Tim Attia, co-founder and CEO of Slice Labs, said there’s “a ticking time bomb” threatening the on-demand economy — namely,

 Hopper, the makers of a handy travel application that tells you the best time to fly in order to find the best deals, has now raised additional

 Vine, the six-second, looping video platform from Twitter, has just hired Hannah Donovan as the new general manager. Donovan has built her career

 It didn’t quite add up when Fortune broke the news last week that Snapchat would spend a $100 million to acquire Bitstrips, the maker of personalized

 Dating app Tinder is acquiring Humin the San Francisco startup which took a high-wire approach to contact management, trying to merge lots of disparate

 Say what you want, how you want. That’s how Snapchat’s reps say CEO Evan Spiegel describes Chat 2.0, a massive set of new features launching

 Meet Stratumn, a Paris-based startup that wants to create a platform-as-a-service for developers interested in the blockchain. With Stratumn, you

 San Francisco has long been hailed the home of the tech startup — the place to be for entrepreneurs looking to lay the foundation for the

 French startup Rythm, which makes a tech-infused headset it claims improves sleep quality, announced Tuesday that it’s raised over $11 million

 Are you an undergraduate or graduate student looking to attend the best startup show in the Big Apple? Student tickets to Disrupt NY 2016 are still

 Online interior design platform Havenly has raised $5.8 million, bringing its total Series A round of funding to $13.3 million. The round was led

 Umbo CV has raised a $2.8 million seed round for its security cameras, which use artificial intelligence to identify suspicious activity and prevent

 Today, a $2.3 million private-public partnership called the Global Accelerator Learning Initiative (GALI) is releasing its first major report, in

 The cost of entry to the startup world has decreased dramatically in the last decade. We’re now at the point where the tools that were once

 It has never been worth it for celebrities to respond to their endless digital fan mail — until now. TipTalk lets them set a price for a private

 Andre Swanston, CEO of Tru Optik, argued that there’s been one big obstacle to advertising on Internet-connected TVs — measurement.

 Ain’t no party like a Netflix party cause a Netflix party eventually stops after a weekend of bingeing on House Of Cards and doesn’t

 If you think about it, money is a ridiculous concept. Without going into a William Jennings Bryan gold standard history lesson, let’s just

 A recent article in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung titled “Will Facebook Enslave Us?” captures a sentiment prevalent among companies

 500 Startups has been aiming to globalize its brand and work toward attracting the attention of young, cool companies outside the Bay Area echo

 Meet Privacy, a new startup with a confusing name but an interesting product. Privacy lets you generate a virtual burner card every time you need

 If you’ve tried streaming Master of None from your tablet running on Verizon on AT&T, chances are it looked like a big pile of unwatchable

 Fortune is reporting that Snapchat, the ephemeral messaging platform that has today become the number one free app on the App Store, has agreed

 It was already on public record that Andrey Andreev, the low-profile Russian founder of European dating behemoth Badoo, is an investor in female-led

 While improvements in camera-phone technology have led to our mobile devices slowly but surely replacing clunky single-purpose cameras, most heavy

 Badoo is today launching photo-verification and verified profiles to make online dating safer. Most folks don’t know that Badoo is the silent

 We’re excited to announce that Carissa Romero, a partner at diversity consulting startup Paradigm, will be speaking on the TC Disrupt New

 Universities in the U.S. are a wellspring of innovation, but they are almost certainly killing off some (really) good ideas too early. Investors

 We are accustomed to hearing that European tech is perpetually in Silicon Valley’s shadow. Now there have been suggestions that the local

 Supersonic planes, food harvesting robots and instant HIV diagnosis were some of the ideas that wowed us on Demo Day 2 for Y Combinator’s

 Two visual marketing startups are teaming up — Olapic is announcing that it has acquired Piqora. Both companies promise to help businesses

 People often misunderstand Y Combinator’s accelerator, with its broad range of startups that sometimes pivot before launch. That’s in

 Launched this week, London-based startup Trax & Wax is the first vinyl subscription service focused on sub-genres within dance music. It works

 French startup Mapstr is a nifty bookmarking apps, but for your favorite places. It lets you keep track of restaurants, bars, shops or your friends’

 French startup Mapstr is a nifty bookmarking apps, but for your favorite places. It lets you keep track of restaurants, bars, shops or your friends’

 A year after blatantly copying Timehop, Facebook’s nostalgia feature is proving how successful big platforms can be when they rip off smaller

 Foursquare has just launched Swarm 4.0, complete with brand new profile pages, updated search capabilities, full-screen photos and a weekly Swarm

 DoorDash is unveiling new versions of its website and app today, putting each restaurant’s delivery experience front-and-center. That’s

 Not every great business is VC backable. But every business needs capital to grow. If you’re launching a great business, but you don’t

 F6S, the community and deal platform for startups, announces today that they are launching a new, invite-only membership for select startup founders.

 Gobi Partners has partnered with Malaysia Venture Capital Management Berhard (MAVCAP), which claims to be the country’s largest venture capital

 “Food, housing, healthcare, transportation. Life essentials made better and more affordable.” These are the types of startups that partner

 As strange as it may seem, only a small percentage of Americans can legally invest in most startups today. Under long-standing rules governing who

 Degreed, a startup promising to “jailbreak the college degree,” announced today that it has acquired Gibbon. Degreed offers tools for

 Y Combinator-backed Gecko Robotics is hoping to save a few human lives at our nation’s power plants with wall-climbing robots. Gecko’s proprietary

 We asked investors what their favorite startups were from the 60 that launched at Y Combinator’s Winter 2016 Demo Day 1. After huddling with

 CurrencyFair, one of a number of so-called peer-to-peer currency exchanges, has scored a further €8 million in funding. The round was led by Octopus

 Bob Messerschmidt knows a little about health and wellness tech, having spent three years helping architect the Apple Watch platform after Apple quietly

 Research marketplace Science Exchange is now $25 million richer. The startup hooking researchers up with service providers just added the Series

 European news startup Blendle has already attracted funding from two of the biggest names in the media business — The New York Times and German

 GoCardless has become somewhat of a poster child for the London fintech scene. Offering an alternative to card payments, the startup provides a

 Eye-tracking virtual reality headset maker FOVE has closed an $11 million Series A led by Colopl VR Fund, with participation from the venture fund

 Nuren Group, a Malaysian-based company that runs community and e-commerce sites for women, has raised a $2 million Series A led by Gobi Partners.

