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Techstars Buys UP Global, The Non-Profit Behind Startup Weekend
Jun 16, 2:35PM
Techstars — the startup incubator that has built up a network of programs across the U.S. and Europe and specific verticals like health and education — is expanding once again. The company has acquired UP Global, the non-profit group that organizes the entrepreneur events Startup Weekend, Startup Week, Startup Next, and Startup Digest. Terms of the deal, which closed on Monday,… Read MoreStarbucks Mobile Ordering Expands To 21 More States, Now Live In Over 4,000 Stores
Jun 16, 2:05PM
Starbucks, whose embrace of mobile payments and mobile loyalty in-store has already established the company as a forward-thinker when it comes to new technology, is this morning announcing the expansion of its “Mobile Order & Pay” system to 21 more states, including 3,400 individual café locations across the U.S. The feature allows customers to place their order and pay… Read MoreInstacart Adds Smart & Final To Its Retailers
Jun 16, 2:00PM
Instacart has added Smart & Final to the list of retailers it works with for its food delivery service. Founded in 2012, the Y Combinator graduate has raised $275 million to date. Like many other on-demand startups, a company like Instacart can grow its overall footprint by expanding to new cities and, like today, adding new retailers. Instacart now has more than 70 retailers that it… Read MoreExtreme Fliers Launches Crowdfunder For A Meerkat Drone
Jun 16, 1:12PM
ExtremeFliers are back crowdfunding the third generation of their micro drone. This time the teeny quadcopter will be able to livestream footage straight to Meerkat. Or it will if they raise the $75,000+ they’re looking for via Indiegogo. Read MoreSketchfab, The Platform For 3D Files, Lands $7M Series A Led By FirstMark
Jun 16, 1:08PM
Sketchfab, the online platform for 3D file sharing, has today announced the close of a $7 million Series A round led by FirstMark Capital. Existing investors TechStars, Balderton, Partech and Borealis also participated in the Series A round. At its core, Sketchfab is a marketplace for 3D files, whether it lies in creating web-sharable 3D files, browsing them, searching specifically, or… Read MoreThis Range Rover Prototype Can Be Driven With A Smartphone App
Jun 16, 1:05PM
There are remote control cars and then there are Remote Control Cars. This is the latter of the two. Range Rover UK developed a prototype system that allows a Range Rover Sport to be controlled remotely through a smartphone app. And not just the door locks. The vehicle can be driven from the app. Read MoreBloom Launches With A New Way To Connect Parents, Grandparents, and Children
Jun 16, 1:00PM
After several months of development, the Google Ventures and FKA-backed bloom, is unveiling its first generation of products aimed to combat dementia, and (perhaps equally as important) the disintegration of communication among families. Read MoreEx-Googlers Raise $6M For Connectifier, An AI Approach To Recruitment Search
Jun 16, 12:07PM
Sites like LinkedIn and and Monster.com have become online mainstays both for people looking for jobs and also companies looking to find the right people to fill a role. Now a new startup hopes to turn the recruitment process on its head through artificial intelligence and powerful search software that crawls across many sources at once to build up some 300 million online profiles to find… Read MoreBlackSky Global Wants To Launch 60 Satellites To Give You a Near Real-Time View Of Earth
Jun 16, 11:30AM
We’re all familiar with the kind of satellite imagery on Google Maps and similar services at this point. Those images, however, are only updated every few months. BlackSky Global, a “satellite-imaging-as-a-service” startup based in Seattle, wants to launch a fleet of 60 satellites to provide its customers with a near real-time view wide swaths of the planet and sell those… Read MoreWith $44 Million In Funding, Biotech Startup Zymergen Is Buying Up Robots To Mass Produce Materials From Microbes
Jun 16, 11:30AM
The mostly under-the-radar biotech startup Zymergen has gone about making microbial DNA manipulating robots for the last couple of years. It has now raised a total of $44 million to use these microbes to manufacture chemicals and new materials for various large industries. Zymergen had raised an undisclosed $2 million seed near the time of its founding in 2013. It has just closed another… Read MoreWatch Nintendo's E3 Press Event Live Right Here
