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Property Partner Secures Seed Cash For Its Real Estate Crowdfunding Platform
Sep 09, 12:30AM
A new startup that lets users invest as £50 in the booming buy-to-let housing market in the UK has launched with £1.25m seed funding led by Octopus Investments. The investment round in Property Partner also includes participation from a number of high profile European funds and investors. These include venture accelerator Seedcamp; Betfair co-founder and Funding Circle Board member Ed… Read MoreCoinSafe May Have Solved The Bitcoin Transaction Speed Problem
Sep 09, 12:20AM
Bitcoin transactions aren’t actually instant. Because each transfer requires a number of confirmations via the mining process, some Bitcoin moves can take minutes or even half an hour. CoinSafe, however, may have created a solution that can process BTC transactions in seconds. CoinSafe, a company founded by Michael Flaxman and Tom Chokel, is a “free Bitcoin ATM service.”… Read MoreSOP Notify Launches A Waze For Power In Emerging Markets
Sep 09, 12:02AM
Before they selected their first office in Abuja, Nigeria, the team behind power monitoring and outage alert provider SOP notify thought they’d done thorough due diligence. They’d been to the space three times and were assured that they’d have a consistent source of power to do their work. As soon as they signed the lease and moved in, the power went out for days. And so,… Read MoreStudyRoom Lets College Students Join Online Study Groups, Book Tutors
Sep 08, 11:45PM
Launching publicly on the TechCrunch Disrupt stage this afternoon is a company called StudyRoom, which aims to take student study groups and tutoring online, and make them more social. The company has already been running trials of its program in six universities, starting this spring, and now claims to reach 40,000 students across the U.S. who use it as a platform for social, peer-to-peer… Read MoreAllre Lets You Buy And Sell Your House Online Without A Real Estate Agent
Sep 08, 11:32PM
The Internet has disintermediated almost every business that used to rely on brokers — except for the real estate industry. There, we still pay huge fees to agents who often do very little for their money and aren’t necessarily on our side. Allre, which is launching at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2014 today, wants to bring the real estate business into the 21st century by giving buyers… Read MoreQuickFire TV Helps Broadcasters Get The News Out Faster
Sep 08, 11:22PM
Getting video online before your competitors is more important than ever, for better or for worse. Launching today at the Disrupt Battlefield, QuickFire TV claims to transcode video ten times faster than similar services, providing news and sports organizations videos encoded for feedback on a range of devices minutes after it’s uploaded from source footage. Read MoreAthla's Velocity Mimics $1,200 Radar Equipment For The Price Of A Fancy Coffee
Sep 08, 11:09PM
We’ve all seen the speed of a pitch in baseball recorded, either in person or on TV, and most have probably seen the radar gun used to clock the ball’s velocity. That tech is expensive, however, with systems ranging to around $1,200 to measure the speed of smashes, hits and kicks in sports ranging from baseball, to tennis to soccer. Athla, launching today at Disrupt SF, is a… Read MoreMark Cuban Explains The Four Parts Of An Ideal Investment Pitch
Sep 08, 11:06PM
Mark Cuban sat down at TechCrunch Disrupt SF today to talk privacy and founding businesses. However, from Shark Tank to his own investment firm, Mr. Cuban, is also a prolific investor, which lead to questions about the best ways to get his investment. “I’m very transparent with my companies,” Mark said. “You should know the companies I’ve invested in, why I… Read MorePeter Thiel Tweets
Sep 08, 10:47PM
Peter Thiel could have tweeted about his early investment in Facebook, his loathe for Uber or the future of anti-aging. Instead, the Libertarian billionaire carefully chose the stage at Disrupt SF to send out his first ever tweet about his new book, “Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future.” Read MoreBeartooth Keeps You Connected With Your Friends When The Cell Network Can't
Sep 08, 10:44PM
I can’t imagine that there’s anyone reading who hasn’t been in this situation: you’re at a conference, or a concert, or some other big event where you’re surrounded by way, way too many people. Your cell phone’s signal meter promises that everything is okay… and yet, nothing actually works. Read MoreOn The Record With Max Levchin
Sep 08, 10:35PM