 “You’ll notice we have many more startups that aren’t in the traditional software category,” said Y Combinator President

 Truebill, a startup that helps people track and cancel their subscriptions, announced it has raised a small round of seed funding. The round includes

 Music startup 8tracks has always had a strong sense of community. But the startup is taking this one step further by raising $30 million from its

 A new service from the online wedding inspiration startup Loverly wants to put the capabilities of a wedding planner right in your pocket. Officially

 “We’re not a media company, we’re a tech company” — that’s a common refrain in the advertising and media business,

 Traditionally, the largest barrier to podcasting has been the complexity of steps and multitude of programs it takes to go from recording to editing

 What’s the only thing worse than a full inbox? An inbox full of spammy newsletter emails you don’t really want to read. Throttle is

 As lucrative as they may be, I normally find ad tech/marketing tech companies to be pretty boring. However, Clarivoy’s interesting concept

 Japanese startup Whill’s Model M, a motorized wheelchair alternative, has received clearance from the Food and Drug Administration in the

 RecomN, a platform that helps Malaysian and Indonesian users find service providers for important projects, will enter new Southeast Asian markets

 BYJU, an educational app for Indian schoolkids, plans to create new learning formats and products after raising $75 million from Sequoia India and

 You don’t have to be a circus freak contortionist to sleep on a plane thanks to Woollip. Now you can dive face-first into an inflatable travel

 Clothing brand American Apparel has formally partnered with startup Postmates to offer consumers on-demand delivery (within the hour) of Basics

 Jumio, the Andreessen Horowitz-funded mobile and online credentials authentication business, whose technology can scan and read information from

 eGym, the Munich-based startup that offers cloud-connected gym equipment and supporting cloud software and app for the fitness training floor, has

 Girnar Software, which runs several auto portals in India including CarDekho.com, has raised an undisclosed amount of new funding from Google Capital,

 Singapore-based Grab has just scored a new ally in its battle against Uber and other on-demand ride apps. The company, which claims to be Southeast

 Airbnb will now let travelers from outside the U.S. to book properties in Cuba after receiving authorization from the U.S. government, reports the

 The Jetsons presented a highly entertaining vision of what homes of the future would look like. The animated television show anticipated a world

 I started my last company in mid-2009, just as the market was beginning to recover from the fallout of the financial crisis. In the past several

 Sesame Workshop, the organization that brought to life the beloved “Sesame Street” and countless other programs, has announced a new

 In early February 2016, a study of financing deals reported by The Wall Street Journal found that investors are increasingly protecting themselves

 Immigrants make up 13.3 percent of the population in the U.S., which is the highest percentage the country has seen in more than 100 years. Now

 Parking tickets actually earn cities less money than when people pay the meters like they should. The problem is that even new meters that let you

 If you’re a tutor looking to offer your services online, a startup called Coach aims to give you the tools you need. CEO Spencer Fry created

 Perlstein Lab, or PLab as it is also known, continues to hone its automated drug discovery platform and presents its latest iteration Wednesday

 A month ago, payments company Stripe launched Atlas, a toolkit for startups to incorporate in the U.S. and lay the groundwork for growing their

 Managed By Q, the company that lets you order on-demand cleaning services, IT help, handyman work and more all from an iPad in the office, has today

 The American dream is no longer for sale — but it is for rent. We are slowly going through a subtle shift in how the economy is owned and

 WeWork, the co-working space headquartered in New York and valued north of $5 billion, has today announced its second acquisition. The company will

 Creo, the Indian startup that recently received $3 million in funding to create a new twist on Android, has unveiled its first smartphone, called

 News of yet more movement among on-demand food startups: Rocket Internet-backed Foodpanda announced today that it has acquired Delivery.com’s

 Swipe-based dating is hard work. With hundreds of potential suitors to swipe through, most of us just take a few seconds to glance at a picture

 Part of the Y Combinator Winter 2016 class, REVL just launched a smart action camera that solves the two worst things about action cams: shaky footage

 The rise was like a tech startup fairytale. Within three years of founding, this unicorn company had raised more than $1 billion in venture capital

 During an afternoon call with me, Airmada CEO Dan Danay, outlined his autonomous drone product offering that he and co-founder Boris Lipchin are

 Most social media platforms deter users from creating multiple profiles to prevent shenanigans like harassment and fraud. Galaxia, however, wants

 Late last week rumours began to spread that GoButler, the messaging­-based virtual assistant that let you request anything on-demand, was heading

 Distribusion, the Berlin-based startup that’s built a platform to make it easy for travel companies and travel search engines to sell ‘intercity’

 Is your startup looking to take that next big leap forward? Many companies have gotten their start by displaying in Startup Alley at TechCrunch

 Handshake, a maker of wholesale order apps for mobile, will target new overseas markets after raising a $14 million Series B. The round was led

 The founders of Ask.fm — the popular social Q&A app that became embroiled in a cyberbullying media storm before being acquired by IAC

 Foursquare is an institution in the New York tech scene, so it only makes sense for us to have Foursquare founder Dennis Crowley and the company’s

 Mondo, the yet-to-launch U.K. banking startup that is creating quite a lot of buzz amongst the London tech scene and beyond, is opening its Beta

 SpoonRocket, the on-demand food delivery startup that shut down yesterday in the U.S., has a buyer. That buyer is Brazil-based iFood, a food delivery

 Munchery, the on-demand meal delivery startup with over $117 million in funding, has lost Pascal Rigo, who came on board to Munchery as chief customer

 A number of startup studios are in the midst of a years-long experiment, providing back-end assistance, office space and mentoring to talented,

 It’s time to take wearable devices to the next level. Plume Labs and DigitasLBi have teamed up for an interesting experiment. What if pigeons

 Today, we have a variety of apps to manage our days – calendars, task lists, reminders, notes, and more. But the apps don’t always interoperate,

 I recently took the opportunity to visit with influential friends and colleagues in the New York City technology space. I sat with longtime friend

 WillCall had great design and community, but didn’t have tickets to the best concerts. Ticketfly had deep relationships with music venues,

 Last April, Julien Arnold quietly left his role as CEO of Numbrs, the mobile-first banking app he co-founded with Swiss company builder Centralway.

 David Lapter, formerly of Fab.com and MakeSpace, is moving on to Dashlane to serve as Chief Financial Officer. Dashlane is a password management

 French startup Prêt d’Union is one of the biggest fintech startups in its home country, but it has yet to expand its crowd-lending services

 The Hotaru compact shower holds five gallons of water and, according to the co-founders, a family of three can each take a five-minute, daily shower

 A couple months ago, I visited Las Vegas for CES. Few people enjoy playing in CES, but no one enjoys going to the city of sin for work. The loud

 SpoonRocket informed its investors it’s shutting down its on-demand pre-made meal delivery service after failing to raise the necessary capital

 More than 100 million Americans have a criminal history, according to a Department of Justice survey. Catherine Hoke of Defy Ventures believes that

 Well, that was short-lived. It was only in October that I outed the then stealthy Valk Fleet, a new food delivery and logistics startup from European

 We hear a lot about how companies like Uber are transforming car-based transportation, but today comes news of another play in the sector, this

 While most of the discussions around blockchain have focused on its potential use in finance, startup Blockai is looking at something different

 Square is acquiring the team behind Framed Data, a predictive analytics service, and will be deploying the team of data scientists to its Square

 Modern farming has a huge problem with food waste, stemming from the mismatch between specific food buyer requirements vs Mother Nature delivering

 Or do we even need one? At Disrupt New York in May, we’ll try to get to the bottom of that question. In a panel on the new frontier of digital

