobs
Switch, the Tinder for job apps, has just announced a new investor in the form of Marker VC, closing out their seed round at $2 million. Other investors…
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May 22, 2015
Stripe In Talks For New Funding At A $5 Billion Valuation
Stripe is raising a new round of funding, according to sources with knowledge of the talks. One source with direct knowledge of the talks tells us that one…
Read articleMay 21, 2015
The “Death” Of Anything Is Overrated
In the tech world, everyone aspires to “kill” something. At least, that is what you would think from the media coverage. “The death” of gamification. Of cable. Of…
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Guildery Raises $2.1 Million For Customizable, Digitally Printed Fabrics And Home Goods
Guildery, an e-commerce company that’s putting technology to use by offering digitally printed fabrics and other home accessories like pillows, drapes, ottomans, and more, has closed on $2.1…
Read articleMay 21, 2015
Tinder Partners With Zedd To Offer His New Album For $3.99
Tinder is launching a new partnership with Zedd to offer his upcoming album, True Colors, for an exclusive price of $3.99. Not unlike past partnerships with artists like…
Read articleMay 21, 2015
Gobble Says It Has Delivered 230K Easy-To-Cook Meals Since Launching Last Year
Back in September, Gobble unveiled a new kind of food delivery. It doesn’t offer a fully prepared meal or a box of ingredients and recipes — instead, it…
Read articleMay 21, 2015
QuizUp Just Turned Into A Social Network
QuizUp is now a social network, by every stretch of the imagination. Following a massive update today, the trivia game that trail-blazed through the App Store in 2013,…
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Qwilr Gets Seed Funding To Turn Business Documents Into Attractive Websites
Qwilr is a tool for anyone who has sent out a PowerPoint deck they spent hours creating, only to wonder if anyone is even going to bother downloading…
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With Its First Startup Awards, Cornell Tech Turns Class Projects Into Companies
Cornell Tech is introducing a new way for its master’s students to transform their ideas into real companies — those students can now compete in the Startup Awards,…
Read articleMay 20, 2015
Metabiota Pulls In $30 Million In Funding To Help Predict The Global Spread Of Disease
Disease outbreak prediction startup Metabiota has raised $30 million in Series A funding to help build out its offerings to government organizations and insurers on a global scale.…
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