Jun 16, 11:27AM
Nintendo’s E3 press event happens at 9 AM PT today (12 PM ET), and the company is in a tough position as both Microsoft and Sony delivered solid conferences. In particular, Sony tried to break the Internet with a lengthy Last Guardian trailer, a Final Fantasy VII HD remake and a Shenmue 3 Kickstarter campaign. Read MoreGoogle Launches Bug Bounty Program For Android With Rewards Up To $8,000
Jun 16, 11:00AM
Google today announced the launch of a security rewards program for Android at Black Hat’s Mobile Security Summit in London. The Android program will only cover vulnerabilities that affect Nexus phone and tablets available for sale in the Google Play Store, though. Right now, that’s the Nexus 6 phone and Nexus 9 tablet. Read MoreFrench IoT Startup Actility Raises $25M From Foxconn, Orange And More
Jun 16, 10:08AM
Startup activity in France around Internet of Things continues to heat up. Following yesterday’s news that Samsung had taken an investment in Sigfox, today another IoT startup, Actility, announced that it has raised €22.5 million ($25 million), led by Ginko Ventures, the European investment arm of Foxconn. Others in the round include the carriers Orange (which has disclosed a €3… Read More'La Ruche Qui Dit Oui' Scores $9 Million From USV And Felix Capital For Its Local Food Marketplace
Jun 16, 10:06AM
Forget about your supermarket and buy directly from your local farmers and foodmakers. French startup La Ruche qui dit oui (also known as The Food Assembly in the U.K.) has been making waves in its home country for a while now. But it seems like international investors also got the word as Fred Wilson from Union Square Ventures and Frédéric Court from Felix Capital are leading a $9… Read MoreMicrosoft Opens A Branded Store On Indian E-Commerce Platform Snapdeal
Jun 16, 10:02AM
Microsoft has launched its own branded store on Snapdeal, one of India’s top e-commerce sites, as it aims to grow its share of the country’s fast-growing mobile market. Read MoreDoppel Is A Wearable That Puts A Pulse On Your Pulse
Jun 16, 9:53AM
The wacky world of wearables has a new would-be entrant: meet doppel, a wrist-worn device that’s not a smartwatch, not a fitness tracker, and not (just) a heart-rate monitor. It’s a psychophysiology wearable for people who want to be able to influence how they’re feeling via a tactile rhythm. Read MoreTwo Days Left To Sign Up For Limited 2-for-1 Tickets To Disrupt London
Jun 16, 9:00AM
While it may seem far away, Disrupt London will be here before you know it. Disrupt London 2015 takes place December 7-8 at the Copper Box Arena in London, and you aren’t going to want to miss the show. With this year’s Disrupt, we are giving you the unprecedented opportunity to purchase a limited supply of tickets at the special rate of two for the price of one, but you need to… Read More
"Optimize Everything" Startup SigOpt Raises $2M From A16Z And Data Collective
Jun 16, 9:00AM
Y Combinator-incubated SigOpt is announcing that it has raised $2 million in seed funding. The company’s aim is to help customers optimize anything, whether it’s an ad campaign or a formula for shaving cream. In fact, co-founder and CEO Scott Clark (pictured above) told me that his newer customers include Pembient, a bioengineering company that creates synthetic… Read MoreBitReserve Launches API For Its Currency Conversions And Payments Platform
Jun 16, 8:00AM
BitReserve, the currency conversion and transaction platform based on Bitcoin that was launched by CNet founder Halsey Minor, has created a platform for application programming interfaces (APIs) and has signed agreements with partners who are using the service. Read MoreBeauty Booking Site Wahanda Raises Another $73M, Buys ZenSoon To Expand Into France
Jun 16, 7:57AM
Wahanda, the startup out of the UK that has built a platform for beauty salons and consumers to find and book appointments based on time and location, continues its march to expand by rolling up regional rivals. Today the company is announcing it has picked up a further €65 million ($73 million) in funding, and that it is buying ZenSoon, a beauty platform in France. The $73 million is… 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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