 Drones are expensive and crashes are inevitable. ParaZero has a solution: A parachute. With the ParaZero SafeAir product, a drone is fitted with

 Another live streaming startup is hoping to grab its share of eyeballs. Tandem is a bootstrapping fitness-focused platform aiming to offer a low

 Prototyping suite InVision just announced they are acquiring Silver Flows, a tool that lets developers prototype directly inside Sketch. The acquisition

 Marley Spoon, the cook-at-home food delivery service that competes with the likes of Gousto, Blue Apron, Plated, and Rocket Internet’s HelloFresh,

 As a travel enthusiast, it was a problem Ryan Wenger had often encountered: How can a person search for a flight and hotel based on the amount of

 We do not possess the ability to read the future, and yet we can predict with a high level of certainty that we will see more major cybersecurity

 New domain extensions have accumulated some pretty big numbers over the last couple of years. Collective registrations for the new GTLDs (generic

 Living communities and the people who build them are unique, but they share many common threads: a mix of private and community spaces, a set of

 Consider this a public service announcement for DoorDash customers. In the coming weeks, you’re going to start seeing something new on your

 The New York Times is expanding its native ad studio with the acquisition of HelloSociety, a digital marketing agency owned by Science, Inc. Los

 While most people think about hashtags, marketing stunts and SoLoMo when they hear about the Interactive part of SXSW in Austin, this year is going

 Instacart, the $2 billion grocery delivery startup that recently announced an extended partnership with Whole Foods, has slashed pay for its drivers

 YouTube is a beautifully weird world full of surprises. It turns out there’s a big community of TV show and movie reaction YouTubers out there.

 Boston’s tech scene should shake off its inferiority complex: The “Boston Tech Party” revolution is starting to unfold. After

 Late last year, Congress passed legislation that substantially improved the legal landscape for startups, early-stage companies and the stakeholders

 Fred Wilson is a name that needs no introduction, but we’re going to do it anyway. TechCrunch is excited to announce that Fred Wilson will

 Fred Wilson is a name that needs no introduction, but we’re going to do it anyway. TechCrunch is excited to announce that Fred Wilson will

 Here’s a simple-but-handy-sounding update to Jukely — a standby list. For those of you who haven’t tried it, Jukely offers access

 Do you sometimes get the feeling that you’re having a looooooong text conversation to accomplish some fairly simple planning? I’ve certainly

 “This is so fast it feels like cheating” students tell Volley. The education startup’s app lets students point their phone’s

 Up All Night, a startup aiming to give your nightlife a boost, is announcing that it has raised $500,000 in seed funding. More exciting than the

 Confide, the messaging platform that keeps everything confidential, has today announced the close of a $1.6 million extension to their seed round,

 When a new medium arises, so too do new brands hoping to stake a claim on the frontier. Penrose Studios wants to be the Pixar of VR, telling heartfelt

 Icertis, which develops cloud-based software that helps large companies manage contracts, has raised a $15 million Series B led by Ignition Partners.

 As the Internet and global commerce speed the flow of information, and as products and services for American consumers can be built in and delivered

 Stowaway Cosmetics is a startup taking on the $60 billion makeup industry by selling pint-sized lipsticks, blushes and foundations direct to consumers.

 It’s a tough world out there for on-demand startups — confusion around the W2 vs. 1099 conversation, tough margins, and customer service

 Julie Desk, the French startup that’s developed a ‘virtual assistant’ to automate the email back-and-forth typically associated

 Crowdsourced journalism startup Fresco News has just scored a notable partnership which will bring photo and video footage shot by ordinary citizens

 Indochino is following up on the recent appointment of a new CEO with a big new round of funding. The company, which allows you to purchase made-to-measure

 Finding affordable primary medical care can be a headache for people in India. SeeDoc is one of the newest companies using technology to solve that

 When Polyvore CEO Jess Lee was looking for a CFO, she found everything she wanted in Cheryl Dalrymple: incredible experience, shared values about

 Spot, a startup that says it can help you find “the best places in the world,” is launching to the public. The company emerged from

 It’s dumbfounding how an industry as huge as live music still relies on a patchwork of backwards, outdated technologies. Word document offer

 By all accounts, the London startup scene was abuzz with Entrepreneur First‘s latest Demo Day today, as 25 startups — up from 9! —

 New mediums mint new rock stars, and for virtual reality it’s Chris Milk. From surreal dreamscapes to #BlackLivesMatter protests to Jordanian

 The nation relies on systemically important market infrastructures. As you may have guessed, these engines of economy are designed to resist change.

 Pinterest today is releasing a set of new advertising management tools that were previously unavailable for smaller businesses as its portfolio

 Vessel, the video subscription startup headed by former Hulu CEO Jason Kilar, announced this week that it’s moving in a new direction in terms

 No one else ever sees most of your camera roll. But if you’re brave enough, your close friends might enjoy peeking at every photo, video,

 Always be shipping: Hot on the heels of Zeeqo acquiring London-based delivery startup ParcelBright, another company helping online sellers ship

 Veeqo, the Wales-headquartered company that offers e-commerce inventory software, has acquired London-based parcel delivery startup ParcelBright

 A New York City startup called Hero plans to replace those plastic pill organizers with a high-tech home appliance. As demonstrated for me by the

 Crimson Hexagon is announcing that it has raised $20 million in additional equity funding. Founded in 2007, the Boston-headquartered company helps

 In a world suffering from app overload, the Y Combinator-backed startup Prompt introduces a different way to interact with services, make purchases

 There’s a new body-tracking workout outfit that looks to compete with the likes of Athos and other workout-tracking sensors that’s launching

 Mobile marketing company Tune is releasing a new report, where 24.6 percent of survey respondents said that they’d downloaded an ad-blocking

 Ryan Leslie gave every fan his phone number. It’s (646) 887-6978. But instead of a million unwanted phone calls, it’s making him money

 UpLabs is a community-powered marketplace that lets designers and developers share ready-to-ship UI resources — like login boxes and payment

 In its eighth year, Startup Turkey, a gathering of 600, is one of the country’s premier startup events. Read More

 Hooch, which just launched in LA, is a subscription-based app that gives its members one cocktail every day for just $9.99 per month. Yes, we’re

 Staff Finder, the European on-demand marketplace for temporary staffing, has closed a funding round led by One Peak Partners and Goldman Sachs Private

 In any conversation I have about London’s fintech space, property crowdfunding platform Property Partner is almost certain to come up. The

 PayPal has been going through some big changes since separating from eBay last year. The company recently introduced a redesigned app and is now

 Good companies will always get funded. If that’s your company, it’s important to make sure you have the resources to keep it alive long

 Bagging lots of users is a challenge one of the startups in Y Combinator’s 2016 winter batch is worrying about a bit less than the average.

