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Leesa, Another Mattress Startup, Bags $9M
Jul 14, 3:33PM
I’m trying hard to stay awake amid news that another new-fangled mattress startup has secured funding. This time it’s the turn of Leesa, which has raised $9 million from private equity firm TitleCard Capital, giving the young company a post-money valuation of $45 million, and off the back of $30 million in projected sales in its first year. Read MoreDataCamp Gets $1M Seed Round To Develop Data Science Learning Platform
Jul 14, 3:00PM
DataCamp wants to teach data science skills to a generation of people, and it got a million in seed money to continue developing its online data-science learning platform. The round was led by Chris Lynch at Accomplice, an early stage venture capital firm in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The company had raised $300,000 in seed money previously DataCamp is not unlike coding bootcamps such… Read MoreGoogle Introduces New Open Format And Developer Tools For Working With BLE Beacons
Jul 14, 3:00PM
Google today introduced a number of new products around Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) beacons in an effort to challenge Apple’s iBeacon ecosystem. These new products include a new open beacon format, tools and APIs for building apps and services on top of beacons, and a new developer-centric service for managing and monitoring large beacon deployments. It’s no secret that Google… Read MorePaypal Co-founder New Lending Startup Affirm Gets Into Student Loans For Coding Bootcamps
Jul 14, 3:00PM
Affirm, the lending startup co-founded by Max Levchin, is breaking into student loans for coding, design and business bootcamps from General Assembly, Bloc, Kaplan’s Dev Bootcamp and Metis. The company, which raised $275 million this past spring, is branching out from its initial market in online retail. They were originally financing purchases at the point-of-sale online with… Read MoreHackerRank Gets $7.5M Investment From Recruit, Launches New Screening Tool For Data Scientists And Database Engineers
Jul 14, 2:50PM
Disrupt Battlefield alum HackerRank today announced that it has received a $7.5 million strategic investment from Recruit Holdings‘ HR Technology Fund for its hiring platform today. Read MoreStoryCorps' Oral History App Receives Knight Foundation Grant To Add New Features
Jul 14, 2:49PM
StoryCorps, the non-profit oral history project that has collected more than 100,000 interviews since 2003, is planning to improve its app and launch community programs after receiving a $600,000 grant from the Knight Foundation. Read MoreTiVo Devices Now Support AirPlay For Streaming Recordings To Apple TV
Jul 14, 2:46PM
DVR maker TiVo this morning announced, for the first time, its users will now be able to access their recorded content on their TV via Apple TV and AirPlay. Through an updated TiVo iOS application, TiVo customers can play content from TiVo Roamio or Premiere DVRs on their Apple TV using an iOS device on the same network. To do so, users enable AirPlay through the iOS control center, select… Read MoreHopSkipDrive, The Uber For Kids, Picks Up $3.9 Million In Seed Funding
Jul 14, 2:30PM
Unless you’re Jaqueline Voorheese from The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, chances are you’re not letting Uber drivers shuttle around your kids to and from school, practice, classes, etc. But that doesn’t mean there’s no need for a little transportation-based help with the little ones. HopSkipDrive, a startup that just received $3.9 million in seed funding, is looking to… Read MoreCraves' Visual Shopping App Helps You Find Clothes You Love Just By Snapping Photos
Jul 14, 2:07PM
While there are a number of applications on the market that let you scan barcodes in order to compare prices, a new fashion-focused app called Craves launching today instead lets you just snap photos of the clothes you want and it returns visually similar results in seconds – no barcode-scanning required. Then, when you find something you like, you can purchase the item directly… Read MoreConvo Follows Its Desktop Revamp With New Mobile Apps
Jul 14, 1:59PM
A week after launching new web and Mac desktop applications, collaboration is releasing new versions of its mobile apps, too. CEO Faizan Buzdar has said that the relaunches reflect an attempt to rebuild Convo “from the ground up,” and that the company would be bringing these changes to all its platforms. (The redesign hasn’t been a huge hit with the TechCrunch team, though… Read MoreRemitly Buys Talio To Boost Its Money Transfer App With Messaging Features
Jul 14, 1:00PM
