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Roomi Lands $2 Million To Pair You With The Perfect Roommate
Jun 09, 2:00PM
Roomi, an app that wants to help New Yorkers find the perfect roommate, is today launching with $2 million in seed funding led by DCM Ventures. Great Oak Ventures, Sand Hill East, Jeff Dishner, Greg Kidd, Arihant Patni, Jeff Penney, and AngelList Consumer Fund all participated in the round, as well. Roomi works by letting users seeking roommates list their apartments on the app. Once… Read MoreSign Up To Buy Limited 2-For-1 Tickets To Disrupt London 2015
Jun 09, 2:00PM
While summer is just around the corner, it won’t be long until the leaves start to fall and winter rears its head. Fortunately, with winter comes Disrupt London 2015, which takes place December 7-8 at the Copper Box Arena in London. And with Disrupt London, we’re giving you the unprecedented opportunity to purchase a limited supply of tickets at the special rate of two for the price… Read MoreBlue Apron Cooks Up $135 Million In Series D Funding
Jun 09, 1:28PM
Blue Apron has just announced that it closed a $135 million round of funding led by Fidelity Management and Research Company, with participation from existing investors. The WSJ reported last month that this round was being sought at a $2 billion valuation. Blue Apron is a company that packages up perfectly portioned ingredients and recipes that are delivered to your home once a week. The… Read MoreInside GoPro's Ambitious Plan To Connect Their Cameras To The Cloud
Jun 09, 1:21PM
GoPro doesn’t want to be known just as a camera company. Instead, as I learned from GoPro’s CEO and Founder Nick Woodman, GoPro wants to be a lifestyle media company. To that end, the company is looking to cloud services to give owners an easier way to share all that rad action footage and build a new business based on content, not hardware. Read MoreTinder Goes Through A Small Round Of Layoffs
Jun 09, 1:19PM
Tinder — one of the most popular dating apps currently available across the globe — laid off around 10 percent of its staff last week. TechCrunch has learned and confirmed that the company laid off six members of the 60-65 member team, including three marketing employees and three engineers. We’re told this wasn’t part of a re-structuring, or even a result of… Read MoreMapQuest Confirms It's Using Mapbox To Overhaul Its Product
Jun 09, 1:04PM
AOL-owned MapQuest has confirmed a big product and brand overhaul for its mapping product, including a partnership with developer mapping platform Mapbox to improve the product’s performance. We reported these updates were incoming last month. Read MoreMesosphere Hits General Availability, Launches Free Community Edition And Paid Enterprise Version
Jun 09, 1:00PM
Mesosphere’s container-centric Datacenter Operating System (DCOS), the product the company has been building toward since it launched in 2013, hit general availability today. As a part of this launch, the company also announced that it will offer both a free, public, cloud-only community edition and a paid enterprise license for any and all platforms enterprises may want to run the… Read MoreSpring Launches Free Shipping On Every Order
Jun 09, 1:00PM
Spring, the marketplace shopping app which recently closed $25 million in Series B funding, announced that users will now get free shipping on every order. Spring is a mobile app that provides an Instagram-like shopping experience, where you can follow your favorite retailers then purchase from within the app with just a swipe. Since each item on Spring is purchased directly from the… Read MoreMaker Media Nabs $5 Million In Funding And Yahoo Tech Editor Rafe Needleman
Jun 09, 1:00PM
Right on the heels of adding a new social network for the DIY folks called MakerSpace, Maker Media has raised $5 million in funding from Ev Williams’ Obvious Ventures, Raine Ventures, Azure Capital, and previous investors OATV and Floodgate, as well as some debt financing from Square 1. The funding has helped the media company to pull in Rafe Needleman to head up digital content.… Read MoreSecurity Startup Illusive Networks Uses Deception To Catch Hackers
Jun 09, 12:30PM
Imagine you’re a red-blooded hacker and you want to break into a corporate network. You find your way in, probably by stealing someone’s credentials. Then you go to work. You move around until you find another lock to pick and slowly, steadily, patiently you go deeper and deeper into the network until you find the prize you’re seeking. But what if that picked lock the… Read MoreTwitter Tweaks Tweet Page Conversations With More Algorithmic Surfacing
Jun 09, 11:01AM
Amid the noise of Apple’s annual WWDC keynote yesterday, Twitter posted a note about a new tweak it’s made to the conversation view of tweets that suggests it’s doing (yet) more algorithmic ordering of the content on its network. The new feature started rolling out yesterday. Read MoreSmart Cars Mean Automakers Need To Think Like Startups
Jun 09, 10:41AM
The advent of smart cars means that automakers have to figure out how to collaborate closely with tech companies—and that means making changes to their business models. During a panel at this week’s TechCrunch/TechNode Shanghai event, Juergen Bauer, who manages the Audi-Tongji Joint Lab in Shanghai, asked a panel of representatives from car companies about how the auto industry… Read MoreSwiggy Scoops Up $16.5M To Reinvent Food Delivery In India
Jun 09, 10:30AM
As the global battle for online food delivery heats up, Bangalore-based Swiggy has raised $16.5 million in additional funding to make a play for the Indian market. Swiggy launched in Bangalore in August of last year with a curated takeout delivery service targeting young, working professionals. While many food delivery apps rely on restaurant employees for delivery services, Swiggy has… Read MoreChina's Startups Can Break New Ground By Focusing On Niche Markets, Says VP Of DJI
Jun 09, 8:38AM
China may be known as the world capital of mass production, but the country’s tech industry can foster innovation by focusing on markets with very specific needs. Read MoreThere's Never Been A Better Time To Start A Company In China: Qunar Co-Founder
Jun 09, 4:03AM
There’s never been a better time to start an early-stage startup in China, according to one of the country’s most successful foreign entrepreneurs. Read MoreApple's WWDC Keynote In 90 Seconds
Jun 09, 3:30AM
Apple had a lot to announce at its Worldwide Developer Conference this morning, and it was easy to miss big news as it happened during the two-hour-plus keynote. We’ve summed it up right here, with links to our coverage if you want to know more. Off the bat, Apple announced Mac OS X El Capitan. While it doesn’t come with a visual overhaul like last year’s Yosemite update,… Read MoreHow To Win The Attention Of Potential Investors
Jun 09, 3:00AM
If your goal is to build a world-changing product (or to create one of those unicorns everyone is talking about), at some point you’re probably going to need the help and resources of outside investors. But pitching investors can be a painful process. We investors are fickle – we might respond to your email in 30 seconds or 30 days, depending on how you came onto our radars. We can… Read MoreFormer Paypal Executive Joins Bigcommerce As CEO
Jun 09, 2:42AM
Bigcommerce, the Austin-based platform that helps retail businesses go online, now has a new chief executive officer. The company announced today that Brent Bellm, who is a former CEO of Paypal Europe, will lead Bigcommerce as it eyes an initial public offering. Read MoreApple News Versus Reused
Jun 09, 2:13AM
Apple broke quite a lot of ground today at its yearly developer conference. The company, the most valuable in the world, announced new operating system builds for PCs and mobile devices and made its Swift programming language open source. Read MoreWhy Has "Social" Failed In Fintech?
Jun 09, 2:00AM
Finance is littered with the graves of startups that have tried to do social. Remember, Kaching, Cake Financial, Robinhood.io? Everyone has failed. But this has not deterred a new crop of fintech entrepreneurs from throwing their hats into the ring. Venture capitalists again are pouring money into these startups. And it is likely to end in tears. 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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