 Add this one to the bucket list. A startup called Cape Productions will use a drone to capture footage of you skiing. Stationed at Squaw Valley

 A new app from David Barnard, the developer behind the popular Launch Center Pro, promises to be the cure for boredom. Rando, as the app is called,

 Two recently launched applications, Daycap and VideoSlam, make it easy to summarize your day in the format of videos or GIFs, which can then be

 Bumble, the popular dating app where girls make the first move, has released an update that may turn the dating app world on its head. The new feature,

 Market movements in the technology sector — particularly in SaaS tech companies — are causing a stir among investors. It’s always

 Called the X-Prize for music the Guthman Musical Instrument Competition pits multiple musicians and makers against each other at Georgia Tech’s

 ICX Media, a Washington, D.C. startup promising to help video creators find an audience and make money, announced today that it has raised $2.5

 A popular smartwatch customization platform for Android, Facer, has today made its way to iOS and Apple Watch. While there are already dozens of

 Eight, the startup formerly known as Luna, announced today that it has raised $6 million in Series A seed funding. The company makes a smart mattress

 Thanks to smartphones and the rise of apps like Snapchat and Periscope, vertical videos have gone from being an annoyance requiring a workaround

 Niniane Wang was watching the infamous “iPhone vs. Evo” video — a short animated film of two creatures poking fun at the iPhone

 Life is hard enough for teens, so Shots sidestepped bullies with a selfie sharing app that doesn’t allow commenting. Now the 6.6 million monthly

 Wrap Media has raised $4 million it will use to grow its business in Japan. The new funding comes from returning investor Dream Incubator, a Tokyo-based

 Online payment processing startup Dwolla has been hit with a $100,000 penalty by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). The CFPB, a government

 Eight, the startup formerly known as Luna, announced today that it has raised $6 million in Series A funding. The company makes a smart mattress

 Weebly isn’t just for building websites anymore — it recently launched Promote, a platform for building marketing emails. CEO David

 Lending Club, the largest P2P lending platform in the U.S., has seen its share price drop by more than 50 percent since December 10; the price per

 Home furnishings site Dot & Bo is expanding into workplace design, with the launch of Dot & Bo for Business. The e-commerce startup will

 Slack was being cheeky when yesterday it said voice chat would start testing “very, very soon”. Today the new “Calls” feature

 GoTenna, the device for people who want to stay connected when they don’t have cell signal, has found a natural launch partner — outdoor

 Plane is a new social app from Tim Allison, who previously founded Cupple, the relationship app acquired by YC alumni Pair (which since re-branded

 There has been a lot of hype around using drones to in precision agriculture, but for the time being, using regular planes outfitted with specialized

 LOLA, the first tampon subscription service to use 100 percent cotton tampons, is today announcing the close of a $3 million seed round of funding.

 Jobbatical, the Estonia-headquartered job matching site for tech gigs abroad, has raised a $2 million funding round led by Union Square Ventures,

 MedyMatch Technology bills itself as an artificial intelligence healthcare startup. It’s applying AI in the form of “deep vision and

 Some of Africa’s first commercial drone startups are generating clients and income. South Africa’s Rocketmine and Ghana’s Aeroshutter

 Carsome, a Malaysia-based platform that connects car dealers with buyers and sellers, is gearing up to enter new markets in Southeast Asia after

 Blippar, the AR company that lets you see extra, rich content by simply pointing your phone at an object, has today announced the close of a $54

 CEO Kyle Hill spent a lot of time building technology for his parents that would help them find better service for their aging family members —

 Mercari, a peer-to-peer marketplace app, has claimed the title of Japan’s first pre-IPO startup unicorn after raising 8.4 billion yen (about

 Slack is gunning for Skype and Google Hangouts with the 2016 product roadmap it revealed today. The biggest change coming: the ability to seamlessly

 Scrolling through the @shopboxfox Instagram account is enough to notice the clean-cut aesthetic: feminine, driven, artistic. However, the ladies

 Pouring petrol on the bonfire of news tech, Google announced that it has invested more than $30m into projects spanning the European news tech scene.

 If you’re sick of running out of paper checks and stamps or hassling with routing numbers to send zero-fee payments, you can bank on Checkbook.

 Entrepreneurs in developing nations have redefined the words “bootstrapping” and “disruptive,” creating all kinds of businesses

 New Yorkers, what are you doing tonight? Whatever it is, drop it and buy tickets to the New York TC Meetup. We’ve got an amazing lineup for

 Do you love getting your hands dirty and want to be a part of the best startup show in tech? If so, you should definitely sign up to be a TechCrunch

 Brownies made of black beans and cookies made of chickpeas are among the unusual recipes found on Hungryroot. Launched last year, the New York-based

 This year’s Disrupt NY will take place across the river from Manhattan in Red Hook, at the Brooklyn Cruise Ship terminal. TechCrunch Disrupt,

 DailyHotel, a Seoul-based app that lets harried travelers quickly find hotel rooms, has launched in 10 new Asian countries. The startup was founded

 NativeX, a startup that makes advertising for mobile games and apps, is being acquired by Chinese mobile ad platform Mobvista. In a statement today,

 Innovation requires a level playing field that Silicon Valley elites seem unprepared to give emerging nations. Are the original Valley’s glory

 Buffer is best known as a scheduling tool to help marketing teams schedule content on social media, but with the acquisition of Respondly they signaled

 Did I mention we’re having a pitch-off in Brooklyn tomorrow night? Because we are! It will be held at Output in Williamsburg at 6pm, and tickets

 Have you always dreamed about participating in the Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt? Great news! We are still accepting applications for

 Property management is one of those industries that typically lags behind the rest of the U.S economy in terms of technology, customer service,

 Have you always dreamed about participating in the Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt? Great news! We are still accepting applications for

 Seedcamp-backed travel startup, Much Better Adventures, which lets you book ‘active holidays’ with independent providers, has raised

 When a startup manages a successful exit, its earliest adopters usually don’t get much in return except for bragging rights. RocketClub wants

 It takes a much heartier stomach to jump into the startup game now than it did a year ago. Zenefits recently became the latest unicorn to face devaluation

 The Brooklyn TC Meetup crept up faster than any of us anticipated. In just two short days, we’ll head over to Output in Williamsburg and ten

 Silicon Valley has disrupted disruptive innovation, and Clayton Christensen isn’t happy about it. Christensen vaulted to rock-star status

 All it takes is a quick look at the market to see that we are in for a bumpy ride — and a longer-term downturn may be imminent. Tech is not

 Luxe is in talks with a strategic investor that will infuse the company with “tens of millions” in new financing from Hertz, our sources

 Talkwheel, a company that offers a unique way to visualize customer conversations, has been acquired by Clickable. I last wrote about Talkwheel

 Zenefits is laying off around 17% of its employees, or 250 people, with the layoffs largely concentrated in the company’s sales divisions,

 As a CEO and immigrant worker (take that, Trump!), I always get asked about moving my company to Silicon Valley. I usually answer that I believe

 When we last saw BioBots, company CEO Danny Cabrera took to the Disrupt stage to pitch his 3D printer for living cells to our panel of judges in

 The Bay Area is well-acquainted with boom and bust cycles, and while it’s too soon to declare that the tech economy has turned, recruiters