While Facebook moves deeper into using its Messenger platform as a vehicle for people to transfer money to each other, an app built for helping people transfer money is adding more messaging features. Seattle-based mobile remittance app Remitly — which lets people in the U.S. send money to India or the Philippines — has acquired Talio, a picture messaging app co-founded by… Read MoreBetterment Just Made It Even Easier To Invest Money
Jul 14, 1:00PM
Betterment is billed as a smarter way to invest money. But as a separate investment service, getting cash to Betterment has always been a hurdle. The company today is taking the wraps off a new service that monitors an account holder’s bank account and invests cash just sitting there. Betterment says this service, called SmartDeposit, will give members more control from their money. Read MoreWorkday Launches Workday Ventures To Fund Machine Learning Startups
Jul 14, 12:30PM
Workday, the 10 year old company that specializes in finance and human resources software in the cloud, announced a new program today called Workday Ventures, an investment arm focusing on startups with a machine learning bent. It intends to fund 10-12 companies this year with executives Dan Beck, senior vice president of technology products and Adeyemi ‘Ade’ Ajao, vice… Read MoreWi-Fi Aware Aims To Connect All Your Devices Instantly
Jul 14, 12:21PM
WiFi is getting a big upgrade today, thanks to three years of joint research and development by the world’s largest tech companies. The new technology, called Wi-Fi Aware, is being released by the Wi-Fi Alliance, the non-profit trade organization that includes Apple, Microsoft, Intel and hundreds of other tech powerhouses as members. Aware allows Wi-Fi-enabled products to discover… Read MoreMatch Group Buys PlentyOfFish For $575M To Bag More Singles
Jul 14, 12:18PM
A spot of consolidation in the online dating space today, with Match Group, the subsidiary of Tinder and OkCupid owner IAC, announcing it has agreed to acquire PlentyOfFish (POF) for $575 million in cash. Match Group said it expects the transaction to close early in the fourth quarter, pending Canadian regulatory approvals. Read MoreInVision Prototyping Tool Lands $45 Million In Series C Led By Accel
Jul 14, 12:03PM
InVision, the prototyping tool that boasts clients like Uber, Twitter, and Airbnb, has today announced the close of a $45 million Series C round of funding. The round was led by Accel, alongside participation from existing investors FirstMark Capital and Tiger Global Management. InVision launched in 2011 with a relatively bare-bones prototyping tool. Designers could upload their work to… Read MoreRescale Lands $6.4M From Who's Who of Investors
Jul 14, 12:00PM
Rescale, a company that has developed a Platform as a Service for high-end computer simulations, announced a $6.4 million investment from some of the biggest names in Silicon Valley investing circles. Among the people backing Rescale are Sam Altman, Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson, Paul Graham, Ron Conway, Chris Dixon, Peter Thiel and many others. What type of company warrants this kind… Read More3D Systems Releases New Filament That Dissolves In Water
Jul 14, 12:00PM
Moisture, as they say, is the essence of wetness. It’s now also a great way to remove support material from 3D-printed objects. Printing complex objects requires rafts and supports. These hold the pieces in place and, in theory, are supposed be easily removable with a little tugging. In reality, however, support material can make a mess of your project. With this filament, however,… Read MoreEden, The In-Home Tech Help Service, Picks Up $1.3 Million
Jul 14, 11:34AM
Eden, the YC-backed startup that offers on-demand tech help service direct to your home, has today announced the raise of $1.3 million in seed funding. Investors include Canvas Ventures, Eniac Ventures, Comcast Ventures, Maven Ventures, Y Combinator, Dylan Smith from Box, and James Beshara from Tilt (with his first angel investment). The premise behind Eden is relatively simple. Users with… Read MoreDisrupt London Startup Alley Registration Is Open
Jul 14, 11:00AM
The floodgates are open. We are thrilled to announce that budding startups can now sign up to be part of Startup Alley at Disrupt London 2015. Disrupt London will take place December 7 – 8, and in addition to everything happening on the main stage, hundreds of early stage companies will be flooding the Alley to show off their software and hardware products to attendees. They’re… 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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