Earlier today I sat down with Max Levchin at Disrupt SF 2014 to talk about what he’s building at the moment, and to get his take on the current technology market. Max is best known for his work at PayPal and his second firm, a gaming company called Slide. PayPal sold to eBay, and Google picked up Slide. Now, Max is building something called Affirm, which hopes to change how people… Read MorePartpic Makes It Easier To Find Repair Parts For Your Whozits, Whatsits, And More
Sep 08, 10:25PM
Are your thingamobs broken? Did the knob fall off of your widget? Partpic has you covered. The company, which is launching at the TC Startup Battlefield in San Francisco, was created to allow consumers to snap a picture of a replacement part and immediately receive a part number and order page in return. Read MoreHow Peter Thiel Knows If A Startup Is Crazy Smart, Or Just Crazy
Sep 08, 10:23PM
Can Peter Thiel see the future? You’d be forgiven for thinking so considering he invested early in Facebook, LinkedIn, Yelp, and Stripe. His strategy with Founders Fund and Mithril Capital is to fund ideas that sound crazy to most people, but have the potential to radically change the world. Exponential innovation > linear innovation. But how does Thiel tell the crack-pot… Read More
Vinli Promises To Bring Autos Into The Smartphone Age
Sep 08, 10:12PM
With Vinli, cars are about to get apps. And not just cars made in the future. The system works with nearly any car made after 1996 and is compatible with Android and iOS devices. The company just launched on the Disrupt SF 2014 stage and announced that the Vinli device is available for pre-order. Vinli plugs into a car’s ODB II port — a data interface equipped standard on cars… Read MoreTailor Brands Aims To Bring Small Business Owners Affordable Access To Professional Design
Sep 08, 10:01PM
Tel Aviv and Brooklyn-based Tailor Brands launches publicly on the Disrupt Battlefield today with the goal to democratize design. Founders Yali Saar, Tom Lahat and Nadav Shatz say they can help any small, local business feel like they have an in-house designer with a special algorithm system that helps customers think like a designer. Companies with deeper pockets are able to add to the… Read MoreGem Is A Bitcoin API To Seamlessly Build Bitcoin Services With Bank-Grade Security
Sep 08, 9:46PM
Meet Gem, a new bitcoin startup with a different take and a focus on developer tools. Gem provides a highly available, scalable API for bitcoin developers to abstract the bitcoin storing layer. In other words, Gem will store, encrypt and backup your users’ bitcoins so you don’t have to take care of this cumbersome aspect. The startup is launching today in private beta at… Read MoreTinder And IAC Settle Sexual Harassment Suit With Early Employee Whitney Wolfe
Sep 08, 9:29PM
Mobile dating company Tinder has settled a lawsuit with early employee Whitney Wolfe, who claimed sexual harassment and sexual discrimination on the part of former CMO Justin Mateen. The settlement puts to bed an ugly “he said, she said” conflict that has loomed over the ultra-hot subsidiary of IAC since June. A spokesman for IAC said that “the lawsuit was settled with no… Read MoreThe Original Disruptor, Clayton Christensen, And VC Bill Hambrecht Talk About The Theory Of Disruption
Sep 08, 9:17PM
Investment bankers Bill Hambrecht and Clayon Christensen took to the Disrupt SF stage today to defend the concepts of disruption and to address the ways the Valley predicted the future of financial services and technology. Christensen is the author of The Innovator’s Dilemma and a lauded professor at the Harvard Business School. His writing on “disruption,” a concept he says… Read MoreHome Depot Finally Confirms Its Payment System Was Hacked For Months
Sep 08, 9:16PM
Remember that “suspicious activity” that Home Depot was looking into last week? Six days later, the company has at last publicly confirmed that the “suspicious activity” was a breach of its payments system. Credit card data was exposed, though Home Depot is quick to note that PINs were not. If you used a credit card at Home Depot in the past 4-5 months, you should… Read More
Kanzee Makes Sharing Clothes With Friends A Breeze
Sep 08, 9:00PM
Kanzee is a social network and accompanying app that allows people to share and swap clothes with each other. It’s a simple concept and that’s why I like it. It also solves a problem that many a fashionista have encountered (myself not included) — how to get new outfits or accoutrements for specific events without purchasing them. Read MoreIf at any time you'd like to stop receiving these messages, just send an email to feeds_feedburner_com_techcrunch+unsubscribe-hmdtechnology=gmail.com@mail.feed2email.net.
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