 Zumper, the Kleiner-backed apartment rental platform that launched at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2012, has acquired PadMapper, the popular map-centric

 It’s a familiar pitch — taking an industry that relies on outdated technology and rethinking it with modern, web-based tools. The industry

 The Brooklyn Meetup is creeping up on us much faster than expected, which means that there is a very short amount of time before the window closes

 Dear Hotlanta (which happens to be freezing right now), I write to you from a hotel room off of the highway, with but a few short hours until I

 The hospitality industry has been drastically shaken up by entrants to the space like Airbnb and Hotel Tonight. But a new startup that combines

 Number26 is trying to reinvent your bank account. One by one, the company is looking at the traditional bank features and using more modern options

 A startup comprised of a trio of ex-Google engineers is doing something Google has roundly failed to do: make Android compelling on larger screen

 Ibibo Group, which claims to be India’s largest online travel group, has raised $250 million in new funding from majority stakeholder Naspers

 According to a 2015 study of more than 4,000 designers conducted by Subtraction.com and Adobe’s Khoi Vinh, 64 percent of designers still prefer

 Drawbridge isn’t just an ad-tech company anymore. We’ve written about how the company, which is backed by Kleiner Perkins Caufield &

 Jared Kim might not be the best gamer — but he still wants to be able to share highlights from his sessions, and save them to remember them

 At Roger Lee’s last startup, he wanted to set up a 401(k) plan for his employees. He soon realized how frustrating and outdated the process

 The next round of TechCrunch Include Office Hours are here! On March 8th, Niko Bonatsos, Deepak Jeevan Kumar, Armaan Ali, Steve Herrod, and Prateek

 Sometimes generating leads is about finding connections wherever you can. “I went to school at X too!” “X is a great cause, my

 The most annoying part of zero-fee stock trading app Robinhood was that when you signed up, there was a 3-day delay before money you deposited appeared

 Comet is a nifty little iOS and Android app that lets you create and share photo albums with your friends and family. Comet is trying to solve a

 Where there is friction, there are business opportunities. In France, a host of startups are flourishing with the promise to ease the pain of paperwork

 The distance between Zynga’s offices in the United States and a gaming startup in Bengaluru might seem far, but it was a straightforward road

 If you’re a Todoist user working on Apple devices, today is a big day. The company is announcing four updates for four different Apple patforms

 After months of speculation, last week the U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron formally announced the date for a referendum on whether Britain should

 Speaking–or at least trying to be comprehensible–is one of the hardest parts of studying a new language. TerraTalk, a Japanese startup,

 With Disrupt NY 2016 fast approaching, TechCrunch takes a look back at companies that have competed in the Startup Battlefield in previous years.

 Data ethics is a subject our industry has largely ignored, avoided and failed to acknowledge as important. This neglect is almost certainly caused

 Branded.me* isn’t just a website builder anymore — it’s adding tools allowing users to connect with other users and publish their

 But these aren’t the crappy click-bait you see below lots of blog posts. “We’re being very choosy” Pocket founder Nate Weiner

 Wakie, the ‘social alarm clock’ that lets you be woken up by a complete stranger, is pivoting the concept to enable you to connect via

 Today Snapchat announced a new feature called Birthday Party, which is essentially a duet of lenses – one of which can only be used on your

 SoundCloud Pulse, the music streaming service’s dedicated app for artists and creators, is now available on iOS. In an odd move in a market

 eero was supposed to go out late last year to those who bought the system during pre-launch but a manufacturing hiccup pushed the ship date to the

 Disrupt NY 2016 is just a few short months away, as soon hundreds of entrepreneurs, investors and innovators will flock to the lovely Brooklyn Cruise

 BuzzMyVideos, the London-based startup that specialises in international online video content promotion, has acqui-hired Italy’s MakeTag to

 Raw Pressery currently delivers cold-pressed juices to homes in six Indian cities, but it aspires to grow into one of the country’s leading

 Dribble, the London startup founded by Nicholas Wright, Daniel Qu (whom I’m told met at TechCrunch Disrupt) and Rupert Brenninkmeijer, kicks

 Latvia’s Mintos, a fintech startup that operates a p2p loans marketplace to let investors invest in various loans from a growing number of

 Bonsai, part of Y Combinator’s Winter 2016 batch, has created a tool designed to guide freelancers through contract creation and invoicing. The

 Foursquare announced a new product today that should help brick-and-mortar advertisers measure the effectiveness of their campaigns. The company

 Three years after its original eBike the Porteur, Faraday Bicycles is launching its second luxury eBike, the Cortland. Now available for preorder

 Copenhagen-based Motosumo has spent the last three years developing “gait analysis” systems based on body mounted sensors coupled with

 The halcyon days of people clicking on Google search links and instantly converting into customers are over. But a startup called Qubit, founded

 Would the world be different if Neil Armstrong had worn a Fitbit wristband when he set foot on the moon? What if Nixon had been equipped with a

 For me and my co-founders, building our first tech company from the ground up has been both an exhilarating and humbling process. Coming from a

 In this corner: A number of employers, particularly tech companies, who claim they have a large number of unfilled positions and can’t find

 We hear it again and again: The U.S. K-12 education system is in crisis. In its 2015 report, the National Assessment of Educational Progress, otherwise

 The beauty of content management systems (CMS) like WordPress, Wix, Weebly and others is in the ability to create and build a complete website using

 Don’t ever say we aren’t flexible. You needed a few extra days to commit to clicking the buy button on tickets to Disrupt NY 2016, and

 The Pitch-offs in Atlanta and Boston are but a few days away. You already know the stellar companies pitching at our events, but today is the day

 While Uber and Lyft now have a glorified monopoly on intracity transportation, there is still a need for a safe, reliable transportation option

 You’ve procrastinated long enough, tech fans. Today is the day to get your deeply discounted tickets to Disrupt NY 2016 for $1,795 each before

 Hello startup friends! We’re less than a week away from our annual mini-meetup in the beautiful city of Barcelona. Needless to say that we’re

 Anyline, the Austrian startup that provides mobile OCR tech to enable developers to add text recognition to their own apps, has raised €1.5 million

 The tech world was stunned last week when Zenefits — the unicorn that had once been called “the fastest growing SaaS business in history”–

 Try to figure out exactly where fresh products come from in a grocery store. The stickers may say “Mexico” or “Colombia,”

 Imgur is Internet dude paradise. The underhyped image sharing and commenting community has 150 million active users and saw 900 billion page views

 Today, The Dallas Business Journal is reporting that ModoPayments completed a $2 Million funding round by a group of individual angels that includes

 Talent plus capital. Whether you’re building a company, a city or a national economy, these are the raw materials that make it possible to

 Given the extent to which I cover dating apps, you may be surprised to know that I’m not much of a digital dater. In fact, I’ve only

 If you’ve ever found peering over a friend’s shoulder as they browse their Instagram more interesting than swiping through your own,

