May 11, 2015
Wiith Is Like Tinder For Meeting New Friends, Not Dates
If you’re looking to meet new people but don’t want to explicitly commit to it being a date, as on Tinder, a new app called Wiith wants to help. The social…
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May 10, 2015
U.K. Mattress Startup Eve Picks Up Backing From Octopus Investments
What is it about e-commerce mattress startups of late? In the U.S., Casper made headlines last year after raising $13.1 million in Series A funding led by New Enterprise…
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Fly Or Die: Withings Activité
With the Apple Watch dominating the news cycle, it’s easy to forget about the smart(ish) watches that have come before it. But while intelligent time pieces will come…
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A New Project From Lulu Says That I’m 89 Percent Dude
If you get tired of asking Microsoft how old you look, here’s a variant from startup Lulu — a site that answers the question, “How Dude Do I…
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New U.K. Government Focuses On Startups And Spooks
The U.K. voted in a General Election on Thursday. The result ends five years of coalition government, and ushers in five years of true blue Tory rule. Here’s…
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Brooklyn On Tech Helps Local High Schoolers Learn Coding And Professional Skills
TechCrunch TV talked to a long list of New York startups during Disrupt NY, but we were also joined by a local nonprofit called Brooklyn on Tech. As…
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SimCity Creator Will Wright’s New App Wants To Create A Graphic Novel Of Your LIfe
The creator of SimCity, Will Wright, has come out with a new app called THRED — and it isn’t a game. Instead, Wright describes it as a natively…
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Mobile Sales Startup Immediately Raises $2M
Immediately, a startup building mobile tools for salespeople, is announcing that it has raised $2 million in funding. Here’s the pitch, from the funding release: “We believe the…
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Rewind’s New App Lets You Create Photo Timelines That Disappear After A Day
Spotted this week at TechCrunch Disrupt NY’s Startup Alley, was the newly launched social photo-sharing app Rewind. As its name implies, the idea with this app is to…
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Mattress Startup Casper Plans To Open Pop-Up Stores In San Francisco, Austin and Washington, D.C.
Casper is known for bringing the mattress buying experience online, but it’s also trying out new approaches to brick-and-mortar retail. In fact, co-founder and CEO Philip Krim said…
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