 Everyone knows that having to write individualized thank you cards is the worst part of receiving gifts. Luckily, ThankView is fixing this with

 Triptease, the startup that provides a SaaS to enable hotels to increase direct sales, has closed $7 million in Series A funding. Investors include

 Startup Battlefield hopefuls, it’s time to stop procrastinating and apply for the Startup Battlefield at Disrupt New York. We’re looking

 The great continent of Africa seems to be the flavor of the month. As the world wakes up to its potential, I can’t help but cringe each time

 Sketchfab is an online platform to view and share 3D files. The company has been adding a bunch of new features over the past few months, including

 The inimitable Jon Shieber will be interviewing Pär-Jörgen Pärson of Northzone VC at a mini-meetup to be held in New York tonight and you’re

 Food tech is big these days — Grubhub, Blue Apron, Instacart — but pretty web design and polished communication strategies aren’t

 When it comes to searching for a new house or apartment to buy, the typical search experience usually focuses solely on geography, number of rooms

 Bloglovin’ is announcing the acquisition of marketing startup Sverve, a move that should the expand monetization options for writers using the

 Sprout Social is announcing a big Series C round of funding — the company says it has raised $42 million from Goldman Sachs’ Merchant

 Wavecell, a Singaporean startup that creates APIs for communication tools, has raised a $1.6 million Series A. The round was led by Qualgro Asean

 Curve, the stealthy London-based startup backed by notable fintech investors, finally de-cloaks today with the soft launch of its iOS app and accompanying

 More VC being thrown at casual trading app Bux. The app, which turns stocks and derivatives trading (via CFDs) into a game-like and social experience,

 Amazon will acquire startup Emvantage for an undisclosed amount to develop its Indian e-commerce site’s payment platform. In a press announcement,

 Yello Mobile — the Seoul, Korea-based mobile apps business that has grown by raising nearly $150 million and acquiring over 80 other app startups —

 A new 500 Startups batch means new diversity stats. In the startup accelerator’s 15th batch, 44% of the founders are international, 33% are

 The Boston and Atlanta Meetups are but a week away, and we have finally confirmed the companies pitching in the Pitch-Offs. These startups will

 Who has time to swipe Tinder these days? Or wade through the seven circles of weird messaging hell on OKCupid? Too many people, evidently, which

 Reedsy has been unbundling traditional publishing houses one step at a time. At heart, Reedsy remains a marketplace to find an editor, copy editor,

 There are apps that promise to help you free up space on your smartphone by backing up then deleting your photos. There are apps that help you organize

 Giphy, the Google of GIFs, has closed a $55 million Series C funding round at a valuation of $300 million post-money. The round was led by Lightspeed

 The tech industry has a responsibility to do something about how Silicon Valley and San Francisco are evolving, and the displacement we’ve

 With the emerging ecosystem of connected devices – often dubbed the “Internet of Things” – consumers are rightly worried

 File transfer startup Infinit has a new product that could potentially change the way DevOps engineers think about storage. With Infinit’s

 Naritiv, the platform that connects brands and advertisers with influencers on Snapchat, has today announced the close of a $3 million Series A

 TechCrunch is excited to stream 500 Startups’ demo day live from the Computer History Museum. The demos start at 1:00 PM Pacific and are expected

 Lytics, the two-and-a-half-year-old Portland, OR personalization technology startup announces today the public launch of their new Content Affinity

 Online real estate listings have undoubtedly changed how people search for houses. Never before, after all, did buyers have this much information

 After my recent article about empty states, I was lucky enough to get an interview request from Holly Jade, a user experience (UX) designer with

 “The next big thing will start out looking like a toy.” At least according to A16Z partner Chris Dixon. He used the phrase to explain

 You like customers. You like Slack. You like talking on Slack. You like to talk to customers on Slack. You like sandwiches. How do you connect all

 Dutch startup Leakserv is playing in the online identity management space, with a special focus on helping victims of revenge porn who want specific

 Movebubble, the startup that wants to make renting in London suck a little less, has picked up $1.6 million in further funding, bringing total investment

 Israel has become a hotbed for startups in the fields of identity verification and fraud prevention. The IDF Unit 8200 develops systems for gathering

 It’s Valentine’s Day, so what better time to interview Vana Koutsomitis, the self-proclaimed dating expert and finalist of this year’s

 DHL, the international express delivery company, started its business by offering free plane tickets to people on the street. For the trouble of

 In 1961, President John F. Kennedy committed before a joint session of Congress that before the end of the decade America would put a man on the

 “The theme of LA is diversity.” That is what DoorDash’s Kevin Huang told me in our conversation about how expanding on-demand

 Patent trolls, more formally known as Patent Assertion Entities (PAEs), pose a major threat to American businesses. A study published by the Boston

 I’m a Soylent believer. If you know me personally, this may be hard for you to understand, given that my favorite foods are bread and cheese

 I want to play again. My arms are sore from shooting a virtual bow-and-arrow and slashing robots with a lightsaber. My heart is racing from dodging

 When John Kim and his team were working on a community-based application called Smile Mom — which was designed to connect nearby moms —

 YouTube wants to win the love of musicians by solving their biggest problem: how to turn popularity into cash. So today it announced it’s

 Life360, the mobile application designed for families, announced today that it has acquired the private messaging application and Y Combinator grad

 To many startups, search engine optimization (SEO) is a task that sits on their company’s back burner. With features to launch and customers

 Runkeeper is set to become the latest fitness startup to be acquired by a workout gear company. Jason Jacobs, the startup’s co-founder and

 The hits just keep on coming at the embattled cloud human resources software provider Zenefits, as the California Department of Insurance has begun

 Uber is asking the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California to settle two cases: Philliben v. Uber Technologies, Inc. and Mena

 “Don’t put all your eggs in one basket,” the saying goes. Well, if you’re running a startup that sells to other startups,

 No one wants to go to a car dealership. We’re in the era where everything can be done online, so it’s crazy you can’t buy a new

 Foursquare just announced a partnership with Delivery.com to enable Foursquare users to order food, alcohol and groceries for delivery right from

 Since the Arab Spring in 2011, Tunisia’s new democracy has struggled to enact prudent economic policy to provide employment and opportunity

 Foursquare just announced a partnership with Delivery.com to enable Foursquare users to order food, alcohol and groceries for delivery right from

 Since the Arab Spring in 2011, Tunisia’s new democracy has struggled to enact prudent economic policy to provide employment and opportunity

 Sky-Futures, the drone startup that flies drones around oil rigs and gas pipelines and analyses the captured data to spot problems before they become

 Meet Gorgias, an artifial intelligence-powered help desk to make you much more efficient when it comes to answering customer support requests. The

 IMJ, a venture capital firm based in Japan, is looking homeward with a new fund especially for Japanese startups. Called the IMJ Investment Partners

 Toss Lab has raised $2.5 million in fresh funding for JANDI, an enterprise communication tool that is tailored for companies in Asia. Along with

 You have exactly one day left to apply for the TC Pitch-offs in Boston and Atlanta, which will be held on February 23 and February 25 respectively.

 TechCrunch Disrupt is headed back to the Big Apple, and we’re thrilled to announce that Disrupt New York 2016 will take place at the incredible

 Most new homes that are being built in the U.S. today really aren’t all that different from those that were built 30 years ago. Some materials

 Lantern, a mental health startup that offers tools to deal with stress, anxiety and body image has raised a $17 million Series A round led by the

 Meet Immersit, a new kind of connected device for your couch launching today on Kickstarter. Immersit generates vibrations to immerse you in your

 This morning, the law firm Fenwick & West published new findings about all the U.S.-based unicorn financings that took place during the last

 Humans have been having humans for hundreds of thousands of years as part of our genetic drive so it seems counter-Darwinian that some genes might

 Not only has Gjirafa developed an albanian search engine, which overcomes some of the complexities and uniqueness of the albanian language, but

 BuildDirect is an online marketplace for buying home improvement products. Today, the company is opening its platform to third-party sellers with

 Meet Cizoo, a new iOS app that is all about making it easier to create music. Learning to play an instrument can be hard, but anyone can sing and

 On the surface, the smart lock space can seem pretty crowded already, with names like Lockitron and August and Kisi apparently in play for several

 The 9th Annual Crunchies took place at the War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco last night. Host Chelsea Peretti had us laughing before our

 SolarCity, which is down more than 50 percent over the past year, just released its Q4 2015 earnings. The market has reacted negatively, with the

 Twenty-First Century Fox, which invested $160M in DraftKings over the summer, has written down the investment by about 60 percent, according to

 When 21-year-old college students Nate Matherson and Matt Lenhard started their first business for tutors, they didn’t really know that they

 With Twitter-owned Periscope, Facebook’s latest video efforts, and, of course, Meerkat, is there any space left for a new social video streaming

 When we last covered Lully, the YC-Backed startup had just announced the close of a $2.1 million seed round for operations surrounding their flagship

 Lulu, the once controversial mobile app that lets women anonymously review and rate men (something the startup calls ‘dating intelligence’),

 James Barrese, the chief technology officer of PayPal, will resign on April 1 and his position will be taken over by two people. The online payments

 UK cyber security startup Digital Shadows, which sells a SaaS service to businesses wanting to monitor and manage potential risks by keeping tabs

 Silicon Valley is getting dressed up tonight to celebrate startups, their founders and CEOs, VCs and angels, and the products they make during our

 With customers demanding access to goods and services where and when they want, and servers deluged with requests, concurrency and expectations

 There’s a big shuffle happening at Zenefits today — with Zenefits CEO Parker Conrad exiting the company and COO David Sacks taking over.

 On April 4th, Y Combinator cofounder Jessica Livingston will host the third annual Female Founders Conference at the Herbst Theatre in San Francisco,

 You can’t swing a bag of cats without hitting a new tampon startup. Whether it’s about scheduling deliveries or getting something sweet

 TechCrunch is excited to announce the 100-person Crunchies Board who collectively picked the winners of the 9th Annual Crunchies award. Early last

 Localglobe, the new VC fund from father and son duo Robin and Saul Klein, has led a £1.1 million investment in online mortgage advisor Trussle.

 Experts have suggested a number of niche industries that will be made more secure by the untamperable data record provided by blockchain technology

 It’s a new environment for startups in 2016. Financing will get harder. Valuation inflation will dissipate. Profitability will be in vogue

 We’ve reached the end of 1st And Future — a sports-centric startup competition thrown as a joint effort between the NFL, Stanford’s

 Virtual reality, body cameras, and the Internet Of Things are poised to change the way we watch sports. Today we saw how at TechCrunch’s 1st

 British startup Revolut just closed its seed round. After announcing having raised $2.3 million this Summer, the company has added a couple of new

 It’s here! 1st and Future, the startup pitch hosted jointly by the NFL, Stanford and your favorite tech blog, TechCrunch, is tomorrow! We’ve

 Are you a Slovenian web dev? A French iOS programmer? A sad person in need of friends? Get thee to the Hamster Pad. This new site Matt Schlicht

 We are planning on holding a mini-meetup in Barcelona during MWC, offering you a chance to pitch TC writers as part of a pitch-off. Winners get free

 CustomInk, a leading player in the online custom apparel space, has announced it is acquiring Represent, a Los Angeles-based social commerce startup.

 Curioos has been selling art prints from digital artists for a few years now. But it’s been a cumbersome work to add new artists to the website.

 “Growth hacking” is a term that people seem to think means “magically market any product or company for free.” I wrote a

 Meet Soundsgood, a French startup that wants to make it easier to publish playlists on the web. While it’s never been a better time to create

 The TechCrunch Meetup + Pitch-off is headed to Boston and Atlanta, and time is running out to apply to participate. Ten companies from each glorious

 French startup La Belle Assiette just raised another $1.5 million (€1.3 million) to expand its services. The company has become a leading on-demand

 Foursquare is not a consumer social app business, it’s a data company. And only when it admitted that to itself and revalued as such was it

 We’re gearing up for the 9th Annual Crunchies Awards, which will take place at the War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco on Monday, February

 Once, long ago, my personal phone number became my business phone number. The result? I now get business calls all day long and no one I know calls

 Remittance has always been a shady business. Migrant workers need to send money they earn home to their families, but get hit with fine print fees

 It’s that time of year again. With the passing of January into February the 9th Annual Crunchies are almost upon us. Next week, on February

 We’ve seen startups helping brands tap influencers to promote themselves on social media platforms like Vine and Instagram, so it might be

 Are you an undergraduate or graduate student looking to attend the hottest conference in startups and technology? We have set aside a number of

 We’re a week-and-a-half away from Valentine’s Day, one of the biggest days for flower purchases everywhere and probably the best time

 Lunch breaks! They’re great, right? But they can also turn into a huge time sink — I’ve definitely had moments where I’m

 Imagine you’re Edward Snowden with a Facebook profile. You text an ace reporter at the Guardian and have a new bit of information to share:

 For years now, we’ve though of Augmented Reality in the context of our vision — Google Glass started the trend, and the Microsoft HoloLens

 Geofeedia, a startup that pulls real-time, location-based data from social media, has raised $17 million in Series B funding. Co-founder and CEO

 New Yorkers sick of the uncertainties of the urban dating scene can now turn to a new app designed to reduce the complexities of dating to dollars

 Petcube, which is part of Y Combinator’s Winter 2016 class, is a young startup that wants to bring together pet care and the connected home

 Legacy Republic is removing a big hurdle in its photo digitizing process — putting albums in the mail. YesVideo launched its Legacy Republic

 Pinterest. Instagram. Tumblr. The future of the web is visual, but how does anyone make money on that? By understanding what’s in the images

 Pencil + Pixel wants to use bleeding edge technology to upgrade your digs. Eventually. Called Modsy, the service still isn’t publicly available

 When companies have to pick what kinds of services they want for their operation — like marketing or human resources — they can easily

 When Yahya Mokhtarzada got a $40 bill from Gogo, he started taking a closer look at the subscriptions on his bank statement. It turned out that

 If you’re wondering about the seed-stage investment landscape in New York City, a new report from NextView Ventures could be a good place

 Jukely, a monthly concert subscription service, says it’s breaking records (and not the vinyl kind.) Though it didn’t want to say how

 Back in October 2013, I had dinner with a dozen people in a good-looking Parisian loft. Part of them were working for TheFamily, part of them were

 Poncho, the text/email-based weather service with personality, has today launched an iOS app that acts as an alarm clock to wake you up. Poncho

 Bezar, the design ecommerce platform led by Fab cofounder Bradford Shellhammer, has today announced that it will be acquired by Australian ecommerce

 Stellar, the Stripe-backed open-source payment network, has launched its first major integration in the form of a partnership with Oradian, a company

 Pencil + Pixel wants to use bleeding edge technology to upgrade your digs. Eventually. Called Modsy, the service still isn’t publicly available

 Spotcap, the Rocket Internet-founded fintech startup that operates an online lending platform for small businesses, has beefed up its coffers with

 I spend a lot of time in board meetings. Specifically, private company startup board meetings. Rooms filled with some of the most talented, bold,

 As more and more civilians start flying drones, there will probably be an exponential rise in situations where authorities need to quickly take

 Online shopping continues to rise in popularity, but it’s still tough to know if the items you pick out on a website will work as an outfit

 Europe seems to be creating peer-to-peer car rental marketplaces at a rate of knots. There’s heavily-funded Drivy in France, Snappcar in the

 Kaizen, a Tokyo- and San Francisco-based user interface marketplace and testing platform, plans to increase its presence in the United States after

 Africa is on the verge of something big. This seems to be a quiet, cautious consensus in some investment communities. The past year has been peppered

 Well, that’s one way to respond when someone doesn’t like your startup. After a Stanford student spotted an internship opening at The

 The last 5-10 years have been an extraordinary time for early stage tech founders to raise money. But easy access to capital has ingrained some

 As is clear from the front pages of newspapers recently, we are living in a world where open democratic values are under attack. Paris, Bamako,

 I’m taking a last look around the room. It’s five in the morning and the black car is idling outside. The driver has already called

 Onfleet, the company that provides infrastructure for on-demand delivery, recently powered its one millionth delivery. More than half of those deliveries

 The 9th Annual Crunchies are almost upon us. On February 8, luminaries from some of the best and brightest startups around will descend upon San

 Doorman can be a useful service for people who hate missing deliveries. Now it can help you get those products in the mail again, too. Rather than

 Possession wins trophies or, in this case, ad dollars. That’s why Snapchat stepped up its game late last year by quietly partnering with Stats.com.

 Following last summer’s restructuring, custom T-shirt shop Teespring has laid off under 10 percent of its workforce and is shutting down its

 Last week I had the chance to speak with Jeff Seibert, senior director of product at Twitter and co-founder of Crashlytics (acquired by Twitter

 Cronofy, the U.K. startup that offers a calendar API to help businesses and their customers synchronise calendars, has raised a $1.6 million seed

 Slidejoy, a startup that rewards users for putting news and advertising on their Android lockscreens, has unveiled a more comprehensive newsreading

 Shypmate, which is part of Y Combinator’s Winter 2016 batch, is a quick, low-cost international shipping solution that relies on everyday

 A refrain about my generation is that we are too ephemeral and that our memories are too fleeting. Exhibit A: Snapchat. Now, obviously generational

 A video news application with hundreds of thousands of active users is coming to Apple TV. Watchup, as the app is called, offers a combination of

 Disrupt NY 2016 is the place to be if you want your startup to get noticed. According to CrunchBase, the companies who displayed in Startup Alley

 A video news application with hundreds of thousands of active users is now coming to Apple TV. Watchup, as the app is called, offers a combination

 Disrupt NY 2016 is the place to be if you want your startup to get noticed. According to CrunchBase, the companies who displayed in Startup Alley

 Snapchat is ready to colonize the web with profile URLs that deeplink into its app and let you instantly follow someone. That makes it simple to

 Insurify, a startup out of MIT, today announced the launch of Evia (Expert Virtual Insurance Agent), an artificially intelligent virtual insurance

 ScribbleLive has acquired Visually for an undisclosed price. Toronto-based ScribbleLive was founded in 2008, starting out as a liveblogging platform

 As more businesses move their IT from on-premise solutions and into networked, cloud-based services, startups that are building products for them

 We enter 2016 with some mixed signals regarding the value of patents for technology companies. Many are preaching a death of patent rights and are

 AdStage launched a new product called Automate today — it’s supposed to bring more automation to AdStage advertisers, but CEO Sahil

 “When do you think people in the Bay Area started to realize that you could make more money from tech than from real estate?” Jed Kolko

 More bad news for Theranos: A federal health agency has declared that the blood test company’s “deficient practices … pose immediate

 SprinkleBit, a startup that helps you invest with guidance from friends and experts, has raised $10 million in new funding from GTC. It’s

 A newly launched startup called Shelf wants to make it easier for people to discover great products, without having to first read through tons of

 NextGenVest, a startup out of New York, is setting out to become a new kind of trustworthy financial entity. And to do that, it’s tackling

 Quora is going to let companies pay cash to incentivize great answers to their burning questions. It’s a forceful way to squeeze private insights

 If you’ve ever tried to sell a used car you know it’s a process. You either haggle low-ball offers at the dealership or wade through

 With all the startups using the internet to transform traditional industries, it’s a bit of a wonder why no one has taken on the internet

 Austin-based The Zebra, a startup that’s something of a “Kayak for auto insurance,” has been working to bring the process of shopping

 Sprig, the on-demand food delivery startup already known for healthy food, has revamped its menu with new options to help people make better nutritional

 One of the problems in the early days of the mobile app era was that it wasn’t possible to link to the pages within apps the same way you

 Gallop Labs, a startup that helps mobile publishers identify and make money from valuable users, has been acquired by one of its customers, Big

 Over the last few years, Grape, the enterprise messaging app backed by Betaworks and Zinga founder Mark Pincus, has been toiling away to build a

 The business of sport revolves around stats — from those who use them to improve performance, through to enthusiasts who look at them for

 Lyft said today that it agreed to pay $12.25 million to settle a pending worker classification lawsuit in California, but it will continue to classify

 Rakuten Ventures, the investment arm of one of Japan’s largest Internet companies, has launched a 10 billion yen ($84 million) fund dedicated

 Deliverd, founded by Paul Rawlings and James Grant, is another U.K. startup entering the on-demand food delivery space. However, the burgeoning

 InVision, a prototyping tool we’ve covered before, is acquiring code-based design tool Macaw. InVision is a product and prototype design tool

 We’re one short month away from TC’s first regional Pitch-offs of the year, and I couldn’t be more excited to be hitting up a

 You can now message your friends on the web version of Peach, a new chat app created by the founder of Vine, Dom Hofmann. The iOS app became a viral